SCEC Newsletter
Recent Issues: December 2023 | September 2023 | December 2022 | July 2022 | October 2021 | June 2021 | March 2021
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From the Directors: A New Dawn, By Yehuda Ben-Zion and Greg Beroza |
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SCEC Pre-AGU Bay Area Field Trip, by Timothy Dawson |
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SCEC Internship Programs Open for Summer 2024 Applications, by Gabriela Noriega. |
Special Issue: Ridgecrest 1-Year Anniversary
Research Highlights
Mike Floyd: State of the Community Geodetic Model (more presentations)
The Community Geodetic Model (CGM) provides displacement time series and velocities of the Earth’s surface over southern California.
The Community Stress Drop Validation technical activity group is focused on resolving discrepancies in earthquake stress drop.
The Community Rheology Model (CRM) provides a three-dimensional description of the ductile rheology of southern California’s lithosphere.
Recent Publications
Uncertainty in distinct element modeling of freestanding structures considering stiffness parameters Saifullah, M., & Wittich, C.
Hematite frictional behavior and He loss from comminution during deformation experiments at slow slip rates DiMonte, A. A., Ault, A. K., Hirth, G., & Meyers, C.
Little Ice Age flood events recorded in sag pond sediments in the Carrizo Plains National Monument, CA. Kirby, M. E., Hippard, S. K., Martinez, L. N., Serrato, D., Carlin, J., Bonuso, N., Akciz, S. O., & Novich, C.
The USGS 2023 Conterminous U.S. Time‐Independent Earthquake Rupture Forecast Field, E. H., Milner, K. R., Hatem, A., Powers, P. M., Pollitz, F. F., Llenos, A. L., Zeng, Y., Johnson, K. M., Shaw, B. E., McPhillips, D., Thompson, J., Shumway, A. M., Michael, A. J., Shen, Z., Evans, E. L., Hearn, E. H., Mueller, C. S., Frankel, A., Petersen, M. D., DuRoss, C. B., Briggs, R., Page, M. T., Rubinstein, J. L., & Herrick, J.
The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview and implications Petersen, M. D., Shumway, A. M., Powers, P. M., Field, E. H., Moschetti, M. P., Jaiswal, K. S., Milner, K. R., Rezaeian, S., Frankel, A., Llenos, A. L., Michael, A. J., Altekruse, J., Ahdi, S. K., Withers, K. B., Mueller, C. S., Zeng, Y., Chase, R., Salditch, L., Luco, N., Rukstales, K. S., Herrick, J. A., Girot, D. L., Aagaard, B. T., Bender, A. M., Blanpied, M. L., Briggs, R., Boyd, O. S., Clayton, B. S., DuRoss, C. B., Evans, E. L., Haeussler, P., Hatem, A., Haynie, K. L., Hearn, E. H., Johnson, K. M., Kortum, Z. A., Kwong, N. S., Makdisi, A. J., Mason, B., McNamara, D., McPhillips, D., Okubo, P., Page, M. T., Pollitz, F. F., Rubinstein, J. L., Shaw, B. E., Shen, Z., Shiro, B., Smith, J. A., Stephenson, W. J., Thompson, E. M., Thompson Jobe, J. A., Wirth, E., & Witter, R. C.
Science Workshops
California Community Models for Seismic Hazard Assessments Workshop, March 4-5, 2024
2024 SCEC Stress Drop Workshop, Jan 22, 2024
SCEC 2023 High-Performance Seismology (HPS) CyberTraining, May 9-12, 2023
SCEC Community Rheology Model (CRM) Workshop, February 27, 2023
2023 Stress Drop Validation TAG Workshop, January 26, 2023
Elisa Tinti: Brune Stress Drop vs. Finite Fault Stress Drop Estimates (more presentations)
Dynamic Rupture TAG 2023 Workshop – Investigating New Ideas in Earthquake Source Mechanics, January 12, 2023
Multiple Presenters: 2023 Dynamic Rupture Workshop Lightning Talks (more presentations)
SCEC Workshop on Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip, November 18, 2022
SCEC CFM5.3 Evaluation Workshop, April 7, 2022
SCEC Workshop on Coordinating Post-Earthquake Field Data Collection, January 12 & 14, 2022
Education Programs
Supported Opportunities for Undergraduates and Researchers to Collaborate on Earthquake Science (SOURCES) offers a remotely-mentored research experience to college students nationwide.
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) pairs a student, one-on-one, to conduct research with a pre-eminent earthquake scientist or specialist.
Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (UseIT) internship is a team-based undergraduate research program.
SCEC Transitions Program provides students and early-career scientists with resources and mentoring at major transitions in their educational and professional careers.
Recent Earthquakes
Earthquake Preparedness
Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety
A step-by-step guide for staying safe before, during, and after an earthquake.
Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills
SCEC is the global coordinator for the world’s largest earthquake drill, when millions of people practice self-protection and other aspects of their emergency plans.
Earthquakes in the News
The core the seismologists pull out of the ground doesn’t just reveal the recent geological history of the marsh in the...
Thanks to a grant funded by the National Science Foundation, in January 2024, Chelsea Mackaman led a group of students...
Surface mapping technology such as GPS, radar and laser scanning have long been used to measure features on the Earth’s...
The Pacific Northwest is at risk for a mega-earthquake because of the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Fault lines are, of course, often the starting points for earthquakes. The San Andreas fault—which runs more than 800...
A major earthquake 2,500 years ago caused one of the largest rivers on Earth to abruptly change course, according to a...
A silent colossus lurks off the Pacific coast, threatening hundreds of miles of coastline with tsunamis and devastating...
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced a new update to its earthquake alert app that aims to give advance...
By taking a close look at the geometrical makeup of rocks where earthquakes originate, researchers at Brown University...
California's earthquake early-warning system is getting seismic upgrade, one that will allow residents to recieve more...
