Searles Valley Earthquake Sequence: What We Know 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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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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Recent Publications

Late-Holocene Rupture History of the Rose Canyon Fault in Old Town, San Diego: Implications for Cascading Earthquakes on the Newport-Inglewood-Rose Canyon Fault System Singleton, D. M., Rockwell, T. K., Murbach, D., Murbach, M., Maloney, J. M., Freeman, T., & Levy, Y.
How Physics‐Based Earthquake Simulators Might Help Improve Earthquake Forecasts Field, E. H.
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.
Bounding the Moment Deficit Rate on Crustal Faults Using Geodetic Data: Application to Southern California Maurer, J. L., Johnson, K. M., & Segall, P.
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.

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In The News

How earthquake scientists prepare for the 'big one'
Two back-to-back earthquakes, of magnitude 6.4 and 7.1, hit southern California in less than 24 hours last week, and...
How Two Big Earthquakes Triggered 16,000 More in Southern California
The two powerful earthquakes that rocked the Mojave Desert this month were part of a swarm of thousands of other...
Data Event Response to the July 4, 2019 M 6.4 and July 6, 2019 M 7.1 Earthquakes Near Ridgecrest, California
Dynamic displacement signals from these earthquakes were recorded by NOTA GNSS stations streaming high-rate (1-sps / 1...
California Earthquake Clearinghouse, EERI Page
View geolocated imagery and data collected for this earthquake in two ways:
Ridgecrest earthquake aftershocks move toward dangerous faults, sparking concerns of triggered temblors
Aftershocks of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake near Ridgecrest have been creeping into areas close to two major earthquake...

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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: