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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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10/11/2020
SCEC2020: A new platform for science collaboration
The annual meeting is critical to SCEC’s mission. But the year is 2020. Travel is restricted, and everyone is socially...
10/06/2020
Know your faults — SCEC CFM fault association notifications
SCEC collaborators from Harvard and Caltech have developed a new, statistical way to rapidly identify the most like...
07/02/2020
How the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence unfolded
  In July 2019 southern California was shaken by the largest quake to occur in the past twenty years, a M7.1 ear...
07/02/2020
Operational aftershock forecasting during the Ridgecrest sequence
The 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence was the first significant ‘real-world’ application of the Third Uniform Cali...
07/02/2020
Lessons from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes: a geodetic perspective
The 2019 M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake was the third major earthquake to occur in the Eastern California Shear Zone since t...
07/02/2020
Imaging the Ridgecrest earthquake ruptures from drones to space
The 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence occurred on two orthogonal faults, rupturing the surface in a complex pattern th...
07/02/2020
Damage to fragile geological features from the 2019 M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake
Figure 1. (Left) Location of the Trona Pinnacles relative to the southeastern end of the  ...
07/01/2020
From the Director: The Ridgecrest earthquake sequence — one year later
  Dear SCEC Community,   Surface rupture from the July 5, 2019 M7.1 earthq...
07/01/2020
Earthquake geology and the Ridgecrest earthquake
Most SCEC scientists were preparing for 4th of July celebrations when the M6.4 Ridgecrest earthquake occurred. Numerous ...
06/01/2020
A dense temporary seismic deployment across the Southern San Andreas Fault
Researchers from several SCEC institutions supported a NSF funded UCSD/USC joint project to understand more about this r...