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

'Melting rock' models predict mechanical origins of earthquakes
Engineers at Duke University have devised a model that can predict the early mechanical behaviors and origins of an...
Extreme-Scale Simulations for Advanced Seismic Ground Motion and Hazard Modeling
Accurate seismic hazard assessments help inform and prepare society for earthquakes, enabling the development of design...
A decade after the earthquake, Haiti still struggles to recover
More than 300,000 people were killed, several hundred thousand were injured and nearly 1.5 million were left homeless...
USGS: Magnitude 6.4 Earthquake in Puerto Rico
Damaging earthquakes, like the ones in Puerto Rico, can be unsettling, destructive, and often tragic to the communities...
The 2018 update of the US National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview of model and implications
During 2017–2018, the National Seismic Hazard Model for the conterminous United States was updated as follows: (1)...

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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: