Advancing earthquake science worldwide
7 November 2023–New maps of more than 1,000 deep-seated landslides in the Puget Lowlands of Washington State provide evidence of the last major earthquake along the Seattle Fault about 1,100 years ago—and may also hold traces of older earthquakes along the fault. Clusters of landslides offer a potential record of … Continue Reading »
10 October 2023–Fiber optic cable snaking beneath the Penn State campus, passing under the athletic buildings and campus fields, can detect seismic waves generated by lightning storms. But what exactly causes lightning quakes—and why do we care about them? A new study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society … Continue Reading »
12 September 2023–Fires that raged in the days following the 1 September 1923 magnitude 7.9 Kantō earthquake killed roughly 90% of the 105,000 people who perished in and around Tokyo, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in history—comparable to the number of people killed in the World War … Continue Reading »
28 August 2023–After an earthquake strikes in an area with a buried gas pipeline network, it can be critical to identify where potential damage to the pipeline might have occurred—especially since these networks can cover hundreds of kilometers and may sometimes not be easily accessible. Forecasts of pipeline damage typically … Continue Reading »
28 July 2023–SSA has developed an author name change policy and procedures for authors publishing in its three journals: the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), Seismological Research Letters (SRL), and The Seismic Record (TSR). There are many reasons why journal authors may change names during their publishing … Continue Reading »
28 February 2023–At one of the world’s largest emission fields of non-volcanic carbon dioxide in southern Italy, researchers have detected a complex variety of seismic tremor signals, captured by a seismic array deployed in the region in the summer of 2021. In their study published in the Bulletin of the … Continue Reading »