Site Activities

Research activities at the NEES@UCSB field sites include both active shaking at the sites as well as the use of recorded earthquakes and ambient noise to study local site response. Check out the project page for a sample of some of the recent projects that have taken place at the field sites.

Event Map
Instrumentation
Real-time Data
Earthquake Map (beta)

Research Facilities

Garner Valley Field Site and SFSI Structure

Garner Valley SFSI structure

The Garner Valley Array is a thoroughly characterized strong motion monitoring site with surface accelerometers, borehole pore pressure transducers and accelerometers, and an extensively instrumented Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction (SFSI) test facility. The Garner Valley array records earthquakes on a daily basis, and is also used in active testing experiments.
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Wildlife Refuge Liquefaction Field Site

Wildlife Array communication hut

The Wildlife Liquefaction Array resides in a seismically active area at the southern most terminus of the San Andreas Fault system that has a history of earthquakes which produce liquefaction effects. It has been well characterized through borehole sampling and geophysical logging and is now densely instrumented with accelerometers and pore pressure transducers. Earthquakes occur on a daily basis around this site, and active testing has also been used to study the effects of the surface geology on ground shaking at this site.
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