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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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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
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...
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...
NPR
09/19/2022
Watch Taiwan’s 660-Ton Skyscraper ‘Damper’ Swing During Magnitude-6.9 Earthquake
Onlookers had a chance to actually watch the damper at work during the recent earthquake as it counteracted the tremors ...
Vice
09/18/2022
Strong Taiwan earthquake traps people and derails a train
A strong earthquake shook much of Taiwan on Sunday, toppling a three-story building and temporarily trapping four people...
NPR
09/15/2022
Cracking the Secrets to Earthquake Safety, One Shake Simulation at a Time
A new experimental capability, designed to replicate realistic earthquakes in the laboratory, paired with the world’s ...
Berkeley Lab News
09/11/2022
Massive 7.6 earthquake rocks Papua New Guinea
The quake struck at a depth of 90 kilometers (roughly 56 miles) near Kainantu, a town with a population of roughly 8,500...
CNN
09/09/2022
Global Seismic Networks: Recording the Heartbeat of the Earth
Global broadband seismographic networks have provided the science community with 30 years of data which is being used to...
EOS
09/07/2022
New Kiwi Research Uncovers Important Gap In Knowledge About Early Earthquake Warning
While scientists have made huge technological progress on earthquake early warning (EEW) systems worldwide, most neglect...
Scoop
09/07/2022
Inside the Gordon Bell Prize Finalist Projects
One of the finalists is the Extreme Scale Earthquake Simulation with Uncertainty Quantification team, which used the sec...
HPCWire