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From the Directors: The Only Constant is Change, By Yehuda Ben-Zion and Greg Beroza |
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Shaping of the Rupture and Fault Zone Observatory, by Kasey Aderhold et al. |
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SCEC Workshop Summary: Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) Annual Workshop |
Special Issue: Ridgecrest 1-Year Anniversary
Research Highlights
Mike Floyd: State of the Community Geodetic Model (more presentations)
The Community Geodetic Model (CGM) provides displacement time series and velocities of the Earth’s surface over southern California.
The Community Stress Drop Validation technical activity group is focused on resolving discrepancies in earthquake stress drop.
The Community Rheology Model (CRM) provides a three-dimensional description of the ductile rheology of southern California’s lithosphere.
Recent Publications
Comparing Adjoint Waveform Tomography Models of California Using Different Starting Models Doody, C. D., Rodgers, A. J., Afanasiev, M., Boehm, C., Krischer, L., Chiang, A., & Simmons, N.
Fault damage zone effects on ground motions during the 2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest, CA, earthquake Yeh, T., & Olsen, K. B.
The 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence in Turkey: Relations to California earthquakes, ground motion, and seismic risk Elbanna, A. E., Milner, K. R., & Ben-Zion, Y.
Are Regionally Calibrated Seismicity Models More Informative than Global Models? Insights from California, New Zealand, and Italy Bayona, J. A., Savran, W. H., Iturrieta, P. C., Gerstenberger, M. C., Graham, K., Marzocchi, W., Schorlemmer, D., & Werner, M. J.
Comparison of Nonergodic Ground Motion Components from CyberShake and NGA-West2 Datasets in California Meng, X., Goulet, C. A., Milner, K. R., Graves, R. W., & Callaghan, S.
Science Workshops
SCEC 2023 High-Performance Seismology (HPS) CyberTraining, May 9-12, 2023
SCEC Community Rheology Model (CRM) Workshop, February 27, 2023
2023 Stress Drop Validation TAG Workshop, January 26, 2023
Elisa Tinti: Brune Stress Drop vs. Finite Fault Stress Drop Estimates (more presentations)
Dynamic Rupture TAG 2023 Workshop – Investigating New Ideas in Earthquake Source Mechanics, January 12, 2023
Multiple Presenters: 2023 Dynamic Rupture Workshop Lightning Talks (more presentations)
SCEC Workshop on Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip, November 18, 2022
SCEC CFM5.3 Evaluation Workshop, April 7, 2022
SCEC Workshop on Coordinating Post-Earthquake Field Data Collection, January 12 & 14, 2022
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.
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Earthquakes in the News
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Utah State University geochemist Dennis Newell publishes findings about fault system's mantle-to-crust connections in...
Tests of seismic attenuation show fluid saturation and high pressure near a seismic source reduce high-frequency...
We apply a hidden Markov machine learning model to seismic data, revealing the temporal evolution of cracks prior to a...
Remote sensing imagery is widely used in disaster response due to its easy accessibility and timeliness and can clearly...
Seismologists use supercomputer to reveal complex dynamics of multi-fault earthquake systems
Despite increasingly high-quality geodetic, seismic and field observations, data-driven earthquake imaging yields stark...
According to a new study published Tuesday in the journal Physics of Fluids, an early warning system is being developed...
Sensors that detect changes in atmospheric pressure due to ground shaking can also obtain data about large earthquakes...
More than 60 years ago, the world's most powerful earthquake ever recorded struck Chile - its devastating impact felt...
