Earthquake Science Center Seminars

January 2009

Sequestering Carbon Dioxide in the Built Environment video icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday January 07, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Brent Constantz, Calera Corporation
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Shaking up Faults: Insight from the lab on Earthquake Triggering video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday January 14, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Heather Savage, UCSC
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

No Seminar -- NEHRP Workshop

  • Wednesday January 21, 2009
  • 10:30 AM

February 2009

Towards a Unified Theory for Pre-Earthquake Signals video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday February 04, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Friedemann Freund, NASA Ames
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Submarine landslides and tsunamis at Seward and Valdez triggered by the 1964 Magnitude 9.2 Great Alaska earthquake video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Tuesday February 10, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Peter Haeussler, USGS
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Applied GIS within the Earthquake Hazards Team video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday February 11, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:J. Luke Blair, Jacob DeAngelo, Thomas Noce, Stephen Walter, USGS
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Spatial correlation of strong ground motion intensities: measurement and implications for engineering applications video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday February 18, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Jack Baker, Stanford University
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

3D Geometry of Fault Surfaces video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday February 25, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Ole Kaven, Stanford University
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

March 2009

Subduction forearc structure and its relation with episodic tremor and slip video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday March 04, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Pascal Audet, UC Berkeley
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

The Night the Earth Shook! 1959 M 7.3 Hebgen Lake Earthquake and Madison Canyon Lanslide west of Yellowstone National Park video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday March 11, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Jack Epstein, USGS Reston, Emeritus
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Megathrust behavior from corals video icon

  • Wednesday March 18, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Rich Briggs, USGS
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Wayne Thatcher

Regional moment tensor inversion for source-type identification video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday March 25, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Sean Ford , UC Berkeley
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

April 2009

Lg Attenuation Modeling in the Middle East video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Friday April 03, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Michael Pasyanos, LLNL
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

No Seminar Due to SSA Meeting

  • Wednesday April 08, 2009
  • 10:30 AM

Geologic applications of terrestrial and airborne LiDAR data: characterizing tectonic landscapes and quantifying fluvial-system change video icon

  • Tuesday April 14, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Steve DeLong, USGS
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Slow slip, tremor and deep asperities: heterogeneous rate-and-state fault models video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday April 22, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Jean-Paul Ampuero, CalTech
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Evaluation of Ground Motion of the 2007 Niigata Chuetsu-oki Earthquake at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant and Multi-Purpose Observation System for Deep Seismic Ground Motions video icon flyer icon

  • Monday April 27, 2009
  • 11:00 AM
Speaker:Kenta Okano, Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES)
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Bill Ellsworth

Site response: beyond the first dimension video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Tuesday April 28, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Sue Hough, USGS Pasadena
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Seismic Evidence for Remote Triggering of Fault-Strength Changes on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield video icon slides icon

  • Wednesday April 29, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Taka'aki Taira, UC Berkeley
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

May 2009

Moment release rate of Cascadia tremor constrained by GPS video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday May 06, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Ana Aguiar, Stanford
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:David Shelly

A REVIEW OF OBSERVATIONS OF THE L'AQUILA (ABRUZZO, ITALY) EQ Of APRIL 6, 2009 video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Friday May 08, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Mehmet Celebi, USGS
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Reconstructing the late Quaternary slip history of the central Altyn Tagh Fault (NW Tibet) from faulted terrace risers video icon

  • Wednesday May 13, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Ryan Gold, UC Davis
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Rufus Catchings

Seismic Detection of CO2 Leakage Along Monitoring Wellbores video icon

  • Wednesday May 20, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Marco Bohnhoff, Stanford University
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Bill Ellsworth

Connecting near and farfield earthquake triggering to dynamic strain video icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday May 27, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Nicholas van der Elst, UC Santa Cruz
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:David Shelly

June 2009

No Seminar

  • Wednesday June 03, 2009
  • 10:30 AM

Advances in Rotational Seismology and Monitoring Rotational Ground Motions in the San Francisco Bay Area video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday June 10, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Willie Lee, USGS (retired)
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

The First 200 dB Broadband Seismometer and 10^-11 g Gravimeter - Doing Better Geophysics at One Microkelvin video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday June 17, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Mark Kasevich, Stanford University
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:John R. Evans

Fault geometry and strength evolution in the Naukluft Nappe Complex, Namibia video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday June 24, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Christie Rowe, University of Cape Town
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:David Shelly

