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

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🌍 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...

Victor Hugo Benioff (Sept 14, 1899 – Feb 29, 1968) was a Caltech seismologist and pioneer of earthquake instruments. He built the Benioff seismograph, revealed the Wadati–Benioff zones, and even experimented with electric instruments. Photo: Caltech Images Collection

🖥️Introducing Chile_Mesh_v1.0!! 🧮 A new 3D finite-element mesh designed to study how megathrust earthquakes along the Chilean subduction zone deform the South American continent! Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🔍 On 28/01/2020, the largest recorded earthquake in the northern Caribbean (Mw7.7), ruptured the Oriente fault at a speed faster than seismic waves. A rare supershear event, explained by the fault's characteristics. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

A devastating earthquake struck Afghanistan on Aug 31, killing 2K+, destroying 5K+ homes & affecting ~500K people. Research into practical ways to build/reinforce low cost structures to be more resilient to ground shaking will protect future generations. 📷The News International

🔍 From petabytes to picks: Data mining empowered by a cloud-native workflow turns 1.3 PB of seismic data into the first global-scale database of 4.3 billion P- and S-wave picks. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

When every minute counts, RED-E delivers rapid post-earthquake insights—bridging the gap between science and response in Canada. Read now: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view... ------ @seos-uvic.bsky.social @thobbsgeo.bsky.social @uvic.ca

🌍Tectonic tremor isn’t just noise!! A new study in Seismica unveils evidence that enigmatic tectonic tremor is associated with material underplating, giving rise to coastal mountains along subduction zones such as Cascadia. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🌍Low SNR makes detecting induced seismicity tough. Heuel et al. trained PhaseNet with noise samples and induced seismicity events, reducing false picks and improving detection on continuous geothermal recordings Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🌋 On Aug 27, 1883, Krakatoa erupted with cataclysmic force. The blast was heard 3,000+ miles away, unleashed tsunamis over 30m high, and darkened skies worldwide. Global temperatures dropped, and vivid sunsets inspired artists for years.
#OTD #Krakatoa #VolcanoHistory

🌎Depth matters!!! In the 2019 Ridgecrest seismic sequence, source-depth–dependent attenuation shaped stress drops far more than horizontal variations↔️. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🔍Latallerie et al. bring a new tomographic method to image the upper mantle with control over resolution and uncertainty in 3D, plus a fresh look at theoretical errors. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Volume 4 Number 1 now has an official cover! Photo is courtesy Gonzalo Antonio Fernández Marañón and depicts a Tunari Peak from a related paper on seismicity in the Cochabamba region. Find it and dozens of other articles in this issue on our website: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/issue/view/122

🔍Does slow slip occur offshore Cascadia? Krauss et al. report tectonic tremor-like signals on one ocean bottom seismometer near the deformation front at ~44.5°N. Could this represent slow slip on a nearby fault?🤔 Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🌍How to map slip at depth within a subduction zone, such as North Chile? You can use Folesky et al. repeating earthquake catalog! Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

🌍The Beaufort Range fault is ACTIVE! This right-lateral oblique Beaufort Range faulting occurs >100 km farther North than previously documented faults in the Cascadia forearc. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view... NAU Research @nau-ses.bsky.social UVic SEOS @seos-uvic.bsky.social

🌍The 2025 Myanmar earthquake transition: Supershear➡️Subshear➡️Supershear Integrating a video, seismograms, simulations, and satellite imagery of the Mw 7.7 Myanmar quake reveals this dynamic rupture evolution across the Sagaing Fault. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Do you study deep Earth structure using seismic methods? Do you want to help advance research in body wave tomography, core diffracted waves, shear wave splitting, anisotropy and more? Bring your observational or theoretical experience to Seismica as a handling editor! 🧠[email protected]

🌏A Supershear Earthquake Strikes Myanmar: Fast, Long, and Repeating Melgar et al. reveal a fast 450 km rupture from March 28 M7.8 quake, ties to past Sagaing Fault quakes, highlighting seismic repeatability & the urgent need for resilience. Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

If you have time-critical research that you want peer-reviewed, publicly accessible, and published quickly; just remember that Seismica's Fast Reports have an average turnaround of about a month. Create a seismica.org account and share a paper on last week's M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake and tsunami.

GEESE! New rupture matching algorithm by Brooks et al., retrieves a realistic rupture for a queried event from OpenQuake hazard models. It can help validate a seismic source model, or provide an initial rupture post-event without additional data Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

The Patagonian slab window is a portal where, without a slab in the way, material is flowing between the Pacific and Atlantic upper mantles. Read now: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view... @tellurianite.bsky.social&@dougwiens.bsky.social&@walid06seismo.bsky.social&@lamont.columbia.edu&@whoi.edu

ScarpLearn uses deep learning to estimate the scarp height of normal faults with associated uncertainties. It saves expert time and ensures reproducible results that do not depend on the user. Read now: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...