At Work: Wilnelly Ventura-Valentín | Seismological Society of America

At Work: Wilnelly Ventura-Valentín | Seismological Society of America

10 February 2025—Wilnelly Ventura-Valentín’s research as a Ph.D. student at Miami University in Ohio focuses on earthquake swarms, the bursts of seismic activity—small earthquakes all about the same magnitude—that start abruptly and end abruptly. “We don’t know a lot about what triggers this activity,” she explains, “and because we don’t know the driving force, it makes it very difficult for us to predict how long they will last, and to produce …