SCEC Newsletter
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From the Directors: Learning from the Past & Planning for the Future, By Greg Beroza and Yehuda Ben-Zion |
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Landers 30th Anniversary: Legends and Legacies, By Shreya Agrawal |
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Advance Your Professional Development with SCEC’s Internships and Transitions Programs, By Gabriela Noriega |
Special Issue: Ridgecrest 1-Year Anniversary
Research Highlights
Mike Floyd: State of the Community Geodetic Model (more presentations)
The Community Geodetic Model (CGM) provides displacement time series and velocities of the Earth’s surface over southern California.
The Community Stress Drop Validation technical activity group is focused on resolving discrepancies in earthquake stress drop.
The Community Rheology Model (CRM) provides a three-dimensional description of the ductile rheology of southern California’s lithosphere.
Recent Publications
Variability of Spectral Estimates of Stress Drop Reconciled by Radiated Energy Ji, C., Archuleta, R. J., & Wang, Y.
Seismic Traveltime Tomography of Southern California Using Poisson-Voronoi Cells and 20 Years of Data Fang, H., White, M. C., Lu, Y., & Ben-Zion, Y.
Enumerating Plausible Multifault Ruptures in Complex Fault Systems with Physical Constraints Milner, K. R., Shaw, B. E., & Field, E. H.
Detection of Aseismic Slip and Poroelastic Reservoir Deformation at the North Brawley Geothermal Field From 2009 to 2019 Materna, K., Barbour, A., Jiang, J., & Eneva, M.
Slip Characteristics of Induced Earthquakes: Insights from the 2015 Mw 4.0 Guthrie, Oklahoma Earthquake Pennington, C. N., Uchide, T., & Chen, X.
Science Workshops
SCEC CFM5.3 Evaluation Workshop, April 7, 2022
SCEC Workshop on Coordinating Post-Earthquake Field Data Collection, January 12 & 14, 2022
SCEC Workshop on Dynamic Rupture and Stress Conditions, December 3, 2021
2021 SCEC Community Geodetic Model Workshop, November 9-10, 2021
SCEC Community Workshop: Stress Drop Validation—Planning and Preliminary Results, November 4, 2021
Colin Pennington: Comparisons of Stress Drop Results: a Focus on the Prague, OK Sequence (more presentations)
SCEC Workshop on Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip, November 2, 2021
Societal Shock Resilience, an NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop,
June 7-8, 11, 2021
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.
Recent Earthquakes
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
Previous research has confirmed that these balloon-based sensors can pick up small, local quakes, but until now, a...
Long ago, melting glaciers dropped giant boulders onto surfaces in the New York City exurbs, and many seem to remain in...
Almost every time after a large earthquake occurs near a residential area, questions are raised in the media as to "why...
A trick of the light is helping scientists turn optical fibres into potential disaster detectors.
A nifty new earthquake warning device called SEED (Superconducting Earthquake Early-warning Device) could buy precious...
Scientists were able to create a model that includes both short-term earthquake-induced movements along the San Andreas...
The Kern County earthquake of 1952, the third largest earthquake in recorded California history, magnitude 7.3,...
By studying changes in the Earth's ionosphere, an Israeli research team discovered a relatively reliable method to...
The fluid collects near but does not penetrate a thickened section of the crust known as Siletzia lies beneath much of...
Most of the studies in this direction used conventional methods to quantify the grains' size and shape, including sieve...
