New SRL Article Published: A "Synoptic View" of UCERF3
Probabilistic forecasting of earthquake‐producing fault ruptures informs all major decisions aimed at reducing seismic risk and improving earthquake resilience. Earthquake forecasting models rely...
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Earthquake Center interns leave lab behind, getting their hands on real faults
The eight-week summer intern program gives 22 students from across the U.S. the chance to do top-tier research with SCEC, considered an international leader in earthquake forecasting. It’s...
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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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Recent Publications

Seasonal water storage, stress modulation, and California seismicity Johnson, C. W., Fu, Y., & Bürgmann, R.
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.
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.
A Synoptic View of the Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF3) Field, E. H., Jordan, T. H., Page, M. T., Milner, K. R., Shaw, B. E., Dawson, T., Biasi, G. P., Parsons, T., Hardebeck, J. L., Michael, A. J., Weldon, R. J., Powers, P. M., Johnson, K. M., Zeng, Y., Bird, P., Felzer, K. R., van der Elst, N. J., Madden, C., Arrowsmith, R., Werner, M. J., Thatcher, W. R., & Jackson, D. D.

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In The News

Caltech and others get $4.9 million for earthquake warning system
Caltech and six other institutions were awarded a total of $4.9 million in funds by the U.S. Geological Survey today...
How Friction Evolves During an Earthquake
By simulating earthquakes in a lab, engineers at Caltech have documented the evolution of friction during an earthquake...
All About the San Andreas Fault
Many earthquakes have occurred along it, including famous ones in 1857, 1906 and 1989. The fault marks the...
Stanford researchers find similar characteristics in human-induced and natural earthquakes
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake likely induced by injection into deep disposal wells in the Wilzetta North field caused...
Potential Earthquake Worries in Santa Barbara Channel
The Ventura-Pitas Point fault courses through downtown Ventura before cutting outward to the coast and along the Santa...

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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: