A Milestone for Forecasting Earthquake Hazards
Simulating nearly 500,000 years of California earthquakes on a supercomputer, researchers were able to match hazard estimates from the state’s leading statistical model based on a hundred years of...
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A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Tall Buildings
In their quest to make tall buildings safe during earthquakes, engineers have for decades relied on calculations that represent the tremors and convulsions that a building can endure. Some of the...
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"Shake, Rattle, and Code" - Super Models Find Faults
"These experiments show that the physics-based model RSQSim can replicate the seismic hazard estimates derived from the empirical model, but with far fewer statistical assumptions," noted Jordan...
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Read Cray, Inc.'s Story on SCEC High-Performance Computing Work
Dr. Jordan and his team at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) are developing methods to simulate how the ground will move in the event of an earthquake. Their research is...
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Codes Developed by SDSC, SDSU, SCEC Used in Gordon Bell Prize Research
A Chinese team of researchers awarded this year’s prestigious Gordon Bell prize for simulating the devastating 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China, used an open-source code developed by researchers at...
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Recent Publications

Geomorphic evidence for the geometry and slip rate of a young, low-angle thrust fault: Implications for hazard assessment and fault interaction in complex tectonic environments Hughes, A., Rood, D. H., Whittaker, A. C., Bell, R., Rockwell, T. K., Levy, Y., Wilcken, K. M., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., DeVecchio, D. E., Marshall, S. T., Gurrola, L. D., & Nicholson, C.
Structure of the Northern Los Angeles Basins Revealed in Teleseismic Receiver Functions from Short-term Nodal Seismic Arrays Liu, G., Persaud, P., & Clayton, R. W.
Durmid ladder structure and its implications for the nucleation sites of the next M >7.5 earthquake on the San Andreas fault or Brawley seismic zone in southern California Jänecke, S. U., Markowski, D., Evans, J. P., Persaud, P., & Kenney, M.
Comparative Study of Earthquake Clustering in Relation to Hydraulic Activities at Geothermal Fields in California Martínez-Garzón, P., Zaliapin, I., Ben-Zion, Y., Kwiatek, G., & Bohnhoff, M.
Influence of Fault Geometry on the Spatial Distribution of Long‐Term Slip with Implications for Determining Representative Fault‐Slip Rates Resor, P. G., Cooke, M. L., Marshall, S. T., & Madden, E. H.

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In The News

Nov 14 Webinar on ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), along with partner organizations, has developed an earthquake early warning (EEW)...
A.I. Is Helping Scientists Predict When and Where the Next Big Earthquake Will Be
Countless dollars and entire scientific careers have been dedicated to predicting where and when the next big...
The Great ShakeOut! -- 2018 Edition
USGS scientists have determined that nearly half of Americans are exposed to potentially damaging earthquakes based on...
The Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill
Are you prepared for "the big one"? Today millions of people across the globe will participate in the annual Great @...
Seattle students practice for The Big One
The Southern California Earthquake Center manages the Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill, which started at 10:18 a.m....

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Recent Earthquakes

Earthquakes can happen at any time! See recent earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater in California and Nevada: