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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Drop, Cover, and Hold On with SCEC Co-Director Greg Beroza and KRON4!
International #ShakeOut Day was Thursday, 10/17 in 2019, did you participate? SCEC co-director and Stanford University Professor Greg Beroza was on-hand in San Francisco to show people how to Drop,...
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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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Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence: Activities and Results So Far
Several days have passed since Friday night’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake (07/05/2019) that followed Thursday morning’s strong magnitude 6.4 foreshock (07/04/2019) near...
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It’s Not Always About “The Big One”: Why We Mine for the Little Ones, Too
What’s a bit new, trendy, and even a little quirky in earthquake science? Mining through extensive earthquake data in clever, innovative ways – especially in search of the "little ones" we never feel...
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Recent Publications

Length‐Scale‐Dependent Relationships between VS30 and Topographic Slopes in Southern California Lin, J. C., Moon, S., Yong, A., Meng, L., & Davis, P. M.
A Geodesy‐ and Seismicity‐Based Local Earthquake Likelihood Model for Central Los Angeles Rollins, C., & Avouac, J.
Late-Holocene Rupture History of the Rose Canyon Fault in Old Town, San Diego: Implications for Cascading Earthquakes on the Newport-Inglewood-Rose Canyon Fault System Singleton, D. M., Rockwell, T. K., Murbach, D., Murbach, M., Maloney, J. M., Freeman, T., & Levy, Y.
How Physics‐Based Earthquake Simulators Might Help Improve Earthquake Forecasts Field, E. H.
A case study of a precariously balanced rock, its partially exhumed corestone platform, and encasing saprock and soil Hall, C. M., Webb, H. N., Girty, G. H., Allam, A. A., & Rockwell, T. K.

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In The News

Highlights from a Palm Springs Gathering
Each year, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) gathers some 500 earthquake experts in the Southern...
Trojans drop, cover and hold on during annual Great ShakeOut earthquake drill
A mass casualty exercise outside the Engemann Student Health Center adds a dose of realism to the drill, not to mention...
Drop, Cover, and Hold On with SCEC Co-Director Greg Beroza and KRON4!
International #ShakeOut Day was Thursday, 10/17 in 2019, did you participate? SCEC co-director and Stanford University...
M3.5 Earthquake - Compton
Did you feel the small M3.7 earthquake just now, LA? For most, the shaking was probably over by the time you realized...
Unprecedented Movement on Mojave Desert Fault Capable of Magnitude 8.0 Earthquake: Caltech Study
The earthquakes that hammered the Southern California desert near the town of Ridgecrest last summer involved ruptures...

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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: