The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Geological Survey to develop a comprehensive understanding of earthquakes in Southern California and elsewhere, and to communicate useful knowledge for reducing earthquake risk. SCEC coordinates a broad collaboration that builds across disciplines and enables a deeper understanding of system behavior than would be accessible by individual researchers or institutions working alone. At the SCEC Annual Meeting, members of the community gather to share and get updates on SCEC research projects and activities, as well as plan collaborations for the coming year.
Meeting Program. The 2015 SCEC Annual Meeting was the fourth meeting of the SCEC4 Collaboration "Tracking Earthquake Cascades." The SCEC Science Planning Committee designed the program to assess the progress towards goals set forth in the SCEC4 proposal. The meeting sessions were comprised of a series of thematic discussions to engage the community in the new efforts and initiatives of SCEC. Each theme discussion began with two plenary talks, followed by moderated discussions on each theme. The SCEC community provided input and guidance on those potential directions during the discussion sessions.
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| Saturday, September 12, 2015 | Tuesday, September 15, 2015 | ||
| 08:30 - 14:30 | Educator Workshop: Vital Signs of the Planet | 07:00 - 08:00 | Breakfast |
| 09:00 - 17:00 | SCEC Community Rheology Model Workshop | 08:00 - 10:00 | Session 4: Earthquakes — From the Lab to the Field Moderators: Judi Chester, Cliff Thurber FARockM Perspectives on Earthquake Processes from the Lab to the Field, (PDF, 4.2MB), Greg Hirth Shallow structure of the San Jacinto fault zone and detailed catalog of seismic sources based on spatially-dense array data (PDF, 7.2MB), Yehuda Ben-Zion |
| 09:00 - 17:00 | SCEC Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability Workshop | ||
| Sunday, September 13, 2015 | |||
| 08:00 - 12:00 | SCEC Collaboratory for Interseismic Simulation and Modeling Workshop | 10:30 - 12:30 | Session 5: Physics-Based Forecasting and Ground Motions Moderators: Eric Dunham, Ned Field Getting Real: The Promise and Challenges of 3D Ground-Motion Simulations, Arthur Frankel Physics-based Earthquake Forecasting: Encouraging Results from a Retrospective CSEP Evaluation of Forecasting Models during the 2010 Canterbury, New Zealand, Earthqua (PDF, 2.6MB), Max Werner |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Open Discussion: Estimating Fault Zone Properties using Space-Based Measurements | ||
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:00 - 17:00 | SCEC Community Modeling Environment Workshop | 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 17:00 | SCEC Community Stress Model Workshop | 14:00 - 16:00 | Session 6: Connecting Hazard to Risk Moderators: Jacobo Bielak, Sanaz Rezaeian From Seismic Hazard to Risk: Summary of Critical Issues and How SCEC Research Can Foster New Solutions (PDF, 1.5MB), Christine Goulet Managing Earthquake Hazards and Risks to Implement an Infrastructure Resilience Program (PDF, 5.2MB) Craig Davis |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | California Earthquake Clearinghouse: Training and Fieldwork Limited Liability Certification (Session 1) | ||
| 15:00 - 17:00 | California Earthquake Clearinghouse: Training and Fieldwork Limited Liability Certification (Session 2) | ||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Welcome Social | 16:00 - 17:30 | Poster Session |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | SCEC Distinguished Speaker Presentation Heat and weakening of faults during earthquake slip (PDF, 4.1MB), James R. Rice |
19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome Dinner | 21:00 - 22:30 | Poster Session |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Leadership Meeting: SCEC Advisory Council | Wednesday, September 16, 2015 | |
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Poster Session | 07:00 - 08:00 | Breakfast |
| Monday, September 14, 2015 | 08:00 - 10:00 | Session 7: Post-Earthquake Rapid Scientific Response Moderators: Mike Oskin, Ken Hudnut The Gorkha Mw=7.8 earthquake: an incomplete Himalayan rupture, Roger Bilham The high frequency ‘anomaly’ that saved lives: Site effects and damage patterns of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake, Domniki Asimaki |
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| 07:00 - 08:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 08:00 - 10:00 | Session 1: The State of SCEC Welcome and State of the Center (PDF, 4.2MB), Tom Jordan Agency Reports - National Science Foundation, Jim Whitcomb - U.S. Geological Survey, Bill Leith - FEMA/NEHRP (PDF, 541.6kB), Wendy Phillips - NASA, Ben Phillips Communication, Education, & Outreach, Mark Benthien SCEC Science Accomplishments, Greg Beroza |
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| 10:30 - 12:30 | Session 8: The Future of SCEC Report from the Advisory Council (PDF, 49.4kB), Gail Atkinson 2016 SCEC Science Collaboration, Greg Beroza Towards SCEC5 Priorities, Tom Jordan |
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| 12:30 | 2015 SCEC Annual Meeting Adjourns | ||
| 10:30 - 12:30 | Session 2: Special Fault Study Areas Moderators: Kate Scharer, Scott Marshall San Gorgonio Pass Special Fault Study Area (PDF, 4.4MB) Michele Cooke The Ventura Special Fault Study Area: Assessing the potential for large, multi-segment thrust fault earthquakes and their hazard implications (PDF, 12.1MB), John Shaw |
12:30 - 14:30 | Leadership Meeting: SCEC Science Planning Committee |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Leadership Meeting: SCEC Board of Directors | ||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Session 3: SCEC Community Models Moderators: Brad Aagaard, Rowena Lohman Blending data and dynamics into equilibrium for the Community Stress Model, Peter Bird The Community Geodetic Model (PDF, 20.2MB), Jessica Murray |
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| 16:00 - 17:30 | Poster Session | ||
| 19:00 - 21:00 | SCEC Honors Banquet | ||
| 21:00 - 22:30 | Poster Session | ||
Meeting Abstracts and Presentations. SCEC’s long-term goal is to understand how seismic hazards change across all time scales of scientific and societal interest, from millennia to seconds. The collaboration emphasizes the connections between information gathering by sensor networks, fieldwork, and laboratory experiments; knowledge formulation through physics-based, system-level modeling; improved understanding of seismic hazard; and actions to reduce earthquake risk and promote resilience.
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Participants. The SCEC Annual Meeting has become a premier gathering of earthquake scientists in the United States and from around the world, bringing together one of the largest collaborations in all of geoscience. Attendees were comprised of people from various organizations (including profit, non-profit, domestic, and foreign) involved in a SCEC-related research, education, and outreach activities. The following people attended in 2015:
