SCEC Newsletter
Recent Issues: October 2021 | June 2021 | March 2021 | Dec 2020 | Oct 2020 | Jun 2020 | Mar 2020 | Dec 2019
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From the Directors: Rolling Forward in the Fall, By Greg Beroza and Yehuda Ben-Zion |
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The Salton Trough Collaboratory, By Thomas Rockwell |
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Q&A with SCEC Annual Meeting Presenters, By Mark Benthien |
Special Issue: Ridgecrest 1-Year Anniversary
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
Tectonic controls on Quaternary landscape evolution in the Ventura basin, southern California, quantified using cosmogenic isotopes and topographic analyses Hughes, A., Rood, D. H., DeVecchio, D. E., Whittaker, A. C., Bell, R. E., Wilcken, K. M., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., Swanson, B. J., & Rockwell, T. K.
How Fault Rocks Form and Evolve in the Shallow San Andreas Fault Williams, R., Rowe, C. D., Okamoto, K. K., Savage, H. M., & Eves, E.
Tectonic Inheritance During Plate Boundary Evolution in Southern California Constrained From Seismic Anisotropy Schulte-Pelkum, V., Becker, T. W., Behr, W. M., & Miller, M. S.
Asymmetric Topography Causes Normal Stress Perturbations at the Rupture Front: The Case of the Cajon Pass Kyriakopoulos, C., Wu, B., & Oglesby, D. D.
Repeating Nontectonic Seasonal Stress Changes and a Possible Triggering Mechanism of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence in California Kim, J., Holt, W. E., Bahadori, A., & Shen, W.
Science Workshops
SCEC Workshop on Coordinating Post-Earthquake Field Data Collection, January 12 & 14, 2022
SCEC Workshop on Dynamic Rupture and Stress Conditions, December 3, 2021
2021 SCEC Community Geodetic Model Workshop, November 9-10, 2021
SCEC Community Workshop: Stress Drop Validation—Planning and Preliminary Results, November 4, 2021
Colin Pennington: Comparisons of Stress Drop Results: a Focus on the Prague, OK Sequence (more presentations)
SCEC Workshop on Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip, November 2, 2021
Societal Shock Resilience, an NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop,
June 7-8, 11, 2021
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.
Recent Earthquakes
Earthquake Preparedness
Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety
A step-by-step guide for staying safe before, during, and after an earthquake.
ShakeOut Earthquake Drills
ShakeOut Earthquake Drills are an opporuntity to practice how to prepare to survive and recover from the next damaging earthquake.
Earthquakes in the News
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The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), based at the University of Southern California, has won the...
On Oct. 21 at 10:21 a.m., students at Desert Hot Springs schools dropped for cover during the Great California ShakeOut...
Did you know there is an app on your phone that can alert you seconds before an earthquake hits giving you time to act...
Seismic retrofitting involves strengthening a structure to make it more resistant to earthquake shaking and damage. In...
The world is changing. A couple of decades ago, the only seismic retrofitting done on a building was to install steel...
2021-09-18 02:58:34 (UTC) 33.825°N 118.270°W 14.7 km depth
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and has long been vulnerable on multiple...
