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 2008
Determination, by 10Be Cosmogenic Dating, of Slip-Rates on the Karakorum Fault (Tibet) and Paleoclimatic Evolution since 200ka 
- Wednesday January 09, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Marie-Luce Chevalier, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Wayne Thatcher |
Structural Models for Rational Design, Structural Health Monitoring and Seismic Risk and Loss Assessment
- Thursday January 17, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Maria Todorovska, University of Southern California |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Roger Borcherdt |
Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop
- Wednesday January 23, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jim Lienkaemper, David Oppenheimer, Bill Bakun, Janet Watt, Jeff |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Tom Brocher |
Earthquake occurrence in geometrically complex fault systems
- Wednesday January 30, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jim Dieterich, UC Riverside |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Sang-Ho Yun |
Role of Structural Engineering in Probabilistic Loss Estimation for Natural Catastrophes
- Thursday January 31, 2008
- 10:00 AM
| Speaker: | Hesaam Aslani, Risk Management Solutions |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Roger Borcherdt |
February 2008
Interseismic strain and slip transients on the Cascadia subduction zone
- Wednesday February 06, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | David Schmidt, University of Oregon |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Sang-Ho Yun |
Understanding slow spreading mid-ocean ridges: How do they work? (joint seminar with the volcano hazards team)
- Wednesday February 13, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Barbara E. John & Michael J. Cheadle, University of Wyoming |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Ruth A. Harris |
Earthquake rupture velocity and shear stress drop on exhumed faults: insights from field mapping and lab experiments (joint seminar with the volcano hazards team)
- Wednesday February 20, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | W. Ashley Griffith and David D. Pollard, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Nicole C. Lautze |
Adaptive Nonlinear Analysis as Applied to Performance Based Earthquake Engineering
- Thursday February 21, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Erol Kalkan, California Geological Survey |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Roger Borcherdt |
Sierra Nevada EarthScope Project [SNEP]: Lithospheric foundering
- Wednesday February 27, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | George Zandt, University of Arizona |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Wayne Thatcher |
March 2008
The Quake-Catcher Network: Rapid Earthquake Detection with Laptop Seismometers
- Wednesday March 05, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jesse Lawrence, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | William Ellsworth |
The Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect and Continental Evolution Involving Subduction Underplating and Synchronous Foreland Thrusting
- Tuesday March 11, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Gary Fuis, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Seismic tomography of southern California using adjoint methods
- Wednesday March 19, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Carl Tape, Caltech |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Brad Aagaard |
Rigorous Observational Tests Contradict the Accelerating Moment Release Hypothesis
- Wednesday March 26, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jeanne Hardebeck, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Gary Fuis |
April 2008
Natural Disasters and Risk Assessment in Australia
- Wednesday April 02, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Matthew C. Hayne, Geoscience Australia |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Brian Cole |
Rupturing in Fluid-Overpressured Crust - Compressional Inversion Earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand
- Wednesday April 09, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Richard H. Sibson, University of Otago |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | William H. K. Lee |
No seminar due to SSA Meeting, 16-18 April, 2008
- Wednesday April 16, 2008
- 10:30 AM
Slow Slip Events and Triggered Earthquakes: Some Observations from Hawaii and Speculation on Mechanisms
- Wednesday April 23, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Paul Segall, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | William H. K. Lee |
Hayward Fault Earthquakes: Past, Present, and Future?
- Wednesday April 30, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jim Lienkaemper, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
May 2008
Into the Future: Continuing Evolution of the Pacific-Juan de Fuca-North America Plate System
- Wednesday May 07, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Pat McCrory, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Very near source observations of very small earthquakes: Insights from the Natural Earthquake Laboratory in South African Mines
- Wednesday May 14, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Margaret Boettcher, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Art McGarr |
Subduction, upwelling, earthquakes and tremor, all in the Pacific Northwest (joint seminar with the volcano hazards team)
- Wednesday May 21, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Richard Allen, UC Berkeley |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Nicole Lautze |
No EHZ seminar this week because of the Workshop on the Rodgers Creek and Maacama Faults
- Wednesday May 28, 2008
- 10:30 AM
June 2008
Observations on the East Bay Fault System
- Wednesday June 04, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Russ Graymer, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Diane Moore |
Mechanics of Deep Tremor and Slow Slip: Insights from Southwest Japan and Implications for the San Andreas
- Wednesday June 11, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | David R. Shelly, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Jeanne Hardebeck |
Stress Triggering of Non-Volcanic Tremor
- Wednesday June 18, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Justin Rubinstein, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Strain Release along the Northern Costa Rica Seismogenic Zone
