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SSA Community Grants and Global Travel Grants Announced!

Published on 26 August 20243 September 2024 | Community, Early Career, Grants, Member, News, Students

26 August 2024–Open every February and July, SSA’s grant programs remain one of the most important ways that SSA helps develop a skilled workforce of seismologists who will continue to advance earthquake science. Funded by generous donations from our members to the Society’s General Fund, as well as a surplus … Continue Reading »

In-Building Data from Small to Moderate Earthquakes Can Help Predict Structural Response

Published on 15 August 2024 | BSSA, Journals, News

15 August 2024–Data recorded by seismic instrumentation in buildings where ground motion is weak to moderate can help engineers better understand structural responses to earthquakes, according to a new paper published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Philippe Guéguen and Ariana Astorga at Université Grenoble Alpes – … Continue Reading »

Greenland Megatsunami Led to Week-Long Oscillating Fjord Wave

Published on 8 August 2024 | Journals, News, TSR

Aerial overview of the study region, with the landslide location (yellow star) on the southern shore of the Dickson fjord. The green box is a simplified model of the seiching effect. Phase 1 corresponds to the landslide, Phase 2 marks the entrance of the landslide into the fjord, and Phase 3 is the megatsunami with water waves initiating a seiching process. | TSR (2024) Carrillo-Ponce et al.

8 August 2024–In September 2023, a megatsunami in remote eastern Greenland sent seismic waves around the world, piquing the interest of the global research community. The event created a week-long oscillating wave in Dickson Fjord, according to a new report in The Seismic Record. Angela Carrillo-Ponce of GFZ German Research … Continue Reading »

Sichuan Province Earthquake Offers Lessons for Landslide Prediction from GNSS Observations

Published on 7 August 2024 | Journals, News, SRL

Landslides along a river in Sichuan, China following the 2022 Luding earthquake

7 August 2024–Using data collected from a 2022 magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Luding County in China’s Sichuan Province, researchers tested whether Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations could be used for rapid prediction of earthquake-triggered landslides. In their report in Seismological Research Letters, Kejie Chen of the Southern University of … Continue Reading »

Gift Helps Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant Program Grow

Published on 5 August 20245 August 2024 | Community, Early Career, Grants, Member, News, Students

05 August 2024 –A $10,000 gift from Paul Andrew Spudich’s sister, Suzanne, to the Paul Andrew Spudich Fund has expanded its travel grant offerings for early-career and student members. Providing the biggest boost to the fund since its 2023 launch, the new gift will help SSA reach its goal of … Continue Reading »

At Work: Arsène Sadiki

Published on 29 July 2024 | Annual Meeting, At Work, Community, Early Career, Grants, Member, News

29 July 2024–In the spring of 2024, Arsène Sadiki traveled from Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO) to share his research on the seismic precursors to the May 2021 eruption of Nyiragongo volcano. This volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo once played a significant role in Sadiki’s career choice, he recalled. … Continue Reading »