Thursday, January 8, 2026
On behalf of Annemarie Baltay (USGS) and Rachel Abercrombie (BU)

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to the 2026 SCEC Community Stress Drop Workshop to be held online via Zoom on January 20th, 2026 9:00am - 3:30pm Pacific Time.

Please see more details and register here https://www.scec.org/events/2026-community-stress-drop-validation-workshop. While we always welcome everyone to attend, we encourage you to register by January 16.

We will hold the workshop in three sessions, please join for all or just what you're interested in! As always, we welcome participation and listening from all and we will have plenty of time for participant discussion and contributions.

Times below all Pacific
Session I (9am - 10:45am) Introduction, and ongoing work. We will hear a few invited talks on ongoing work, and then have time for contributed slides and discussion from the whole community on current progress. We are especially interested in how methods have evolved recently given feedback from the first stage of the Community Project.

Session II (11:00am - 12:30pm) New datasets. Presentations from community members on new empirical datasets and regions, with a discussion and perhaps a vote on what data to choose.

Session III (1:30pm - 3:00pm) Synthetic data and looking forward. We will hear about previous synthetic data analysis for earthquake stress drop or source parameters, and then a discussion of several stochastic and other simplistic datasets we will use for the Community Project. We will discuss future SCEC, NSF and international proposals.

Special Session: (3pm - 3:30pm). A review of the morning’s discussion for our global participants who could not make the earlier times (or anyone who was busy!).

*Note that the afternoon schedule and topics may change slightly depending on participation!

Please forward any questions or comments to Annemarie abaltay@usgs.gov or Rachel rea@bu.edu.

====================

Want to send an announcement to the SCEC community?
1) Please use this style guide:
  • Use the same font type and size for all content
  • Basic formatting is permitted (bold, italics, underline, bulleted/numbered lists, etc.)
  • Shorten long web links: use bit.ly or tinyurl.com
  • No attachments or images allowed.
2) Include a subject line.
3) Send your request to scecinfo@usc.edu