Southern California Earthquake Center
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The Southern California Earthquake Center was founded in 1991, with the purpose of gathering information on earthquakes, analysing the information to help understand earthquake phenomena and to use this information to increase public awareness to earthquakes, as well as minimizing the loss of life and property.
Currently, SCEC is headquartered at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. SCEC receives much of its funding for research activities through the National Science Foundation.
SCEC is a collaborative effort between the following organizations:
- University of Southern California
- California Institute of Technology
- Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- San Diego State University
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles
- Univ. of California, San Diego
- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
- University of Nevada, Reno
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Stanford University
- U.S. Geological Survey
An additional twenty-five universities and organizations also participate in SCEC programs and research, ranging from JPL and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to universities as far away as the University of Kentucky.
External links
- http://www.scec.org/ Official SCEC site
- http://www.data.scec.org/recenteqs.html Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada