June 2020 SCEC Newsletter
Includes an update from SCEC's Board of Directors about activities during COVID-19, project highlights, a glossary of "SCEC Speak", and three visions for a future earthquake center.
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A dense temporary seismic deployment across the Southern San Andreas Fault
Researchers from several SCEC institutions supported a NSF funded UCSD/USC joint project to understand more about this relatively quiet segment.              ...
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SCEC to run on DOE Summit and Theta in 2020
Summit and Theta are two of the newest, most powerful high-performance computers in the U.S. SCEC is a leader in research that integrates science results and new technologies into broad impact...
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San Diego Earthquake Scenario (EERI San Diego)
The Rose Canyon Fault Zone runs through the heart of the San Diego metropolitan area, presenting a major seismic hazard to the San Diego region, the third largest and one of the fastest growing...
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SCEC Community Spotlight: Kevin Milner
The SCEC Research Community may know Kevin Milner as the lead developer for the OpenSHA seismic hazard analysis (SHA) platform and for his contributions to the Working Group on California Earthquake...
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Recent Publications

Operational Earthquake Forecasting during the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence with the UCERF3‐ETAS Model Milner, K. R., Field, E. H., Savran, W. H., Page, M. T., & Jordan, T. H.
Survey and Continuous GNSS in the Vicinity of the July 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes Floyd, M., Funning, G., Fialko, Y., Terry, R., & Herring, T.
Co- and Early Postseismic Deformation Due to the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Constrained by Sentinel-1 and COSMO-SkyMed SAR Data Wang, K., & Bürgmann, R.
The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Barall, M., Lapusta, N., Dunham, E. M., Harris, R. A., Abrahams, L. S., Allison, K. L., Ampuero, J., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Elbanna, A. E., Fialko, Y., Idini, B., Kozdon, J. E., Lambert, V. R., Liu, Y., Luo, Y., Ma, X., Best Mckay, M., Segall, P., Shi, P., van den Ende, M., & Wei, M.
Using Daily Observations from Planet Labs Satellite Imagery to Separate the Surface Deformation between the 4 July Mw 6.4 Foreshock and 5 July Mw 7.1 Mainshock during the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Milliner, C., & Donnellan, A.

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In The News

COVID should remind us all to have a disaster recovery plan
If the current COVID-19 environment has taught us anything, it’s that a crisis can hit Los Angeles with sudden,...
Remembering Ridgecrest (USGS Video)
Reflections on the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence one year after from a few USGS employees. Employees discuss when they...
95th Anniversary of the Santa Barbara Earthquake
95 years ago today Santa Barbara was shaken by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that left most of downtown broken and in an...
Free Webinar: Secure Your Space
Join us tomorrow for a repeat of our very popular (and free) Earthquake Country Alliance "Secure Your Space" webinar!...
Major Quake Shakes Southern Mexico, at Least Six Killed
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck southern Mexico's Pacific coast on Tuesday, killing at least six people...

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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: