Opportunities from SCEC’s Experiential Learning and Career Advancement
A year into the pandemic, we continue to evaluate the extent of disruption to career growth due to suspended experiential learning and career advancement programs. Students and early career...
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Why California is Safer Because of the San Fernando Earthquake
No matter what else is going on in the world, earthquakes are always relevant in California because they are a constant threat that can occur anywhere and at any time. The topic has never been...
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Why do some faults appear to slip backwards?
Rarely can a two-day group field trip provide new information about the physics of earthquakes. Guided by satellite measurements of fault deformation, SCEC researchers from Scripps Institution of...
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How SCEC Helps People "ShakeOut" for Tsunamis
10 years ago this March, an unexpectedly-large M9.1 earthquake off Japan’s east coast generated an enormous tsunami. Experts all around the world were puzzled. People knew big earthquakes and...
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A Tribute to Mark Benthien on his 25th Anniversary at SCEC
In the winter of 1996, Jill Andrews (then the Director of the SCEC Education and Outreach Program) was searching for an assistant to work with her in the program. Jill and Mark Benthien met at a...
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Research Highlights

The Community Rheology Model (CRM) provides a three-dimensional description of the ductile rheology of southern California’s lithosphere.

The Committee for Utilization of Ground Motions Simulations (UGMS) developed site-specific response spectral acceleration maps for the Los Angeles region.

Recent Publications

Resolution and uncertainties in estimates of earthquake stress drop and energy release Abercrombie, R. E.
Seismic Moment Accumulation Response to Lateral Crustal Variations of the San Andreas Fault System Ward, L. A., Smith-Konter, B. R., Xu, X., & Sandwell, D. T.
Toward Physics‐Based Nonergodic PSHA: A Prototype Fully Deterministic Seismic Hazard Model for Southern California Milner, K. R., Shaw, B. E., Goulet, C. A., Richards-Dinger, K. B., Callaghan, S., Jordan, T. H., Dieterich, J. H., & Field, E. H.
The Lavic Lake Fault: A Long-Term Cumulative Slip Analysis via Combined Field Work and Thermal Infrared Hyperspectral Airborne Remote Sensing Witkosky, R. A., Stock, J. M., Tratt, D. M., Buckland, K. N., Adams, P. M., Johnson, P. D., Lynch, D. K., & Sousa, F. J.
The generation of large earthquakes Kato, A., & Ben-Zion, Y.

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Science Workshops

SCEC-IRIS-UNAVCO Community Workshop: Rupture and Fault Zone Observatory (RuFZO), April 13, 2021

Yehuda Ben-Zion: Scientific Motivation for the Rupture and Fault Zone Observatory (more presentations)

SCEC Dynamic Rupture TAG – 2020 Ingredients Workshop, October 2020

Alice Gabriel: Thermal pressurization 3D benchmark and results... (more presentations)

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Education Programs

Supported Opportunities for Undergraduates and Researchers to Collaborate on Earthquake Science (SOURCES) offers a remotely-mentored research experience to college students nationwide.

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) pairs a student, one-on-one, to conduct research with a pre-eminent earthquake scientist or specialist.

Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (UseIT) internship is a team-based undergraduate research program.

SCEC Transitions Program provides students and early-career scientists with resources and mentoring at major transitions in their educational and professional careers.

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Recent Earthquakes

Earthquakes can happen at any time. See the USGS or SCEDC for real-time earthquake information.

Earthquake Preparedness

Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety
A step-by-step guide for staying safe before, during, and after an earthquake.

ShakeOut Earthquake Drills
ShakeOut Earthquake Drills are an opporuntity to practice how to prepare to survive and recover from the next damaging earthquake.

Earthquakes in the News

Who is most vulnerable during a major Northern California earthquake?
Most risk analysis focuses on the cascading effects of an earthquake such as landslides, fire or building damage. A...
Coachella Valley Disaster Preparedness webinar will feature Dr. Dennis Mileti’s last presentation on earthquake preparedness Wednesday
You can never be too prepared for an earthquake or other disaster. That was what Dr. Dennis Mileti believed as a world-...
The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan as experienced by the survivors
Using footage shot at the center of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, we bring you a story of...
Untangling the Heat Paradox Along Major Faults
New research from Caltech seeks to explain the size of the forces acting on so-called "mature faults"—long-lived faults...
Tsunami Forecast Model Animation: Japan 2011
At 14:46 on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 (05:46 UTC), a 9.0 moment magnitude earthquake struck near the coastline of...

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