Advancing earthquake science worldwide
17 February 2022–Six leading experts in seismic tomography will present their most recent research and their perspective on where their field is headed at Seismic Tomography: What Comes Next? The in-person conference, presented by the Seismological Society of America, is scheduled for 28-30 October 2022 in Toronto, Canada. The keynote … Continue Reading »
14 February 2022–At the Colorado School of Mines, where Delaine Reiter was an undergraduate, she found her interests in math and Earth physics turned toward exploration seismology and near-surface studies. “I was looking at big reflection surveys of the very shallow crust, trying to find oil and gas plays,” she … Continue Reading »
9 February 2022–Field surveys conducted in the days after the 7 January 2020 Puerto Rico earthquake documented more than 300 landslides and severe liquefaction in southern coastal regions, according to a new study by U.S. Geological Survey and University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez researchers. The ground failure that resulted from … Continue Reading »
28 January 2022–Stress transferred through the crust and upper mantle after the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake may have been enough to trigger the 2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake, according to a new study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. The model developed by Luyuan Huang at … Continue Reading »
18 January 2022–For as long as Alicia Hotovec-Ellis can remember, she’s had “three core pieces of identity,” she said. “I like to draw, my favorite color is fire, and I want to be a scientist when I grow up.” She spent hours during her college days writing and illustrating a … Continue Reading »
15 December 2021–Just days after a 2020 magnitude 5.1 earthquake in Tangshan, China, researchers turned nearly 8 kilometers of unused telecom fiber optic cable into a seismic array that detected dozens of aftershocks that were missed by permanent seismic stations. The rapid deployment of the distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology … Continue Reading »