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18 August 2026-The Seismological Society of America announces its search for the next editor-in-chief (EIC) of Seismological Research Letters (SRL). Nominations for the position, including self-nominations, will be accepted through January 2027. SSA has i

17 August 2026-Speakers at the 2026 Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) conference, including an SSA editor and Board member, shared new research on why induced seismicity remains relevant for hydrocarbon and geothermal energy exploration. Their prese

17 August 2026-A tire blew out during a family car trip through Kansas, but it wasn't all bad news for eight-year-old Nate Stevens, who was eager to dig for fossils along the road. "And then I started pulling out Inoceramid clam fossils, because anywhere

Participants celebrating the successful completion of the workshop. 28 July 2026- This July a $5,000 SSA Community Grant brought 42 students, teachers and early-career scientists from Nepal, India and Bhutan together in Kathmandu for hands-on training. Th

21 July 2026-Sustained supershear earthquake ruptures produce distinct ground motion characteristics compared to subshear earthquakes, according to a study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, with potential implications for

13 July 2026-Tsunamis in the deep ocean travel as fast as a high-speed train or even an airplane in some cases. "It's quick, but not so quick," says Yuchen Wang. "We have enough time between the tsunami generation and the tsunami arrival at the coast, and

1 July 2026-From a massive but messy collection of reports from people who felt the 1957 magnitude-5.3 Daly City, California earthquake, researchers used the large language model Gemini 2.5 Pro to extract data that allowed them to create a shaking intensi

25 June 2026-As a service to global researchers working on the 24 June 2026 magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes in Venezuela, the Seismological Society of America has created a short list of our journal papers related to the region. These papers will be fre

23 June 2026-The Seismic Record (TSR) has earned its first official Clarivate Impact Factor of 5.3, ranking 6th out of 103 journals in the geochemistry and geophysics category. The Impact Factor measures how frequently a journal's articles are cited by ot

15 June 2026-One hundred and fifty years of recorded earthquakes may sound like a lot of data, but it's a drop in the bucket of the Earth's 4.54 billion years, says Irene Liou. Liou, a postdoctoral researcher at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, f