Earthquake Science Center Seminars
- Seminars typically take place at 10:30 AM Wednesdays in the main USGS Conference Room
- The USGS Campus is located at 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA
January 2006
Mechanical Modeling of Volcanic Deformation 
- Wednesday January 04, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Sang-Ho Yun, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Wayne Thatcher |
Repeating Earthquakes in the NE Japan Subduction System
- Thursday January 12, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Naoki Uchida, Tohoku University, Japan |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Steve Kirby |
Gas hydrates: An overview of our 10+ years of laboratory studies on these unusual icy compounds
- Wednesday January 25, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Laura Stern, EHZ, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
February 2006
TBA-- Global Deformation from the Sumatra Earthquake
- Wednesday February 01, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Fred Pollitz, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Modeling Earthquakes Mw>2; with Site and Path Corrections
- Wednesday February 08, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Donald V. Helmberger, Seismo Lab, Cal Tech |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Paul Spudich |
Is there any use freezing to death to study surface faulting? What did we learn from the 2001 Mw7.8 Kokoxili (Tibet) earthquake
- Tuesday February 14, 2006
- 10:30 AM
- Note location
| Speaker: | Yann Klinger, IPGP |
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| Location: | Building 15, Room 3245 (NOTE ROOM!!!) |
| Host: | David Schwartz |
TBA -- Hazards vulnerabilities of the California Delta Levee System
- Wednesday February 15, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Les Harder, California Department of Water Resources |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Tom Holzer |
March 2006
The seismology of liquefaction and its potential application to crustal earthquake remote triggering
- Wednesday March 01, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Thomas L Holzer, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
A new way to forecast seismic shaking, and how it stacks up in Tokyo
- Wednesday March 08, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Serkan Bozkurt, EHZ -- USGS; Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Ross Stein |
Mapping the Crustal Stress Field Near the San Andreas Fault Using Shear Velocity Anisotropy
- Wednesday March 15, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Naomi Boness, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | John solum |
Lessons from faults in dirt and other poorly lithified materials
- Monday March 20, 2006
- 2:00 PM
- Note location
| Speaker: | Laurel B. Goodwin, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
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| Location: | Building 15, Room 3245 |
| Host: | John Solum |
A Synoptic Model for Slip on Ridge Transform Faults-Insights from Earthquakes and Laboratory Experiments
- Wednesday March 29, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Margaret Boettcher, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Malcolm Johnston |
April 2006
Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Basin and Range Province in northwestern Nevada
- Wednesday April 05, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Joe Colgan, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David John |
Reconstructing the worldís largest collapsed turbidite basin:Tectonic & climatic significance of the Triassic Songpan-Ganzi complex, central China
- Wednesday April 12, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Amy Weislogel, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Nick Davatzes |
Patterns and timing of Late Cenozoic deformation in the evolving Southwest Tian Shan Foreland, W. China
- Wednesday April 26, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Richard Heermance, UC Santa Barbara |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | John Solum |
May 2006
Ground Motion Modeling of the 1906 Earthquake
- Wednesday May 03, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Brad Aagaard, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Tom Brocher |
Subduction Thrusts: Frictional Melting and Selective Overpressuring: Mechanical Consequences
- Wednesday May 10, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Casey Moore, UCSC |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | John Solum |
From Raindrops to Ranges: Quantifying Himalayan Orogenesis
- Friday May 19, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Doug Burbank, UCSB |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Wayne Thatcher |
When the Big One Strikes Again ñ Estimated Losses due to a Repeat of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
- Wednesday May 24, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Charlie Kircher and Greg Beroza, Kircher and Associates/Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Brad Aagaard |
New subducting slab geometry in central Chile and Argentina: Implications for the buoyancy of flat slabs
- Wednesday May 31, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Megan Anderson, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
June 2006
Getting Ready for an Earthquake:?Accelerating Seismicity and Earthquake Rupture Forecasts
- Wednesday June 14, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | David Bowman, Cal State Fullerton |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David Lockner |
Why Private Insurance Markets for Catastrophes Often Fail, and What to do About it
- Wednesday June 28, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Dwight Jaffe, UC Berkeley |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Ross Stein |
July 2006
Large Continental Faults and Earthquake Sequences in the Eastern Mediterranean: Their scars and aftermath throughout civilization
- Wednesday July 12, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Mustapha Meghraoui, Institut de Physique du Globe, Strasbourg |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Ross Stein |
Earthquake Exploration in the Other Half of California: A Historical Retrospective
- Wednesday July 19, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Susan Hough, USGS Pasadena |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
August 2006
Linking properties of clustered seismicity to earthquake physics
- Wednesday August 09, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jochen Woessner, Cal Tech |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Jeanne Hardebeck |
Full 3D waveform tomography -- a pathway to accurate strong-motion prediction
- Wednesday August 23, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Po Chen, Lamont |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Margaret Boettcher |
September 2006
Uncovering Silicon Valley: A Tale of Three Sedimentary Basins
- Wednesday September 06, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Vicky Langenheim, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Tom Holzer |
Effects of 3D rigidity structure on fault parameter inversions
- Wednesday September 20, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Rowena Lohman, JPL |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Jessica Murray |
In Situ Study of Hydraulic Properties of Fault Zones
- Wednesday September 27, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Mai Linh Doan, UC Santa Cruz |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Nick Davatzes |
October 2006
Low-frequency Earthquake Swarms and Non-Volcanic Tremor Under Shikoku, Japan
- Wednesday October 11, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | David Shelly, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Gary Fuis |
Repeating Earthquakes on a Rapidly Creeping Thrust Fault: The Chihshang Fault in Eastern Taiwan
- Wednesday October 18, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Kate Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Bill Ellsworth |
Triggering Earthquakes with Seismic Waves
- Wednesday October 25, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Emily Brodsky, UC Santa Cruz |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Jeanne Hardebeck |
November 2006
3D measurements of fault topography and fault zone structure
- Wednesday November 01, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Amir Sagy, UC Santa Cruz |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Margaret Boettcher |
NELSAM Project Fault Reactivation and In-situ stress at the proximity of the M2.2 of Dec 12, 2004, Tautona mine, South Africa
- Wednesday November 08, 2006
- 11:15 AM
| Speaker: | Vincent Heesakkers, University of Oklahoma |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Malcolm Johnston |
Physical Limits on Ground Motion at Yucca Mountain
- Friday November 17, 2006
- 2:00 PM
| Speaker: | Joe Andrews, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
From displacements and dates to rates: Impact of riser reconstructions on estimation of secular variation in rates of strikeñslip faulting
- Wednesday November 29, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Eric Cowgill, UC Davis |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Wayne Thatcher and Tom Hanks |
December 2006
Hidden Topography - Pushing the Limits of Kinematic GPS to Investigate the Flattest Places on Earth
- Wednesday December 06, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Adrian Borsa, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Jessica Murray |
The plate boundary in southern California--new observations and implications for plate tectonics
- Wednesday December 20, 2006
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Gary Fuis, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Please contact the seminar committee to suggest a future topic or speaker:
- Annemarie Baltay, 650-329-4759
- Ben Brooks, 650-329-5436
