4 November 2016 - Graduate students Rob Anthony, Kendra Johnson and Marshall Roger-Martinez were sponsored by SSA to attend Geosciences Congressional Visits Days (Geo-CVD) in September. The program brings science and engineering students to Washington, D.C. for two days to participate in a training session on the basics of how Congress works and how to impact science. Participants then visit Capitol Hill to discuss geoscience policy with Congressional staff and elected Members of Congress.

1 November 2016 - Historical sleuthing has turned up evidence for a possible link between oil production and a handful of damaging earthquakes that took place in the Los Angeles Basin during its oil boom in the early 20^th century, according to a new study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA).

In particular, the 1920 Inglewood quake, the 1929 Whittier quake, the 1930 Santa Monica quake and the 1933 Long Beach earthquake may have been induced by oil production activities that took place prior to the time of the seismic events.

Travel grants to attend the 2017 SSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado are available to student SSA members, international SSA members and persons traveling from the European Seismological Commission member states. The grant application period is now open, and all applications are due 30 November 2016.

20 October 2016 - Since 2014, research groups in Japan, Taiwan and New Zealand have been collaborating on research topics and sharing expertise to help develop national seismic hazard models. In a focus section published October 19 in Seismological Research Letters, the scientists describe their work for the Joint Japan-Taiwan-New Zealand National Seismic Hazard Model Collaboration.

14 September 2016 - Stalagmites rising from the floor of a cave in southern Indiana may contain traces of past earthquakes in the region, according to a report published September 13 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

The rock formations in Donnehue's Cave, and others like them in local caves, could help scientists better understand the history of ancient seismic events in the Wabash Valley fault system of the Midwestern United States.

9 September 2016 - Datasets from the East African North Malawi Rift and Indonesia's Banda Arc are the subjects of the inaugural papers in Data Mine, the new peer-reviewed column in SSA's Seismological Research Letters (SRL).