SCEC Highlights and News
Archive of SCEC highlights and news articles that may be of interest to the SCEC community.
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12/08/2022
Coseismic Displacement of 1987 New Zealand Earthquake from Aerial Images
Differencing digital surface topography models constructed from historical aerial photographs reveal the coseismic surfa...
Differencing digital surface topography models constructed from historical aerial photographs reveal the coseismic surfa...
EOS
12/08/2022
Exascale Computing Project Details EQSIM’s Progress in Advancing Earthquake Research
Since 2017, EQSIM—one of several projects supported by the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP...
Since 2017, EQSIM—one of several projects supported by the US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP...
HPCWire
12/08/2022
Finding faults deeply stressful: First investigation of stress state below plate boundary fault of Tohoku earthquake
Evidence that a complete stress release may have contributed to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that broke records. The new d...
Evidence that a complete stress release may have contributed to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that broke records. The new d...
Science Daily
12/05/2022
Enhancing earthquake detection from orbit
GNSS data can differentiate between the largest earthquakes but are noisier than data from conventional seismometers, wh...
GNSS data can differentiate between the largest earthquakes but are noisier than data from conventional seismometers, wh...
Phys.org
12/04/2022
Simulations show how bridges are damaged during earthquakes
Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers conducted a detailed simulation of how a popular type of bridge falls during l...
Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers conducted a detailed simulation of how a popular type of bridge falls during l...
The Print
12/02/2022
Miles below the seafloor, scientists gather data on subduction stress
Scientists drilled deep below the seafloor to see how stress builds within the Nankai megathrust, a major subduction zon...
Scientists drilled deep below the seafloor to see how stress builds within the Nankai megathrust, a major subduction zon...
Temblor
12/01/2022
Engineers will severely stress 10-story tower on UCSD quake table to test the mettle of tall wood buildings
The shaking will be equivalent to the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake and could answer serious questions about the d...
The shaking will be equivalent to the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake and could answer serious questions about the d...
The San Diego Union Tribune
11/30/2022
Landslide risk remains long after an earthquake, according to satellite imagery study
Satellite observations have revealed that weak seismic ground shaking can trigger powerful landslide acceleration—even...
Satellite observations have revealed that weak seismic ground shaking can trigger powerful landslide acceleration—even...
Phys.org
11/30/2022
Earthquake lab experiments produce aftershock-like behavior
Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, and so too are the usually less-severe aftershocks that often follow a majo...
Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, and so too are the usually less-severe aftershocks that often follow a majo...
Science Daily
11/29/2022
Earthquake Movies Get the Caltech Treatment at Seismo Celebration
Pathbreaking lab marks centennial with a Hollywood-inspired panel discussion and an earthquake preparedness fair ...
Pathbreaking lab marks centennial with a Hollywood-inspired panel discussion and an earthquake preparedness fair ...
Caltech News
