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 During the 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar Earthquake
- Tan et al. (2021) Machine-Learning-Based High-Resolution Earthquake Catalog Reveals How Complex Fault Structures Were Activated during the 2016–2017 Central Italy Sequence
- Mai et al. (2023) The Destructive Earthquake Doublet of 6 February 2023 in South-Central Türkiye and Northwestern Syria: Initial Observations and Analyses
- Yang et al. (2021) Seismic Wave Propagation and Inversion with Neural Operators
Locations of historic and February 2023 earthquakes on EAFZ and SMFZ. | Goldberg et al., TSR, 2023 - Goldberg et al. (2023) Rapid Characterization of the February 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, Earthquake Sequence
- Petersen et al. (2023) The 2023 Southeast Türkiye Seismic Sequence: Rupture of a Complex Fault Network
- Carrillo-Ponce et al. (2024) The 16 September 2023 Greenland Megatsunami: Analysis and Modeling of the Source and a Week-Long, Monochromatic Seismic Signal
- Horleston et al. (2022) The Far Side of Mars: Two Distant Marsquakes Detected by InSight
- Ye et al. (2025) The 28 March 2025 Mw 7.8 Myanmar Earthquake: Preliminary Analysis of an ∼480 km Long Intermittent Supershear Rupture
- Reitman et al. (2023) Rapid Surface Rupture Mapping from Satellite Data: The 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey (Türkiye), Earthquake Sequence
Many of these papers also had TSR’s top Altimetric scores, which track online attention to published research in social media and news and policy reports:
Top Altimetric Score Papers (as of January 2026)
- Horleston et al. (2022) The Far Side of Mars: Two Distant Marsquakes Detected by InSight
- Kearse and Kaneko (2025) Curved Fault Slip Captured by CCTV Video During the 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar Earthquake
- Carrillo-Ponce et al. (2024) The 16 September 2023 Greenland Megatsunami: Analysis and Modeling of the Source and a Week-Long, Monochromatic Seismic Signal
- Sun and Miller (2024) Revealing the Secrets of the Western Mediterranean: A Deep Earthquake and the Overturned Slab
- Ruiz-Angulo et al. (2025) SWOT Satellite Altimetry Observations and Source Model for the Tsunami from the 2025 Mw 8 Kamchatka Earthquake
- Karasözen and West (2024) Toward the Rapid Seismic Assessment of Landslides in Coastal Alaska
- Han et al. (2024) Rupture Model of the 5 April 2024 Tewksbury, New Jersey, Earthquake Based on Regional Lg -Wave Data
- Fichtner et al. (2022) Fiber-Optic Observation of Volcanic Tremor through Floating Ice Sheet Resonance
- Yin et al. (2023) Real-Data Testing of Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Offshore Earthquake Early Warning
For more information on how you can submit your paper to The Seismic Record, please visit the journal webpage.