Earthquake Science Center Seminars

January 2013

Small Strains Near Yellowstone Lake (and what they tell us about magma) video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday January 09, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Karen Luttrell, USGS Mendenhall, Volcano Science Center
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Dave Hill

Seismic evidence for fluid-related embrittlement as a cause of intermediate-depth earthquake slides icon flyer icon

  • Thursday January 10, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Junichi Nakajima, Associate Professor, Research Center for Earthquake and Volcano Eruption Prediction
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Dave Hill

Have Recent Earthquakes Exposed Flaws in or Misunderstandings of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis? video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday January 16, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Tom Hanks, USGS, ESC
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Dave Hill

Defeating Earthquakes video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Friday January 25, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Ross Stein, ESC-USGS
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Dave Hill

Tsunami risk reduction in Padang video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday January 30, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Brian Tucker, GeoHazards International
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Role and responsibility of science: the L'Aquila trial and the work of the Italian High Risk Commission flyer icon

  • Wednesday January 30, 2013
  • 2:30 PM
Speaker:Domenico Giardini, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Bill Ellsworth

February 2013

Quantifying landscape-altering events using ground based lidar and environmental sensors video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday February 06, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Steve DeLong, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Carol Prentice

Understanding ground motion prediction equations using strong ground motion data, and tectonic tremor video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday February 13, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Annemarie Baltay, USGS
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Tom Hanks

Implications of Strong-Rate-Weakening Friction for the Length-Scale Dependence of the Strength of the Crust; Why Earthquakes Are so Gentle video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Friday February 22, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Thomas Heaton, Cal Tech, Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Lab
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Dave Hill

March 2013

Mobile Laser Scanning for Earthquake Science flyer icon

  • Wednesday March 06, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Ben Brooks, USGS, ESC
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Mike Bennett

Propagation dynamics of episodic tremor and slip - Curious similarity to trigger of 2011 Tohoku earthquake. video icon flyer icon

  • Friday March 08, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Ryosuke Ando , GSJ/AIST
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:David R. Shelly

Slow slip and the absence of tremor at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday March 13, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Emily Montgomery-Brown, USGS, Mendenhall PostDoc
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Dave Hill

Annual modulation of non-volcanic tremor in northern Cascadia video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday March 20, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Fred Pollitz, Earthquake Science Center
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Dave Hill

Siletz-Crescent Forearc Terrane Revisited » Does a New Kinematic Model Solve an Old Puzzle? video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday March 27, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Patricia McCrory, ESC, USGS
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Mike Bennett

April 2013

Imaging with Geophysics: Heat and Water Cycling in Modern Subduction Zones video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday April 03, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Geoff Abers, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Jason A. Addison

Ground Motion Prediction using the Virtual Earthquake Approach video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday April 10, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Marine Denolle, Stanford University
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Annemarie Baltay

Satellite-SSA: 10:30 am - noon and 1 pm - 2:20 video icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday April 17, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:SSA Presentations from your USGS Peers
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Ben Brooks and Wayne Thatcher

The Context and Impact of the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence of 2010 - 2011 video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday April 24, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Kelvin Berryman, GNS Science - Manager: Natural Hazards Research Platform
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Keith Knudsen

May 2013

On the Broad Range of Responses to Dynamic Triggering video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday May 01, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Dave Hill, USGS Menlo Park
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

San Andreas Fault Investigations in Marin County: A Retrospective video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday May 08, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Tim Hall, Senior Consulting Geologist, with assistance from Tina M. Niemi
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Mike Bennett

Soliciting engineering judgments on building collapse fragility using structured elicitation process video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Thursday May 09, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Kishor Jaiswal, U.S. Geological Survey Golden CO/Synergetics Inc.
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Mehmet Celebi

Weighing the Greenland Ice Sheet with GPS flyer icon

  • Wednesday May 15, 2013
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Mike Bevis, Ohio State University
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Ben Brooks

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

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