Anticipating aftershocks: Improved seismic forecasts for the Big One in California (video)

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Southern California has the highest earthquake risk of any region in the U.S..

But exactly how risky and where the greatest risks lie remains an open question.

In June 2017, a team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) released a major paper in Seismological Research Letters that summarized the scientific and hazard results of one of the world’s biggest and most well-known earthquake simulation projects: The Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF3).

Full article: Stampede1 and Stampede2 help USGS and Southern California Earthquake Center scientists improve seismic forecasts for California

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