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 Department of Energy (DOE) computing facilities for the "Quantification of Uncertainty...
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How you protect yourself when an earthquake hits might be all wrong
Your well-rehearsed earthquake response plan could be all wrong. Sure, you might know “drop, cover and hold on” by heart. But earthquake safety experts are revising their graphics for what...
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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 experience — and do real research, too. Working on small teams, they were immersed...
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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 says. “Like Tokyo, Los Angeles is situated in a vast sedimentary basin, which shakes...
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ShakeAlert—Earthquake Early Warning. How Does It Work?
ShakeAlert (www.shakealert.org) is an experimental earthquake early warning system that can give vital time to get to safety after an earthquake occurs. This animation demonstrates how ShakeAlert...
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Recent Publications

A preliminary statistical model for hydraulic fracture-induced seismicity in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin Atkinson, G. M., & Ghofrani, H.
Plate Boundary Observatory and related networks: GPS data analysis methods and geodetic products Phillips, D. A., Puskas, C., Santillan, M., Wang, L., King, R. W., Szeliga, W. M., Melbourne, T., Murray, M., Floyd, M., & Herring, T. A.
Identifying potentially induced seismicity and assessing statistical significance in Oklahoma and California McClure, M., Riley, G., Kitkwan, C., & Ranganath, R.
Estimating correlations of neighboring frequencies in ambient seismic noise Liu, X., & Ben-Zion, Y.
Focal spot imaging based on zero lag cross correlation amplitude fields: Application to dense array data at the San Jacinto fault zone Hillers, G., Roux, P., Campillo, M., & Ben-Zion, Y.

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In The News

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...
Creep on the Hayward Fault
California’s Hayward Fault is considered one of the most dangerous seismological zones in the United States. It runs...
First US Exascale Supercomputer Now On Track for 2021
The US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has changed its timeline for getting the first post-...
M6.5 Earthquake stresses offshore San Andreas Fault (AKA Mendocino Fault Zone)
A M=6.5 earthquake rattled the northern California coast on Thursday morning, swaying buildings in Humboldt County and...
Laboratory Sharing to Improve Rock Deformation Research
An ever-growing group of scientists seeks to integrate rock deformation labs from across the United States into one...

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Recent Earthquakes

Earthquakes can happen at any time! See recent earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater in California and Nevada: