SCEC Newsletter
Recent Issues: September 2023 | December 2022 | July 2022 | October 2021 | June 2021 | March 2021
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From the Directors: SCEC In Transformation, By Yehuda Ben-Zion and Greg Beroza |
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SCEC Community Models Represent Over 20 years of Collaboration, by Shreya Agrawal, et al. |
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The 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquake Sequence in Turkey: Relations to California Earthquakes, Ground Motion, and Seismic Risk, by Ahmed Elbanna, et al. |
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
Basin Structure for Earthquake Ground Motion Estimates in Urban Los Angeles Mapped with Nodal Receiver Functions Ghose, R., Persaud, P., & Clayton, R. W.
The Mojave section of the San Andreas Fault (California): 1. Shaping the terrace stratigraphy of the Little Rock Creek through the competition between rapid strike-slip faulting and lateral stream erosion over the last 40 k.y. Moulin, A., Cowgill, E., Scharer, K. M., McPhillips, D., & Heimsath, A.
Implementation of Iwan-Type Nonlinear Rheology in a 3D High-Order Staggered-Grid Finite-Difference Method Roten, D., Yeh, T., Olsen, K. B., Day, S. M., & Cui, Y.
The 2023 Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence in Turkey: Relations to California earthquakes, ground motion, and seismic risk Elbanna, A. E., Milner, K. R., & Ben-Zion, Y.
Science Workshops
SCEC 2023 High-Performance Seismology (HPS) CyberTraining, May 9-12, 2023
SCEC Community Rheology Model (CRM) Workshop, February 27, 2023
2023 Stress Drop Validation TAG Workshop, January 26, 2023
Elisa Tinti: Brune Stress Drop vs. Finite Fault Stress Drop Estimates (more presentations)
Dynamic Rupture TAG 2023 Workshop – Investigating New Ideas in Earthquake Source Mechanics, January 12, 2023
Multiple Presenters: 2023 Dynamic Rupture Workshop Lightning Talks (more presentations)
SCEC Workshop on Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip, November 18, 2022
SCEC CFM5.3 Evaluation Workshop, April 7, 2022
SCEC Workshop on Coordinating Post-Earthquake Field Data Collection, January 12 & 14, 2022
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.
Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills
SCEC is the global coordinator for the world’s largest earthquake drill, when millions of people practice self-protection and other aspects of their emergency plans.
Earthquakes in the News
A series of “hidden” geological hazards has been uncovered in the northern reaches of Yellowstone National Park,...
Scientists discovered that unique seismic signals were detectable around eight months before the devastating 7.8...
The latest analyses of data from the region since 2014 show signs of precursor phenomena in the form of spatially and...
North America may still be trembling with the aftershocks of two major earthquakes that struck the continent more than...
High-performance computing (HPC) has enabled scientists to use geophysical and seismographic data from past events to...
Immature faults, such as those in the Eastern California Shear Zone, generate widespread fracturing at the surface...
In a significant stride towards earthquake preparedness, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank proudly hosted this year’s...
The USC-based Southern California Earthquake Center is expanding its reach to cover the entire state of California...
These new results evaluate dual hydration of oceanic lithosphere, and provide important reference for global sea level...
New research, published in Quaternary Science Reviews, has explored the possibility of the earthquakes being triggered...
