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

Hierarchical interlocked orthogonal faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence Ross, Z. E., Idini, B., Jia, Z., Stephenson, O., Zhong, M., Wang, X., Zhan, Z., Simons, M., Fielding, E. J., Yun, S., Hauksson, E., Moore, A. W., Liu, Z., & Jung, J.
Exposing Los Angeles’s Shaky Geologic Underbelly Clayton, R. W., Persaud, P., Denolle, M. A., & Polet, J.
Length‐Scale‐Dependent Relationships between VS30 and Topographic Slopes in Southern California Lin, J. C., Moon, S., Yong, A., Meng, L., & Davis, P. M.
Biomarker Thermal Maturity Reveals Localized Temperature Rise From Paleoseismic Slip Along the Punchbowl Fault, CA, USA Savage, H. M., & Polissar, P. J.
A Geodesy‐ and Seismicity‐Based Local Earthquake Likelihood Model for Central Los Angeles Rollins, C., & Avouac, J.

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In The News

USGS Resources for Remembering Loma Prieta
On October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 p.m. (PDT), a magnitude 6.9 earthquake severely shook the San Francisco and Monterey...
Earthquake Conspiracy Theorists Are Wreaking Havoc During Emergencies
On an early Friday morning in November 2018, the ground gave way in Anchorage, Alaska. At 8:29 a.m., a magnitude 7.1...
NSF shakes up its earthquake research
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is shifting the foundations of its earthquake research, forcing a longtime...
Clusters of small quakes ripple through Ventura
Twenty-four hours after a cluster of small earthquakes in Ventura, there was a new round of them Friday, including...
Determining whether the worst earthquake has passed
After every major earthquake, seismologists warn the public that the danger has not yet passed: aftershocks will...

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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: