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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High-Performance Computing Innovates Seismic Hazard Research
The SCEC Community Modeling Environment (SCEC/CME) Collaboration performs basic seismic hazard research using high-performance computing technologies. For over a decade, SCEC's Community Modeling...
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Recent Publications

Interpolation of 2-D vector data using constraints from elasticity Sandwell, D. T., & Wessel, P.
Structure of the Los Angeles Basin from ambient noise and receiver functions Clayton, R. W., & Ma, Y.
Validation of Duration Parameters from SCEC Broadband Platform Simulated Ground Motions Afshari, K., & Stewart, J. P.
The New Zealand Active Faults Database Langridge, R. M., Ries, W. F., Litchfield, N. J., Villanor, P., Van Dissen, R. J., Barrell, D. A., Rattenbury, M. S., Heron, D. W., Haubrock, S., Townsend, D., Lee, J. M., Berryman, K. R., Nicol, A., Cox, S. C., & Stirling, M. W.
Statistical estimation of the duration of aftershock sequences Harte, D. S., Rhoades, D. A., Christophersen, A., & Hainzl, S.

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In The News

Is the 'big one' about to hit Rome? Series of tremors and volcano's reawakening prompt fears of major quake
A series of earthquakes which struck central Italy in the past two months has sparked fears that the country's capital...
#GTC16DC: Earthquake Simulations at Extreme Scale
The highly nonlinear, multiscale dynamics of large earthquakes is a difficult physics problem that challenges HPC...
Super accurate computing wastes tons of energy
Sacrificing a tiny bit of accuracy to run computer models, like those used to create weather forecasts, could save...
Two Faults 'Holding Hands' Could Trigger Big Earthquakes in California
Two faults in the San Francisco Bay Area are "holding hands" and could trigger a devastating earthquake, a new...
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...

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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: