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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Award Pending | Ellen Rathje | Earthquake Effects | Validation of Methodologies Used to Map Earthquake-Induced Landslide Potential ($72,657; September 2009 through August 2010) | University of Texas Austin | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Felix Waldhauser & David Schaff | National and Intermountain West | Towards Near Real-Time Double-Difference Event Relocation at the NEIC ($76,385; September 2009 through August 2010) | Columbia University | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Paolo Bazzurro, Polsak Tothung & Jaesung Park | National and Intermountain West | Vector-Valued Probabilisitc Seismic Hazard Analysis of Correlated Ground Motion Parameters ($64,064; April 2009 through March 2010) | AIR Worldwide Corp. | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Deborah Kilb | Southern California | State of Stress at the Southermost End of the San Andreas Fault: Integration of Seismicity Patterns and Focal Mechanisms with Fault Structure Observed in Seismic Reflection Data Beneath the Salton Sea ($43,351; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California San Diego | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | John Vidale & Ken Creager | Pacific Northwest | Refined Seismic Amplification Forecasting by Improved Basin-Structure with Noise Correlation Methods ($50,225; One Year Award) | University of Washington | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Zhigang Peng | Earthquake Physics | Systematic Analysis of Early Aftershocks of the 2004 Mw6.0 Parkfield Earthquake Detected by a Matched Filter Technique ($70,008; One Year Award) | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Kevin Clahan & Andrew Lutz | National and Intermountain West | Empirical Relationships between Lithology and Shear Wave Velocity: Revised Digital NEHRP Site Classification Maps for Albuquerque, NM ($51,541; One Year Award) | William Lettis & Associates | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Monica Kohler | Earthquake Effects | Documenting Pre-event System Identification of USGS-Instrumented Structures: Collaborative Reseach between UCLA and USC ($37,345; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California Los Angeles | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Duncan Agnew | Southern California | Creep Events on the Southern San Andreas Fault: Modeling and Measurement ($60,000; March 2009 through February 2010) | University of California San Diego | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Jeffrey Unruh | Southern California | Refining the Southern Extent of the 1872 Owens Valley Earthquake Rupture - Paleoseismic Investigations at Sage Flat and Haiwee Meadows, CA ($50,034; September 2009 through August 2010) | William Lettis & Associates | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Youssef Hashash | Central and Eastern U.S. | Site Amplification Factors for Deep Deposits & Their Application in Seismic Hazard Analysis for Central US ($74,492; August 2009 through August 2010) | University of Illinois | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Roland Burgmann | Northern California | Space Geodetic Measurements and Models of Crustal Deformation in the San Francisco Bay Area ($58,448; One Year Award) | University of California Berkeley | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Roland Burgmann | Northern California | Fault Creep Dynamics, Earthquake Cycles and Earthquake Potential on the Hayward Fault: Collaborative Research between University of California Berkeley and Indiana University ($55,886; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California Berkeley | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Kevin Mayeda | Southern California | Mapping Lateral Variations in Apparent Stress: Application of the Coda Ratio Methodology to Southern California Sequences ($58,281; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California Berkeley | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Edward Woolery | Central and Eastern U.S. | Ground Motion Site Effects in the Wabash Valley Region from the 18 April 2008 Mt. Carmel, Illinois Earthquake and Aftershocks ($45,896; One Year Award) | University of Kentucky | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Robert Graves | Central and Eastern U.S. | Ground Motion Simulations for the 1811 and 1812 New Madrid Earthquakes ($69,535; One Year Award) | URS Group, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| Award Pending | Edward Woolery & Zhenming Wang | Central and Eastern U.S. | High-Resolution P- and S- Wave Velocity Structure of the Post-Palezoic Sediments in the Upper Missippi Embayment: Collaborative Research between the University of Kentucky and the University of Memphis ($89,567; Two Year Award) | University of Kentucky | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00005 | John Platt & Thorsten Becker | Earthquake Physics | The 3-D strain-rate field in California and its implications for seismic hazard ($71,113; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Southern California | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00006 | Patrick Williams | Northern California | Rate Constraints for the Northern Hayward Fault at Berkeley: Evaluation of th 335-Meter Strawberry Creek Offset ($58,623; December 2008 through November 2009) | San Diego State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00007 | Ray Weldon and David Schmidt | Pacific Northwest | More Accurate Uplift Rates for Western Washington to Constrain Models of Locking Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone ($74,692; December 2008 through November 2009) | University of Oregon | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00008 | Chris Cramer | Central and Eastern U.S. | In Support of the