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

Call for Models—A Test Case for the Source Inversion Validation: The 2014 ML 5.5 Orkney, South Africa, Earthquake Moyer, P. A., Boettcher, M. S., Ellsworth, W. L., Ogasawara, H., Cichowicz, A., Birch, D., & van Aswegen, G.
The 2016 Mw5.1 Fairview, Oklahoma earthquakes: Evidence for long-range poroelastic triggering at >40 km from fluid disposal wells Goebel, T. H., Weingarten, M., Chen, X., Haffener, J., & Brodsky, E. E.
The potential uses of operational earthquake forecasting Field, E. H., Jordan, T. H., Jones, L. M., Michael, A. J., & Blanpied, M. L.
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.

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In The News

2017 AGU Union Medal, Award, and Prize Recipients Announced
Congratulations to SCEC Director Tom Jordan, who was awarded AGU's William Bowie Medal! Every year, the American...
State finds new active fault strands in Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and Hollywood
On 13 July, the California Geological Survey released four preliminary Earthquake Fault Zone maps for parts of Los...
NZ, US and Japanese scientists research earthquakes off Bay coast
A key aim of the research is to find out whether the plate boundary is capable of producing earthquakes higher than...
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...
More than 2,100 buildings are already being retrofitted under L.A.'s earthquake safety law
More than 12% of the L.A.'s earthquake vulnerable wood apartment buildings have begun the process of retrofits.

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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: