Earthquake Science Center Seminars

May 2013

Ambient tectonic tremor along the San Jacinto fault zone near Anza, California video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday May 22, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Justin Brown, Caltech
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Annemarie Baltay

Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Southern San Andreas Fault System: Insights From Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis flyer icon

  • Wednesday May 29, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Rebecca Dorsey, University of Oregon
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Keith Howard

June 2013

Observations of seismic interactions and of a nucleation phase before large earthquakes flyer icon

  • Wednesday June 05, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Virginie Durand
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

What is a foreshock? What is an asperity?

  • Wednesday June 19, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Greg McLaskey, USGS Menlo Park
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

The paradox of disaster: Extracting the good from the bad and the ugly

  • Friday June 21, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
  • Note day
Speaker:John Vargo, University of Canterbury, Resilient Organizations
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Anne Wein

TBA

  • Wednesday June 26, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Jeff McGuire, WHOI
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

August 2013

Assessing seismic hazard and risk for nuclear applications

  • Wednesday August 21, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Annie Kammerer, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

September 2013

Nuclear Explosion Monitoring and the Source Physics Experiments

  • Wednesday September 04, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Bill Walter, LLNL
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

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