- Wednesday June 25, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Susan Schwartz, UC Santa Cruz |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | William H. K. Lee |
Report on the M=7.9 Sichuan, China, Earthquake
- Friday June 27, 2008
- 12:00 PM
| Speaker: | Walter Mooney, Yingying Huang, Sarah Bahan |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
July 2008
Geomechanical Modelling of Fracture Networks: Patterns and Flow (joint seminar with Water Resources Division)
- Wednesday July 02, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Adriana Paluszny, Imperial College, London |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Steve Ingebritsen |
Experimental and seismological evidence strongly constraining the mechanisms of earthquakes in subduction zones: A story nearing completion
- Wednesday July 09, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Harry Green, UC Riverside |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Diane Moore |
Earthquake Ground Motion Prediction using the Ambient Seismic Field
- Wednesday July 16, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | German Prieto, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | William H. K. Lee |
The Global Earthquake Model Initiative: A response to humanitarian and scientific imperatives
- Wednesday July 23, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Ross Stein, USGS Menlo Park, Kate Stillwell, AED Global Earthquake Model |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
A Physical Model for Widespread Near-Surface and Fault Zone Damage Induced by Earthquakes
- Wednesday July 30, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Shuo Ma, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Joe Andrews |
August 2008
Seismology in the Source: New Insights from SAFOD
- Wednesday August 06, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Bill Ellsworth, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Recent and active tectonics in Tehran region and Central Alborz, Iran
- Wednesday August 13, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jean-François Ritz, Geosciences Montpellier, France |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Carol Prentice |
talk postponed by speaker
- Wednesday August 20, 2008
- 10:30 AM
New developments in Aleutian subduction science: Earthquake rupture geometry and sources of ocean-crossing tsunamis
- Wednesday August 27, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | David Scholl (with introduction by Steve Kirby), USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
September 2008
How variations in subduction zone fluid sources affect decollement pore pressure estimates for Barbados, Nankai, Costa Rica, and Cascadia (joint seminar with Water Resources Division)
- Wednesday September 03, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Barbara Bekins, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | William H. K. Lee |
No EHZ seminar this week because of the SCEC annual meeting
- Wednesday September 10, 2008
- 10:30 AM
Liquefaction scenarios for a repeat of the 1868 Hayward earthquake
- Wednesday September 17, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Tom Holzer, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
The NetQuakes Project - Expanding Earthquake Monitoring in Urban Areas
- Wednesday September 24, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | David Oppenheimer, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
October 2008
Probing the rheology of Tibet using postseismic motion from large earthquake
- Wednesday October 01, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Isabelle Ryder, UC Berkeley |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Fractures and Faults at Coso: Using Seismology to Monitor Geothermal Energy Exploitation
- Wednesday October 08, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Bruce Julian, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Constraints on earthquake recurrence, nucleation, energy and source parameters from large lab faulting experiments
- Tuesday October 14, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Nick Beeler, USGS, CVO |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Fault system behavior of the Eastern California Shear Zone
- Friday October 24, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Michael Oskin, UC Davis |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Wayne Thatcher |
Deformation & Stress Changes on the Sunda Megathrust Preceeding the Mw 8.4 2007 Earthquake
- Wednesday October 29, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Kelly Grijalva, UC Berkeley |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Diane Moore |
November 2008
Seismic Vulnerability of Critical Lifelines in the San Francisco Bay Area - An Engineers Perspective
- Wednesday November 05, 2008
- 10:30 AM
- Note location
| Speaker: | Ahmed Nisar, MMI Engineering |
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| Location: | Building 15, Room 3245 (Water Resources Conference Room) |
| Host: | Mehmet Celebi |
Epistemic Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences
- Wednesday November 12, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Tom Hanks, USGS, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION: Timber and Masonry Earthquake Resistant Construction before the Age of Steel and Reinforced Concrete
- Wednesday November 19, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Randolph Langenbach, Conservationtech Consulting, Oakland |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
No Seminar due to Thanksgiving Holiday
- Wednesday November 26, 2008
- 10:30 AM
December 2008
Mitigating Climate Change: Will Direct Removal of CO2 be Necessary? (Joint with USGS WR Colloquium)
- Tuesday December 02, 2008
- 1:30 PM
| Speaker: | Margaret Leinen, Climos |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Steve Kirby |
AGU Practice Talks
- Wednesday December 10, 2008
- 10:30 AM
Sulfur Dioxide from Volcanoes Initiates Global Climate Change in Four Ways
- Friday December 12, 2008
- 12:00 PM
- Note location
| Speaker: | Peter Ward, Teton Tectonics |
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| Location: | Building 15, Room 3245 (WESP Conference Room) |
| Host: | Robert Simpson |
No Seminar due to AGU Fall Meeting (Dec 15-19)
- Wednesday December 17, 2008
- 10:30 AM
Forecast and Prediction of Extreme Events
- Monday December 22, 2008
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Vladimir Kossobokov |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Bill Ellsworth |
Please contact the seminar committee to suggest a future topic or speaker:
- Annemarie Baltay, 650-329-4759
- Ben Brooks, 650-329-5436
