Improving Earthquake Simulation Modelling That May Save Lives
Christine Goulet, Executive Director for Applied Sciences (SCEC) at the University of Southern California (USC) improve how researchers simulate earthquakes using TACC’s Frontera supercomputer that...
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Sustainable Research Software through Open-Source Communities
A recent Eos article entitled “It’s Time to Shift Emphasis Away from Code Sharing” (Green and Thirumalai, 2019) describes a reality of research software in the earth sciences. It shares an anecdote...
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SCEC Co-Director Greg Beroza Receives Humboldt Research Award
Greg Beroza, Wayne Loel Professor of Geophysics at Stanford, and Co-Director of SCEC, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award (also known as...
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5 Powerful Lessons From SCEC’s Exceptional Research Mentors
As the 2021 internship season gets underway, we can tap into powerful lessons learned from the 2020 program. Despite their own personal and professional challenges, mentors of the SCEC SOURCES...
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New SCEC/USGS Community Stress Drop Validation Study Launched
Stress is released when an earthquake occurs. This ‘stress drop’ is a key parameter for earthquake source physics, and determines ground motion amplitude and thus potential extent of damage....
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Research Highlights

The Community Stress Drop Validation technical activity group is focused on resolving discrepancies in earthquake stress drop.

The Community Geodetic Model (CGM) provides displacement time series and velocities of the Earth’s surface over southern California.

The Community Rheology Model (CRM) provides a three-dimensional description of the ductile rheology of southern California’s lithosphere.

The Committee for Utilization of Ground Motions Simulations (UGMS) developed site-specific response spectral acceleration maps for the Los Angeles region.

Recent Publications

Ridgecrest aftershocks at Coso suppressed by thermal destressing Im, K., Avouac, J., Heimisson, E. R., & Elsworth, D.
Communication Between the Northern and Southern Central San Andreas Fault via Dynamically Triggered Creep Hirao, B., Savage, H., & Brodsky, E. E.
Detailed traveltime tomography and seismic catalogue around the 2019 Mw7.1 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake using dense rapid-response seismic data White, M. C., Fang, H., Catchings, R. D., Goldman, M. R., Steidl, J. H., & Ben-Zion, Y.
Probabilistic Forecasting of Hydraulic Fracturing-Induced Seismicity Using an Injection-Rate Driven ETAS Model Mancini, S., Werner, M. J., Segou, M., & Baptie, B.
Propagation of large earthquakes as self-healing pulses or mild cracks. Lambert, V. R., Lapusta, N., & Perry, S. M.

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Science Workshops

Societal Shock Resilience, an NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop,
June 7-8, 11, 2021

SCEC-IRIS-UNAVCO Community Workshop: Rupture and Fault Zone Observatory (RuFZO), April 13, 2021

Yehuda Ben-Zion: Scientific Motivation for the Rupture and Fault Zone Observatory (more presentations)

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Education Programs

Supported Opportunities for Undergraduates and Researchers to Collaborate on Earthquake Science (SOURCES) offers a remotely-mentored research experience to college students nationwide.

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) pairs a student, one-on-one, to conduct research with a pre-eminent earthquake scientist or specialist.

Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (UseIT) internship is a team-based undergraduate research program.

SCEC Transitions Program provides students and early-career scientists with resources and mentoring at major transitions in their educational and professional careers.

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Recent Earthquakes

Earthquakes can happen at any time. See the USGS or SCEDC for real-time earthquake information.

Earthquake Preparedness

Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety
A step-by-step guide for staying safe before, during, and after an earthquake.

ShakeOut Earthquake Drills
ShakeOut Earthquake Drills are an opporuntity to practice how to prepare to survive and recover from the next damaging earthquake.

Earthquakes in the News

USGS Event Page: M4.3 Earthquake - 1km ESE of Carson, CA
2021-09-18 02:58:34 (UTC) 33.825°N 118.270°W 14.7 km depth
Hunger spikes in Haiti following deadly earthquake
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and has long been vulnerable on multiple...
Complex needs of earthquake survivors require continued specialised care
The greatest number of deaths and injuries from Haiti’s 14 August earthquake occurred in the country’s southernmost...
‘I don’t see my mum’: Haiti’s earthquake leaves new generation of orphans
“Most stay at a neighbour’s house, or in a makeshift shelter,” says Loraus, at a school on the outskirts of Les Cayes,...
Essential Earthquake Safety Tips
Millions of California homes are vulnerable to earthquake damage, and most are within 30 miles of an active fault. And...
IRIS Teachable Moment, M7.0 Mexico Earthquake (09/17/2021)
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has occurred in Acapulco, Mexico at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). One death has been reported...
IRIS Teachable Moment, M7.2 Haiti Earthquake (08/14/2021)
A M7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, reducing churches, hotels, and homes to rubble. This...
Haiti quake death toll rises to 1,419, injured now at 6,000
Rescuers and scrap metal scavengers dug into the floors of a collapsed hotel Monday in this quake-ravaged coastal town...
Improving Earthquake Simulation Modelling That May Save Lives
Christine Goulet, Executive Director for Applied Sciences (SCEC) at the University of Southern California (USC) improve...
WSSPC Summer 2021 Newsletter
The WSSPC Spring Board and Annual Business Meetings have been held. The Spring Board Meeting was held on 11 May 2021...

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