A Milestone for Forecasting Earthquake Hazards
Simulating nearly 500,000 years of California earthquakes on a supercomputer, researchers were able to match hazard estimates from the state’s leading statistical model based on a hundred years of...
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A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Tall Buildings
In their quest to make tall buildings safe during earthquakes, engineers have for decades relied on calculations that represent the tremors and convulsions that a building can endure. Some of the...
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"Shake, Rattle, and Code" - Super Models Find Faults
"These experiments show that the physics-based model RSQSim can replicate the seismic hazard estimates derived from the empirical model, but with far fewer statistical assumptions," noted Jordan...
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Read Cray, Inc.'s Story on SCEC High-Performance Computing Work
Dr. Jordan and his team at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) are developing methods to simulate how the ground will move in the event of an earthquake. Their research is...
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Codes Developed by SDSC, SDSU, SCEC Used in Gordon Bell Prize Research
A Chinese team of researchers awarded this year’s prestigious Gordon Bell prize for simulating the devastating 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China, used an open-source code developed by researchers at...
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Recent Publications

Structure of the Northern Los Angeles Basins Revealed in Teleseismic Receiver Functions from Short-term Nodal Seismic Arrays Liu, G., Persaud, P., & Clayton, R. W.
Durmid ladder structure and its implications for the nucleation sites of the next M >7.5 earthquake on the San Andreas fault or Brawley seismic zone in southern California Jänecke, S. U., Markowski, D., Evans, J. P., Persaud, P., & Kenney, M.
Comparative Study of Earthquake Clustering in Relation to Hydraulic Activities at Geothermal Fields in California Martínez-Garzón, P., Zaliapin, I., Ben-Zion, Y., Kwiatek, G., & Bohnhoff, M.
Influence of fault geometry on the spatial distribution of long-term slip with implications for determining representative fault slip rates Resor, P. G., Cooke, M. L., Marshall, S. T., & Madden, E. H.
A Generic Velocity Profile for Basin Sediments in California Conditioned on VS30 Shi, J., & Asimaki, D.

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In The News

San Andreas Fault: The Big One Is 'Inevitable'—But What Will Happen When It Hits?
If you live in California, you’ll know the Big One is coming: a powerful earthquake of up to magnitude eight is headed...
After the Big One: Understanding Aftershock Risk
Your input is information about stress on a fault. The output is information about the locations of aftershocks....
Geoscientists Find Unexpected ‘Deep Creep’ Near San Andreas, San Jacinto Faults
A new analysis of thousands of very small earthquakes that have occurred in the San Bernardino basin near the San...
New California bridge gets sensors to gather earthquake data
A replacement bridge under construction at the second-busiest port in the U.S. isn't just a crucial route for cargo...
In Quake-Prone California, Alarm at Scant Insurance Coverage
The ravages of wildfires in California have kept Dave Jones, the state’s insurance commissioner, very busy over the...

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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: