SCEC Highlights and News
Archive of SCEC highlights and news articles that may be of interest to the SCEC community.
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02/14/2017
Santa Monica Seeks to Pass the Nation's Most Extensive Earthquake Retrofit Plan
Santa Monica’s safety rules would go beyond what Los Angeles has done by requiring not only wood apartments and concre...
Santa Monica’s safety rules would go beyond what Los Angeles has done by requiring not only wood apartments and concre...
02/08/2017
Integrating Topographic Imaging into Geoscience Field Courses
Fieldwork is a fundamental part of the geosciences, and there is a longstanding tradition of teaching field methods as p...
Fieldwork is a fundamental part of the geosciences, and there is a longstanding tradition of teaching field methods as p...
AGU EOS
02/08/2017
When Strike-Slip Faults Bend
Strike-slip faults often seem like the least complex faults out of the bunch compared to thrust and normal faults, but i...
Strike-slip faults often seem like the least complex faults out of the bunch compared to thrust and normal faults, but i...
AGU EOS
01/31/2017
Advancing Earthquake System Science: A New Phase of Research Begins
For more than 25 years, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) has advanced earthquake system science thr...
For more than 25 years, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) has advanced earthquake system science thr...
Jason Ballmann
01/16/2017
What's Keeping Those Freeway Interchanges Up In An Earthquake?
Nearly 23 years ago, on January 17, the Northridge earthquake gave Los Angeles its last good rattle. The magnitude 6.7 q...
Nearly 23 years ago, on January 17, the Northridge earthquake gave Los Angeles its last good rattle. The magnitude 6.7 q...
LAist
01/16/2017
Application Portal for 2017 SCEC Internship Programs Opens
SCEC offers two internship programs for college undergraduate students: 1) SCEC/SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Expe...
SCEC offers two internship programs for college undergraduate students: 1) SCEC/SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Expe...
Jason Ballmann
01/11/2017
Get to Know SCEC, Our Science and Community
What's SCEC? What is "earthquake system science"? In February 1st, the SCEC community will continue and lead the next ph...
What's SCEC? What is "earthquake system science"? In February 1st, the SCEC community will continue and lead the next ph...
12/30/2016
Creep on the Hayward Fault
California’s Hayward Fault is considered one of the most dangerous seismological zones in the United States. It runs t...
California’s Hayward Fault is considered one of the most dangerous seismological zones in the United States. It runs t...
The New Yorker
12/28/2016
Three magnitude 5.5 to 5.7 quakes strike near Hawthorne, Nev.
(Updated, 12:45 PM, 12/28/2016) Three magnitude 5.5 to 5.7 quakes strike near Hawthorne, Nev., aftershocks in the m...
(Updated, 12:45 PM, 12/28/2016) Three magnitude 5.5 to 5.7 quakes strike near Hawthorne, Nev., aftershocks in the m...
Nevada Seismological Laboratory
12/15/2016
SCEC Awarded 141 Million Supercomputing Hours By DOE's INCITE Program
The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) has been awarded 141,000,000 supercomputer processor-hours at Departmen...
The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) has been awarded 141,000,000 supercomputer processor-hours at Departmen...
Christine Goulet, Jason Ballmann
