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SCEC Highlights and News

Archive of SCEC highlights and news articles that may be of interest to the SCEC community.

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10/17/2021
The Walker Lane: A Potential Target for SCEC Studies?
Studies outside Southern California proper can further our understanding of aspects of the earthquake process that are t...
Steven Wesnousky
10/17/2021
There is Plenty of Room in the Fault Zone!
The internal structure of fault zones in the upper continental crust exhibits considerable complexity. Mature faults con...
Ahmed Elbanna, Mohamed Abdelmeguid, Md Shumon Mia
10/17/2021
From the Directors: Rolling Forward in the Fall
SCEC NEWSLETTER In This Issue (October 2021) The Walker L...
Gregory Beroza, Yehuda Ben-Zion
10/17/2021
Q&A with 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting Presenters
The 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting (held online) was a phenomenal success with more than 80...
Mark Benthien
10/17/2021
2021 Great ShakeOut: Resources for your class, office, or home drills!
SCEC's Communication, Education, and Outreach program has coordinated Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills since 2008, in pa...
Mark Benthien, Jason Ballmann
06/23/2021
Sustainable Research Software through Open-Source Communities
A recent Eos article entitled “It’s Time to Shift Emphasis Away from Code Sharing” (Green and Thirumalai, 2019) de...
William Savran, Maximilian Werner
06/23/2021
From the Director: Summertime, and the Livin' is Busy
SCEC NEWSLETTER In This Issue (June 2021) New SCEC/USGS Community Stress Drop...
Yehuda Ben-Zion
06/22/2021
SCEC Co-Director Greg Beroza Receives Humboldt Research Award
Greg Beroza, Wayne Loel Professor of Geophysics at Stanford, and Co-Director of SCEC, has ...
Mark Benthien
06/21/2021
SCEC Broadband Platform for Ground Motion Simulation and Validation
The SCEC Broadband Platform (BBP) is a collection of open-source codes used to simulate broadband (0-20+ Hz) ground ...
Fabio Silva, Philip Maechling, Christine Goulet
06/19/2021
New SCEC/USGS Community Stress Drop Validation Study Launched
Stress is released when an earthquake occurs. This ‘stress drop’ is a key parameter for earthquake source physics, a...
Rachel Abercrombie, Annemarie Baltay