July 2020: Ridgecrest Earthquake First Anniversary
Highlights from geology, geodesy, seismology, geotechnical and forecasting studies associated with the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence.      
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June 2020 SCEC Newsletter
Includes an update from SCEC's Board of Directors about activities during COVID-19, project highlights, a glossary of "SCEC Speak", and three visions for a future earthquake center.
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A dense temporary seismic deployment across the Southern San Andreas Fault
Researchers from several SCEC institutions supported a NSF funded UCSD/USC joint project to understand more about this relatively quiet segment.              ...
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SCEC to run on DOE Summit and Theta in 2020
Summit and Theta are two of the newest, most powerful high-performance computers in the U.S. SCEC is a leader in research that integrates science results and new technologies into broad impact...
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San Diego Earthquake Scenario (EERI San Diego)
The Rose Canyon Fault Zone runs through the heart of the San Diego metropolitan area, presenting a major seismic hazard to the San Diego region, the third largest and one of the fastest growing...
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Recent Publications

Operational Earthquake Forecasting during the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence with the UCERF3‐ETAS Model Milner, K. R., Field, E. H., Savran, W. H., Page, M. T., & Jordan, T. H.
3D fault architecture controls the dynamism of earthquake swarms Ross, Z. E., Cochran, E. S., Trugman, D. T., & Smith, J. D.
Survey and Continuous GNSS in the Vicinity of the July 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes Floyd, M., Funning, G., Fialko, Y., Terry, R., & Herring, T.
Co- and Early Postseismic Deformation Due to the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Constrained by Sentinel-1 and COSMO-SkyMed SAR Data Wang, K., & Bürgmann, R.
Using Daily Observations from Planet Labs Satellite Imagery to Separate the Surface Deformation between the 4 July Mw 6.4 Foreshock and 5 July Mw 7.1 Mainshock during the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Milliner, C., & Donnellan, A.

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In The News

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July 2020: Ridgecrest Earthquake First Anniversary
Highlights from geology, geodesy, seismology, geotechnical and forecasting studies associated with the 2019 Ridgecrest...
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Remembering Ridgecrest (USGS Video)
Reflections on the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence one year after from a few USGS employees. Employees discuss when they...
95th Anniversary of the Santa Barbara Earthquake
95 years ago today Santa Barbara was shaken by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that left most of downtown broken and in an...

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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: