A Tribute to Mark Benthien on his 25th Anniversary at SCEC
In the winter of 1996, Jill Andrews (then the Director of the SCEC Education and Outreach Program) was searching for an assistant to work with her in the program. Jill and Mark Benthien met at a...
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In the trenches—Paleoseismic studies of the 2019 Ridgecrest ruptures
Amid the pandemic lockdown fatigue and media frenzy surrounding the presidential election in November, field work was a most welcome distraction. Socially distancing and soaking in the balmy Mojave...
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Michele Cooke Receives Award for Inclusive Geoscience Teaching
The International Association for Geoscience Diversity recently named Dr. Michele Cooke (UMass Amherst) as the recipient of its 2020 Inclusive Geoscience Education and Research Award....
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Know your faults — SCEC CFM fault association notifications
SCEC collaborators from Harvard and Caltech have developed a new, statistical way to rapidly identify the most likely fault (or sets of candidate faults) in the Community Fault Model (CFM) that...
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July 2020: Ridgecrest Earthquake First Anniversary
Highlights from geology, geodesy, seismology, geotechnical and forecasting studies associated with the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence.      
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Research Highlights

The Community Rheology Model (CRM) provides a three-dimensional description of the ductile rheology of southern California’s lithosphere.

The Committee for Utilization of Ground Motions Simulations (UGMS) developed site-specific response spectral acceleration maps for the Los Angeles region.

Recent Publications

Toward Physics‐Based Nonergodic PSHA: A Prototype Fully Deterministic Seismic Hazard Model for Southern California Milner, K. R., Shaw, B. E., Goulet, C. A., Richards-Dinger, K. B., Callaghan, S., Jordan, T. H., Dieterich, J. H., & Field, E. H.
The Lavic Lake Fault: A Long-Term Cumulative Slip Analysis via Combined Field Work and Thermal Infrared Hyperspectral Airborne Remote Sensing Witkosky, R. A., Stock, J. M., Tratt, D. M., Buckland, K. N., Adams, P. M., Johnson, P. D., Lynch, D. K., & Sousa, F. J.
The generation of large earthquakes Kato, A., & Ben-Zion, Y.
Surface deformation associated with fractures near the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence Xu, X., Sandwell, D. T., Ward, L. A., Milliner, C., Smith-Konter, B. R., Fang, P., & Bock, Y.
Mantle flow distribution beneath the California margin Barbot, S.

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Science Workshops

SCEC Community Velocity Model Workshop, September 2020

Malcolm White: Seismic velocity structure in the Ridgecrest, CA region from local earthquake traveltime tomography… (more presentations)

SCEC Dynamic Rupture TAG – 2020 Ingredients Workshop, October 2020

Alice Gabriel: Thermal pressurization 3D benchmark and results... (more presentations)

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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.

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Recent Earthquakes

Earthquakes can happen at any time. See the USGS or SCEDC for real-time earthquake information.

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

Supercomputer creates over 700,000 years of simulated earthquakes
Researchers cannot foretell exactly when an earthquake will hit, but new research that harnesses the power of...
ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning Delivery for the Pacific Northwest
Starting March 11, 2021, ShakeAlert®-powered earthquake early warning alerts will be available for delivery directly to...
The Disaster that Helped the Nation Prepare for Future Earthquakes: Remembering San Fernando
The San Fernando earthquake struck Southern California 50 years ago, killing 64 people and costing over $500 million in...
50 years ago, the Sylmar earthquake shook L.A., and nothing’s been the same since
How close Los Angeles came to what would have been — many times over— the deadliest disaster in U.S. history remains a...
David Bonowitz: Essential Earthquake Design
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the San Fernando earthquake. Engineers learned a lot from San Fernando,...

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