Alex Mehta is one of EarthScope’s 2025 Science Communication Interns, working with Scott Johnson and Emily Zawacki on a variety of visual media, including videos and infographics. She is currently a senior at the University of Georgia, where she is majoring in Marine Science. She is very passionate about science communication, particularly in the area of climate change.

Beck Hufstetler is one of EarthScope’s 2025 Science Communication Interns, working with Scott Johnson and Emily Zawacki. She’s working on creating videos and articles about how scientists locate materials deep underground, and why these materials are so important.

A new publication provides a comprehensive retrospective chronicling UNAVCO’s four-decade history supporting geodesy and the geosciences.

Yurong “Riley” Zhang (she/her) is EarthScope’s Summer 2025 Instrumentation Intern, working with Chris Calvelage. She is currently a PhD candidate at Michigan State University, working the seismic structure of Tonga and Pampean subduction zones and mantle wedges, with a particular emphasis on seismic attenuation, velocity tomography, and stress drop analysis. Previously, she earned her bachelor’s in geophysics from the University of Science and Technology of China.

As a reminder to real-time GNSS data users, the legacy real-time streaming service will be retired in less than a month on July 29, 2025. All users must transition to EarthScope’s modernized real-time GNSS data streaming platform before that date.

Seismic noise can serve as an indicator of wave action and sea ice coverage offshore.

Viridis Miranda (she/her) is from Puerto Rico, and is currently a master’s student at the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez Campus. She is one of three of EarthScope’s Summer 2025 Science Communication Career Interns, working with Scott Johnson and Emily Zawacki.

Check out our conversation with Yiyu Ni about a project using machine learning to generate an earthquake catalog from over a petabyte of data from the archive.

In the first week of October in 2023, earthquakes struck in a cluster near submarine volcanoes off Japan, producing a tsunami.