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10 June 2026—Researchers combining two methods to reconstruct the rupture evolution of the July 2025 magnitude 8.8. Kamchatka earthquake found the rupture from the megathrust event extended about 500 kilometers from its epicenter. The rupture extent closely overlaps the rupture of the magnitude 9.0 1952 Kamchatka earthquake, according to the … Continue Reading »
5 June 2026—Thousands of small earthquakes, detected for the first time by a machine learning process, reveal the distinct, razor-sharp edge to the Yakutat microplate as it subducts beneath the North America plate. The Yakutat oceanic plateau is caught in the middle of a tectonic traffic jam with the Pacific … Continue Reading »
28 April 2026—As The Seismic Record celebrates its fifth anniversary this spring, we’re sharing some of the papers that have made the journal a must-read for the seismology community since its introduction. Top Downloaded Papers (as of January 2026) Kearse and Kaneko (2025) Curved Fault Slip Captured by CCTV Video … Continue Reading »
16 April 2026—Originally deployed to record re-entry signals of the OSIRIS-REx return capsule, a T-shaped fiber optic cable draped across the ground at a Nevada airfield also captured unique aspects of a Cessna 172’s speed and maneuvering. Researchers at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting said the findings help demonstrate the … Continue Reading »
1 April 2026—Slow roiling convection currents deep within the Earth’s mantle, which are associated with the movements of tectonic plates, also deform the material of the mantle itself. Now, a new study in The Seismic Record confirms that much of this deformation in the lowest level of the mantle occurs … Continue Reading »
30 March 2026— Norman Abrahamson of the University of California, Berkeley, Claire Doody of Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Daisuke Ishimura of Chiba University, Andrea Llenos of the U.S. Geological Survey, Hongrui Qiu of China University of Geosciences, Vladimir Shumila of ESG Solutions, and Elizabeth Silber of Sandia National Laboratory are … Continue Reading »