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The Southern California Earthquake Center was founded in 1991, with the purpose of gathering information on earthquakes, analysing the information to help understand earthquake phenomena and to use this information to increase public awareness to earthquakes, as well as minimizing the loss of life and property.
Currently, SCEC is headquarted at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. SCEC receives much of its funding for research activites through the National Science Foundation.
SCEC is a collaborative effort between the following organizations:
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, San Diego
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
University of Nevada, Reno
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
U.S. Geological Survey
An additional twenty-five universities and organizations also participate in SCEC programs and research, ranging from JPL and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to universities as far away as the University of Kentucky.
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Category:Nonprofit organizations in California
Category:Earthquakes
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