SRL Call for Papers

Earthquake-Induced Ground Deformation

Seismological Research Letters (SRL) is soliciting papers for a Focus Section on Earthquake-Induced Ground Deformation.

Ground failure due to earthquake-induced liquefaction and landsliding has caused substantial damage in the past and continues to pose substantial risks to critical infrastructure. The consideration of ground failure is central to engineering analysis and design, ranging from site-specific engineering assessments of ground failure potential to broader regional-scale ground failure assessments of near-real time earthquake impacts or longer-term portfolio risk. The prediction of earthquake-induced ground failure is complicated by uncertainties in all aspects of the problem, including (1) the identification of hazard-susceptible geomaterials and characterizing their spatial extent and engineering properties, (2) spatio-temporal variability in groundwater conditions, (3) characterization of earthquake ground motions, (4) assessing ground failure severity, and (5) linking ground failure severity to infrastructure damage and loss.

In this focus section we seek manuscripts related to co-seismic ground failure and its impacts. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, methods for predicting earthquake-induced ground failure or its impacts on infrastructure, development of new methodologies for regional-scale ground failure hazards and impacts, assessment of alternative ground motion metrics for ground motion models, interpretation and analysis of ground failure inventories (both modern or from the geologic record), and physics-based simulations of ground failure-related phenomena.

Guest Editors:

Deadline for Submission: 5 May 2025

Articles accepted to this SRL Focus Section on Earthquake-Induced Ground Deformation will be published online soon after acceptance and collectively in print in the November 2025 issue. Papers will be reviewed as they are received and published online prior to the print issue.

In preparing manuscripts, authors must follow the SRL author guidelines at www.seismosoc.org/publications/srl-authorsinfo/. Papers must be submitted via the SRL online submission system (SRL online submission system (www.editorialmanager.com/srl/) under the category “Focus Section – Ground Deformation.”) under the category “Focus Section – Ground Deformation.”

Please address questions about scientific issues to the guest editors or SRL Editor-in-Chief Allison Bent at srleditor@seismosoc.org.  Submission-related questions should be addressed to the SRL Editorial Office at srl@seismosoc.org.