July 2009

Development of an Operational Earthquake Forecast for California (from UCERF2 to UCERF3) video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday July 01, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Ned Field, USGS Pasadena
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Tectonics of the western United States illuminated by seismic surface-wave tomography video icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday July 08, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Fred Pollitz, USGS
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Geodetic evidence for en echelon dike emplacement and concurrent slow-slip on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, June 17-19, 2007 video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday July 15, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Emily (Desmarais) Montgomery-Brown, Stanford University
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:David Shelly

Was that a foreshock? A tale of earthquake fundamentals and public warnings video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday July 22, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Andy Michael, USGS
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Ground Motion from Earthquakes with Strong Dynamic Weakening on Nonplanar Faults video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday July 29, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Eric Dunham, Stanford University
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:David Shelly

August 2009

Speaker cancellation - No seminar

  • Wednesday August 05, 2009
  • 10:30 AM

Topographic Response to Active Deformation in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday August 12, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:George Hilley, Stanford University
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Outer-rise/outer-trench-slope earthquakes in the instrumental era: distribution, subduction system settings, and flexure mechanics video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday August 19, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Steve Kirby, USGS Menlo Park
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Physics-based earthquake source characterization and modeling for strong ground motion prediction with Geostatistics video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday August 26, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Seok Goo Song, URS Corporation
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:David Shelly

September 2009

Dynamic weakening during earthquakes by solid lubrication video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday September 02, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Ze'ev Reches, University of Oklahoma
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:David Lockner

Aseismic slip events in the Cascadia subduction zone: New insights from PBO borehole strainmeters video icon

  • Wednesday September 09, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Evelyn Roeloffs, USGS Vancouver
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

No Seminar - SCEC Annual Meeting

  • Wednesday September 16, 2009
  • 10:30 AM

Yet Another New Look at the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes: Taking the video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday September 23, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Sue Hough, USGS Pasadena
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Near-source and remote earthquake triggering video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday September 30, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Tom Parsons, USGS Menlo Park
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

October 2009

Slip rate behavior of the southern San Jacinto fault zone - implications from 10Be and U-series dating of late Quaternary landforms video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday October 07, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Kim Le, UC - Davis
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Lessons Learned from the 2008 eruption of Kasatochi Volcano, Alaska video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday October 14, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Stephanie Prejean, USGS, Alaska Volcano Observatory
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Bill Ellsworth

Ongoing postseismic deformation from the 1999 Izmit, Turkey earthquake sequence: What our models can and cannot explain video icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday October 21, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Elizabeth Hearn, University of British Columbia
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Ruth Harris

The Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Recent on-fault paleoseismic studies video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday October 28, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Robert Langridge, GNS Science - New Zealand
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Carol Prentice

November 2009

Magnitude-frequency statistics on a single fault: Gutenberg-Richter or Characteristic? video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday November 04, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Morgan Page, USGS, Pasadena
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Isla Guafo: Riding the Seismic Cycle Roller Coaster video icon flyer icon

  • Friday November 06, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Rob Wesson, USGS, Golden
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Wayne Thatcher

Field and Seismological Investigations of the Sept. 30, 2009, M7.6 Padang (West Sumatra), Indonesia Earthquake video icon

  • Thursday November 12, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Walter D. Mooney and Art McGarr, USGS Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

Normal-Faulting Displacement Maxima and Stress Drop Variability: a Geological Perspective video icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday November 18, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Suzanne Hecker, USGS - Menlo Park
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:David Schwartz

No Seminar - Thanksgiving

  • Wednesday November 25, 2009
  • 10:30 AM

December 2009

Geologic evidence for a Virgin Island tsunami from Lisbon or the Puerto Rico Trench. video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday December 02, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Brian Atwater, USGS - Seattle
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)

How fault geometric parameters effect seismic behavior and earthquake recurrence models video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Wednesday December 09, 2009
  • 10:30 AM
Speaker:Olaf Zielke, Arizona State University
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Steve DeLong

Supraslab earthquake clusters above the subduction plate boundary of offshore NE Japan: Seismogenesis in a graveyard of detached seamounts flyer icon

  • Thursday December 10, 2009
  • 12:00 PM
  • Note location
Speaker:Naoki Uchida , Tohoku University
Location:Building 3, Room 3250 (NOTE SPECIAL ROOM)
Host:Steve Kirby (also co-presenting)

Behind the Scenes Tour of the EHP Web Site video icon slides icon flyer icon

  • Thursday December 10, 2009
  • 1:30 PM
Speaker:Lisa Wald, USGS, Golden
Location:Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room)
Host:Scott Haefner

No seminar - AGU annual meeting in San Francisco

  • Wednesday December 16, 2009
  • 10:30 AM

No seminar - Holiday season break

  • Wednesday December 23, 2009
  • 10:30 AM

No seminar - Holiday season break

  • Wednesday December 30, 2009
  • 10:30 AM

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