Register for the National Earthquake Conference (March 4 - 6)!
The results of a new earthquake scenario and risk study for the San Diego-Tijuana region will be shared for the first time at this conference. Also, the deadline has been extended for poster...
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SCEC Community Spotlight: Kevin Milner
The SCEC Research Community may know Kevin Milner as the lead developer for the OpenSHA seismic hazard analysis (SHA) platform and for his contributions to the Working Group on California Earthquake...
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SCEC ELCA supports students and early career researchers
In 2019, SCEC's Office of Experiential Learning and Career Advancement (ELCA) successfully accomplished its goals to provide research opportunities, networking, and resources to the SCEC...
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Our Collective Impact: Record-Breaking ShakeOut Participation in 2019!
SCEC's Communication, Education, and Outreach program has coordinated Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills since 2008, in partnership with local, national, and international colleagues and organizations...
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Highlights from a Palm Springs Gathering
Each year, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) gathers some 500 earthquake experts in the Southern California desert to check in with each other. They share research from the past year...
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Recent Publications

Hierarchical interlocked orthogonal faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence Ross, Z. E., Idini, B., Jia, Z., Stephenson, O., Zhong, M., Wang, X., Zhan, Z., Simons, M., Fielding, E. J., Yun, S., Hauksson, E., Moore, A. W., Liu, Z., & Jung, J.
Exposing Los Angeles’s Shaky Geologic Underbelly Clayton, R. W., Persaud, P., Denolle, M. A., & Polet, J.
Length‐Scale‐Dependent Relationships between VS30 and Topographic Slopes in Southern California Lin, J. C., Moon, S., Yong, A., Meng, L., & Davis, P. M.
Biomarker Thermal Maturity Reveals Localized Temperature Rise From Paleoseismic Slip Along the Punchbowl Fault, CA, USA Savage, H. M., & Polissar, P. J.
A Geodesy‐ and Seismicity‐Based Local Earthquake Likelihood Model for Central Los Angeles Rollins, C., & Avouac, J.

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In The News

The Earthquake Country Alliance Promotes Preparedness and Resilience, Including Minimizing Financial Risks, to Californians
Each year, California experiences two to three earthquakes large enough to cause damage to structures. And residents of...
8 Powerful Examples Of AI For Good
Amid the cacophony of concern over artificial intelligence (AI) taking over jobs (and the world) and cheers for what it...
Kim Blisniuk and Yue “Wilson” Yuan Receive Early Career Investigator Awards
Kim Blisniuk’s research investigates and quantifies how landscapes evolve through time due to earthquakes and climate...
M 7.7 Earthquake - 125km NNW of Lucea, Jamaica
The January 28, 2020, M 7.7 earthquake in the Caribbean Sea to the south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica occurred as...
2010 Haiti Earthquake—10 Years Later (January 2020)
Today's M7.7 earthquake in the Caribbean occurs just after we observed the Haiti Earthquake's 10th anniversary, and now...

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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: