Uncovering Tsunamigenic Earthquakes Affecting Southern California
How well do we understand local-source tsunami hazards in Southern California? That was the question of the night at a town hall in Ventura during California’s Tsunami Preparedness Week (March 27 -...
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Earthquake Imaging: Smartphones, Drones, Lasers, and Radars
Every ad for a cellphone includes a plug about its camera. We want the images we take to have depth, beauty, and quality – achieved with a simpler technique. And we especially want better ...
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Advancing Earthquake System Science: A New Phase of Research Begins
For more than 25 years, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) has advanced earthquake system science through innovative collaborations in the earth and computer sciences. Earthquakes...
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Get to Know SCEC, Our Science and Community
What's SCEC? What is "earthquake system science"? In February 1st, the SCEC community will continue and lead the next phase of earthquake system science, known as SCEC5. Cheers to over 25 years of...
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SCEC Awarded 141 Million Supercomputing Hours By DOE's INCITE Program
The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) has been awarded 141,000,000 supercomputer processor-hours at Department of Energy (DOE) computing facilities for the "Quantification of Uncertainty...
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Recent Publications

How to Identify Foreshocks in Seismic Sequences to Predict Strong Earthquakes Riga, G., & Balocchi, P.
Absence of remote earthquake triggering within the Coso and Salton Sea geothermal production fields Zhang, Q., Lin, G., Zhan, Z., Chen, X., Qin, Y., & Wdowinski, S.
Variability of earthquake stress drop in a subduction setting, the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand Abercrombie, R. E., Bannister, S. C., Ristau, J., & Doser, D.
Dynamically triggered slip on a splay fault in the Mw 7.8, 2016 Kaikoura (New Zealand) earthquake Hollingsworth, J., Ye, L., & Avouac, J.
Application of an improved spectral decomposition method to examine earthquake source scaling in southern California Trugman, D. T., & Shearer, P. M.

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In The News

More than 2,100 buildings are already being retrofitted under L.A.'s earthquake safety law
More than 12% of the L.A.'s earthquake vulnerable wood apartment buildings have begun the process of retrofits.
Back to the Future on the San Andreas Fault
Maybe you’ve heard that the “Big One is overdue” on the San Andreas Fault. No one can predict earthquakes, so what does...
After years of planning, California is likely to roll out its earthquake warning system next year
New earthquake sensing stations are being installed in the ground, software is being improved, and operators are being...
Annemarie Baltay Receives 2017 SSA Richter Early Career Award
"Through a combination of source studies and ground motion prediction research, [Baltay] has carved a niche for herself...
Seismic Science
“Earthquakes have become much more disruptive to society than they used to be,” said Thomas Jordan, director of the...

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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: