Supercomputing dynamic earthquake rupture models
Some of the world's most powerful earthquakes involve multiple faults, and scientists are using supercomputers to better predict their behavior. Multi-fault earthquakes can span fault systems of tens...
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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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A Milestone for Forecasting Earthquake Hazards
Simulating nearly 500,000 years of California earthquakes on a supercomputer, researchers were able to match hazard estimates from the state’s leading statistical model based on a hundred years of...
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A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Tall Buildings
In their quest to make tall buildings safe during earthquakes, engineers have for decades relied on calculations that represent the tremors and convulsions that a building can endure. Some of the...
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"Shake, Rattle, and Code" - Super Models Find Faults
"These experiments show that the physics-based model RSQSim can replicate the seismic hazard estimates derived from the empirical model, but with far fewer statistical assumptions," noted Jordan...
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Recent Publications

Bounding the Moment Deficit Rate on Crustal Faults Using Geodetic Data: Application to Southern California Maurer, J. L., Johnson, K. M., & Segall, P.
How Physics‐Based Earthquake Simulators Might Help Improve Earthquake Forecasts Field, E. H.
Surface Creep Rate of the Southern San Andreas Fault Modulated by Stress Perturbations From Nearby Large Events Xu, X., Ward, L., Jiang, J., Smith-Konter, B. R., Tymofyeyeva, E., Lindsey, E. O., Sylvester, A. G., & Sandwell, D. T.
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.
A physics-based earthquake simulator replicates seismic hazard statistics across California Shaw, B. E., Milner, K. R., Field, E. H., Richards-Dinger, K., Gilchrist, J. J., Dieterich, J. H., & Jordan, T. H.

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In The News

A swarm of 1,000 earthquakes hit Southern California — how nervous should we be?
The seismic storm that unleashed more than 1,000 small earthquakes in San Bernardino and Riverside counties these...
Supercomputing dynamic earthquake rupture models
Some of the world's most powerful earthquakes involve multiple faults, and scientists are using supercomputers to...
Study suggests earthquakes are triggered well beyond fluid injection zones
Using data from field experiments and modeling of ground faults, researchers at Tufts University have...
Watch 100 Years Of Earthquakes Rock The World In This Incredible Animation
As you’ve probably noticed, I write about earthquakes a fair bit. Although I do my best to describe the scale of them...
The Hidden Seismic Symphony in Earthquake Signals
Few months go by without another devastating earthquake somewhere in the world reminding us how we all remain at the...

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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: