Register for the National Earthquake Conference (March 4 - 6)!
The results of a new earthquake scenario and risk study for the San Diego-Tijuana region will be shared for the first time at this conference. Also, the deadline has been extended for poster...
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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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SCEC ELCA supports students and early career researchers
In 2019, SCEC's Office of Experiential Learning and Career Advancement (ELCA) successfully accomplished its goals to provide research opportunities, networking, and resources to the SCEC...
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Our Collective Impact: Record-Breaking ShakeOut Participation in 2019!
SCEC's Communication, Education, and Outreach program has coordinated Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills since 2008, in partnership with local, national, and international colleagues and organizations...
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Highlights from a Palm Springs Gathering
Each year, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) gathers some 500 earthquake experts in the Southern California desert to check in with each other. They share research from the past year...
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Recent Publications

Hierarchical interlocked orthogonal faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence Ross, Z. E., Idini, B., Jia, Z., Stephenson, O., Zhong, M., Wang, X., Zhan, Z., Simons, M., Fielding, E. J., Yun, S., Hauksson, E., Moore, A. W., Liu, Z., & Jung, J.
Exposing Los Angeles’s Shaky Geologic Underbelly Clayton, R. W., Persaud, P., Denolle, M. A., & Polet, J.
Length‐Scale‐Dependent Relationships between VS30 and Topographic Slopes in Southern California Lin, J. C., Moon, S., Yong, A., Meng, L., & Davis, P. M.
Biomarker Thermal Maturity Reveals Localized Temperature Rise From Paleoseismic Slip Along the Punchbowl Fault, CA, USA Savage, H. M., & Polissar, P. J.
A Geodesy‐ and Seismicity‐Based Local Earthquake Likelihood Model for Central Los Angeles Rollins, C., & Avouac, J.

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In The News

M 7.7 Earthquake - 125km NNW of Lucea, Jamaica
The January 28, 2020, M 7.7 earthquake in the Caribbean Sea to the south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica occurred as...
2010 Haiti Earthquake—10 Years Later (January 2020)
Today's M7.7 earthquake in the Caribbean occurs just after we observed the Haiti Earthquake's 10th anniversary, and now...
NASA Disasters Program Responds to the 2020 Puerto Rico Earthquakes
Since December 28th, 2019 the island of Puerto Rico has been affected by a series of hundreds of small earthquakes,...
Japan’s Wildlife Is Still Reeling from the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami
The 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan’s east coast dramatically changed the landscape and devastated...
Modern search and rescue technology advances
The Earth has seen very severe natural disasters in recent years, and thanks to climate change, these disasters are...

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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: