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 Interim Director and USC Earth Sciences Professor, Yehuda Ben-Zion, was published in Seismological Research...
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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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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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Recent Publications

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.
How Physics‐Based Earthquake Simulators Might Help Improve Earthquake Forecasts Field, E. H.
A case study of a precariously balanced rock, its partially exhumed corestone platform, and encasing saprock and soil Hall, C. M., Webb, H. N., Girty, G. H., Allam, A. A., & Rockwell, T. K.
Bounding the Moment Deficit Rate on Crustal Faults Using Geodetic Data: Application to Southern California Maurer, J. L., Johnson, K. M., & Segall, P.

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In The News

How to Ride out an Earthquake at an Airport
“The best thing you can do is Drop, Cover, and Hold On,” said Jason Ballmann, spokesman for the Southern California...
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 Interim Director and USC Earth...
Predicting earthquake hazards from wastewater injection
A byproduct of oil and gas production is a large quantity of toxic wastewater called brine. Well-drillers dispose of...
Earthquakes: Numerical model pinpoints source of pre-cursor to seismic signals
Numerical simulations have pinpointed the source of acoustic signals emitted by stressed faults in laboratory...
San Andreas fault is a 730-mile monster. Ridgecrest earthquake was a tiny taste of the possible destruction.
Faults crisscross California, producing deadly earthquakes. But whenever the ground shakes, the first thought...

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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: