SCEC Highlights and News
Archive of SCEC highlights and news articles that may be of interest to the SCEC community.
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11/18/2015
SCEC Improves Understanding of Earthquake Hazards with Supercomputers, Achieves Societal Impacts
Decision-makers from various sectors now have better knowledge to assess and mitigate earthquake risk owing to hig...
Decision-makers from various sectors now have better knowledge to assess and mitigate earthquake risk owing to hig...
11/16/2015
Keynote Speaker Alan Alda Opens SC15
Alan Alda, founder of the the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stonybrook University, gives the keynote pre...
Alan Alda, founder of the the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stonybrook University, gives the keynote pre...
SC15
11/13/2015
SC15: Invited Talk by Thomas H. Jordan, "Societal Impact of Earthquake Simulations at Extreme Scale"
The highly nonlinear, multiscale dynamics of large earthquakes is a wicked physics problem that challenges HPC systems a...
The highly nonlinear, multiscale dynamics of large earthquakes is a wicked physics problem that challenges HPC systems a...
SC15
11/11/2015
OLCF Supercomputer’s GPUs Advance Earthquake Simulations for High-Frequency Seismic Hazard Map
“Titan gives us the ability to submit jobs onto many GPU-accelerated nodes at once,” Jordan said. “There’s nothi...
“Titan gives us the ability to submit jobs onto many GPU-accelerated nodes at once,” Jordan said. “There’s nothi...
OLCF
11/10/2015
Prelude to the Big One?
There was an era in earth science more than thirty years ago, when earthquake prediction was at the top of the seismolog...
There was an era in earth science more than thirty years ago, when earthquake prediction was at the top of the seismolog...
UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
11/06/2015
Aid Groups Warn of Crisis in Earthquake-Hit Nepal
There is no sign of the government-promised new houses that were to shelter millions of victims of Nepal's devastating s...
There is no sign of the government-promised new houses that were to shelter millions of victims of Nepal's devastating s...
AP
10/28/2015
IRIS Teachable Moment: Magnitude 7.5 Afghanistan
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurred in the Hindu Kush mountains, in the sparsely populated province of Badakhshan, Afgha...
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurred in the Hindu Kush mountains, in the sparsely populated province of Badakhshan, Afgha...
IRIS
10/28/2015
Earthquake Safety Drills Held in California, Elsewhere
People dove under desks and tables Thursday in earthquake-prone California and elsewhere to practice the "drop, cover, a...
People dove under desks and tables Thursday in earthquake-prone California and elsewhere to practice the "drop, cover, a...
Associated Press
10/28/2015
Expert Debunks Myths About What to Do During an Earthquake
Every year tens of millions of people take part in a massive earthquake drill called the Great ShakeOut, which teaches p...
Every year tens of millions of people take part in a massive earthquake drill called the Great ShakeOut, which teaches p...
AOL News
10/28/2015
USC Hosts Great ShakeOut Preparedness Drill
We may think we know what to do when an earthquake hits, but a lot of people still do the wrong thing. CBS2's Jasmine Vi...
We may think we know what to do when an earthquake hits, but a lot of people still do the wrong thing. CBS2's Jasmine Vi...
CBS Local
