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Folesky et al. report on many thousands of repeating earthquakes in the Atacama section of the Chilean subduction zone 🌍🌋

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One simple law explains rock strength across 7️⃣ orders of magnitude of stress — with implications for 🌋 earthquakes, 🏔️ landslides, and 🧪 material science.

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Stallone et al. 2026

Are exponentiality tests for binned earthquake magnitudes biased? ⚠️
Stallone et al. propose a statistical fix that improves completeness estimates 🌍

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Want to study exotic signals in seismic data? 🌊 Saoulis et al. shows how ML-based spectrogram segmentation can detect rare features — even 🐋 blue whale calls — with very small training datasets.
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Phase-only correction after stacking: a new fast & stable way to compute EGFs for ambient-noise tomography 🌍.
✅3–4x faster per pair, ✅up to 60x for big networks! 🚀
#Seismology #Geophysics

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At the BedrettoLab in the Swiss Alps Meier et al. are attempting a new way to study earthquake physics:
🔹Triggering M1.0 quakes at >1km depth
🔹On a natural fault zone packed with sensors
A bold step toward understanding how earthquakes start and stop!
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Lentas et al. designed an optimisation strategy for small-aperture seismic arrays, combining seismic wave theory with spatial limits on ocean islands. Deployment on Antikythera is expected to enhance earthquake detection & location accuracy.

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Wrapper TieBeNN brings probabilistic earthquake depth to near-real-time monitoring in Germany🌍 and adds a single Location Quality Score📊– so analysts can instantly trust ✔️(or flag⚠️) automatic locations.

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Nikolas Christensen—pioneer in understanding the elastic properties of crustal and upper‑mantle rocks—left behind an extraordinary Database of Elastic Anisotropy in Metamorphic Rocks, before his passing in 2022. 🌍🪨
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🗻🌎A new, unified view of the Cascadia slab bridges offshore and onshore data to build the first shoreline-crossing Moho models for Cascadia—providing user-focused alternatives for hazard studies.🪨↘️

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Which very terrestrial signals 🌍 will scientists testing seismometers for the Moon 🌙 encounter in the ESA-DLR LUNA 🌕 analog facility (Cologne, Germany)?

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🌋Deep beneath the Apennines, hidden quake clusters are on the move—fluid‑powered and fault‑jumping. Vuan et al. study shows how they link Italy’s major 2009 and 2016 quakes.

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🔎 Deep 3D seismic imaging reveals the remnant mantle fingerprint of processes that formed South Australia's world-class iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposit province 🪨⚒️

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Thanks to Diego Melgar for providing the image that has been voted by our members to grace the cover of Seismica Volume 4 Number 2 (2025). The Myanmar earthquake was one of the most significant events in 2025, and the related paper can be found here: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🌊📡 What can a single fibre in Madeira record?
From earthquakes to whale calls, far more than you might imagine.
Discover how the GeoLab fibre becomes a multi-disciplinary observatory.
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📡✨ Interested in automated DAS data weighting for source location?
Bozzi et al. new paper dives into how probabilistic weighting can boost event localization performance. Check it out!
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🌊How big tsunamis get depends on how earthquakes rupture!!
Modeling large earthquakes realistically, rather than with simpler assumptions, shows far‑field tsunami amplitudes can increase by ~30%, raising hazard at distant coastlines. #Tsunami
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Here are the finalists for the cover of our latest issue. Thanks to all authors who submitted an image for consideration. Which do you think will get the most votes from our members?

⚡🌍A M9-class earthquake struck the same Kamchatka region, 73 years after the last one!!.
PDTI results show extreme slip, double acceleration, and dynamic overshoot that challenge classic seismic cycle models.
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Seismica is seeking a Community Coordinator to support the Executive Editor for Community. This role will help strengthen and sustain our organization by taking on several key responsibilities.
Estimated time commitment is ~5 hrs/month. For more details please email info@seismica.org by January 26.

Our team of volunteers will be taking a break until the 5th of January 2026, but in the meantime we hope everyone has a peaceful holiday season and greets the new year with openness and optimism.

Remembering the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes this December, an extraordinary sequence in North American earthquake history.

Image: A 19th-century print illustrating the chaos of the New Madrid earthquakes (Granger Collection, NYC).

#NewMadrid

⚡Earthquake relocations along the Bismarck Sea Seismic Lineation, offshore Papua New Guinea, reveal the nature of some of the longest and fastest-slipping oceanic transform faults on Earth🌍.
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🌊 How big tsunamis get depends on how earthquakes rupture!!
Modeling large earthquakes realistically, rather than with simpler assumptions, shows far‑field tsunami amplitudes can increase by ~30%, raising hazard at distant coastlines
Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Beyond best-fit: quantifying uncertainty in earthquake source mechanisms🌍⚡!!.
📊🔎Probabilistic models of Adriatic quakes reveal not just how faults broke—but how certain we are📈Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

If you're attending the @agu.org meeting in New Orleans next week, leave a 🌎 in the comments so your fellow Seismica members know to keep an eye out for you. Thousands of people are there to share science, and not everyone knows about diamond open access journals, so spread the word!

Sharma et al. compiled a manually processed, comprehensive, and standardized strong-motion FLAT-FILE📂 for Indian earthquakes, built to improve 📊 ground‑motion models and 🛡️ seismic hazard analysis.

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🏞️🔬 DAS deployment inside a river!!!
What can we learn from the first DAS deployment inside a river?
What can DAS detect from inside a river?
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#Seismology #DAS #FluvialGeomorphology #EnvironmentalSeismology #Hydrology