What is SCEC?

What is SCEC?

Tom Jordan (Director, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)) gives expert video advice on: What is a geologic fault?; What is the "Richter Scale" of an earthquake?; What is the "Moment Magnitude Scale" of an earthquake? and more...

SCEC stands for the Southern California Earthquake Center, which is a large collaboration among scientists, in universities and in the government, to understand earthquakes in Southern California and communicate that understanding to the public. The SCEC works so that we might understand earthquakes, throughout the country and across the world, much better.