SCEC Newsletter
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From the Directors: The Only Constant is Change, By Yehuda Ben-Zion and Greg Beroza |
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Shaping of the Rupture and Fault Zone Observatory, by Kasey Aderhold et al. |
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SCEC Workshop Summary: Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) Annual Workshop |
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
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.
Seismic Traveltime Tomography of Southern California Using Poisson-Voronoi Cells and 20 Years of Data Fang, H., White, M. C., Lu, Y., & Ben-Zion, Y.
Enumerating Plausible Multifault Ruptures in Complex Fault Systems with Physical Constraints Milner, K. R., Shaw, B. E., & Field, E. H.
Science Workshops
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
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
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.
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
McMinn Professor Ilya Zaliapin uses statistical methods for hierarchies to understand natural phenomena
The China Earthquake Networks Center registered the quake at a preliminary magnitude of 6.1, while the U.S. Geological...
Earthquakes in the Nenana Basin region of Interior Alaska last longer and feel much stronger than a quake of comparable...
Earthquakes in the Nenana Basin region of Interior Alaska last longer and feel much stronger than a quake of comparable...
The false alert, the first of its kind in the United States, was followed shortly after by a post-alert message,...
The false alert, the first of its kind in the United States, was followed shortly after by a post-alert message,...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 rattled people awake in Southern California early Wednesday morning.
Seismic waves from earthquakes that have passed through the Earth’s inner core along similar paths since the 1960s can...
Scientists can use a combination of advanced machine learning and sequential sampling techniques to predict extreme...
The quake produced severe shaking in a lightly populated area, brought the southern tip of the Cascadia Subduction Zone...
