June 21-22, 2025 - SCEC 2024 Catchup and Writing

This weekend I have been watching recordings from the 2024 Annual SCEC meeting (Watched through Day 1), so that I am up-to-date for hopefully attending the 2025 meeting and, in parallel, I wrote a about 4 more pages on chapter 1 of the Advanced GIS course textbook. I put in a total of about 5 hours of work between the two days and I just have two more figures to create and I need to write the two practical application parts of the chapter (also, I will reedit everything once I have a full draft of the chapter). The goal to finish chapter 1 will be by the end of this week!  

Learning points from SCEC 2024 (just a couple):

AI/machine learning on seismology data is immensely densifying the earthquake catalog across California which should help improve the velocity models across the state which is important for engineering and more! 

SCEC is indeed becoming Statewide, there were geologic studies of the Lassen Peak area (northern Walker Lane) and even crossing the state line into Nevada. 

Apparently everywhere along the SAF system the faults dip preferentially to the east/northeast... perhaps this means that the plate boundary is an inherited structure.??? 

SCEC Community Models are Awesome!: fault, temperature, stress, velocity, Geology, Rheology, Seismicity etc. across space and depth in all of California. Really cool for teaching and basic research. (Nice Presentation Scott) 


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