Funded Research - Grants & Cooperative Agreements & Final Technical Reports
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G19AP00007 | Robert Hatcher, Jr. | Central and Eastern U.S. | Paleoseismic Investigation of the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone: Collaborative Research with University of Memphis and University of Tennessee ($29,765; January 2019 through December 2019) | University of Tennessee | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00008 | Randel Tom Cox | Central and Eastern U.S. | Paleoseismic Investigation of the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone: Collaborative Research with University of Memphis and University of Tennessee ($66,712; January 2019 through December 2019) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00009 | Rich Koehler & Jennifer Vlcan | Intermountain West | Nevada Quaternary Fault Database: A New Publicly Accessible Web-Based Resource ($58,490; January 2019 through December 2019) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00010 | Diego Melgar | Earthquake Early Warning | Physics Based Broadband Simulations for Earthquake Early Warning ($85,268; January 2019 through December 2019) | University of Oregon | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00011 | Ryan Pollyea | Earthquake Physics | The Hydrogeology of Saltwater Disposal: How Fluid Density Variations Affect Diffusion in the Seismogenic Zone ($96,930; January 2019 through December 2019) | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00012 | Kimberly Blisniuk | Northern California | Determining the Distribution of Slip across the Northern San Andreas Fault System through Long-Term Fault Slip Rates on the Rodgers Creek Fault, Northern California ($70,759; January 2019 through December 2019) | San Jose State University | Final Technical Report due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00013 | Kimberly Blisniuk | Northern California | Identifying Faults and Earthquakes, and Their Potential Association with Mass Wasting Along the Seal Cove Strand of the San Gregorio Fault in San Mateo County ($21,488; January 2019 through December 2019) | San Jose State University | Final Technical Report due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00014 | Robert Clayton | Southern California | Using Dense Nodal Deployments to Charactize the Structure of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Basins, Southern California: Collaborative Research with Louisiana State Univeristy and California Institute of Technology ($75,109; January 2019 through December 2019) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00015 | Patricia Persaud | Southern California | Using Dense Nodal Deployments to Charactize the Structure of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Basins, Southern California: Collaborative Research with Louisiana State Univeristy and California Institute of Technology ($56,227; January 2019 through December 2019) | Louisiana State University | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00017 | Brendan Crowell | Earthquake Early Warning | Exporting Real-Time GNSS Data and Products to the NEIC: Collaborative Research with University of Washington, Central Washington University, and US Geological Survey ($52,254; January 2019 through December 2019) | University of Washington | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00018 | Timothy Melbourne | Earthquake Early Warning | Exporting Real-Time GNSS Data and Products to the NEIC: Collaborative Research with University of Washington, Central Washington University, and US Geological Survey ($18,476; January 2019 through December 2019) | Central Washington University | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00019 | Clifford Thurber | Pacific Northwest and Alaska | Initial Development of Alaska Community Seismic Velocity Models ($88,057; January 2019 through December 2019) | University of Wisconsin Madison | Final Technical Report due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00020 | Paul Segall | Earthquake Physics | Investigation the Seismic Signature of Earthquake Nucleation with Dynamic Simulations of Microearthquakes ($87,773; January 2019 through December 2019) | Stanford University | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00021 | Steven Jaume & Norman Levine | Central and Eastern U.S. | Charleston Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project Time History Database, Urban Hazard Maps, and Public Outreach Workshop: Collaborative Research with the University of Memphis and the College of Charleston ($42,869; January 2019 through December 2019) | College of Charleston | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00022 | Chris Cramer | Central and Eastern U.S. | Charleston Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project Time History Database, Urban Hazard Maps, and Public Outreach Workshop: Collaborative Research with the University of Memphis and the College of Charleston ($51,519; January 2019 through December 2019) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00023 | Laurie Baise | Engineering Seismology and Impacts | National and Global Liquefaction Loss Models for PAGER ($93,767; January 2019 through December 2019) | Tufts University | Final Technical Report due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00024 | William Levandowski | Central and Eastern U.S. | Refining the Boundaries of the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone by Understanding its Seismotectonic and Geodynamic Origin ($38,176; January 2019 through December 2019) | Boulder Geophysics | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00025 | Jonathan Stewart & Scott Brandenberg | National | Improved Models for Site Amplification in Sedimentary Basins ($65,665; January 2019 through December 2019) | University of California Los Angeles | Final Technical Report due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00026 | Yousef Bozorgnia | National | Development of Earthquake Ground-Motion Tools for End-Users of the NGA-Subjection and NGA-East Ground Motion Models ($72,617; January 2019 through January 2020) | University of California Los Angeles | Final Technical Report due April 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00027 | Michael Hamburger & Anna Jessee | Engineering Seismology and Impacts | Estimating the Likelihood and Impact of Seismically Induced Landslides in Near Real-Time ($100,734; January 2019 through December 2019) | Indiana University | Final Technical Report Due March 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00028 | Peter Shearer | Intermountain West | Nevada Seismicity Studies - Input to Hazard Assessment, Clusters & Sequences, Source Physics, and Ground Motions: Collaborative Research between University of California San Diego and University of Nevada Reno ($25,614; February 2019 through January 2020) | University of California San Diego | Final Technical Report due April 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00029 | Ken Smith | Intermountain West | Nevada Seismicity Studies - Input to Hazard Assessment, Clusters & Sequences, Source Physics, and Ground Motions: Collaborative Research between University of California San Diego and University of Nevada Reno ($65,730; February 2019 through January 2020) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report due April 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00030 | Zhongwen Zhan | Earthquake Early Warning | Rapid Charactrization of First-Order complexity of Large Earthquakes ($93,142; February 2019 through January 2020) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report due April 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00031 | Thomas Rockwell | Southern California | Investigating the Earthquake Chronology of the Last Millennium along the Cholame Segment of the San Andreas Fault: Collaborative Research with Arizona State University and San Diego State University ($9,802; March 2019 through February 2020) | San Diego State University | Final Technical Report Due May 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00032 | J Ramon Arrowsmith & Alana Williams | Southern California | Investigating the Earthquake Chronology of the Last Millennium along the Cholame Segment of the San Andreas Fault: Collaborative Research with Arizona State University and San Diego State University ($67,692; March 2019 through February 2020) | Arizona State University | Final Technical Report due May 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00033 | Gordon Seitz | Northern California | Completing the Preliminary Chronology of the Monte Bello Paleoseismic Record with Additional Dating: The Existence of a Penisular San Andreas Fault Segment is in Question ($16,683; March 2019 through February 2020) | California Geological Survey | Final Technical Report Due May 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00048 | Allan Rubin | Earthquake Physics | How Much of Rate-and-State Friction can be Explained by Granular Friction Models? ($99,816; May 2019 through April 2020) | Princeton University | Final Technical Report due July 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00049 | Marc Eberhard | Pacific Northwest and Alaska | Implications of Simulated Motions for M9 Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake: Collborative Research with University of Washington and USGS ($73,273; May 2019 through April 2020) | University of Washington | Final Technical Report due July 2020 | 2019 | |
| G19AP00052 | Charles Langston & Christine Powell | Central and Eastern U.S. | Seismotectonics and Seismic Potential of Three Intraplate Seismic Zone ($80,179; May 2019 thorugh April 2021) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report due July 2021 | 2019 |
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