St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project: Update Hazard Map Uncertanity Analysis ($94,069; December 2008 through November 2010) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00009 | James Dieterich | Earthquake Physics | Simulation of Fault System Seismicity: Applications to Probabilistic Assessments of Earthquake Occurrence ($238,396; December 2008 through November 2010) | University of California Riverside | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00010 | Jonathan Bray | Earthquake Effects | Seismic Assessment of Earth Structures Overlying Potentially Liquefiable Soils ($76,968; December 2008 through November 2009) | University of California Berkeley | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00011 | John van de Lindt | Earthquake Effects | Developing Damage Potential Indicators through Coupling Intrinsic Mode Functions and Structural Characteristics for Improvement in Synthetic Ground Motion Generation:Collaborative Research with USGS ($60,000; December 2009 through January 2009) | Colorado State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00012 | Ray Weldon | Southern California | Slip Rates for the San Andreas fault between the Big Bend and the San Bernardino Valley, Southern California ($67,898; December 2008 through January 2009) | University of Oregon | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00013 | John Puchakayala & Robert Smalley | Central and Eastern U.S. | Consttraining Central US Deformation Models with Continuous GPS Data ($28,927; January 2009 through December 2009) | The University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00014 | Egill Hauksson | Southern California | Analysis of Earthquake Data from the Greater Los Angeles Basin and Adjacent Offshore Area, Southern California ($50,000; January 2009 through December 2009) | California Institute of Technology | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00015 | Randel Tom Cox | Central and Eastern U.S. | Holocene Faulting and Liquefaction along the Southern Margin of the North American Craton (Alabama-Oklahoma Transform)($37,885; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00016 | Chris Goldfinger | Northern California | Holocene Seismicity of the Northern San Andreas Fault: Refining the Earthquake Record with Precise Dating of Earthquake Triggered Turbidites ($45,875; January 2009 through December 2009) | Oregon State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00017 | Stephen Horton | Central and Eastern U.S. | The Effects of Radiation Pattern on Ground Motion in the NMSZ ($59,097; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00018 | Felix Waldhauser | Northern California | Real-Time Double-Difference Location at the CISN: Implementation and DD Catalog Maintenance ($97,946; January 2009 through December 2009) | Columbia University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00019 | Yehuda Ben-Zion & Danijel Schorlemmer | Southern California | Systematic Tests of Asymmetric Propagation Directions of Earthquakes on Southern CA Faults Based on Large Seismic Catalog Databasets ($56,541; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Southern California | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00020 | Alan Ramelli | National and Intermountain West | Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Fault Slip Rates on the Genoa Fault ($35,691; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Nevada Reno | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00021 | Recep Cakir & Timothy Walsh | Pacific Northwest | Shallow-Seismic Site Characterizations of Near-Surface Geology at 20 Strong-Motion Stations in Washington State ($45,629; January 2009 through December 2009) | Washington Department of Natural Resources | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00022 | John Baldwin & Robert Givler | Central and Eastern U.S. | Paleoseismic Characterization of the Penitentiary Fault and its Association with the Commerce Geophysical Lineament, Tamms, Southern Illinois ($74,890; January 2009 through December 2009) | William Lettis & Associates, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00023 | Chen Ji | National and Intermountain West | Global Earthquake Characterization on Irregular Fault Surfaces: Collaborative Research with University of CA., Santa Barbara and USGS ($64,766; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of California Santa Barbara | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00024 | Kenneth Creager & John Vidale | Pacific Northwest | Improved Monitoring of Tremor, Earthquakes and Volcanoes by the PNSN with Methods to Search Continuous Waveforms ($49,948; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Washington | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00025 | Yuri Fialko | Southern California | Interseismic Deformation and Fault Slip Rates in Southern California from 15 years of InSAR Observations ($65,694; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of California San Diego | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00027 | Ralph Archuleta | National and Intermountain West | Strong Ground Motions in Salt Lake City and Other Metropolitan Areas from Large Earthquakes on the Wasatch Fault ($73,921; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of California Santa Barbara | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00030 | Susan Tubbesing | National and Intermountain West | Providing Building Data in Support of PAGER ($70,000; January 2009 through December 2009) | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00032 | Patricia Sutch | General | Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC) Conference | Western States Seismic Policy Council | download | 2009 | |
