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December 2020 SCEC Newsletter:
- From the Director
- Science Highlights
- Education Highlights
- Upcoming Events
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Reflecting on 2020 (and early 2021)
The passing year will not go down in history as a good one. But as I reflect on 2020 and the near future, I find many bright spots and reasons for optimism. The quest to understand the phenomena of earthquakes gives us work that continues to excite and challenge us, and keeps us engaged in fundamental problems. Through the SCEC collaboration we not only find many ways to collaborate, but also connect with each other on multiple fronts, and the results of our work can impact people and society in positive ways. SCEC emerges at the end of 2020 stronger, despite the lingering COVID-19 pandemic that has affected everyone, and the prospects for 2021 are promising.
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In the trenches—Paleoseismic studies of the 2019 Ridgecrest ruptures
Amid the pandemic lockdown fatigue and media frenzy surrounding the presidential election in November, field work was a most welcome distraction. Socially distancing and soaking in the balmy Mojave Desert air, we reconnected through our work—trenching along the surface ruptures caused by the M6.4 and M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquakes that occurred July, 2019. Funded by SCEC, our team from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology at the University of Nevada Reno (Rich Koehler), Arizona State University (Ramon Arrowsmith), and early career researchers (Alana Williams and Ian Pierce) set out to gather evidence on the timing and recurrent behavior of the faults that caused the Ridgecrest earthquakes.
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How predictable are earthquakes? A new software toolkit helps earthquake forecasters decide
Seismologists and statisticians no longer argue about whether earthquakes are predictable in principle – but how predictable they are. The Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) is an international effort to provide the cyberinfrastructure for conducting prospective and retrospective forecasting experiments in natural laboratories around the world, including California, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand. CSEP presents a community-endorsed framework for unbiased assessments of earthquake forecast models. PyCSEP, a new software toolkit, allows earthquake forecasting experts to evaluate their models.
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SCEC Workshop on Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip
Our SCEC group advances computational methods for simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) by conducting a suite of code verification exercises. The online workshop on October 30, 2020 brought together 54 scientists from the U.S., England, Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Germany, Brazil, New Zealand, and Switzerland. Almost half the participants were graduate students and postdocs. The purpose of the workshop was to review results from the latest benchmark problems (BP3-QD and BP5-QD) and plan future research targets and SEAS activities that would continue to advance earthquake models with more robust physical features.
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Remote teaching collaboration on mapping active faults for probabilistic fault displacement hazard
For the Fall 2020 semester, Arizona State University and the University of Nevada-Reno jointly offered a new remote course on "Mapping tectonic faults from geomorphology". Ten undergrad and graduate students from both universities enrolled to learn professional fault zone mapping techniques from research geologists and industry professionals. The students produced relatively unbiased maps at a high-quality standard using topographic and imagery data, and learned how such maps could be applied to probabilistic fault displacement hazard analysis. A new website was built to support the fully virtual activity.
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Rocket Rules: Earthquake Materials for Children
Since 2017, SCEC and the Hero and You Foundation have been working together to create earthquake education and preparedness resources for young children ages 5-9. These resources now include an animated video about earthqaukes, preparedness and safety; the 36-page Rocket's Earthquake Safety Adventure book, ShakeOut school activities and contests, and a new 16-page earthquake activity book. These materials are now available for free download at RocketRules.org/earthquake.
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| January 22, 2021: |
USGS Workshop: National Seismic Hazard Model Project (NSHMP) 2023 50-State NSHM Update Kickoff Meeting
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| February 2, 2021: |
SSA Session: Virtual Seismic Tomography
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| February 2-4, 2021: |
USGS Workshop: 2021 Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop (agenda)
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| February 23, 2021: |
USGS Workshop: Recurrence Models for Earthquakes on the Cascadia Subduction Zone
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| March 2, 2021: |
SSA Session: Virtual Seismic Tomography
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| March 23-25, 2021: |
2021 EERI Virtual Annual Meeting
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| April 6, 2021: |
SSA Session: Virtual Seismic Tomography
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| April 19-23, 2021: |
SSA Annual Meeting
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| April 19-30, 2021: |
EGU General Assembly 2021
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| May 12-14, 2021: |
GSA 2021 Cordilleran Section Meeting
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| June 27 - July 1, 2021: |
Penrose Conference: The Geologic Fingerprints of Slow Earthquakes
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| September 12-15, 2021: |
2021 SCEC Annual Meeting |
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