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The Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation at UCLA

NEES is a shared national network of 15 experimental facilities, collaborative tools, a centralized data repository, and earthquake simulation software, all linked by the ultra-high-speed Internet2 connections of NEESgrid. Together, these resources provide the means for collaboration and discovery in the form of more advanced research based on experimentation and computational simulations of the ways buildings, bridges, utility systems, coastal regions, and geomaterials perform during seismic events.

"Earthquake Damages Neighboring Fault" (Press Release)

The 1999 magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake, in the Mojave Desert near Los Angeles, damaged the fault that broke in the 7.3 magnitude Landers earthquake seven years earlier, report John Vidale, UCLA professor of earth and space sciences, and USC seismologist Yong-Gang Li, in the Jan. 30 issue of the journal Nature.