We are excited to announce the release of two new open resources developed through CRESCENT: the Earthquake Catalog Repository and Viewer and the Cascadia Ground Failure Viewer. These platforms provide curated datasets and interactive visualization tools for exploring seismicity and ground-failure processes in Cascadia, supporting research, education, and hazard assessment.
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Read about: the launch of the new Tsunami Sources for Hazard Awareness Special Interest Group, new and evolving CRESCENT cyberinfrastructure tools, working group activities and appointments, topical workshop opportunities, the 2026 Seed Grant call for proposals, professional development and technical short course offerings, partnership convenings, recent publications and recognitions, CLiP webinars, upcoming events… and more in the latest edition of Seismic Moment — CRESCENT’s Quarterly Newsletter.
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The goal of the Ground Motion Modeling Special Interest Group Topical Workshop is to define from a community perspective the broad needs, goals, and directions of ground motion modeling and hazard in Cascadia. The desired outcome is to write a peer reviewed roadmap or opinion piece for this frontier.
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We are delighted to announce the formation of a new CRESCENT Special Interest Group – the Tsunami Sources for Hazard Assessment SIG (TSHA SIG).
See the TSHA webpage for more information and opportunities to contribute and follow the work of this SIG.
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Coordinated in collaboration with CRESCENT, the CLiP Webinar Series showcases advances in seismic hazard assessment, infrastructure design, and earthquake resilience initiatives. These monthly webinars are free to the community and will be of particular interest to practicing engineers, industrial scientists, and policy makers.
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Led by members of the Cascadia Paleoseismology (CPAL) and Community Fault Model (CFM) working groups, this five-day, field-based technical short course exposes participants to paleoearthquake studies and their application to understanding fault behavior in space and time. Integrated topics include subsidence stratigraphy, ecology-based paleoseismic studies, tsunami deposit mapping, trench-based paleoseismology, high-resolution lidar topography, and surficial geologic mapping. Based at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston, the course includes limited classroom time and 4.5 days of fieldwork in the marshes and adjacent uplands of Coos Bay on Oregon’s southern coast.
Application closes May 22, 2026.
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CRESCENT is pleased to share a new set of open-source tools for building realistic 3D fault surfaces directly in QGIS (a free, cross-platform GIS application). These tools are designed to help researchers create non-planar, data-constrained fault geometries from standard geologic and geophysical inputs, including geologic maps, balanced cross-sections, seismic images, and earthquake hypocenters.
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Here’s where you can find us at this year’s American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
We’re thrilled to share that a team led by Stefan Henneking and Omar Ghattas at UT Austin has been awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their work on real-time tsunami forecasting in Cascadia. The author team also includes CRESCENT senior personnel Alice-Agnes Gabriel, from UC San Diego, who leads our Dynamic Rupture, Earthquake Cycles, and Tsunamis (DET) working group and showcased this work at our annual meeting in Seattle last month.
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From Curiosity to Contribution: Students Thrive in CRESCENT’s Year-Long Geoscience Mentorship Program
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