Project Grant G14AP00111

This collaborative research project grant of $249,272, awarded January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028, by the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), supports the development of physics-based machine learning techniques to generate synthetic earthquake ground motions. The primary deliverable is an Operator Inference (OPINF) model order reduction technique that will create time-dependent parametric surrogate models capable of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $189,438 to The University Corporation at California State University, Northridge will support a two-phase research effort to model the earthquake dynamics of complex thrust fault systems in the Western Transverse Ranges of California. In the first phase, undergraduate student researchers will conduct a series of simulations to determine physics-based rules governing when an earthquake rupture is...

This $224,382 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on March 1, 2025. The grant supports a collaborative research project to develop a detailed 3D model of the Los Angeles (LA) Basin, which is critical for accurately estimating earthquake ground motion and assessing seismic hazard in this densely populated area. Researchers will analyze new high-resolution seismic data collected...

This $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to develop an AI model for understanding fault dynamics and earthquake hazards in complex fault networks. The project, led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), aims to build a multiphysics fault network model to discover reduced-order governing equations for the evolution of stress in fault systems. This work will enable improved assessment of regional...

QUAKEWORX Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography received a $434,313 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) for the collaborative research project "QUAKEWORX – An Extensible Software Framework for Earthquake Simulations." The award, effective October 1, 2025 through October 31, 2028, funds development of a...

The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $218,579 Project Grant to the California Institute of Technology to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: A NEW 3-D VELOCITY AND STRUCTURAL MODEL OF THE NORTHERN BASINS IN THE LOS ANGELES REGION FOR IMPROVED GROUND MOTION ESTIMATES." The two-year grant running from July 15, 2021 to June 30, 2023 will fund research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The Geosciences program supports basic research...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $650,000 over a 3-year period to the University of Southern California to develop an AI model that can better understand fault dynamics and earthquake hazards in heavily faulted geologic basins. The project builds a multiphysics fault network model to discover reduced-order governing equations for the evolution of stress in complex fault systems, using the Southern Permian Basin in the...

This $203,961 National Science Foundation Project Grant from the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to develop a new 3D velocity and structural model of sedimentary basins in the Los Angeles region. The University of Arizona will receive funding from January 15, 2023 to June 30, 2023 to conduct seismic field experiments using over 700 instruments across 10 lines. This will allow imaging of subsurface structures channeling earthquake waves into downtown Los Angeles at a higher...

This $238,875 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Utah. The grant aims to develop a detailed 3D model of the Los Angeles (LA) Basin, which is critical for accurately estimating earthquake ground motion and assessing seismic hazard in this densely populated area. The researchers will analyze data from a temporary 300-node geophone array deployed across the LA Basin in 2022, and combine it with other seismic...

This $102,656 federal Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (CFDA 15.807 - Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance) to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will support research to refine the interseismic velocity field around the Anza seismic gap on the San Jacinto Fault in Southern California. The project will collect new Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations and combine them with existing GNSS and interferometric...