| G09AP00043 | Harvey Kelsey | Pacific Northwest | Late Holocene Tectonics of Northwesternmost Washington: Laying the Groundwork for an Improved Model of Northern Cascadia Forearch Deformation: Collaborative Research with Humbotldt State University and the USGS ($62,131; June 2009 through May 2010) | Humboldt State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00047 | James Bay | National and Intermountain West | Determination of Modulus Reduction and Damping Curves for Bonneville Soils ($24,618; May 2009 through April 2010) | Utah State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00048 | Judith Zachariasen | Northern California | Paleoseismic Investigation of Holocene Earthquake Recurrence on the Penisula Segment of the San Andreas Faults, Woodside, CA: Collaborative Research between URS Group and USGS ($45,016; May 2009 through April 2010) | URS Group, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00049 | Lee Liberty | Pacific Northwest | High Resolution Imaging of Megathrust Splay Faults in Prince William Sound, AK ($75,352; May 2009 through April 2010) | Boise State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00050 | John Louie | Southern California | Shear-Velocity Measurements at CISN Stations along the Southern San Andreas Fault ($66,171; May 2009 through May 2010) | University of Nevada Reno | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00051 | John Louie & Ileana Tibuleac | National and Intermountain West | Gathering Critical Data Toward the Western Basin and Range CVM ($48,813; May 2009 through May 2010) | University of Nevada Reno | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00052 | Peter Shearer | Southern California | Analysis of Southern California Seismicity Using Improved Locations, Focal Mechanisms and Stress Drops ($74,688; May 2009 through April 2010) | University of California San Diego | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00053 | Terry Tullis & David Goldsby | Earthquake Physics | Experiments to Understand Dynamic Friction During Earthquakes ($112,896; May 2009 through April 2010) | Brown University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00054 | Paul Somerville | National and Intermountain West | Earthquake Source and Ground Motion Characteristics in the Central and Eastern United States ($68,830; May 2009 through April 2010) | URS Group, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00057 | Jennifer Haase & Robert Nowack | Central and Eastern U.S. | Evansville PSHA and Earthquake Scenarios in Support of Earthquake Training Exercises ($20,000; May 2009 through April 2010) | Purdue Univeristy | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00058 | Janet Sowers & Jeffrey Unruh | Northern California | Mapping, Assessment and Digital Compilation of the Connection Between Rogers Creek and Maacama Faults, Sonoma County, for the Northern CA Quaternary Fault Map Database: Collaborative Research between William Lettis and USGS ($31,234; May 2009 through May | William Lettis & Associates, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00059 | Keith Knudsen | Earthquake Effects | Geologic and Geomorphic Evaluation of World-Wide Liquefaction Case Histories, and Development and Testing of Rapid Hazard Mapping Approaches ($44,101; May 2009 through May 2010) | URS Group, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00060 | Harold Magistrale | National and Intermountain West | Enhancement of the Wasatch Front Community Velocity Model ($22,292; May 2009 through April 2010) | San Diego State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00061 | Harold Magistrale | National and Intermountain West | Construction of a Western Basin and Range Community Velocity Model ($49,643; May 2009 through April 2010) | San Diego State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00062 | Laurie Baise | Earthquake Effects | Near Surface Velocity Structure and Site Response at Parkfield, CA ($60,941; June 2009 through May 2010) | Tufts University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00063 | Swaminathan Krishnan | Southern California | Numerical Assessment Methodology for the Collapse Potential of Tall Steel Moment Frame Buildings Using End-to-End Simulations ($67,034; June 2009 through May 2010) | California Institute of Technology | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00064 | Diane Doser | Pacific Northwest | A Study of Seismicity and Fault Interaction in the Upper-Southeast Alaska Region ($42,702; June 2009 through May 2010) | University of Texas El Paso | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00065 | David Dolenc | Central and Eastern U.S. | Effects of Shallow 3D Structure of the Mississippi Embayment on Ground-Motion Amplification: Collaborative Research between University of Minnesota Duluth and University of Memphis ($53,032; June 2009 through May 2010) | University of Minnesota Duluth | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00066 | Stephen Horton | Central and Eastern U.S. | Effects of Shallow 3D Structure of the Mississippi Embayment on Ground-Motion Amplification: Collaborative Research between University of Minnesota Duluth and University of Memphis ($20,158; June 2009 through May 2010) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00067 | David Schaff | Earthquake Physics | Analysis of Microseismicity at Parkfield, CA, through Improved Detection and Location ($65,736; June 2009 through May 2010) | Columbia University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00070 | William McCann | Central and Eastern U.S. | Estimating the Lower Limit of the Seismogenic Zone & Rates of Aseismic Slip on the Puerto Rico Megathrust Using Focal Mechanisms and Repeating Earthquakes ($46,494; May 2009 through May 2010) | William McCann | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00071 | Lee Liberty | National and Intermountain West | Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Mount Rose Fault Zone, Reno, Nevada ($35,961; May 2009 through May 2010) | Boise