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Science and Society
29 September 2026

Scientists look to Mexico earthquake to see how well pretrained machine-learning methods perform

New aftershock catalog from 2017 M 8.2 earthquake reveals how machine-learning can facilitate our understanding of tectonically complex environments.

Science and Society
9 September 2026

Thousands of tiny temblors illuminate the Yakutat microplate’s easternmost edge

Alaska’s subduction zone is congested, but earthquakes can help us see what’s going on with the Yakutat microplate.

Science and Society
2 September 2026

Giving new life to old data: 2010s seismic data reveal striking evidence of a hurricane’s landfall

The Transportable Array, a massive project to seismically map North America, was equipped with all the right tools to measure earthquakes — and surprisingly — hurricanes.

Science and Society
21 August 2026

To better understand whales, geophysicists explore old data in new ways

New research expands the limits of traditional bioacoustic monitoring by finding whale signals in unexpected places.

Science and Society
12 August 2026

Listening to seismic noise reveals slippery sediments beneath Antarctic glaciers

New research uses the ocean’s seismic “background noise” to map interface zones between glaciers and bedrock.

Science and Society
6 August 2026

Pie-shaped piece of Antarctica the size of a small continent reveals rotational extensional tectonics

V-shaped topographic basins radiating from central Antarctica could be remnants of of the continent’s deep geologic history.

Science and Society
23 July 2026

Fossil Farallon fragment’s bounding faults could pose seismic hazard to area already at risk

Is the Pioneer Fragment really stuck to the Pacific plate beneath a part of North America that’s extremely seismically active?

Organizational News
30 June 2026

The Cocos Plate’s Only NOTA Station Is Back Online

This June, the ISCO station on Cocos Island was rebuilt, allowing for the first real-time geophysical data for the Cocos Plate since 2020.

Science and Society
29 June 2026

Unspooling the Details of the 2025 Kamchatka Earthquake

NSF NGF data archives help researchers reconstruct one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded.

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