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June 2020 SCEC Newsletter:
- From the Board of Directors
- Project Highlights
- Visions for the Future
- Upcoming Events
- Recent News
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Recent SCEC activities during COVID-19
The dramatic changes to our society resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted so many of us across the SCEC community. Our thoughts are with all of those affected by the disease, their friends and family, as well as those struggling to meet basic needs in the economic collapse that followed. Crisis, however, can also bring out the best of us, and we have all been inspired by the selfless efforts of those on the front lines – healthcare workers, first responders, and critical service providers. Moreover, the pandemic has made clear the importance of preparing for threats to our increasingly urbanized global society – a charge that is at the very heart of SCEC’s mission.
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A dense temporary seismic deployment across the southern San Andreas fault
 In early March, a temporary array of more than 300 IRIS-PASSCAL and University of Utah seismometers across the southern San Andreas Fault (SoSAF) was installed by two dozen faculty, staff, postdocs and students from the University of Southern California (USC), UC San Diego (UCSD), University of Utah, San Diego State University (SDSU), UC Riverside (UCR), JPL, and the USGS. The deployment area, southwest of Joshua Tree National Park in the southern California desert, lies along the northern edge of the popular Coachella Valley, 100 miles east of Los Angeles.
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SCEC Speak: glossary of often-used acronyms and other terms
 Like with any professional collaboration, SCEC has its own set of acronyms and other commonly-used terms. For those new to SCEC, as well as long-time collaborators, figuring out this "SCEC Speak" can be like learning a new language since new projects and initiatives emerge all the time. We've created a simple online glossary as a guide to learning SCEC speak. Let us know what other terms should be added!
[view the SCEC Glossary]
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The importance of expanding the Earthquake Center region to include the northern San Andreas fault system
 This white paper suggests expanding the geographic scope of a future Earthquake Center to cover the northern San Andreas fault system up to the Mendocino Triple Junction. This will facilitate improved understanding of fault behaviors and improved hazard estimates for large urban areas in California. Including the major faults of northern and central California would increase the diversity of fault behaviors to investigate, and potentially lead to more complete understanding of slow-slip phenomena, the physics of multi-segment ruptures, and other aspects.
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The California continental borderland
 The California Continental Borderland (CCB) offshore southern California accommodates ~20% of Pacific-North American plate motion. It has experienced several M5+ events and hosts long, continuous fault zones capable of generating M7+ earthquakes and potentially tsunamis. This white paper suggests expansion of SCEC’s natural laboratory to include the CCB would address questions about long-term and recent plate boundary evolution and how current plate motion is distributed across the broad zone of faulting of the plate boundary in southern California.
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Highlights of SCEC5 community modeling efforts and vision for community models in the next earthquake center
 Modern, physics-based models of fault systems, postseismic stress transfer, and evolution of earthquake probabilities must be supported by detailed and up-to-date data on lithospheric structure and properties. Creating, synthesizing, refining, and disseminating these voluminous and complex datasets (in the form of community models) has long been a centerpiece of the SCEC collaboration, and this white paper describes how such efforts should be expanded.
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The purpose of the SCEC Newsletter is to inform you about SCEC activities, people, and resources. We welcome suggestions for new articles from the SCEC Community. Send us your comments by replying to this email.
Thank you for your participation in SCEC!
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