Southern California Earthquake Center

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The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), headquartered at the University of Southern California, was founded in 1991 with a mission to:

• gather new information about earthquakes in Southern California;
• integrate this information into a comprehensive and predictive understanding of earthquake phenomena; and
• communicate this understanding to end-users and the general public in order to increase earthquake awareness, reduce economic losses, and save lives.

An outstanding community of over 600 scientists from 16 Core Institutions, 40 Participating Institutions, and elsewhere participate in SCEC (see list). SCEC also partners with a large number of other research and education/outreach organizations in many disciplines. Funding for SCEC activities is provided by the National Science Foundation and the United States Geological Survey.

To support this community, SCEC engages in information technology research that will revolutionize our methods of doing collaborative research and distributing research products on-line. In addition, the SCEC Communication, Education, and Outreach Program offers student research experiences, web-based education tools, classroom curricula, museum displays, public information brochures, online newsletters, and technical workshops and publications.

[edit] External links

• http://www.scec.org/ Official SCEC site
• http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs.html Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada