SCEC Newsletter
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From the Directors: Learning from the Past & Planning for the Future, By Yehuda Ben-Zion and Greg Beroza |
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Landers 30th Anniversary: Legends and Legacies, By Shreya Agrawal |
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Advance Your Professional Development with SCEC’s Internships and Transitions Programs, By Gabriela Noriega |
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.
Detection of Aseismic Slip and Poroelastic Reservoir Deformation at the North Brawley Geothermal Field From 2009 to 2019 Materna, K., Barbour, A., Jiang, J., & Eneva, M.
Science Workshops
Dynamic Rupture TAG 2022 Workshop – Investigating New Ideas in Earthquake Source Mechanics, January 12, 2023
SCEC Workshop on Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip, November 18, 2022
Kevin Milner: SCEC Seismic Hazard Analysis Platforms (more presentations)
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
Scientists drilled deep below the seafloor to see how stress builds within the Nankai megathrust, a major subduction...
The shaking will be equivalent to the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake and could answer serious questions about the...
Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, and so too are the usually less-severe aftershocks that often follow a...
Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers conducted a detailed simulation of how a popular type of bridge falls during...
Satellite observations have revealed that weak seismic ground shaking can trigger powerful landslide acceleration—even...
Pathbreaking lab marks centennial with a Hollywood-inspired panel discussion and an earthquake preparedness fair
A geologist heads to the hills to study precariously perched boulders, which could provide clues to the frequency of...
Swiss InsurTech CelsiusPro has announced it has partnered with Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation to enhance...
The eruption is so far not threatening downhill communities or affecting flights
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi have developed a method to assess the ability of...
