Dr. Robert E. Wallace, retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, will receive the Career Contribution Award from the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the Geological Society of America at their annual meeting in Denver.

The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) is a Major Research Equipment and Facility Construction Program of the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF). $82 million is now being expended to put in place by the fall of 2004 advanced engineering laboratories, networking and data curation services, and an operating consortium.

The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) is a Major Research Equipment and Facility Construction Program of the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF). $82 million is now being expended to put in place by the fall of 2004 advanced engineering laboratories, networking and data curation services, and an operating consortium...

Dr. Robert E. Wallace, retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, will receive the Career Contribution Award from the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of the Geological Society of America at their annual meeting in Denver...

On Saturday November 17th, 2001, the Southern California Office of the U.S. Geological Survey and SCEC held an earthquake education workshop at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, CA. The workshop explored the science of earthquakes and applied those concepts to a wide range of activities...

They may not have PhD's but they're about to change how SCEC scientists and others see the world. The 2002 summer interns at USC are not the typical earth-science pedigree that SCEC has had in the past (only one is studying earth science). Instead, they hail from backgrounds in computer science and labor at Sun Unix computers writing computer codes which will allow three-dimensional (3D) visualization of very large datasets. Such representation will allow easier interpretation of the data both by scientists and the public.

The development of new knowledge about earthquakes and their effects is an important role of SCEC, but not its only role.Ê Because earthquakes have major impacts on society, SCEC must also transfer knowledge about earthquakes and their effects for use in earthquake risk mitigation.Ê This article describes a subset of SCEC's implementation interface program: the joint activities between SCEC and PEER (the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center), headquartered at the Richmond Field Station of U.C. Berkeley.

They may not have PhD’s but they’re about to change how SCEC scientists and others see the world. The 2002 summer interns at USC are not the typical earth-science pedigree that SCEC has had in the past (only one is studying earth science). Instead, they hail from backgrounds in computer science and labor at Sun Unix computers writing computer codes which will allow three-dimensional (3D) visualization of very large datasets...

The development of new knowledge about earthquakes and their effects is an important role of SCEC, but not its only role.  Because earthquakes have major impacts on society, SCEC must also transfer knowledge about earthquakes and their effects for use in earthquake risk mitigation...

Fifty years ago, just before 5 am Pacific Time on the morning of July 21, 1952, the largest earthquake to strike southern California during the 20th Century occurred on the White Wolf fault, a zone of left-lateral reverse faulting north of the intersection of the Garlock and San Andreas fault zones, at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. The damage was so widespread that the MW7.5 mainshock soon came to be known as the Kern County earthquake, counter to the tradition of naming earthquakes for a specific town or locality.

Nearly 200 geotechnical engineers, practicing geologists, government regulators and others recently attended a two-day SCEC workshop that explained "Recommended Procedures for Implementation of DMG Special Publication 117: Guidelines for Analyzing and Mitigating Landslide Hazards in California." Because of the outstanding response to the sold-out workshop, a second workshop will be held in Los Angeles for those who were unable to attend the first (possibly in September or October)

Nearly 200 geotechnical engineers, practicing geologists, government regulators and others recently attended a two-day SCEC workshop that explained "Recommended Procedures for Implementation of DMG Special Publication 117: Guidelines for Analyzing and Mitigating Landslide Hazards in California." Because of the outstanding response to the sold-out workshop, a second workshop will be held in Los Angeles (February 20-21) for those who were unable to attend the first.

The SCEC Communication, Education and Outreach team offered two teacher education workshops in Spring, 2002, and plans to continue the series in partnership with the USGS Pasadena Education and Outreach office. The workshops provide a direct connection between scientists and developers of earthquake education resources and those who use these resources in the classroom. Many of the materials for the workshops were provided by the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS).

The SCEC Communication, Education and Outreach team offered two teacher education workshops in Spring, 2002, and plans to continue the series in partnership with the USGS Pasadena Education and Outreach office. The workshops provide a direct connection between scientists and developers of earthquake education resources and those who use these resources in the classroom...

An international research team announced Monday it has begun drilling a 1.4-mile-deep hole along the San Andreas Fault near the Central California town of Parkfield site of one of the longest ongoing earthquake experiments in the world...

An international research team announced Monday it has begun drilling a 1.4-mile-deep hole along the San Andreas Fault near the Central California town of Parkfield – site of one of the longest ongoing earthquake experiments in the world.

A workshop will be offered at USC on June 20 and 21, 2002, to explain a new implementation procedures for DMG Special Publication 117, Guidelines for Analyzing and Mitigating Landslide Hazards in California More information, including the registration form, is available by visiting the above link

On Tuesday May 7th at 8:00 PM the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Pasadena Office will continue their free Public Lectures with the final lecture of the 2001-2002 series. The presentation, entitled "Using GPS to Study Faults and Earthquakes in Southern California," will be given by Dr. Nancy King of the USGS Pasadena Office......

