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February 2026 Newsletter

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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TSHA SIG Announcement

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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CLiP Webinar Series 2025-26

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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QGIS Toolkit Product Release

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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Tsunami Forecasting Breakthrough Earns Gordon Bell Prize

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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Offshore Observations Topical Workshop

In an effort to coordinate future offshore science in Cascadia, we are designing the Offshore Observations workshop to bring together geoscientists across a variety of disciplines that use offshore datasets to study subduction zones. The workshop will comprise a series of short talk sessions followed by breakout groups. Session topics include fluid pathways and hydrology of subduction zones, constraints on megathrust locking state and shallow slow slip, accretionary wedge deformation, structure of the incoming plate, and future plans for ocean drilling, fiber-optic sensing, and cabled infrastructure.

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