Prepare to Survive and Recover with ShakeOut, this October 18!
Everyone, everywhere should know how to protect themselves from earthquakes, whether they live, work, or play where earthquakes are common. Millions around the world will participate yet again in...
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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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Recent Publications

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.
A Generic Velocity Profile for Basin Sediments in California Conditioned on VS30 Shi, J., & Asimaki, D.

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In The News

Geologists Detect Unexpected 'Deep Creep' Beneath California's Deadliest Faults
Scientists have long believed California's fault lines are locked in place in between large quakes. The researchers say...
Prepare to Survive and Recover with ShakeOut, this October 18!
Everyone, everywhere should know how to protect themselves from earthquakes, whether they live, work, or play where...
Why the Tsunami in Indonesia Struck Without Warning
Fourteen years ago, Indonesia suffered one of the deadliest disasters in modern history, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake...
San Andreas Fault: The Big One Is 'Inevitable'—But What Will Happen When It Hits?
If you live in California, you’ll know the Big One is coming: a powerful earthquake of up to magnitude eight is headed...
After the Big One: Understanding Aftershock Risk
Your input is information about stress on a fault. The output is information about the locations of aftershocks....

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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: