December 2020 SCEC Newsletter
Includes articles about Ridgecrest paleoseismic studies, a toolkit for evaluating earthquake forecasts, an summary of the SEAS workshop, an overview of new remote course on mapping faults, and...
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In the trenches—Paleoseismic studies of the 2019 Ridgecrest ruptures
Amid the pandemic lockdown fatigue and media frenzy surrounding the presidential election in November, field work was a most welcome distraction. Socially distancing and soaking in the balmy Mojave...
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Michele Cooke Receives Award for Inclusive Geoscience Teaching
The International Association for Geoscience Diversity recently named Dr. Michele Cooke (UMass Amherst) as the recipient of its 2020 Inclusive Geoscience Education and Research Award....
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Know your faults — SCEC CFM fault association notifications
SCEC collaborators from Harvard and Caltech have developed a new, statistical way to rapidly identify the most likely fault (or sets of candidate faults) in the Community Fault Model (CFM) that...
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July 2020: Ridgecrest Earthquake First Anniversary
Highlights from geology, geodesy, seismology, geotechnical and forecasting studies associated with the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence.      
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Recent Publications

The generation of large earthquakes Kato, A., & Ben-Zion, Y.
Surface deformation associated with fractures near the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence Xu, X., Sandwell, D. T., Ward, L. A., Milliner, C., Smith-Konter, B. R., Fang, P., & Bock, Y.
Mantle flow distribution beneath the California margin Barbot, S.
Excitation of San Andreas tremors by thermal instabilities below the seismogenic zone Wang, L., & Barbot, S.
Transient Deformation in California From Two Decades of GPS Displacements: Implications for a Three‐Dimensional Kinematic Reference Frame Klein, E., Bock, Y., Xu, X., Sandwell, D. T., Golriz, D., Fang, P., & Su, L.

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In The News

DISPATCHES FROM FRONTERA: Research teams use Frontera to run unprecedented simulations
The Southern California Earthquake Center, or SCEC, is one of the preeminent hubs of earth science research. For...
The Northridge Earthquake anniversary serves as reminder for emergency preparedness
As the anniversary of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake approaches, it serves as a reminder of the importance of being...
Earthquake prediction becomes a top priority for USC-based research center
[Ben-Zion] wants to transform earthquake research by studying how faults change before, during and after a rupture...
December 2020 SCEC Newsletter
Includes articles about Ridgecrest paleoseismic studies, a toolkit for evaluating earthquake forecasts, an summary...
From the Director: Reflecting on 2020 (and early 2021)
Dear SCEC Community, The passing year will not go down in history as a good one. But as I reflect on 2020 and the...

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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: