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1 November 2023–The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and SSA are pleased to announce that Helen Crowley, secretary general of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation, is the 2024 recipient of the William B. Joyner Lecture Award. Crowley will deliver the Joyner Lecture at the EERI Annual Meeting to be … Continue Reading »
18 July 2023—It’s almost time to submit your session proposal for the next Annual Meeting. Learn how to get started at the SSA mentoring session on 25 July. Organizing a session for the SSA Annual Meeting is one of the best ways to make a splash in the global seismological … Continue Reading »
Leer en Español 20 April 2023–Tsunami deposits identified in a coastal mangrove pond in Northwest Puerto Rico could have come from a megathrust earthquake at the Puerto Rico Trench that occurred between 1470 and 1530, according to research reported at the Seismological Society of America (SSA)’s 2023 Annual Meeting. These … Continue Reading »
20 April 2023–Staff in public and private hospitals in Mexico City are likely to follow well-established and reinforced earthquake early warning (EEW) protocols for evacuation, according to an ongoing study. Overall, staff are likely to follow the protocols especially when they are “reinforced with drills that help practice the correct … Continue Reading »
20 April 2023–South Korea is a relatively quiet country, seismically speaking, but a recent study identified more than 182,000 small seismic events–135,000 of which were related to mining explosions, according to a presentation at the Seismological Society of America (SSA)’s 2023 Annual Meeting. After using machine learning techniques to detect … Continue Reading »
20 April 2023–Faults in the Ridgecrest, California area were very sensitive to solid earth tidal stresses in the year and a half before the July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, researchers reported at the Seismological Society of America (SSA)’s 2023 Annual Meeting. “The signal of tidal modulation becomes extremely strong” after … Continue Reading »