Earthquake Seminar Series
- 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 2007
Developing the USGS PAGER System (Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response) 
- Tuesday January 09, 2007
- 3:00 PM
| Speaker: | David Wald, U.S. Geological Survey |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Tom Holzer |
Chasing tsunamis: Progress and problems with U.S. tsunami hazard mitigation, April 1992 - November 2006
- Wednesday January 10, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Lori Dengler, Humboldt State University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Using laboratory experiments to investigate the damaging effects of earthquakes
- Wednesday January 17, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Art McGarr, U.S. Geological Survey |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Kite runners: Travels and training in Afghanistan, December 2006
- Monday January 22, 2007
- 12:00 PM
| Speaker: | Walter Mooney, Tom Holzer, and Art McGarr, U.S. Geological Survey |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Aseismic transients in subduction zones: What physical basis?
- Wednesday January 24, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jim Rice, Harvard University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Paul Spudich |
February 2007
Theoretical earthquake nucleation: Implications for slow slip events and possibly more
- Wednesday February 07, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Allan Rubin, Princeton University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Nick Beeler |
2007 Joyner Lecture: Predicting Earthquake Ground Motions: Myths and Mysteries
- Wednesday February 14, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Gail Atkinson, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Tom Hanks |
Deflecting Disinformation about Climate Change
- Tuesday February 20, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Naomi Oreskes, UC San Diego |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Pat McCrory |
The Effect of reduced slab-mantle coupling on mantle wedge flow and the thermal reime and serpentization of forearc mantle wedge
- Tuesday February 20, 2007
- 2:00 PM
| Speaker: | Ikuko Wada, Pacific Geosciences Centre, BC |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Diane Moore |
Dynamics of earthquake rupture through branched and offset fault systems
- Wednesday February 21, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Renata Dmowska, Harvard University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Margaret Boettcher |
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (Japan)
- Wednesday February 21, 2007
- 1:00 PM
| Speaker: | Yoshimitsu Okada, NIED |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Bill Ellsworth |
New Paleosiesmological Constraints on the Behaviour of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain
- Wednesday February 28, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Sinan Akciz, UC Irvine |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David Schwartz |
March 2007
Laboratory Earthquakes: Modes, Directionality, and Super Shear
- Wednesday March 14, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Ares J. Rosakis, Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, CalTech |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Ruth Harris |
The Pacific Northwest - An Earth Scientist's Candy Shop (A Seminar of Samples)
- Monday March 19, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Joan Gomberg, USGS-Seattle |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
3-D Distribution of Anisotropy and Attenuation in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand
- Tuesday March 27, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Donna Eberhart-Phillips, UC Davis |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Ruth Harris |
April 2007
Structure and Properties of the San Andreas Fault at Seismogenic Depths: Recent Results from the SAFOD Experiment
- Wednesday April 04, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Steve Hickman, U.S. Geological Survey |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Space geodesy in the Bay Area: surface deformation, fault kinematics and creep
- Wednesday April 18, 2007
- 2:30 PM
| Speaker: | Gareth Funning, UC Berkeley |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Ingrid Johanson |
What's new with the Plate Boundary Observatory?
- Friday April 20, 2007
- 1:00 PM
- Note location
| Speaker: | Greg Anderson, UNAVCO |
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| Location: | Building 3, conference room B |
| Host: | Jessica Murray |
Intraslab structure and outer-rise earthquakes
- Friday April 27, 2007
- 3:00 PM
| Speaker: | Hiroo Kanamori, Caltech |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Art McGarr |
May 2007
Geo-information for Disaster Management
- Tuesday May 01, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Orhan Altan, Istanbul Technical University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
CISN Display Tutorial Session-CA Integrated Seismic System Network
- Tuesday May 08, 2007
- 10:00 AM
- Note location
| Speaker: | David Oppenheimer, US Geological Survey |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3-237 |
Examples of Fault Zone Geometry Between Paleoseisomological Trench Depths and Seismogenic Depths: Why Geometry is Important.
