Advancing earthquake science worldwide
20 April 2022–Small seismic waves generated by urban activity in Mexico City offer a glimpse at how subsiding soils may be speeding up the seismic waves that travel in the shallow layers beneath the city. As groundwater is extracted from beneath the city, the lakebed soils and clays that support … Continue Reading »
15 April 2022–As SSA President, John Townend has been at the helm of the society as it weathered the challenges of a pandemic and a virtual annual meeting, but the past year has led to new insights as well. “The pandemic has forced us to adapt the ways we meet … Continue Reading »
13 April 2022–The rise of fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) in seismology could prove a useful addition to earthquake early warning systems, researchers write in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. DAS uses the tiny internal flaws in a long optical fiber as thousands of seismic sensors. An … Continue Reading »
At its 20 November 2021 meeting, the SSA Board of Directors established the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, a standing committee of the SSA Board of Directors. Preamble SSA recognizes the need to have broader representation and participation from all sectors of society, both in its leadership and its … Continue Reading »
16 March 2022–Seismic and acoustic data recorded 50 meters away from a research nuclear reactor could predict whether the reactor was in an on or off state with 98% accuracy, according to a new study published in Seismological Research Letters. By applying several machine learning models to the data, researchers … Continue Reading »
14 March 2022–Christopher DuRoss of the U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Adam Ringler of the U.S. Geological Survey, Albuquerque, and Vaclav Vavrycuk of the Institute of Geophysics in the Czech Republic, are the recipients of SSA’s 2021 Outstanding Reviewer awards. In recent interviews, the recipients agreed that reviewing is an essential … Continue Reading »