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February 13—The Seismological Society of America held its Board of Directors election on Friday, 3 January 2025. The following members were elected to a three-year term beginning 14 April 2025 at the SSA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Ashly Cabas, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering … Continue Reading »
10 February 2025—Wilnelly Ventura-Valentín’s research as a Ph.D. student at Miami University in Ohio focuses on earthquake swarms, the bursts of seismic activity—small earthquakes all about the same magnitude—that start abruptly and end abruptly. “We don’t know a lot about what triggers this activity,” she explains, “and because we don’t … Continue Reading »
22 January 2025—The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower mantle, according to a study in The Seismic Record. When Hao Zhang of the University … Continue Reading »
22 January 2025—Gather around, and let Susan Hough tell you the tale of the Summerville Light. Legend has it that the strange orb sometimes seen hovering over the railroad tracks in the remote area around Summerville, South Carolina is a lantern borne by a ghost whose husband lost his head … Continue Reading »
20 January 2025–SSA is pleased to announce the recipients of several of the Society’s awards for 2025. The Harry Fielding Reid Medal, the Charles F. Richter Early Career Award, the Frank Press Public Service Award and the SSA Distinguished Service Award are among the highest honors conferred by the Society. … Continue Reading »
10 January 2025—Using an existing telecommunications fiber optic cable running along the sea floor, researchers identified faults and tracked the locations of whales traveling up and down the central California coast. Their study, published in Seismological Research Letters, demonstrates the potential of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) for visualizing the geohazards … Continue Reading »