SCEC Highlights and News
Archive of SCEC highlights and news articles that may be of interest to the SCEC community.
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10/03/2022
A Grand Challenge International Infrastructure for Earthquake Science (SRL editorial by Yehuda Ben-Zion, Greg Beroza, Marco Bohnhoff, Alice‐Agnes Gabriel, and Paul Martin Mai)
Scientific communities need cutting‐edge collaborative observational facilities to test models and to enable ground‐...
Scientific communities need cutting‐edge collaborative observational facilities to test models and to enable ground‐...
10/03/2022
Earthquakes don’t occur out of nowhere (Interview with Marco Bohnhoff, regarding "A Grand Challenge International Infrastructure for Earthquake Science")
In a paper published in the journal Seismological Research Letters, a group of the world's leading earthquake researcher...
In a paper published in the journal Seismological Research Letters, a group of the world's leading earthquake researcher...
09/30/2022
SCEC2022 Poster Archive Now Open!
More than 280 posters were exhibited live from September 11-21, 2022. The online poster gallery featured the breadth of ...
More than 280 posters were exhibited live from September 11-21, 2022. The online poster gallery featured the breadth of ...
09/23/2022
Mexico earthquake partially reloads fault that ruptured in devastating 1985 shock
Though unlikely sufficient to trigger another great earthquake soon, about one-quarter of the fault surface that broke i...
Though unlikely sufficient to trigger another great earthquake soon, about one-quarter of the fault surface that broke i...
Temblor
09/23/2022
The plate boundary between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula could cause large tsunamis
The paper, recently published in Nature Communications, defines for the first time the complex geometry of this act...
The paper, recently published in Nature Communications, defines for the first time the complex geometry of this act...
Phys.org
09/22/2022
SCEC Scores Large-scale HPC Allocations
Great news on the high-performance computing (HPC) front: this summer, SCEC researchers working on large-scale seismolog...
Great news on the high-performance computing (HPC) front: this summer, SCEC researchers working on large-scale seismolog...
09/22/2022
Deepest Scientific Ocean Drilling Sheds Light on Japan’s Next Great Earthquake
Scientists who drilled deeper into an undersea earthquake fault than ever before have found that the tectonic stress in ...
Scientists who drilled deeper into an undersea earthquake fault than ever before have found that the tectonic stress in ...
UT Austin News
09/22/2022
Rodgers Creek Fault shakes Bay Area, not for the first time
On Tuesday, the Bay Area was reminded once again that the faults that dissect the region are active. Local streams recor...
On Tuesday, the Bay Area was reminded once again that the faults that dissect the region are active. Local streams recor...
Temblor
09/20/2022
Written in Stone: Inca Buildings Remember Ancient Earthquakes
Damage to the Inca buildings of Cusco reveals a forgotten earthquake history that could help scientists understand moder...
Damage to the Inca buildings of Cusco reveals a forgotten earthquake history that could help scientists understand moder...
EOS
09/19/2022
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake shakes Mexico on the anniversary of two previous quakes
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a...
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a...
NPR