Hazards U.S. (HAZUS) is a software program that is used to estimate losses from potential earthquakes, developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in partnership with the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). Once the characteristics of a hypothetical or actual earthquake are entered, HAZUS will estimate intensity of ground shaking, number of buildings damaged, number of casualties, damage to transportation systems, disruption to electrical and water utilities, etc., and the estimated total economic loss. HAZUS uses a geographic information system (GIS) to display results......

Many people know that the Global Positioning System (GPS) can tell them where they are, to within a few yards, when they are hiking, driving, or sailing a boat. Earth scientists are now using especially precise methods, and a large new GPS network, to measure small movements of the earth's crust in southern California...

The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) will continue to coordinate the research of the nation's leading earthquake scientists, as the result of five years of new funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS)......

The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) will continue to coordinate the research of the nation's leading earthquake scientists, as the result of five years of new funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Two new web services based on data from the SCEC Phase III report are now available...

In 1997 the California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology (CDMG) released Special Publication 117, which presents, among other things, a summary overview of analysis and mitigation of earthquake induced landslide hazards. The document also provides guidelines for the review of site-investigation reports by regulatory agencies who have been designated to enforce the Seismic Hazards Mapping Act. Shortly after the release of the document a group of practicing geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists was assembled to form a committee to develop implementation procedures. The result is a document now available from SCEC titled "Recommended Procedures for Implementation of DMG Special Publication 117: Guidelines for Analyzing and Mitigating Landslide Hazards in California."

Abstracts and complete references for recently published papers based on research sponsored by SCEC are now available via SCEC News.

EarthScope, a major initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), is a bold undertaking to apply modern observational, analytical and telecommunications technologies to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the physical processes controlling earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The President's FY03 Budget Request, which was released to the United States Congress on February 4, includes funding in the NSF budget for EarthScope. This is a major accomplishment and represents a significant effort on the part of several members of our community and our colleagues in the NSF.

EarthScope, a major initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), is a bold undertaking to apply modern observational, analytical and telecommunications technologies to investigate the structure and evolution of the North American continent and the physical processes controlling earthquakes and volcanic eruptions...

SCEC and IRIS are requesting applications from Earth science faculty/student teams interested in participating in a project to develop the Electronic Encyclopedia of Earthquakes. The digital library will organize Earth science and engineering information and educational resources about earthquakes. This is an exciting opportunity for faculty and students committed to improving K-12 and college education to be leaders in the development of a nationally-recognized resource, and to gain experience in the rapidly growing field of digital libraries for education. A pictorial explanation of the Encyclopedia is at http://www.scec.org/ecube. Information about compensation, scope of work, etc., is in the complete description.

Displaying spectacular new 3-D images and animations of California from space, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., recently announced the release of high-resolution topographic data of the continental United States gathered during the February 2000 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission -- a mission that is creating the world's best topographic map.

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) annual meeting kicks off on Thursday (Feb. 6-9th, 2002), offering three days of expert panels, films and technical presentations -- all exploring progress made in the field of earthquake mitigation in the nearly seventy years since the Long Beach earthquake shook Southern California.

SCEC has been awarded $10 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop computing capabilities that will lead to better forecasts of when and where earthquakes are likely to occur in southern California, and how the ground will shake as a result. The project team includes collaborating researchers from SCEC, the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at USC, the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), the Incorporated Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), and the USGS.

SCEC invites applications for the new position of Information Architect. This person will be responsible for coordinating all SCEC activities in information technology, which include the collection, archiving, and distribution of large data sets; high-performance computing and communications; and end-to-end earthquake simulations. In particular, the Architect will act as project manager for a new 5-year, $10-million grant by the NSF Information Technology Research Program.

"ShakeZone", the most anticipated exhibit at the Riverside County Youth Museum (Kid Zone) was opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on January 17th- the 8th anniversary of the Northridge Earthquake. The earthquake exhibit, two years in the making, is designed to reach all people in the local community with positive messages about studying the Earth and preparing our buildings and ourselves for future damaging earthquakes. The exhibit is a community resource, a venue for educators, a place for students of all ages, a center for earthquake hazards education, and a replicable model for similar exhibits.

NASA unveiled a new Web site recently in which it publishes satellite images in near real time over natural hazards around the world. A new addition to NASA's Earth Observatory (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/), the Natural Hazards section contains images and information about major environmental events that are potentially hazardous to human

"ShakeZone", the most anticipated exhibit at the Riverside County (California) Youth Museum (Kid Zone) was opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony on January 17th- the 8th anniversary of the Northridge Earthquake...

SCEC has been awarded $10 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop computing capabilities that will lead to better forecasts of when and where earthquakes are likely to occur in southern California, and how the ground will shake as a result.