SCEC Newsletter
Recent Issues: October 2021 | June 2021 | March 2021 | Dec 2020 | Oct 2020 | Jun 2020 | Mar 2020 | Dec 2019
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From the Directors: Rolling Forward in the Fall, By Greg Beroza and Yehuda Ben-Zion |
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The Salton Trough Collaboratory, By Thomas Rockwell |
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Q&A with SCEC Annual Meeting Presenters, By Mark Benthien |
Special Issue: Ridgecrest 1-Year Anniversary
Research Highlights
The Community Stress Drop Validation technical activity group is focused on resolving discrepancies in earthquake stress drop.
The Community Geodetic Model (CGM) provides displacement time series and velocities of the Earth’s surface over southern California.
The Community Rheology Model (CRM) provides a three-dimensional description of the ductile rheology of southern California’s lithosphere.
The Committee for Utilization of Ground Motions Simulations (UGMS) developed site-specific response spectral acceleration maps for the Los Angeles region.
Recent Publications
Ridgecrest aftershocks at Coso suppressed by thermal destressing Im, K., Avouac, J., Heimisson, E. R., & Elsworth, D.
Communication Between the Northern and Southern Central San Andreas Fault via Dynamically Triggered Creep Hirao, B., Savage, H., & Brodsky, E. E.
Detailed traveltime tomography and seismic catalogue around the 2019 Mw7.1 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake using dense rapid-response seismic data White, M. C., Fang, H., Catchings, R. D., Goldman, M. R., Steidl, J. H., & Ben-Zion, Y.
Probabilistic Forecasting of Hydraulic Fracturing-Induced Seismicity Using an Injection-Rate Driven ETAS Model Mancini, S., Werner, M. J., Segou, M., & Baptie, B.
Propagation of large earthquakes as self-healing pulses or mild cracks. Lambert, V. R., Lapusta, N., & Perry, S. M.
Science Workshops
UP NEXT
SCEC Workshop on Dynamic Rupture and Stress Conditions, December 3, 2021
SCEC Workshop on Coordinating Post-Earthquake Field Data Collection, January 12 & 14, 2022
EARLIER THIS YEAR
2021 SCEC Community Geodetic Model Workshop, November 9-10, 2021
SCEC Community Workshop: Stress Drop Validation—Planning and Preliminary Results, November 4, 2021
SCEC Workshop on Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip, November 2, 2021
Stacy Larochelle: Fluid-induced slip and earthquake nucleation on a rate-and-state fault (more presentations)
Societal Shock Resilience, an NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop,
June 7-8, 11, 2021
SCEC-IRIS-UNAVCO Community Workshop: Rupture and Fault Zone Observatory (RuFZO), April 13, 2021
Education Programs
Supported Opportunities for Undergraduates and Researchers to Collaborate on Earthquake Science (SOURCES) offers a remotely-mentored research experience to college students nationwide.
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) pairs a student, one-on-one, to conduct research with a pre-eminent earthquake scientist or specialist.
Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (UseIT) internship is a team-based undergraduate research program.
SCEC Transitions Program provides students and early-career scientists with resources and mentoring at major transitions in their educational and professional careers.
Recent Earthquakes
Earthquake Preparedness
Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety
A step-by-step guide for staying safe before, during, and after an earthquake.
ShakeOut Earthquake Drills
ShakeOut Earthquake Drills are an opporuntity to practice how to prepare to survive and recover from the next damaging earthquake.
Earthquakes in the News
The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), based at the University of Southern California, has won the...
On Oct. 21 at 10:21 a.m., students at Desert Hot Springs schools dropped for cover during the Great California ShakeOut...
Did you know there is an app on your phone that can alert you seconds before an earthquake hits giving you time to act...
Seismic retrofitting involves strengthening a structure to make it more resistant to earthquake shaking and damage. In...
The world is changing. A couple of decades ago, the only seismic retrofitting done on a building was to install steel...
2021-09-18 02:58:34 (UTC) 33.825°N 118.270°W 14.7 km depth
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and has long been vulnerable on multiple...
The greatest number of deaths and injuries from Haiti’s 14 August earthquake occurred in the country’s southernmost...
“Most stay at a neighbour’s house, or in a makeshift shelter,” says Loraus, at a school on the outskirts of Les Cayes,...
Millions of California homes are vulnerable to earthquake damage, and most are within 30 miles of an active fault. And...
