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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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11/29/2023
Large Earthquakes Can Be Heralded by Early Warning Signs, Say Seismologists
Scientists discovered that unique seismic signals were detectable around eight months before the devastating 7.8 magnitu...
Newsweek
11/29/2023
Laser scans reveal ‘hidden’ active faults in Yellowstone
A series of “hidden” geological hazards has been uncovered in the northern reaches of Yellowstone National Park, inc...
NBC News
11/28/2023
Analyses of the M 7.8 Türkiye earthquake from February 2023
The latest analyses of data from the region since 2014 show signs of precursor phenomena in the form of spatially and te...
EurekAlert
11/20/2023
EQSIM and RAJA: Enabling Exascale Predictions of Earthquake Effects on Critical Infrastructure
High-performance computing (HPC) has enabled scientists to use geophysical and seismographic data from past events to si...
insideHPC
11/17/2023
Earthquakes Today Could Be Echoes of Powerful Quakes Centuries Ago
North America may still be trembling with the aftershocks of two major earthquakes that struck the continent more than a...
ScienceAlert
11/09/2023
Global warming–induced sea level changes could increase earthquake risk
New research, published in Quaternary Science Reviews, has explored the possibility of the earthquakes being triggered b...
Phys
11/07/2023
New dates for landslides reveal past Seattle fault earthquakes
New maps of more than 1,000 deep-seated landslides in the Puget Lowlands of Washington State provide evidence of the las...
ScienceDaily
11/07/2023
Dual hydration of oceanic lithosphere
These new results evaluate dual hydration of oceanic lithosphere, and provide important reference for global sea level c...
EurekAlert
11/06/2023
New SCEC Science Plan Announced
The 2024 Science Plan is here! We welcome all proposals that can contribute to SCEC's science goals in general, along wi...
11/01/2023
Southern California Earthquake Center awarded $6.1 million
The USC-based Southern California Earthquake Center is expanding its reach to cover the entire state of California after...
Daily Trojan