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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Drop, Cover, and Hold On with SCEC Co-Director Greg Beroza and KRON4!
International #ShakeOut Day was Thursday, 10/17 in 2019, did you participate? SCEC co-director and Stanford University Professor Greg Beroza was on-hand in San Francisco to show people how to Drop,...
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Q&A with Yehuda Ben-Zion on "A Critical Data Gap in Earthquake Physics"
Today, the opinion piece "A Critical Data Gap in Earthquake Physics" by SCEC Director and USC Earth Sciences Professor, Yehuda Ben-Zion, was published in Seismological Research Letters (SRL...
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Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence: Activities and Results So Far
Several days have passed since Friday night’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake (07/05/2019) that followed Thursday morning’s strong magnitude 6.4 foreshock (07/04/2019) near...
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It’s Not Always About “The Big One”: Why We Mine for the Little Ones, Too
What’s a bit new, trendy, and even a little quirky in earthquake science? Mining through extensive earthquake data in clever, innovative ways – especially in search of the "little ones" we never feel...
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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.
A Geodesy‐ and Seismicity‐Based Local Earthquake Likelihood Model for Central Los Angeles Rollins, C., & Avouac, J.
Late-Holocene Rupture History of the Rose Canyon Fault in Old Town, San Diego: Implications for Cascading Earthquakes on the Newport-Inglewood-Rose Canyon Fault System Singleton, D. M., Rockwell, T. K., Murbach, D., Murbach, M., Maloney, J. M., Freeman, T., & Levy, Y.

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In The News

Determining whether the worst earthquake has passed
After every major earthquake, seismologists warn the public that the danger has not yet passed: aftershocks will...
Study says Southern California earthquakes increased stress on major fault line
A University of Iowa-led study has found that a series of Southern California earthquakes last summer increased stress...
Newsletter: Do you feel earthquake anxiety?
On Wednesday, the governor’s office announced that a statewide earthquake early warning app was, at long last, ready....
Study: California’s big July quakes strain major fault
The earthquakes that hammered the Southern California desert near the town of Ridgecrest last summer involved ruptures...
Mayor Breed Joins Hundreds Of Students To Practice Earthquake Safety Drill
Hundreds of San Francisco elementary school students strengthened their earthquake preparedness skills Wednesday...

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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: