SCEC Award Number 11095 View PDF
Proposal Category Workshop Proposal
Proposal Title Emerging Science from the El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake and Lessons for Future Earthquake Response
Investigator(s)
Name Organization
Michael Oskin University of California, Davis Tom Rockwell San Diego State University Ramon Arrowsmith Arizona State University Yuri Fialko University of California, San Diego Elizabeth Cochran University of California, Riverside Chris Crosby University of California, San Diego
Other Participants
SCEC Priorities A, B, D SCEC Groups Geodesy, Seismology, Geology
Report Due Date 02/29/2012 Date Report Submitted N/A
Project Abstract
 This workshop was followed up by the 2014 earthquake response workshop. The lessons from the 2010 El Mayor earthquake and 2014 South Napa earthquake both figured prominently in the development of a SCEC earthquake response strategy. Please refer to the comprehensive report submitted for the 2014 workshop.
Intellectual Merit Rapid scientific response to strong (M≥6), damaging earthquakes, especially in southern California, is central to the mission of SCEC. Each such event presents valuable opportunities to improve physics-based understanding of earthquake phenomena. Response efforts mobilize the core earth-science disciplines of SCEC--seismology, geodesy, and geology--to gather and preserve ephemeral earthquake data. These efforts must occur as quickly as possible, while aftershocks, transient motions, and surface rupture are strongest and best expressed. Thus earthquake response demands experimental design in real time, with information shared freely and efficiently between disciplines, and guided by hypotheses from the cutting edge of earthquake science.
SCEC serves three roles that guide a more effective rapid scientific response to earthquakes: (1) Intellectual leadership spanning the breadth of earthquake system science. (2) Coordination of the response of the earthquake science community. (3) Communication of knowledge to the world at large.
Broader Impacts Rapid scientific response to strong (M≥6), damaging earthquakes, especially in southern California, is central to the mission of SCEC.
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