seismology

Congress allocates $2 million from the USGS ShakeAlert budget to begin building Alaska's first earthquake early warning system, targeting 90 percent of the state's population.

Researchers from IPGP and GFZ have validated a single-seismometer technique that detects nanometer-scale ground signals hours before eruptions, and plan to deploy it on Mount Etna in 2026 through the POS4dyke project.

A Stanford-led study published in Science presents the first systematic global catalog of earthquakes originating in the continental mantle, identifying 459 events since 1990 and revealing unexpected clustering beneath the Himalayas and the Bering Strait.