SCEC Highlights and News
Archive of SCEC highlights and news articles that may be of interest to the SCEC community.
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08/23/2016
M=6.2 earthquake strikes central Italy, 35 km north of the disastrous 2009 M=6.3 L’Aquila event
Today’s earthquake, 10 km southeast of Norcia, has a shallow depth of 10 km, and lies in the Central Apennines normal ...
Today’s earthquake, 10 km southeast of Norcia, has a shallow depth of 10 km, and lies in the Central Apennines normal ...
Temblor
08/17/2016
The National Strategic Computing Initiative Turns One
One year ago today, President Obama established the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) via Executive Order t...
One year ago today, President Obama established the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) via Executive Order t...
The White House
08/16/2016
Scientists Deploy Seismographs in Napa Valley
As the second anniversary of the August 24, 2014 South Napa earthquake approaches, U.S. Geological Survey scientists and...
As the second anniversary of the August 24, 2014 South Napa earthquake approaches, U.S. Geological Survey scientists and...
USGS
08/16/2016
Precursory changes in seismic velocity for the spectrum of earthquake failure modes
Temporal changes in seismic velocity during the earthquake cycle have the potential to illuminate physical processes ass...
Temporal changes in seismic velocity during the earthquake cycle have the potential to illuminate physical processes ass...
Nature
08/15/2016
College students shake things up, spending the summer simulating quakes
The Southern California Earthquake Center at USC hosts the eight-week program, in which participants get real-world expe...
The Southern California Earthquake Center at USC hosts the eight-week program, in which participants get real-world expe...
08/01/2016
Student research examines how to generate energy during earthquakes
Physics students from the University of Leicester have explored a feasible way to harness the power of earthquakes durin...
Physics students from the University of Leicester have explored a feasible way to harness the power of earthquakes durin...
Unknown
07/22/2016
Advocates Push to Restore Funding for Arizona Geological Survey
Behind-the-scenes efforts are afoot to try to restore funding to the Arizona Geological Survey after a new state law str...
Behind-the-scenes efforts are afoot to try to restore funding to the Arizona Geological Survey after a new state law str...
AGU EOS
07/22/2016
Fortnightly modulation of San Andreas tremor and low-frequency earthquakes
Earth tides modulate tremor and low-frequency earthquakes (LFEs) on faults in the vicinity of the brittle−ductile (sei...
Earth tides modulate tremor and low-frequency earthquakes (LFEs) on faults in the vicinity of the brittle−ductile (sei...
PNAS
07/22/2016
Call for Abstracts: Special Earthquake Spectra Issue on Gorkha Earthquake
EERI is developing a special issue of Earthquake Spectra on the April 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal, to be published i...
EERI is developing a special issue of Earthquake Spectra on the April 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal, to be published i...
EERI
07/07/2016
Neighborhood Unknowingly Destroys "Iconic" Earthquake Science Spot
Some scientists are mourning the loss of a curb in California. Across the bay from San Francisco, in Hayward, there once...
Some scientists are mourning the loss of a curb in California. Across the bay from San Francisco, in Hayward, there once...
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