USC Dornsife News

Joshua West of earth sciences at USC Dornsife examines the latest in a string of related disasters striking Nepal in hopes of providing officials hard data to manage recovery.

Would the ‘Big One’ live up to the Hollywood hype? Perhaps, but in different ways than the new movie San Andreas suggests.

San Andreas gets all the attention, but James Dolan studies the faults directly beneath us — and the dangers they pose.

Headquartered at USC Dornsife, the Southern California Earthquake Center has greatly improved the region’s seismographic network since the 1994 Northridge earthquake — 20 years ago today.

Winner of a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, USC Dornsife’s Thorsten Becker will continue research into the science — and sound — of earthquakes. His research seeks to help scientists understand where fault ruptures originate.

A study by Meghan Miller and Thorsten Becker of earth sciences in USC Dornsife published in Nature Geoscience shows how constantly moving continental plates reshape Earth’s surface.

The earthquake preparedness expert in the Southern California Earthquake Center, based in USC Dornsife, has been named a White House Champion of Change for his international work.

The massive temblors in Haiti and Chile should serve as a warning for Angelenos. To prepare, the Southern California Earthquake Center housed in USC College created The Great California ShakeOut. On Oct. 21 at 10:21 a.m., USC, along with 6.9 million people, will participate in the annual drill.