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The scec.org 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. Funding for SCEC activities is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). An outstanding community of scientists from over 54 institutions throughout the country participate in SCEC. 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.

SCEC is a consortium of fifteen core institutions:

  • 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, Riverside
  • 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, Golden
  • U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park
  • U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena
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