At Work: Boris Rösler | Seismological Society of America

At Work: Boris Rösler | Seismological Society of America

10 March 2025—“Moment tensors are a model to describe earthquake sources based on forces acting at the seismic source,” explains Boris Rösler. “In the 1960s, it was shown that these forces generate a seismic wavefield equivalent to slip on a fault. We can thus describe the geologic process of an earthquake source using moment tensors.” Sounds straightforward enough, right? But Rösler, an assistant professor of seismology at the Center for Scient…