Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes in the past. A USC geophysicist explains.
A USC Dornsife-led study found that faults that appear simple can produce surprisingly complex quakes.
Underground heat and sediment patterns control how earthquakes behave along one of the most dangerous faults in the eastern Mediterranean.
Researchers at the USC-based Statewide California Earthquake Center say powerful, fast-moving quakes could strike the Golden State. They urge stronger building codes and better monitoring.
New laboratory earthquake model links real contact area to earthquake dynamics, opening a new pathway for earthquake prediction and early warning systems.
The exercise — the largest emergency preparedness drill in the country — has its roots at the USC-based Statewide California Earthquake Center.
USC and SCEC experts are available for interviews on earthquakes, in topics ranging from the physics underlying Earth movements to the financial fallout from natural disasters.
USC Dornsife’s Sylvain Barbot discusses why his new study forces researchers to rethink the fundamental basis of the fault mechanics used in forecasting the seismic activity of earthquakes.
The USC-based Statewide California Earthquake Center developed CyberShake, a computational platform that simulates hundreds of thousands of earthquakes to calculate regional seismic hazard models.
Researchers at the USC-based Statewide California Earthquake Center contributed models that forecast earthquake ruptures for the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Seismic Hazard Model.
