A Milestone for Forecasting Earthquake Hazards
Simulating nearly 500,000 years of California earthquakes on a supercomputer, researchers were able to match hazard estimates from the state’s leading statistical model based on a hundred years of...
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A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Tall Buildings
In their quest to make tall buildings safe during earthquakes, engineers have for decades relied on calculations that represent the tremors and convulsions that a building can endure. Some of the...
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"Shake, Rattle, and Code" - Super Models Find Faults
"These experiments show that the physics-based model RSQSim can replicate the seismic hazard estimates derived from the empirical model, but with far fewer statistical assumptions," noted Jordan...
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Read Cray, Inc.'s Story on SCEC High-Performance Computing Work
Dr. Jordan and his team at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) are developing methods to simulate how the ground will move in the event of an earthquake. Their research is...
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Codes Developed by SDSC, SDSU, SCEC Used in Gordon Bell Prize Research
A Chinese team of researchers awarded this year’s prestigious Gordon Bell prize for simulating the devastating 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China, used an open-source code developed by researchers at...
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Recent Publications

Surface Creep Rate of the Southern San Andreas Fault Modulated by Stress Perturbations From Nearby Large Events Xu, X., Ward, L., Jiang, J., Smith-Konter, B. R., Tymofyeyeva, E., Lindsey, E. O., Sylvester, A. G., & Sandwell, D. T.
Tomography of Southern California Via Bayesian Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity and Phase Velocity From Ambient Noise Cross-Correlations Berg, E., Lin, F., Allam, A. A., Qiu, H., Shen, W., & Ben-Zion, Y.
Geomorphic evidence for the geometry and slip rate of a young, low-angle thrust fault: Implications for hazard assessment and fault interaction in complex tectonic environments Hughes, A., Rood, D. H., Whittaker, A. C., Bell, R., Rockwell, T. K., Levy, Y., Wilcken, K. M., Corbett, L. B., Bierman, P. R., DeVecchio, D. E., Marshall, S. T., Gurrola, L. D., & Nicholson, C.
Structure of the Northern Los Angeles Basins Revealed in Teleseismic Receiver Functions from Short-term Nodal Seismic Arrays Liu, G., Persaud, P., & Clayton, R. W.
A physics-based earthquake simulator replicates seismic hazard statistics across California Shaw, B. E., Milner, K. R., Field, E. H., Richards-Dinger, K., Gilchrist, J. J., Dieterich, J. H., & Jordan, T. H.

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In The News

Earthquake-weary Alaskans still grappling with damage
Life was beginning to return to normal Monday in Alaska following the powerful earthquake near Anchorage, but people...
Powerful quakes buckle Alaska roads, trigger tsunami warning
Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 rocked buildings and shattered roads Friday morning in Anchorage,...
USGS Event Page, M7.0 Anchorage Earthquake
The November 30, 2018, Mw 7.0 earthquake near Anchorage, Alaska, occurred as the result of normal faulting at a depth...
L.A.-Boratory: From earthquake safety to community health, USC Dornsife research is shaping Los Angeles life, policy and design.
In 2015, the L.A. City Council approved laws requiring property owners to reinforce as many as 15,000 buildings built...
New study reveals connection between climate, life and the movement of continents
A new study by The University of Texas at Austin has demonstrated a possible link between life on Earth and the...

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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: