March 11 marks the 15th anniversary of the 3rd-largest seismic event ever recorded, the magnitude 9.1 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Recovery from this devastating event is still ongoing. Research into ways to make our society more resilient to nature's unpredictability continues.

Folesky et al. report on many thousands of repeating earthquakes in the Atacama section of the Chilean subduction zone 🌍🌋 🔗 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

One simple law explains rock strength across 7️⃣ orders of magnitude of stress — with implications for 🌋 earthquakes, 🏔️ landslides, and 🧪 material science. 🔗 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Are exponentiality tests for binned earthquake magnitudes biased? ⚠️ Stallone et al. propose a statistical fix that improves completeness estimates 🌍 🔗 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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. 🔗 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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 🔗 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

We’re seeing a high volume of submissions, and our editorial team is actively processing manuscripts and assigning editors. Help us help you: following the submission checklist can speed things up 👉 seismica.library.mcgill.ca/submission-c...

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! More: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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. 🔗 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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. 🌍🪨 🔗 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🗻🌎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.🪨↘️ 🔗 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Which very terrestrial signals 🌍 will scientists testing seismometers for the Moon 🌙 encounter in the ESA-DLR LUNA 🌕 analog facility (Cologne, Germany)? Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🌋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. 🔗 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🔎 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 🪨⚒️ Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view... -- @speleos.bsky.social y.social @idlearth.bsky.social

📡✨ 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! Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🌊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 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

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 [email protected] 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🌍. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🌊 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. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🏞️🔬 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? Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view... #Seismology #DAS #FluvialGeomorphology #EnvironmentalSeismology #Hydrology

In a week where we are reminded to be thankful, Seismica extends our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of people who have volunteered their time to support our open access journal. Thanks to our editors, reviewers, support teams, and authors for your contributions to making Seismica what it is today

It’s holiday and conference season, so grab something for yourself or a gift for the seismology aficionado in your life from our Red Bubble store. All proceeds are donated to Seismica via @opencollective for income and expenditure transparency. www.redbubble.com/people/weare...

🌍 On April 23, 2025 a Mw 6.3 Marmara earthquake ruptured the North Anatolian Fault, with a notable non-double-couple component, eastward aftershocks, and amplified ground motion affecting western Istanbul.📉 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Seismica exists to help publish more researchers publish their work, and to allow that research to be seen by peers, policy-makers, and the public. Seismica is run by volunteers, and we're calling on people to join our copy editing and media teams. Email us at: [email protected]

Seismica’s LaTeX templates are now on Overleaf! Writing your next paper just got easier. Our LaTeX template is now available directly within Overleaf Search for “Seismica” on Overleaf, or use the following link: 🔗 www.overleaf.com/latex/templa...

👻 Don’t fear peer review! Our volunteers are the friendly ghosts of open science. This Halloween, send your paper to a journal that won’t haunt your inbox. ✨ Seismica is run by researchers, for researchers: open, fair, and community led.

🌍What specific ground-motion features characterize the very shallow Le Teil earthquake (Mw 4.9, depth 1–2 km, France)? 🎯How well do ground-motion models reproduce them? Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🚗💥Seismic body waves extracted from highway traffic! Quiros & Brown used upstate NY vehicle vibrations to image the seismic speed of underground rock formations—showing that traffic can be a viable seismic source under the right conditions. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

📝 Seismica is recruiting! Our Standards & Copy-Editing (SCE) team is looking for new volunteers to help copy-edit and format accepted papers. Read new research, use your LaTeX & Python skills, and support open-access publishing! 🌍 🔗 Apply: forms.gle/RXikii5XkiX4...

🧩 A cryptic quake in Nevada’s Walker Lane (09/15/2024) reveals orthogonal rupture patterns and surprising secondary effects like liquefaction! Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view... -- @faultcreeper.bsky.social

⚠️ Faults don’t slip evenly!! Varying slip rates along faults drive complex earthquake cycle patterns, yet they are overlooked in seismic hazard assessments. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

36 years ago this week a magnitude Mw 6.9 earthquake struck California’s central coast. Named after the nearby Loma Prieta Peak, it was also known as the World Series Earthquake as it interrupted the televised baseball final. This USGS ground shaking animation plays in real time.

🌋With an extraordinary dataset from over 500 seismic stations in Germany’s Eifel region, Dahm et al. have resolved the magma system beneath Laacher See volcano, for the first time since its massive eruption 13,000 years ago Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

An upcoming SSA meeting in Colorado will be discussing the latest research into environmental processes and how seismology is used to provide new insights in this evolving field. If you’re attending, be sure to connect with your Seismica people! www.seismosoc.org/environmenta...

🧠📈 Adding strain rate to ETAS boosts earthquake forecasts at Campi Flegrei! Geodetic signals make models more realistic and predictive Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

📈 Which seismic phase associator works best? 🧠Puente Huerta et al., benchmarked 5 algorithms testing their performance across diverse settings and under noisy-complex conditions Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view... ------ @jannesmunch.bsky.social

Did you know? At Seismica, we publish reviewer reports alongside accepted manuscripts. Transparency helps science grow. 👇 Check out any paper’s reviewer report — see the example!

🤖A new AI model estimates earthquake ground shaking in Italy, using just the first 10 seconds of seismic trace, helping improve rapid response. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Seismica is all about making science accessible to a broad audience, so we give authors the option to include multi-language and plain-language abstracts. Talk to our handling editors about using this approach to expand the visibility of your research.

🚷 Lockdowns and curfews during COVID-19 left a clear footprint in France’s ambient seismic noise. Ambient noise dropped, revealing how seismology can be used to understand and track human mobility. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...