Advancing earthquake science worldwide
11 April 2025—Rebecca Colquhoun liked math and science in school but wasn’t sure what kind of career that might launch. Should they go into physics? Chemistry? Computer science? “I was looking for something that was sort of a mixture, so I could put off deciding for a while longer,” Colquhoun … Continue Reading »
9 April 2025— Plane crashes are thankfully rare, but when they happen, investigators rely on the airplane’s “black box” for data to explain what happened and how to prevent it in the future. Seismic instruments deployed to gather strong motion data are kind of like those black boxes, said Keith … Continue Reading »
2 April 2025— Five student and early-career members will receive travel grants to participate in scientific conferences as part of the Global Travel Grant program and the Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant program, which provides financial support to SSA members. 2025 Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grantees SSA’s newest grant program … Continue Reading »
13 March 2025–SSA is proud to recognize our 2024 peer reviewers for the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), Seismological Research Letters (SRL) and The Seismic Record (TSR). “SSA’s journals are known for their rigorous peer review and for the valuable reviewer feedback that helps authors improve the … Continue Reading »
10 March 2025—“Moment tensors are a model to describe earthquake sources based on forces acting at the seismic source,” explains Boris Rösler. “In the 1960s, it was shown that these forces generate a seismic wavefield equivalent to slip on a fault. We can thus describe the geologic process of an … Continue Reading »
A joint statement by SSA President Heather DeShon and President-Elect Susan Bilek 15 February 2025 — The recent termination of thousands of federal employees, including employees within the U.S. Department of the Interior, Department of Energy and Department of Commerce, will undermine the critical scientific expertise required to keep the … Continue Reading »