State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00072 | John Baldwin & Gregory DePascale | Northern California | Structural Characterization and Pilot Paleoseismic Investigation of the Southernmost Rodgers Creek Fault, Northern San Pablo Bay, CA ($44,271; June 2009 through May 2010) | William Lettis & Associates | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00073 | Pedro de Alba | Central and Eastern U.S. | Use of Ground Failure Case Histories to Characterize a Design Earthquake for Coastal New England ($20,695; June 2009 through May 2010) | University of New Hampshire | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00074 | Martin Chapman | Central and Eastern U.S. | Investigation into the Nature of Vertical Strong Ground-Motion for the Charleston, SC Area ($67,755; June 2009 through May 2010) | Virginia Polytechnic and State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00075 | Patrick Williams | Southern California | Recent Slip-per-Event History, Coachella Valley Segment San Andreas Fault ($55,000; May 2009 through May 2010) | San Diego State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00077 | Mitchell Craig | Northern California | Near-Surface Geophyscial Imaging of Paleochannels for the Determination of Slip Rate at the Green Valley Fault ($29,907; June 2009 through May 2010) | California State University East Bay | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00078 | Jessie Bonner | National and Intermountain West | Rapid and Robust Seismic Moments from Variable-Period Surface Wave Magnitudes ($34,551; June 2009 through June 2010) | Weston Geophysical Corporation | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00079 | Charles Langston | Central and Eastern U.S. | Finding the Path Effect for Shear Waves in the Central US Using Broadband Waveform Inversion ($69,717; June 2009 through May 2010) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00082 | Donald Helmberger | Southern California | Modeling Broadband Seismograms ($50,000; June 2009 through May 2010) | California Institute of Technology | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00086 | Charles Sammis | Earthquake Physics | Using Microstructures in Pulverized Rock to Constrain Dynamical Earthquake Source Models ($71,150; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of Southern California | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00087 | Yehuda Ben-Zion | Earthquake Physics | Theoretical Constraints on Large Earthquake Ground Motion ($92,000; July 2009 through June 2011) | University of Southern California | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00096 | Jer-Ming Chiu | Central and Eastern U.S. | High-Resolution P- and S- Wave Velocity Structure of the Post-Palezoic Sediments in the Upper Missippi Embayment: Collaborative Research between the University of Kentucky and the University of Memphis ($55,000; July 2009 through June 2011) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00097 | Kaj Johnson | Northern California | Fault Creep Dynamics, Earthquake Cycles and Earthquake Potential on the Hayward Fault: Collaborative Research between University of California Berkeley and Indiana University ($31,090; July 2009 through June 2010) | Indiana University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00101 | Ramesh Govindan | Earthquake Effects | Documenting Pre-event System Identification of USGS-Instrumented Structures: Collaborative Reseach between UCLA and USC ($35,000; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of Southern California | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00105 | Ian Shennan, Anthony Long, Natasha Barlow | Pacific Northwest | Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Deformation Associated with Multiple Late Holocene Earthquakes in Alaska ($75,000; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of Durham | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00113 | Joe Gillman | Central and Eastern U.S. | Detailed Surficial Materials Mapping for the O'Fallon 7.5 Minute Quadrangle as a Portion of the St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards apping Project (SLAEHMP) ($57,346; July 2009 through June 2010) | Missouri Division of Geology and Land Survey | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00115 | Clifford Thurber | Northern California | Earthquake Hazard in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Area: Insight from Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Tomography: Collaborative Research between with UW Madison and UC Davis ($66,470; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of Wisconsin Madison | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00116 | Donna Eberhart-Phillips | Northern California | Earthquake Hazard in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Area: Insight from Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Tomography: Collaborative Research between with UW Madison and UC Davis ($46,252; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California Davis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00119 | John Segan | General | Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake (TCLEE) 2009 Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering in a Multihazard Environment ($7,500; June 2009 through September 2009) | American Society of Civil Engineers | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00120 | Susan Tubbesing | General | Support of the 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Reaching Beyone Borders ($15,000; June 2009 through July 2010) | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00121 | Ross Boulanger | Earthquake Effects | Predicting Void Redistribution-Induced Strength Loss in Liquefied Soil ($75,000; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California Davis | 2009 |
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