SCEC October 2020 Newsletter
Includes articles about the SCEC-led Great ShakeOut Drills and other CEO activities, SCEC2020 and other recent workshops, a new CFM tool, plus an interview with Michele Cooke.
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SCEC Provides Online Options for 2020 ShakeOut Participation
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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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

The Generation of Large Earthquakes
Despite decades of observational, laboratory and theoretical studies, the processes leading to large earthquake...
Surface deformation associated with fractures near the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence
Contemporary earthquake hazard models hinge on an understanding of how strain is distributed in the crust and the...
Behind the scenes with an earthquake scientist
Sylvain Barbot is trying to do what can’t be done yet: reliably predict earthquakes. The assistant professor at...
ShakeOut 2020: Staying Safe When the Ground Starts to Rumble (USGS)
U.S. Geological Survey scientists have determined that nearly half of Americans are exposed to potentially...
Earthquake Country Alliance Goes Virtual to Continue Preparedness and Mitigation Activities in 2020
ECA's four regional alliances span the most active earthquake regions of the state....

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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: