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New Perspectives on Energy Sinks During Seismic Events

by Alberto Montanari 12 September 202511 September 2025

Laboratory earthquakes shed new light on energy partitioning during earthquakes, which is allocated to seismic radiation, creation of new surfaces, and heat dissipation.

Composite image of Keeler Crater on the Moon highlighting the presence of boulder fall tracks.
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Scientists Track Down Fresh Boulder Falls on the Moon

by Unnati Ashar 27 August 202527 August 2025

By poring over thousands of satellite images, researchers geolocated 245 fresh boulder tracks, revealing signs of seismic activity or impact events within the last half-million years.

Graphs and photos of an eruption
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Long-Term Strain Record of Mount Etna Captures 84 Fountaining Eruptions

by Gregory P. Waite 26 August 202526 August 2025

Scientists use over a decade of high-resolution data to demonstrate that strain signals provide a better match to eruptive style than seismic tremors.

A map of estimated degree of damage (black to yellow) in settlements across the zone affected by the 2025 Myanmar earthquake
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Video Shows Pulsing and Curving Fault Behavior

by Veronika Meduna 21 August 202521 August 2025

A chance video captured a fault rupture during March’s devastating Myanmar earthquake, delivering real-time evidence of how major seismic tremors propagate.

Map from the study.
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Trapped Charge Techniques Pinpoint Past Fault Slip

by Alexis Ault 18 August 202514 August 2025

Scientists combine two novel dating techniques on fault gouge to better pinpoint the timing and nature of past fault activity in the Eastern Alps.

An orange, soccer ball–sized sphere with electronic equipment attached to it floats in the ocean.
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Finding the Gap: Seismology Offers Slab Window Insights

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 15 August 202514 August 2025

Studying slow tremors has helped researchers home in on the youngest part of the Chile Triple Junction’s gap between subducting plates, which offers a window to the mantle.

2 graphs from the paper.
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How Flexible Enhanced Geothermal Systems Control Their Own Seismicity

by David Dempsey 7 August 20255 August 2025

A new study maps how microseismicity waxes and wanes with pressure in enhanced geothermal systems, offering a template for managing quakes in future heat-mining projects.

A person speaks into a microphone in front of a background display with cartoon explosions and seismic squiggles.
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Susanne Maciel: Marrying Mathematics and Geology

by Meghie Rodrigues 28 July 202528 July 2025

A geophysicist brings math down to Earth and reaches a rural audience.

A small vessel sails past a glacier.
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New Satellite Adds Evidence of an Earth-Shaking Wave

by J. Besl 1 July 20251 July 2025

A tsunami struck a fjord in East Greenland in 2023, ringing seismometers for nine straight days. A new satellite study provides the first observational evidence of the waves.

Images and diagrams of nano-scale cavities.
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Creep Cavitation May Lead to Earthquake Nucleation

by Alexandre Schubnel 22 May 202521 May 2025

Ultramylonites, rocks of ultrafine grainsize, bring records of nanometer-scale cavities generated at the base of seismogenic crust along Japan’s largest on‐land fault.

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