SCEC Highlights and News
Archive of SCEC highlights and news articles that may be of interest to the SCEC community.
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06/09/2022
The Big Data Revolution Unlocks New Opportunities for Seismology
The field of seismology is entering a new era where our understanding of earthquakes and the solid earth is increasingly...
The field of seismology is entering a new era where our understanding of earthquakes and the solid earth is increasingly...
EOS
06/07/2022
UMass Amherst awared NSF grant to expand its unity computer cluster
Increased data processing power will allow for computationally heavy research in climate, energy, medicine, materials sc...
Increased data processing power will allow for computationally heavy research in climate, energy, medicine, materials sc...
UMass Amherst News
06/07/2022
The Kinetics of the Seismic Cycle
Large earthquakes are necessarily punctuated by some degree of strength recovery, such as “fault healing”, but does ...
Large earthquakes are necessarily punctuated by some degree of strength recovery, such as “fault healing”, but does ...
EOS
06/06/2022
Lab Earthquakes Show How Grains at Fault Boundaries Lead to Major Quakes
New research by Caltech scientists and engineers shows the influence of rock gouge in fault planes on earthquake magnitu...
New research by Caltech scientists and engineers shows the influence of rock gouge in fault planes on earthquake magnitu...
Caltech News
06/03/2022
The link between temperature, dehydration and tectonic tremors in Alaska
Slow earthquakes can be characterized by dehydration in the tectonic plates. This pattern has yet only been seen in Japa...
Slow earthquakes can be characterized by dehydration in the tectonic plates. This pattern has yet only been seen in Japa...
06/03/2022
Flash in the Pan: USU Geologists Publish New Approach to Tracking Ancient Earthquakes
Researchers are using zircons to determine temperature of fault zones, which can help them track paleoearthquakes. ...
Researchers are using zircons to determine temperature of fault zones, which can help them track paleoearthquakes. ...
Utah State University News
05/31/2022
SDSU Study Reveals History of Lake Cahuilla
The Lake Cahuilla bed, now home to the Salton Sea, is important to sequencing paleoearthquakes on the San Andreas fault ...
The Lake Cahuilla bed, now home to the Salton Sea, is important to sequencing paleoearthquakes on the San Andreas fault ...
SDSU News
05/24/2022
First high-resolution subsurface images of faults in the Imperial Valley
The Imperial Fault in California is mapped through shallow seismic imaging. The results show age constraints for deforma...
The Imperial Fault in California is mapped through shallow seismic imaging. The results show age constraints for deforma...
Temblor
05/24/2022
Earthquake researchers hope artificial intelligence could lead to prediction breakthrough
Using machine learning, scientists have devised a warning system for slow-slip earthquakes. ...
Using machine learning, scientists have devised a warning system for slow-slip earthquakes. ...
KTLA
05/17/2022
Drilling into a fault to capture 3D earthquake behavior
To know what happens to a fault during an earthquake, we need to have our eyes on it. A new drilling project gets instru...
To know what happens to a fault during an earthquake, we need to have our eyes on it. A new drilling project gets instru...
Temblor
