13 March 2024–Seattle may have experienced its own Swift Quake last July, but at an August 2023 concert Taylor Swift’s fans in Los Angeles gave scientists a lot of shaking to ponder. After so...
https://www.seismosoc.org/news/what-kinds-of-seismic-signals-did-swifties-send-at-la-concert/
12 March 2024–Earthquakes were part of Luis Donoso Carmona’s environment “for as long as I can remember,” growing up in northern Chile in the small city of Vallenar in the Atacama Desert,...
28 February 2024–An increasing number of seismologists are using fiber optic cables to detect seismic waves on Earth—but how would this technology fare on the Moon, and what would it tell us ...
21 February 2024–Strange seismic wave arrivals from a 2010 earthquake under Spain were the clues that led to an unexpected discovery beneath the western Mediterranean: a subducted oceanic slab ...
15 February 2024–A new measure that compares earthquake-related fatalities to a country’s population size concludes that Ecuador, Lebanon, Haiti, Turkmenistan, Iran and Portugal have experien...
13 February 2024–Oceans cover about 70% of the Earth’s surface—a fact that draws HyeJeong Kim’s scientific gaze under the sea, even as the seismologist now works on dry land as a postdoc ...
23 January 2024–SSA is pleased to announce the recipients of several of the Society’s awards for 2024. The Harry Fielding Reid Medal, the Charles F. Richter Early Career Award, the Frank Pres...
https://www.seismosoc.org/news/2024-ssa-honors-recipients-announced-2/
18 January 2024—Through the work of our Government Relations Committee, SSA is supporting the Congressional reauthorization of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), through...
https://www.seismosoc.org/news/ssa-supports-nehrp-reauthorization-bill/
SSA announced 20 travel grants to student, early-career and international members to participate in the 2024 Annual Meeting. The travel grants are made possible by generous donations to the Kanam...
https://www.seismosoc.org/news/2024-annual-meeting-travel-grants-announced/
8 January 2024–The characterization of uncertainty has been a theme of Adrian Rodriguez-Marek’s career as an earthquake engineer. “That was something that I was interested in from the very ...
https://www.seismosoc.org/news/at-work-adrian-rodriguez-marek/