Uncovering Tsunamigenic Earthquakes Affecting Southern California
How well do we understand local-source tsunami hazards in Southern California? That was the question of the night at a town hall in Ventura during California’s Tsunami Preparedness Week (March 27 -...
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Earthquake Imaging: Smartphones, Drones, Lasers, and Radars
Every ad for a cellphone includes a plug about its camera. We want the images we take to have depth, beauty, and quality – achieved with a simpler technique. And we especially want better ...
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Advancing Earthquake System Science: A New Phase of Research Begins
For more than 25 years, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) has advanced earthquake system science through innovative collaborations in the earth and computer sciences. Earthquakes...
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Get to Know SCEC, Our Science and Community
What's SCEC? What is "earthquake system science"? In February 1st, the SCEC community will continue and lead the next phase of earthquake system science, known as SCEC5. Cheers to over 25 years of...
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SCEC Awarded 141 Million Supercomputing Hours By DOE's INCITE Program
The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) has been awarded 141,000,000 supercomputer processor-hours at Department of Energy (DOE) computing facilities for the "Quantification of Uncertainty...
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Recent Publications

Application of an improved spectral decomposition method to examine earthquake source scaling in southern California Trugman, D. T., & Shearer, P. M.
Absence of remote earthquake triggering within the Coso and Salton Sea geothermal production fields Zhang, Q., Lin, G., Zhan, Z., Chen, X., Qin, Y., & Wdowinski, S.
Moment rate scaling for earthquakes 3.3≤M≤5.3 with implications for stress drop Archuleta, R. J., & Ji, C.
Coupling on the northern Cascadia subduction zone from geodetic measurements and physics-based models Segall, P., & Bruhat, L.
A preliminary statistical model for hydraulic fracture-induced seismicity in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin Atkinson, G. M., & Ghofrani, H.

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In The News

Annemarie Baltay Receives 2017 SSA Richter Early Career Award
"Through a combination of source studies and ground motion prediction research, [Baltay] has carved a niche for herself...
Seismic Science
“Earthquakes have become much more disruptive to society than they used to be,” said Thomas Jordan, director of the...
Using a method from Wall Street to track slow slipping of Earth’s crust
Stock traders have long used specialized trackers to decide when to buy or sell a stock, or when the market is...
Could several California faults rupture together as in the M=7.8 New Zealand earthquake?
For several decades, geologists assumed that faults more than 5 km (3 mi) apart could not rupture together. This...
“ShakeAlert” Earthquake Early Warning System Goes West Coast Wide
This milestone extends the ShakeAlert “production prototype” that was rolled out in California in 2016 to Washington...

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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: