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SCEC Highlights and News

Archive of SCEC highlights and news articles that may be of interest to the SCEC community.

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10/11/2022
Tie rods aren’t just a pretty facade. Here’s how they help earthquake proof Charleston
Some brick buildings weathered the devastating 1886 Charleston earthquake. Their secret was an ingenious structural elem...
Temblor
10/10/2022
AI Predicts Physics of Future Fault Slip in Laboratory Earthquakes
The technique applies AI to the fault’s acoustic signals, advances previous work and goes beyond by predicting aspects...
HPCWire
10/10/2022
DesignSafe Award-Winning Dataset to Enable Better Tsunami Modeling
DesignSafe offers dataset sharing, data analysis tools, HPC access portals and more to support researchers working to un...
HPCWire
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‐...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Phys.org
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 ...
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...
Temblor