Seismological Society of America

20 September 2023–Throughout her career, Natalie Balfour has moved back and forth between research, management and leadership roles. “It is a bit of who I am,” said Balfour, now the head of...

https://www.seismosoc.org/news/at-work-natalie-balfour/

18 September 2023–Thanks to a generous gift from his sister, Suzanne, a new fund at SSA will honor the life and accomplishments of Paul Andrew Spudich (1950-2019) by supporting the professional...

https://www.seismosoc.org/news/ssa-launches-the-paul-andrew-spudich-fund-to-support-scientific-travel/

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 candidat...

https://www.seismosoc.org/news/election-2024/

12 September 2023–Fires that raged in the days following the 1 September 1923 magnitude 7.9 Kantō earthquake killed roughly 90% of the 105,000 people who perished in and around Tokyo, making i...

https://www.seismosoc.org/news/largest-historic-fire-death-toll-belongs-to-aftermath-of-1923-japan-earthquake/

28 August 2023–After an earthquake strikes in an area with a buried gas pipeline network, it can be critical to identify where potential damage to the pipeline might have occurred—especially ...

https://www.seismosoc.org/news/new-methodology-combines-earthquake-ground-shaking-and-ground-failure-for-forecasting-gas-pipeline-damage/

This July, four SSA student and early-career members have been selected to receive Global Travel Grants to attend workshops or small meetings around the world. Venkata Gangadhara Rao (Institute ...

https://www.seismosoc.org/news/ssa-global-travel-grant-recipients-announced-2/

18 August 2023–It sounds like science fiction, but one of Carene Larmat’s tasks as a geoscientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory is time reversal. “During my Ph.D. it became possible to ...

https://www.seismosoc.org/news/at-work-carene-larmat/

09 August 2023–A telecommunications fiber optic cable deployed offshore of Oliktok Point, Alaska recorded ambient seismic noise that can be used to finely track the formation and retreat of sea...

https://www.seismosoc.org/news/telecommunications-cable-used-to-track-sea-ice-extent-in-the-arctic/

28 July 2023–SSA has developed an author name change policy and procedures for authors publishing in its three journals: the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), Seismologic...

https://www.seismosoc.org/news/ssa-journals-announce-author-name-change-policy-and-procedures/

21 July 2023–Researchers at a field site in Victoria, Australia are among the first to use fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) for high-precision tracking of induced seismicity from ...

https://www.seismosoc.org/news/fiber-optic-sensing-tracks-seismicity-from-injected-carbon-dioxide-at-australian-site/