In a new #SRL paper, scientists propose that larger earthquakes — up to M7.5 — could be responsible for liquefaction features several thousand years old that are located in Arkansas and Mississippi. ⚒️
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🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 In a new #TSR paper, scientists use a dense nodal array near the South China coast to explore seismic velocity changes in a relatively quiescent region (seismically speaking). ⚒️
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In a new #BSSA paper, scientists create an empirical nonergodic ground-motion model for earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area, based on about 5,000 recordings from earthquakes less than or equal to magnitude 4.0. ⚒️
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📣 #SSA2026 PROGRAM ANNOUNCED📣Browse the technical program today:
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Sensitivity Analysis of Earthquake Depths in the Culberson–Mentone Earthquake Zone, Delaware Basin #SRL⚒️
A new high-resolution earthquake catalog shows consistent earthquake depths for the West Texas Delaware Basin.
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Add our #CloudComputing #workshop to your agenda for #SSA2026. This intermediate-level workshop helps participants build on foundational skills by exploring more advanced strategies for using the #GeoLab #JupyterHub. Register today: buff.ly/edsk7vk #seismology #geophysics ⚒️
In a new #SRL paper, scientists use 1950s era aerial photographs and Keyhole satellite images from 1968 to study stream offset along the Xiaojiang fault. Because the region has been extensively anthropomorphically modified, these datasets are invaluable. ⚒️
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📣 Apply now for a ESC/SSA Student Travel Grant 📣
Join your colleagues for the 40th General Assembly of the European #Seismological Commission! This grant is open to SSA student members who do not reside in an ESC country. The deadline is 15 March: buff.ly/I6oAiJf ⚒️
📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢#SRL is soliciting papers for a Focus Section titled: Advances in Operational Earthquake and Tsunami Response Science: Delivering Time-Critical and Actionable Advice ⚒️
Deadline for Submission: 15 May 2026
By combining a high resolution seismic catalogue with an InSAR-derived coseismic slip model, scientists can determine geometric controls on the 2022 magnitude 6.6 Menyuan earthquake’s rupture. #SRL ⚒️
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🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 Preface to the Focus Section on Intraplate Earthquakes #SRL ⚒️
This preface provides an overview for the more than 20 papers comprising this body of work on the topic of intraplate earthquakes.
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Investigating the Effects of Waveform Duration and Earthquake Location Selection in Training Data on the Performance of CNN‐Based Nuclear Explosion Classifier #SRL ⚒️
How do training datasets affect convolutional neural network classifiers for the earthquake v explosion question?
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Heading to Pasadena for #SSA2026? Don't forget to book your hotel room! Make your reservation by 23 March and get a discounted rate. All the details are here: buff.ly/UXQSdJY #SeismologyMeeting ⚒️
Just how wide is the northern section of the West Napa fault zone? A new #SRL paper proposes that it is not 100 meters, as suggested after the 2014 M6.0 South Napa earthquake, but rather on the order of 1 kilometer wide. ⚒️
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The lead authors of this paper discussed recent reports that a seismic event in Iran was a nuclear weapons test. As the paper reminds us, Iran is tectonically active. Evaluation of the data from the event "shows the unmistakable characteristics of a natural earthquake."
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🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟The 20 June 2025 Mw 4.9 Event in the Central Alborz, Iran: A Rare Normal‐Faulting Earthquake Within a Complex Transpressional Regime #TSR ⚒️
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🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟In a new #SRL paper, scientists perform earthquake ground-motion simulations in the region affected by the M4.8 Tewksbury, New Jersey earthquake. ⚒️
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Please join us in welcoming Stefano Parolai as the next Editor-in-Chief for the Bulletin of the #Seismological Society of America #BSSA! Learn more about Stefano and his goals for the journal buff.ly/1asx5kv
Constraining the Earthquake Focal Depth Distribution in the Southern Korean Peninsula #BSSA ⚒️
At what depth do earthquakes tend to nucleate in the Southern Korean Peninsula? Scientists find a bimodal depth distribution.
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📣 #SSA2026 PROGRAM ANNOUNCED📣 Get ready for engaging lectures, presentations, special events and networking! Browse the technical program today to start your planning: buff.ly/HbWwEeI #seismology #earthquake #engineering ⚒️
How do you account for site-effects without Vs30? There are a few ways, and a new #BSSA paper presents a ground-motion model based on geospatial site terms in the Central and Eastern U.S. ⚒️
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🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟In a new #SRL paper, scientists present a new machine-learning based catalog of southwestern Australia — a stable, continental region. The catalog contains about 29,000 events that occurred between 2000 and May of 2025⚒️
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📣PRESS RELEASE📣 🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 In a new #TSR paper, scientists explore a seismic swarm at Sørfjorden that began in June 2023 and continued in bursts of seismic activity for almost a year. Was a leak during construction the culprit? ⚒️
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢 #BSSA is soliciting manuscripts for a Special Issue on Quantifying the Long-term Prehistoric Earthquake Record: Advances and Applications ⚒️
Deadline for Submission: 1 June 2026
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🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟The BELSHAKE Database of Earthquake Ground Motion in Belgium #SRL ⚒️
The database contains about 6,400 digital records from 344 tectonic and induced earthquakes with local magnitudes of 2 or greater.
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📣 Apply now for a ESC/SSA Student Travel Grant 📣
Join your colleagues for the 40th General Assembly of the European #Seismological Commission! This grant is open to SSA student members who do not reside in an ESC country. The deadline is 15 March: buff.ly/I6oAiJf ⚒️
🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 Introducing AGMD, the Australia Ground-Motion Database! AGMD includes more than 5,000 ground-motion records from 270 earthquakes spanning 1990 to 2025 and is openly accessible. Find out more in #SRL. ⚒️
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🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟In a new #BSSA paper, scientists present a new deep-learning based denoising model trained on earthquake and noise signals from Switzerland. They call it: EQS-denoiser. ⚒️
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Fault Intersections Control the Extremely Shallow 2020 Mw 5.1 Sparta, North Carolina, Earthquake Sequence #SRL ⚒️
A shallow, weak low-velocity layer, possibly related to a fracture network, may be a factor in the 2020 North Carolina earthquake.
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The oldest rocks in India can be found in the Proterozoic Aravalli–Delhi fold belt. A new #SRL paper analyzes seismic data to illuminate the subsurface structures in the region, exploring the ancient tectonics of the area. ⚒️
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