Advancing earthquake science worldwide
11 March 2026—The Seismological Society of America announces its search for the next editor-in-chief (EIC) of The Seismic Record (TSR), its open-access, online-only journal publishing short-form papers covering the entire spectrum of seismological science. Nominations for the position, including self-nominations, will be accepted through 30 June 2026. SSA has initiated … Continue Reading »
23 February 2026—Water leakage during the construction of a hydropower tunnel in northern Norway may have been the trigger for a nearby earthquake swarm that occurred three years later, according to a new analysis published in The Seismic Record. The swarm at Sørfjorden began in June 2023 and continued in … Continue Reading »
26 November 2025—A satellite deployed to measure ocean surface heights was up to the challenge when a massive earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami in late July. The Surface Water Ocean Topography or SWOT satellite captured the first high-resolution spaceborne track of a great subduction zone tsunami, … Continue Reading »
18 November 2025—An array of seismic sensors deployed to capture aftershocks from the 2018 magnitude 7.1 Anchorage earthquake also collected distinctive signals from hundreds of flights crossing over Alaska. In their study published in The Seismic Record, Isabella Seppi and colleagues at the University of Alaska Fairbanks show that these … Continue Reading »
15 August 2025—The Seismological Society of America announces its search for the next Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), its flagship, peer-reviewed international journal. Nominations for the position, including self-nominations, will be accepted through October 2025. The EIC leadership transition is scheduled to take … Continue Reading »
30 July 2025—As a service to global researchers working on the 29 July 2025 magnitude 8.8 earthquake east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, the Seismological Society of America has created a short list of our journal papers related to the region. These papers will be freely available until 22 August 2025. BSSA … Continue Reading »