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salt lake city, utah
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SSA’s Global #Travel #Grant program offers early-career and student members financial support to participate in scientific conferences and workshops anywhere in the world. Learn more here and apply by 28 February: buff.ly/H5BRlQE
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You asked for it, you got it. Here is the video of the @Mana_Carvalho22 punt return for a TD in Saturday night's game against the Cincinnati Bearcats at @Rice_Eccles synced up with the seismic data. @UUtah @utahathletics @Utah_Football @raspishake
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Researchers working on the #Kamchatka #Russia #earthquake and #tsunami, consider submitting your early analyses and reports to The #Seismic Record #TSR for rapid #OpenAccess publication. Learn more here buff.ly/mQ6Xar0
ALT map of tsunami travel times from 2025 Kamchatka earthquake courtesy NOAA
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Congrats to Alysha Armstrong for winning the Dept. of Geology and Geophysics 2025 award for Outstanding PhD Student. Alysha won for her work with Dr. Keith Koper and Dr. Ben Baker, using machine learning to find and process small earthquakes in the Yellowstone volcanic region.
ALT Photo of PhD student Alysha Armstrong holding her dog in front of sandstone rock formations.
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🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 📣PRESS RELEASE📣 Remote Single‐Station Seismic Monitoring of the July–October 2022 Earthquake Swarm at Ta‘ū Volcano, American Samoa #TSR (1/n)
Press release: seismosoc.org/news/scientist…
Paper: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa…
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In a new #TSR paper, @LosAlamosNatLab and @USGS scientists present a new way to optimize parameters for neural network-based phase-pickers.
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Despite its importance, earthquake magnitude is a surprisingly ambiguous concept. Here we combine analysis of a large dataset of earthquakes in the western US with synthetic experiments to understand the relation between different magnitude scales. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa…
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@UofUGeo's Peter Lippert (@utahpmag) and Sean Hutchings are helping bring attention to the hidden star of a 3,500 kilometer major sporting event this summer.
Introducing the Geo Tour de France project ⬇️
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📢 New paper and graduate student opportunity for geothermal imaging!
Check out our work characterizing iso- and anisotropic structure beneath the Hengill geothermal fields, Iceland.
Students interested in studying geothermal system at University of Hawaii please reach out 🙂
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Determining Stress Orientation in Rock Valley, Nevada, Using Ambient Seismic Noise #TSR
Telling the difference between earthquake vs explosion requires understanding the stress field and mechanical properties of the ruptured rocks.
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In northern California, the Mendocino Triple Junction marks the transition from San Andreas strike-slip faulting to Cascadia subduction. In Dec. 2021 and 2022, earthquake sequences struck this region. @USGS_quakes scientists explore in #TSR
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In a new #TSR paper, @USGS_quakes scientists applied an automated deep-learning workflow to improve earthquake catalogs for two northern California sequences: the Dec. 2021 Petrolia sequence, and the Dec. 2022 Ferndale sequence.
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Today is the 90th anniversary of the M6.6 Hansel Valley earthquake, the biggest earthquake ever observed in Utah! Check out the KSL article on this historic event: ksl.com/article/50947767/how…
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Interested in the onshore transition from San Andreas style faulting to Cascadia subduction zone tectonics? Check out this new #TSR paper!
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An unexpected discovery beneath the western Mediterranean of an overturned subducted oceanic slab may help scientists better understand rare and deep earthquakes in southern Spain. #TSR
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In a new #TSR paper, scientists found that beneath the western Mediterranean, a subducted oceanic slab has completely flipped over!
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Deformed Latest Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces Reveal Complex Active Faulting within Tectonic Transition Zone, Mendocino Triple Junction, Northern California #TSR
Scientists explore where Cascadia and the San Andreas meet.
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How can scientists monitor tsunami-causing landslides? A new #TSR paper explores how seismic data can help.
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