SCEC Highlights and News
Archive of SCEC highlights and news articles that may be of interest to the SCEC community.
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08/07/2020
Multiscale variations of the crustal stress field throughout North America
The Earth’s crustal stress field controls active deformation and reflects the processes driving plate tectonics. Here ...
The Earth’s crustal stress field controls active deformation and reflects the processes driving plate tectonics. Here ...
Nature
08/07/2020
Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures
Human activity causes vibrations that propagate into the ground as high-frequency seismic waves. Measures to mitigate th...
Human activity causes vibrations that propagate into the ground as high-frequency seismic waves. Measures to mitigate th...
Science
08/07/2020
Former LA Councilman Hal Bernson, Known for Earthquake Policy, Dies at 89
... the landmark work he did in getting Los Angeles ready for earthquakes -- long before the 1994 Northridge temblor mad...
... the landmark work he did in getting Los Angeles ready for earthquakes -- long before the 1994 Northridge temblor mad...
NBC Los Angeles
08/07/2020
Ridgecrest earthquakes could cause a San Andreas chain reaction
The 2019 magnitude-6.4 and magnitude-7.1 Ridgecrest earthquakes were largely unforeseen. They struck on faults that had ...
The 2019 magnitude-6.4 and magnitude-7.1 Ridgecrest earthquakes were largely unforeseen. They struck on faults that had ...
Temblor
07/08/2020
New pathways and large-scale community partnerships awards expand Frontera’s research impact
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Earthquake Modeling, Ground Motion, and Hazard Simulations, with Christine ...
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Earthquake Modeling, Ground Motion, and Hazard Simulations, with Christine ...
TACC
07/03/2020
July 2020: Ridgecrest Earthquake First Anniversary
Highlights from geology, geodesy, seismology, geotechnical and forecasting studies associated with the 2019 Ridgecrest e...
Highlights from geology, geodesy, seismology, geotechnical and forecasting studies associated with the 2019 Ridgecrest e...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence occurred on two orthogonal faults, rupturing the surface in a complex pattern th...
