College students shake things up, spending the summer simulating quakes
The Southern California Earthquake Center at USC hosts the eight-week program, in which participants get real-world experience — and do real research, too. Working on small teams, they were immersed...
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Meet the Pacific Rim’s Disaster Patrol: Tracking Tremors
“SCEC is piloting the development of earthquake forecasting, not only in California, but around the world,” Jordan says. “Like Tokyo, Los Angeles is situated in a vast sedimentary basin, which shakes...
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ShakeAlert—Earthquake Early Warning. How Does It Work?
ShakeAlert (www.shakealert.org) is an experimental earthquake early warning system that can give vital time to get to safety after an earthquake occurs. This animation demonstrates how ShakeAlert...
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High-Performance Computing Innovates Seismic Hazard Research
The SCEC Community Modeling Environment (SCEC/CME) Collaboration performs basic seismic hazard research using high-performance computing technologies. For over a decade, SCEC's Community Modeling...
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UCERF3: Significant Advancements Made in Earthquake Forecasting
California’s new earthquake forecast model, UCERF3 (Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast), provides authoritative estimates of the magnitude, location and likelihood of earthquake...
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Recent Publications

Western US intermountain seismicity caused by changes in upper mantle flow Becker, T. W., Lowry, A., Faccenna, C., Schmandt, B., Borsa, A. A., & Yu, C.
Statistical estimation of the duration of aftershock sequences Harte, D. S., Rhoades, D. A., Christophersen, A., & Hainzl, S.
Dynamic models of an earthquake and tsunami offshore Ventura, California Oglesby, D. D., Barall, M., Geist, E. L., & Ryan, K. J.
Refining the shallow slip deficit Hollingsworth, J., Leprince, S., Ayoub, F., Dolan, J. F., Milliner, C. W., Tong, X., Sandwell, D. T., & Xu, X.
Recovery of secular deformation field of Mojave Shear Zone in Southern California from historical terrestrial and GPS measurements Liu, S., Shen, Z., & Bürgmann, R.

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In The News

Nation Prepares in September and Gets Ready to ShakeOut
Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills encourage everyone to come together and take action now to improve how well...
Yifeng Cui (SDSC) to Speak at GPU Technology Conference in D.C.
Disciplines including exascale, big data analytics, weather forecasting, energy exploration, scientific visualization...
Physics-Based Earthquake Simulations: SCEC and the Titan Supercomputer
Tom Jordan, Director, Southern California Earthquake at University of Southern California and a team of researchers are...
Uncharted: Exploring one of America’s fastest faults
Nearly 60 years after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Lituya Bay, Alaska — leading to a tsunami that devastated the...
Jetstream, the NSF-funded “Science” Cloud, has Launched!
Jetstream, the expansive NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure project intended in large measure to serve the long tail of...

Recent Earthquakes

Earthquakes can happen at any time! See recent earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater in California and Nevada: