SCEC Community Spotlight: Kevin Milner
The SCEC Research Community may know Kevin Milner as the lead developer for the OpenSHA seismic hazard analysis (SHA) platform and for his contributions to the Working Group on California Earthquake...
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SCEC ELCA supports students and early career researchers
In 2019, SCEC's Office of Experiential Learning and Career Advancement (ELCA) successfully accomplished its goals to provide research opportunities, networking, and resources to the SCEC...
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Our Collective Impact: Record-Breaking ShakeOut Participation in 2019!
SCEC's Communication, Education, and Outreach program has coordinated Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills since 2008, in partnership with local, national, and international colleagues and organizations...
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Highlights from a Palm Springs Gathering
Each year, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) gathers some 500 earthquake experts in the Southern California desert to check in with each other. They share research from the past year...
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Q&A with Yehuda Ben-Zion on "A Critical Data Gap in Earthquake Physics"
Today, the opinion piece "A Critical Data Gap in Earthquake Physics" by SCEC Director and USC Earth Sciences Professor, Yehuda Ben-Zion, was published in Seismological Research Letters (SRL...
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Recent Publications

Hierarchical interlocked orthogonal faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence Ross, Z. E., Idini, B., Jia, Z., Stephenson, O., Zhong, M., Wang, X., Zhan, Z., Simons, M., Fielding, E. J., Yun, S., Hauksson, E., Moore, A. W., Liu, Z., & Jung, J.
Exposing Los Angeles’s Shaky Geologic Underbelly Clayton, R. W., Persaud, P., Denolle, M. A., & Polet, J.
Length‐Scale‐Dependent Relationships between VS30 and Topographic Slopes in Southern California Lin, J. C., Moon, S., Yong, A., Meng, L., & Davis, P. M.
Biomarker Thermal Maturity Reveals Localized Temperature Rise From Paleoseismic Slip Along the Punchbowl Fault, CA, USA Savage, H. M., & Polissar, P. J.
A Geodesy‐ and Seismicity‐Based Local Earthquake Likelihood Model for Central Los Angeles Rollins, C., & Avouac, J.

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In The News

SCEC Newsletter, Fall 2019
Starting today, we now have a periodic newsletter featuring updates from our director, Yehuda Ben-Zion, and many staff...
Register to Attend the Next Earthquake Country Alliance Workshop
Please invite colleagues in your professional network to attend this workshop. Working together we will further our...
USGS Resources for Remembering Loma Prieta
On October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 p.m. (PDT), a magnitude 6.9 earthquake severely shook the San Francisco and Monterey...
Earthquake Conspiracy Theorists Are Wreaking Havoc During Emergencies
On an early Friday morning in November 2018, the ground gave way in Anchorage, Alaska. At 8:29 a.m., a magnitude 7.1...
NSF shakes up its earthquake research
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is shifting the foundations of its earthquake research, forcing a longtime...

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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: