A strong earthquake occurred at 19:15:56 (UTC) on Monday, December 22, 2003. The magnitude 6.5 event has been located in CENTRAL CALIFORNIA. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 8 km ( 5 miles)...

The Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) is the primary archive of earthquake data for southern California and is a central resource of SCEC. The SCEDC maintains an easily accessible, high-quality, searchable archive of parametric and waveform data from 1932 to present.

In 1999, a team of scientists, led by Harvard University professor John Shaw, announced the discovery of a blind thrust fault running from northern Orange County to downtown Los Angeles. Though its discovery was, in some ways, foretold by the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, which ruptured a small segment of the fault, the revelation of a "new" major fault stunned many residents of the Los Angeles area...

Seventy years ago, at 5:54 p.m. on March 10, 1933, southern California experienced its deadliest seismic disaster in recorded history when a magnitude (M_w) 6.4 earthquake struck the Long Beach area...

Join the NEES Consortium today!  Apply at http://www.nees.org/ The NEES Consortium will provide the leadership to revolutionize earthquake engineering research and education. Advanced information technology links $82 million of unique laboratory facilities and data infrastructure...

On August 1998, a group of geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists with academic, practicing, and regulatory backgrounds was assembled to form a committee (chaired by Thomas Blake) to develop specific slope stability analysis implementation procedures to aid local southern California city and county agencies in their compliance with review requirements of the State’s Seismic Hazard Mapping Act...