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Rose Parade float featuring dinosaurs
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Everything’s Coming Up Roses for Pasadena Seismologists

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 4 June 202014 May 2024

Using fiber-optic cables, a new seismic network charts vibrations associated with the Rose Parade’s massive floats and marching bands.

Close-up of one African elephant in a herd in South Africa
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Monitoring African Elephants with Raspberry Shake & Boom

Javier Barbuzano, Science Writer by Javier Barbuzano 28 May 20205 April 2023

A team of researchers has used low-cost devices to record footsteps and vocalizations from African elephants in the field.

Schematic of how oscillations inside Saturn generate spiral density waves in the rings
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Using Saturn’s Rings as a Seismometer

by F. Nimmo 12 May 202024 May 2023

The Cassini spacecraft observed spiral density waves in the rings of Saturn which can be used to probe its interior structure and rotation.

Imaging seismic sources with waveforms ranging from the laboratory scale to the global scale
Posted inEditors' Vox

Imaging Seismic Sources

by L. Li and B. Schwarz 30 April 202014 October 2022

Waveform‐based location methods are being used to better characterize and understand seismic sources from the laboratory to the global scale.

A man lectures to a room of attentive blue-shirted students in Nepal
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Bringing Earthquake Education to Schools in Nepal

Rachel Fritts, Science Writer by Rachel Fritts 27 April 20205 April 2023

The Seismology at School in Nepal program aims to prepare rural communities for the next big earthquake.

Map of China and surroundings showing GPS-measured crustal velocities and large earthquakes
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Space-Based Data Expand Understanding of Crustal Deformation

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 27 March 202029 September 2021

Researchers used the largest GPS data set yet to examine deformation of the crust across continental China and its implications for tectonic activity.

This aerial view shows Lake Taupō amid the whenua (land) of Ngāti Tūwharetoa on the North Island of New Zealand.
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Implications of a Supervolcano’s Seismicity

by F. Illsley-Kemp, S. J. Barker, B. Smith and C. J. N. Wilson 5 March 202029 September 2021

Last year’s rumblings beneath New Zealand’s Taupō supervolcano, the site of Earth’s most recent supereruption, lend new urgency to research and outreach efforts in the region.

Glacial cliff towers above an icy sea
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Controlled Explosions Pave the Way for Thwaites Glacier Research

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 10 January 202013 December 2021

Scientists detonate explosives in West Texas to prepare for fieldwork in West Antarctica.

Image of the cratered lunar surface, centered on Mare Orientale, a multiringed crater that resembles a bull’s-eye
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Rolling Rocks Reveal Recent Moonquakes

by Jack Lee 8 January 202018 December 2023

Using satellite images of the lunar surface, scientists find trails left by boulders shaken loose by seismic activity.

A continuously telemetered mountaintop GNSS station located on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state
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Seismic Sensors in Orbit

by T. I. Melbourne, D. Melgar, B. W. Crowell and W. M. Szeliga 26 December 201923 February 2023

Navigation satellites are enabling high-precision, real-time tracking of ground displacements, supplementing traditional methods for monitoring and assessing earthquakes.

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