SCEC Highlights and News
Archive of SCEC highlights and news articles that may be of interest to the SCEC community.
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07/05/2016
Impending earthquakes beneath Katmandu and the Himalayan front after the 25 April 2015 M=7.8 Nepal mainshock
When a major earthquake strikes, the resulting devastation can be compounded or even exceeded by the subsequent cascade ...
When a major earthquake strikes, the resulting devastation can be compounded or even exceeded by the subsequent cascade ...
USGS
07/05/2016
Six-Story Steel Frame Building Undergoes Seismic Testing on World’s Largest Outdoor Shake Table
A team of engineers is testing a six-story, lightweight steel-frame building on the world’s largest outdoor seismic sh...
A team of engineers is testing a six-story, lightweight steel-frame building on the world’s largest outdoor seismic sh...
UC San Diego
07/05/2016
Lack of preparation for massive earthquake could bring catastrophe, report says
Southern California’s smaller cities and large businesses must take the threat of a crippling earthquake far more...
Southern California’s smaller cities and large businesses must take the threat of a crippling earthquake far more...
LA Times
07/05/2016
Meet the Pacific Rim’s Disaster Patrol: Tracking Tremors
“SCEC is piloting the development of earthquake forecasting, not only in California, but around the world,” Jordan s...
“SCEC is piloting the development of earthquake forecasting, not only in California, but around the world,” Jordan s...
Trojan Family Magazine
07/05/2016
‘Geologic Detective’ Unearths L.A.’s Seismic Secrets
Beneath Los Angeles rise peaks of staggering height—an unnamed mountain range standing nearly 2 miles tall. Though the...
Beneath Los Angeles rise peaks of staggering height—an unnamed mountain range standing nearly 2 miles tall. Though the...
Trojan Family Magazine
06/30/2016
Deeper penetration of large earthquakes on seismically quiescent faults
Certain strike-slip faults do not have the expected number of microearthquakes between larger earthquakes. Jiang and Lap...
Certain strike-slip faults do not have the expected number of microearthquakes between larger earthquakes. Jiang and Lap...
06/30/2016
The new map of the Earth's plates that means textbooks really WILL have to be rewritten
It's widely been believed that mountain formation and earthquake activity are solely the result of interactions at the b...
It's widely been believed that mountain formation and earthquake activity are solely the result of interactions at the b...
Daily Mail
06/14/2016
SCSN Report, M5.2 event near Borrego Springs
Main facts: 10 June 2016 01:04:38 PDT, (33.432, -116.443), depth 12.3km, 20km NNW of Borrego Springs, California. ...
Main facts: 10 June 2016 01:04:38 PDT, (33.432, -116.443), depth 12.3km, 20km NNW of Borrego Springs, California. ...
06/09/2016
Big Picture Science – Caught in a Traps
“Locked and loaded” is how one scientist recently described the San Andreas fault. Find out when this famous west-co...
“Locked and loaded” is how one scientist recently described the San Andreas fault. Find out when this famous west-co...
Big Picture Science
06/06/2016
IRIS Leads Reddit AMA on Earthquake Science
We are earth scientists with the IRIS Consortium (www.iris.edu) and we study earthquakes and seismology. Ask us anything...
We are earth scientists with the IRIS Consortium (www.iris.edu) and we study earthquakes and seismology. Ask us anything...
IRIS
