Advancing earthquake science worldwide
22 April 2022–The seismometer placed on Mars by NASA’s InSight lander has recorded its two largest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquake. The pair are the first recorded events to occur on the planet’s far side from the lander and are five times stronger … Continue Reading »
14 March 2022–Christopher DuRoss of the U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Adam Ringler of the U.S. Geological Survey, Albuquerque, and Vaclav Vavrycuk of the Institute of Geophysics in the Czech Republic, are the recipients of SSA’s 2021 Outstanding Reviewer awards. In recent interviews, the recipients agreed that reviewing is an essential … Continue Reading »
9 March 2022–Papers on distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) and machine learning techniques were among the topics covered by the top 20 most-downloaded papers published by the SSA family of journals in 2021. The ranking of all papers noted below reflect download numbers through 31 December 2021: Y.J. Tan et al., … Continue Reading »
9 March 2022–Papers on distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) and machine learning techniques were among the topics covered by the top 20 most-downloaded papers published by the SSA family of journals in 2021. The ranking of all papers noted below reflect download numbers through 31 December 2021: Y.J. Tan et al., … Continue Reading »
19 November 2021–With data unearthed from seismic stations, observatories and libraries across the world, researchers have pinpointed the location of a massive earthquake that took place in India 125 years ago—one of the largest intraplate earthquakes known to history. The magnitude 8 Great 1897 Shillong Plateau earthquake, sometimes called the … Continue Reading »
3 June 2021–A complex zone of folding and faulting that links two faults underneath downtown Salt Lake City could deform the ground during a large earthquake, according to a new study. The findings, published in the open-access journal The Seismic Record, suggest that earthquakes magnitude 5.0 and larger could cause … Continue Reading »