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SSA announced four travel grants to student and early-career members to participate in the 2024 Photonic Seismology Conference. The travel grants are made possible by generous donations from the community to the General Fund and the Kanamori Fund. Travel Grant Recipients: Richard Asirifi, Texas A&M University Thomas Luckie, Sandia National … Continue Reading »
15 May 2024–When it comes to seismic sources, observational seismologist Miao Zhang doesn’t play favorites. “I am curious about all types of seismic events on land and at sea, ranging from tectonic and volcanic earthquakes to induced earthquakes and manmade explosions,” said Zhang, an assistant professor at Dalhousie University. “My … Continue Reading »
8 May 2024–Pore pressure diffusion generated by carbon dioxide injected underground at a carbon storage site in the Illinois Basin is the likely cause of hundreds of microearthquakes that took place at the site between 2011 and 2012, according to a new analysis. The modeling study published in the Bulletin … Continue Reading »
Nominations are now open for the next Joyner Lecturer. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2024. 6 May 2024–The William B. Joyner Memorial Lecture delivered by Helen Crowley of Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation at the 2024 SSA Annual Meeting marked the 20th year of the award. Established in … Continue Reading »
3 May 2024–About six months before the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake in Türkiye, transient short pulses of low-frequency seismic activity were occurring on the east side of the East Anatolian Fault Zone, researchers reported at SSA’s 2024 Annual Meeting. Learning more about the properties and physical origins of these … Continue Reading »
3 May 2024–Record-setting storms in 2023 filled California’s major reservoirs to the brim, providing some relief in a decades-long drought, but how much of that record rain trickled underground? Shujuan Mao of Stanford University and her colleagues used a surprising technique to answer this question for the greater Los Angeles … Continue Reading »