page_title: Southern California Earthquake Center
section_title: Core institutions
hierarchical_section_title: Southern California Earthquake Center / Core institutions
caption_attribution_description: Southern California Earthquake Center Headquarters in the Zumberge Hall of Science at the University of Southern California
context_page_description: The Southern California Earthquake Center is a collaboration of more than 1,000 scientists across 100 research institutions with a mission to: conduct research on earthquakes in Southern California and elsewhere by gathering data, conducting theoretical studies, and performing computer simulations; integrate information into a comprehensive, physics-based understanding of earthquake phenomena; and communicate that understanding to end-users and society at large as useful knowledge for reducing earthquake risk and improving community resilience..
  SCEC headquarters are at the University of Southern California. SCEC partners with many other research and education/outreach organizations in many disciplines. Primary funding for SCEC activities is provided by the National Science Foundation and the United States Geological Survey. The current director of SCEC is Yehuda Ben-Zion.
  The Southern California Earthquake Center was founded as a Science & Technology Center on February 1, 1991, with joint funding by the National Science Foundation and the U. S. Geological Survey.
context_section_description: Core institutions involved in SCEC research include but are not limited to:
  University of Southern California (headquarters)
  California Institute of Technology
  Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
  San Diego State University
  University of California,
  University of California, Los Angeles
  University of California, Riverside
  University of California, San Diego
  University of California, Santa Barbara
  University of California, Santa Cruz
  University of Nevada, Reno
  Harvard University
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Stanford University
  U.S. Geological Survey
  Golden
  Moffett Field
  Pasadena
caption: SCEC Headquarters in Zumberge Hall
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