Advancing earthquake science worldwide
1 December 2025—SSA and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) are pleased to announce that Francisco José Sánchez-Sesma, professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), is the 2026 recipient of the William B. Joyner Lecture Award. Sánchez-Sesma will deliver the Joyner Lecture at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting to … Continue Reading »
26 November 2025— Throughout the past year, SSA members stepped forward to mentor and teach one another. They raised their voices to advocate for federal support of our science and made generous financial gifts to aid our mission. Together we advanced seismology through: $88,600+ in grants supporting our community’s scientific … 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 »
18 November 2025—SRL Editor-in-Chief Allison Bent has appointed Hongfeng Yang as the first deputy editor-in-chief of its journal Seismological Research Letters (SRL). Yang, a professor in the department of Earth and environmental sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, joined the editorial board of SRL as an associate editor … Continue Reading »
4 November 2025—Bill Curry grew up in Alberta, Canada, in what he calls “the home of the Canadian energy industry,” so the idea of exploring a career in the earth sciences came early to him. “My favorite subjects were math and physics, which drew me to geophysics,” Curry explained. “In … Continue Reading »