External Research Support
Funded Research - Grants & Cooperative Agreements
The Earthquake Hazards Program funds research in order to provide earth science data and information essential to mitigate earthquake losses.
For reports from awards made prior to 2000, use the advanced search of the USGS Library Catalog.
| Award No. | Principal Investigator(s) | Region | Project Title | Institution | Final Report | Journal Publication(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G13AC00007 | Steve Bowman | Intermountain West | Utah Earthquake Working Groups and Update of Working-Groups-Related Databases ($45,833; January 2013 through December 2014) | Utah Geological Survey | Final Technical Report Due March 2015 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00002 | William Lund | Intermountain West | Working Group on Utah Earthquake Probabilities: Collaborative Proposal between Utah Geological Survey and URS Corporation ($18,148; December 2012 through December 2013) | Utah Geological Survey | Final Technical Report Due March 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00003 | Ivan Wong | Intermountain West | Working Group on Utah Earthquake Probabilities: Collaborative Research between the Utah Geological Survey and URS Corporation ($39,031; December 2012 through Decemeber 2013) | URS Group | 2013 | ||
| G13AP00009 | Jay Berger | General | Expert Elicitation Workshop on Seismic Vulnerability Estimation ($17,500; December 2012 through September 2013) | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) | Final Technical Report Due December 2013 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00013 | John Douglas Yule | Southern California | Megathrusting to Determine a Lengthly Record of San Gorgonio Pass Fault Zone Ruptures: Possible Super Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault System ($83,625; April 2013 through March 2014) | California State University Northridge | Final Technical Report Due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00013 | John Douglas Yule | Southern California | Megathrusting to Determine a Lengthly Record of San Gorgonio Pass Fault Zone Ruptures: Possible Super Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault System ($83,625; April 2013 through March 2014) | California State University Northridge | Final Technical Report Due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00014 | Jay Berger | Northern California | Strengthing California Earthquake Clearinghouse Operations through Improved Data Collection, Management, and Dissemination: Collaborative Research with California Geological Survey and Earthquake Engineering Research Institute ($50,000; April 2013 through March 2014) | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | Final Technical Report Due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00016 | Anne Rosinski | Northern California | Strengthing California Earthquake Clearinghouse Operations through Improved Data Collection, Management, and Dissemination: Collaborative Research with California Geological Survey and Earthquake Engineering Research Institute ($35,000; April 2013 through March 2014) | California Geological Survey | Final Technical Report Due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00017 | Graham Kent and Steve Wesnousky | Intermountain West | Constraining the Dextral Component of Slip on Faults in the Tahoe Basin using Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR Data ($40,785; April 2013 through March 2014) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report Due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00018 | Corne Kreemer & William Hammond | Intermountain West | Geodetic Constraints on Fault Slip Rates and Seismic Hazard in the Greater Las Vegas Area ($54,971; April 2013 through March 2014) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report Due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00019 | Paul Segall | Central and Eastern U.S. | Network Based Estimates of Strain-Rate and Uncertainty in the Central U.S.($70,693; April 2013 through March 2014) | Stanford University | Final Technical Report Due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00020 | Paul Segall | Earthquake Physics | The Mechanics of Episodic Tremor and Slip with Implications for Seismic Hazards in Cascadia ($98,604; April 2013 through March 2014) | Stanford University | Final Technical Report Due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00021 | Lee Liberty | Pacific Northwest | Near Surface Expression of Megathrust Splay Faults, Western Gulf of Alaska: A Collaborative Project with USGS Personnel ($88,288; April 2013 through March 2014) | Boise State University | Final Technical Report Due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00022 | Eric Thompson | Earthquake Effects | Site Response Mapping with One Less Proxy: Collaborative Research with Tufts University, and the USGS ($65,650; May 2013 through April 2014) | Tufts University | Final Technical Report due July 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00023 | Cliff Frolich | Earthquake Physics | Analysis of USArray Data to Survey Induced Earthquakes in the Eagle Ford Shale of Texas and the Bakken Shale of North Dakota ($138,680; April 2013 through March 2015) | University of Texas Austin | Final Technical Report Due June 2015 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00024 | Heather Savage and Geoffrey Abers | Central and Eastern U.S. | The 2011 Oklahoma Earthquake Sequence and the Role of Fluid Injection in Triggering Earthquakes: Collaborative Research with the University of Oklahoma and Columbia University ($37,225; April 2013 through March 2014) | Columbia University | Final Technical Report Due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00025 | Kathleen Keranen | Earthquake Physics | The 2011 Oklahoma Earthquake Sequence and the Role of Fluid Injection in Triggering Earthquakes: Collaborative Research with the University of Oklahoma and Columbia University ($40,300; April 2013 through March 2014) | University of Oklahoma | Final Technical Report due June 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00026 | Jeffrey Freymueller | Pacific Northwest | Reassessment of the Extent of Seismic and Aseismic Slip on the Alaska-Aleutian Megathrust (S62,968; May 2013 through May 2014) | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Final Technical Report Due August 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00027 | Ellen M. Rathje | Earthquake Effects | Remote Sensing Measurements of Liquefaction-Induced Ground Deformation from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake ($79,535; June 2013 through May 2014) | University of Texas, Austin | Final Technical Report Due August 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00029 | Jonathan Bray | Earthquake Effects | Evaluating Fully Nonlinear Effective Stress Site Response Computer Programs using Records from the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence ($89,985; June 2013 through May 2014) | University of California, Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due August 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00030 | Chris Cramer | National | Developing Empirical GMPEs for Eastern North America Based on the NGA East Ground Motion Database and Additional M6-7 Ground Motion Estimates from Historical Earthquake Intensities ($59,751; June 2013 through May 2014) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due August 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00032 | Lee Liberty | Pacific Northwest | Development of land streamer technologies for estimating shear wave velocities in an urban environment ($76,901; May 2013 through May 2014) | Boise State University | August 2014 | 2013 | |
| G13AP00033 | Graham Kent & Steven Wesnousky | Intermountain West | Earthquake Size and Slip Rate of the Pyramid lake Fault Zone near Reno, Nevada ($52,552; June 2013 through May 2014) | University of Nevada, Reno | Final Technical Report Due August 2014 | 2013 |
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