Back Together Again: ELCA Activities Foster Connections in 2022
SCEC’s Experiential Learning and Career Advancement (ELCA) Programs provided junior members of the SCEC community with resources and mentoring as we overcame the challenges left by a pandemic and its...
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Get to Know the SCEC Community
Dear SCEC Community, As part of my new role as an outreach partner with the SCEC Communication, Education and Outreach team, I am working with members of the SCEC Community to create...
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2022 SCEC Community Honors and Awards
Each year members of the SCEC Community are recognized with major awards and honors. This page is a collection of these recognitions announced or bestowed throughout 2022.  ...
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Shaping of the Rupture and Fault Zone Observatory
Community efforts continued this fall to hone the concept and design of the Rupture and Fault Zone Observatory (RuFZO), also known as the Near-Fault Observatory. RuFZO aims to collect geophysical and...
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Two Decades of High-Performance Computing at SCEC
SCEC began its journey into high performance computing in 2001, when Thomas Jordan, former Director of SCEC, received a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to use advanced...
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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

Incorporating Full Elastodynamic Effects and Dipping Fault Geometries in Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Lambert, V. R., Abdelmeguid, M., Almquist, M., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Chen, A., Dal Zilio, L., Dunham, E. M., Elbanna, A. E., Gabriel, A., Harvey, T. W., Huang, Y., Kaneko, Y., Kozdon, J. E., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liang, C., Liu, Y., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., Segall, P., Sun, Y., Thakur, P., Uphoff, C., van Dinther, Y., & Yang, Y.
Pulse-like ruptures, seismic swarms, and tremorgenic slow-slip events with thermally activated friction Wang, B., & Barbot, S. D.
Temporal Changes of Seismicity in Salton Sea Geothermal Field due to Distant Earthquakes and Geothermal Productions Li, C., Peng, Z., Yao, D., Meng, X., & Zhai, Q.
Variability of Spectral Estimates of Stress Drop Reconciled by Radiated Energy Ji, C., Archuleta, R. J., & Wang, Y.
Enumerating Plausible Multifault Ruptures in Complex Fault Systems with Physical Constraints Milner, K. R., Shaw, B. E., & Field, E. H.

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Science Workshops

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

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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.

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Recent Earthquakes

Earthquakes can happen at any time. See the USGS or SCEDC for real-time earthquake information.

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

Stress change calculations provide clues to aftershocks in 2023 Türkiye earthquakes
Coulomb stress calculations based on preliminary data and models suggest that the magnitude-7.5 shock on the Sürgü and...
A preliminary report on the February 6, 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye
On Feb. 6, 2023, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck near Pazarcık City in south-central Türkiye, followed by a magnitude...
Predicting earthquakes is unlikely, but could we detect them earlier?
After a major earthquake, like the ones that recently hit Turkey and Syria, one question often looms: How did we not...
L.A. County moves to require quake retrofits as Turkey-Syria death toll exceeds 50,000
Los Angeles County took the first step Tuesday toward a mandatory earthquake retrofit order for the types of concrete...
Turkey’s Earthquake Zone Is a Lot Like California’s. Here’s What That Means.
Scientists are analyzing the disaster for clues about the potential strength and location of future West Coast quakes...
The ancient Turkish city that ceased to exist after the earthquakes
A thriving modern metropolis of nearly 400,000 people — and a cradle of Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman history — belongs...
More Than 100 Landslides Strike Turkey Following Devastating Earthquakes
Scientists are using satellite images to locate landslides following the powerful earthquakes that struck in early...
Quakes Are Inevitable. Huge Death Tolls Are Not
Better building standards mean earthquakes need not turn into the devastation seen in Turkey and Syria. The US should...
Opinion: 3 charts show how better buildings save lives in earthquakes
Though it might take weeks or months to confirm the death toll across Turkey and Syria, the latest number has topped 36...
Why can’t we predict earthquakes?
We discuss the challenging task of forecasting the occurrence and magnitude of earthquakes.

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