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Socially distancing and soaking in the balmy Mojave... 2 Michele Cooke Receives Award for Inclusive Geoscience Teaching The International Association for Geoscience Diversity recently named Dr. Michele Cooke (UMass Amherst) as the recipient of its 2020 Inclusive Geoscience Education and Research Award.... 3 Know your faults — SCEC CFM fault association notifications SCEC collaborators from Harvard and Caltech have developed a new, statistical way to rapidly identify the most likely fault (or sets of candidate faults) in the Community Fault Model (CFM) that... 4 July 2020: Ridgecrest Earthquake First Anniversary Highlights from geology, geodesy, seismology, geotechnical and forecasting studies associated with the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. 5 1 2 3 4 5 Science Plan Working Groups Community Meetings & Events Announcements News SCEC Newsletter Recent Issues : Dec 2020 | Oct 2020 | Jun 2020 | Mar 2020 | Dec 2019 Special Issue : Ridgecrest 1-Year Anniversary How predictable are earthquakes? A new software toolkit helps earthquake forecasters decide , by William Savran, Max Werner Rocket Rules: Earthquake Materials for Children , by Mark Benthien See more articles... Research Highlights The Community Rheology Model (CRM) provides a three-dimensional description of the ductile rheology of southern California’s lithosphere. The Committee for Utilization of Ground Motions Simulations (UGMS) developed site-specific response spectral acceleration maps for the Los Angeles region. Recent Publications Toward Physics‐Based Nonergodic PSHA: A Prototype Fully Deterministic Seismic Hazard Model for Southern California Milner, K. R., Shaw, B. E., Goulet, C. A., Richards-Dinger, K. B., Callaghan, S., Jordan, T. H., Dieterich, J. H., & Field, E. H. The Lavic Lake Fault: A Long-Term Cumulative Slip Analysis via Combined Field Work and Thermal Infrared Hyperspectral Airborne Remote Sensing Witkosky, R. A., Stock, J. M., Tratt, D. M., Buckland, K. N., Adams, P. M., Johnson, P. D., Lynch, D. K., & Sousa, F. J. The generation of large earthquakes Kato, A., & Ben-Zion, Y. Surface deformation associated with fractures near the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence Xu, X., Sandwell, D. T., Ward, L. A., Milliner, C., Smith-Konter, B. R., Fang, P., & Bock, Y. Mantle flow distribution beneath the California margin Barbot, S. See all publications... Science Workshops SCEC Community Velocity Model Workshop , September 2020 Malcolm White : Seismic velocity structure in the Ridgecrest, CA region from local earthquake traveltime tomography… (more presentations) SCEC Dynamic Rupture TAG – 2020 Ingredients Workshop , October 2020 Alice Gabriel : Thermal pressurization 3D benchmark and results... (more presentations) See more workshops... Education Programs Supported Opportunities for Undergraduates and Researchers to Collaborate on Earthquake Science (SOURCES) offers a remotely-mentored research experience to college students nationwide. Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) pairs a student, one-on-one, to conduct research with a pre-eminent earthquake scientist or specialist. Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (UseIT) internship is a team-based undergraduate research program. SCEC Transitions Program provides students and early-career scientists with resources and mentoring at major transitions in their educational and professional careers. See more opportunities... Recent Earthquakes Earthquakes can happen at any time. See the USGS or SCEDC for real-time earthquake information. Earthquake Preparedness Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety A step-by-step guide for staying safe before, during, and after an earthquake. ShakeOut Earthquake Drills ShakeOut Earthquake Drills are an opporuntity to practice how to prepare to survive and recover from the next damaging earthquake. Earthquakes in the News ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning Delivery for the Pacific Northwest Starting March 11, 2021, ShakeAlert®-powered earthquake early warning alerts will be available for delivery directly to... The Disaster that Helped the Nation Prepare for Future Earthquakes: Remembering San Fernando The San Fernando earthquake struck Southern California 50 years ago, killing 64 people and costing over $500 million in... 50 years ago, the Sylmar earthquake shook L.A., and nothing’s been the same since How close Los Angeles came to what would have been — many times over— the deadliest disaster in U.S. history remains a... David Bonowitz: Essential Earthquake Design This week marks the 50th anniversary of the San Fernando earthquake. Engineers learned a lot from San Fernando,... CEA Looks Back: The 1971 San Fernando Earthquake The 1971 San Fernando earthquake, also known as the Sylmar quake injured thousands of people and caused 65 deaths in... See all articles... 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