Advancing earthquake science worldwide
Help Steer SSA’s Future: Vote Today! How can SSA best serve your professional needs and continue making advances in the field of seismology? Keep that question in mind as you read the candidate statements below for our 2023 Board of Directors Election. Then be sure to cast your vote! As the … Continue Reading »
30 August 2022–The recurrence interval for earthquakes along some California faults may be on average 16% longer than previously estimated, according to a new study in the journal Seismological Research Letters. The revised estimates take into account a variable called event likelihood, which quantifies how likely it is that a … Continue Reading »
26 August 2022–Using machine learning to sift through a decade’s worth of seismic data, researchers have identified hundreds of thousands of microearthquakes along some previously unknown fault structures in Oklahoma and Kansas. The newly identified microearthquakes allowed the seismologists to map and measure earthquake clusters in the region, which has … Continue Reading »
29 July 2022–Zoya Farajpour was born in Iran, one of the most seismically active countries in the world. Most of Iran’s major cities and towns are in the vicinity of seismic faults, she said. “The oral and written history of this country is full of massive and destructive earthquake events … Continue Reading »
12 July 2022–Using details from historical newspaper accounts and letters, seismologists have learned more about Haiti’s 1860 Jour de Pâques (Easter Sunday) earthquake sequence, and how it might have impacted the country’s most recent devastating earthquakes. The new analysis published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America suggests … Continue Reading »
6 July 2022–Researchers used a fiber optic cable on the ice cap of an Icelandic subglacial volcano to detect low-frequency volcanic tremor, suggesting this technology could be useful in monitoring other ice-covered volcano systems. Their research published in The Seismic Record indicates that the floating ice cap, part of the … Continue Reading »