- Wednesday May 09, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Rufus Catchings, U.S. Geological Survey |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Imaging Hazards with Ground-Based Tripod LiDAR - The Parkfield Earthquake to the Ka Loko Dam Failure
- Wednesday May 16, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Gerald Bawden, USGS, Sacramento |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Jeanne Hardebeck |
Earthquake Simulations in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Wednesday May 23, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Arthur Rodgers, Lawrence Livermore National laboratory |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Tom Brocher |
Late Quaternary Tectonic Deformation in the LA Basin: New Insights from Sequence Stratigraphy
- Wednesday May 30, 2007
- 2:00 PM
| Speaker: | Dan Ponti, U.S. Geological Survey |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Tom Holzer |
June 2007
Mapping lava flow thickness and compaction, and volcanic deformation at Okmok volcano, Alaska from InSAR
- Wednesday June 06, 2007
- 10:30 AM
- Note location
| Speaker: | Zhong Lu, Casadia Volcano Observatory, (Joint with VHZ seminar) |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Chuck Wicks |
Investigation into the nature of large-magnitude mining-induced earthquakes in South Africa and their seismic hazard
- Wednesday June 13, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Steve Spottiswoode, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Art McGarr |
Precise determination of shear stress level at the subduction zone thrust from forearc stresses: Implications for interplate earthquakes and mountain building
- Wednesday June 20, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Tetsuzo Seno, Earthquake Research Institute, Univ. of Tokyo |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Steve Kirby |
Earthquakes and Eruptions at Sierra Negra volcano, Galapagos, constrained by GPS and InSAR data
- Wednesday June 27, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Sang-Ho Yun, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Ingrid Johanson |
July 2007
Models and observations of non-steady interseismic deformation
- Wednesday July 11, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Eric Hetland, Caltech |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Margaret Boettcher |
New Achievments
- Tuesday July 17, 2007
- 9:30 AM
| Speaker: | The Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | note: video of this meeting will not be available |
Imaging and Monitoring with Coda Waves and Microseisms
- Wednesday July 18, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Michel Campillo, LGIT, France |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Paul Spudich - Last minute update: seminar will not be webcast |
Interpretation of interseismic deformation in the Western United States
- Wednesday July 25, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Fred Pollitz, US Geological Survey |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
August 2007
Dynamic Modeling of the 2004 Mw 6.0 Parkfield Earthquake
- Wednesday August 15, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Shuo Ma, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Brad Aagaard |
Shells on a Sphere: Insights from Indian Plate motion
- Wednesday August 22, 2007
- 2:00 PM
| Speaker: | Edwin , UC Berkeley |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Ingrid Johanson |
Fault interaction and stress changes in the Aegean
- Wednesday August 29, 2007
- 2:00 PM
| Speaker: | Thanassis Ganas , Fulbright Scholar, National Observatory of Athens |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Tom Parsons |
September 2007
Western U.S. Tectonics and North American Dynamics
- Wednesday September 05, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Wayne Thatcher |
Welcoming Message to 1st International Workshop on Rotational Seismology
- Tuesday September 18, 2007
- 9:00 AM
| Speaker: | R. D. Catchings, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
An Introduction to the Workshop on Rotational Seismology and Engineering Applications
- Tuesday September 18, 2007
- 9:10 AM
| Speaker: | W. H. K. Lee, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Observations of Rotational Ground Motions from Local Earthquakes in Taiwan
- Tuesday September 18, 2007
- 9:35 AM
| Speaker: | W. H. K. Lee, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Rotations in Structural Response
- Tuesday September 18, 2007
- 10:20 AM
| Speaker: | M. D. Trifunac, USC |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Observations of Rotational Ground Motions using Ring Laser Gyros
- Tuesday September 18, 2007
- 11:10 AM
| Speaker: | H. Igel, University of Munich |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
PyLith and other CIG software for modeling crustal deformation
- Wednesday September 26, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Brad Aagaard, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
October 2007
The Earth's hum: bridging the gap between seismology and oceanography
- Wednesday October 03, 2007
- 11:30 AM
| Speaker: | Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Walter Mooney |
PBO Borehole Observatory: New tools for studying aseismic transients, subduction tremor and volcanic systems in the Pacific Northwest
- Wednesday October 10, 2007
- 10:30 AM
- Note location
| Speaker: | Wendy McCausland, Cascades Volcano Observatory |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3-237 (in front of the main conference room) |
| Host: | John Langbein |
The Kern Canyon fault system in the Sierra Nevada batholith: Middle Cretaceous until today
- Wednesday October 17, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Elisabeth Nadin, Caltech |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Margaret Boettcher |
Interseismic and Geologic Deformation along Interacting Non-Planar Faults in the Greater Los Angeles Region, CA
- Wednesday October 24, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Scott Marshall, University of Massachusetts |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Rufus Catchings |
Extending Seismology Into Buildings: Prototype Studies of the UCLA Factor Building
- Wednesday October 31, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Monica Kohler, UCLA |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Sang-Ho Yun |
November 2007
Constraining Earthquake Source Inversions with GPS Data: Resolution Based Removal of Artifacts
- Wednesday November 14, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Morgan Page, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Jessica Murray-Moraleda |
Seismological, Geodetic, and Geological Aspects of the M5.4 Alum Rock Earthquake
- Tuesday November 20, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Scientists at USGS, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Jack Boatwright, Tom Brocher, Ruth Harris |
December 2007
[AGU preview] Compaction Can Limit Peak Vertical Velocity at Yucca Mountain
- Wednesday December 05, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Joe Andrews, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
[AGU preview] Numerical Simulations of Multi-phase, Multi-component Hydrothermal Fluid Flow: Implications for Heat and Mass Transport and Deformation of the Yellowstone Caldera
- Wednesday December 05, 2007
- 10:45 AM
| Speaker: | Michael Hutnak, Shaul Hurwitz, Paul A. Hsieh, Steven E. Ingebrit, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
[AGU preview] Segregating Gas from Melt: an Experimental Look at Ostwald Ripening in Rhyolitic Magma
- Wednesday December 05, 2007
- 11:00 AM
| Speaker: | Nicole C. Lautze, Tom Sisson, Margaret Mangan, Ben Hankins, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
No seminar due to the AGU Fall Meeting
- Wednesday December 12, 2007
- 10:30 AM
| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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Please contact the seminar committee to suggest a future topic or speaker:
- Steve DeLong, 650-329-5648
- Wayne Thatcher, 650-329-4810
