SRL Focus Section on Operational Response
Accurate estimates of hazards in the first seconds, minutes and hours of a large earthquake or tsunami are crucial for producing effective early warnings and emergency responses, helping save lives, mitigate loss and speed recovery.
Seismological Research Letters (SRL) is now soliciting papers for a Focus Section on operational earthquake and tsunami response science. The section will highlight how lessons from past events and global advances in technology provide increasingly accurate and actionable information to the public, decision-makers and emergency responders.
“Advances may involve data, source characterization or dissemination of information but should lead to actionable response,” said SRL Editor-in-Chief Allison Bent. “An operationally-based Focus Section allows the sharing of advances and strategies that may be applicable to regions and organizations beyond those where they were developed.”
All papers are reviewed as they are received and published online soon after acceptance. For more information on the section and its goals, along with a list of guest editors, please visit the SRL Call for Papers.
Submission Deadlines
BSSA Quantifying the Long-Term Prehistoric Earthquake Record: 1 June 2026
BSSA Complex Multi-Fault Earthquakes: 1 July 2026
SRL Operational Response: 1 July 2026
Special Issues on Prehistoric Earthquake Record, Complex Multi-Fault Earthquakes
The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) is also soliciting papers for two upcoming Special Issues: one on new developments in quantifying the long-term prehistoric earthquake record, and a second issue on understanding, modeling and forecasting complex, multi-fault earthquakes.
Earth Sciences New Zealand’s Nicola Litchfield, a guest editor of the prehistoric earthquake record issue, said the special issue “provides an opportunity to showcase the latest earthquake geology research and techniques in any tectonic setting. Reflection and future-focused papers are encouraged but the issue is open to all papers in the general field of earthquake geology.”
The complex multi-fault issue was prompted by the approaching 10th anniversary of the Kaikōura, New Zealand earthquake, but will cover earthquakes around the globe, said University of Canterbury’s Andy Nicol, a guest editor of the issue.
“Over the last 20 years many large earthquakes have ruptured multiple faults. Understanding the processes that contribute to these complex earthquakes is key for seismology,” he noted. “The BSSA special issue will provide a forum for papers on fault interactions and their consequences for earthquake slip, ground motions and hazard models in fault networks.”
As with SRL, all BSSA papers are reviewed as they are received and published online soon after acceptance. For more information on the sections and their goals, along with a list of guest editors, please visit the BSSA Call for Papers.