Advancing earthquake science worldwide
18 April 2023–Earthquakes cost the nation an estimated $14.7 billion annually in building damage and associated losses according to a new report released jointly by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Federal Emergency Management Agency at the 2023 Seismological Society of America meeting. The new estimate is twice that of … Continue Reading »
18 de abril de 2023–Tras la secuencia de terremotos en el suroeste de Puerto Rico en el 2020-2021, los investigadores preguntaron a los rescatistas y residentes en las comunidades afectadas acerca de la información que necesitan para prepararse para el siguiente terremoto. De acuerdo con la presentación de la Reunión … Continue Reading »
Leer en Español 18 April 2023–In the wake of the 2020-2021 Southwest Puerto Rico earthquake sequence, researchers asked emergency responders and residents in affected communities about the information they needed to prepare for the next earthquake. Residents surveyed door to door and in focus groups said they wanted to know … Continue Reading »
18 April 2023–Ocean-based hydrophones in the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)’s seismoacoustic monitoring network could provide a better look at how ocean temperatures are changing over time, according to a presentation at the Seismological Society of America (SSA)’s 2023 Annual Meeting. Finding new ways to monitor ocean temperatures is important … Continue Reading »
14 April 2023–As he studied subduction zone seismicity, Wasja Bloch noticed that water was sometimes used as a wild card when it came to explaining what lays below these complex tectonic plate margins. “If people do interpretations of subsurface images and something’s odd, they sometimes pull the ‘fluid joker,’” Bloch … Continue Reading »
5 April 2023–Seismic arrays deployed in California’s Long Beach and Seal Beach areas detected more than a thousand tiny earthquakes over eight months, many of them located at surprisingly shallow depths of less than two kilometers below the surface. The findings, reported in Seismological Research Letters, confirm that the region’s … Continue Reading »