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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G20AC00042 | Heidi Tremayne | National | Assistance in Undertaking a Community Review of Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Investigations ($32,200; January 2020 through June 2020) | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | Final Technical Report Due September 2020 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00007 | Philip Pearthree | Intermountain West | Detailed Mapping of Late Quaternary-Active Traces of Southwestern Utah and Northwestern Arizona Faults: Collaborative Research with the Utah Geological Survey and Arizona Geological Survey ($10,725; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of Arizona | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00008 | Tyler Knudsen & Adam Hiscock | Intermountain West | Detailed Mapping of Late Quaternary-Active Traces of Southwestern Utah and Northwestern Arizona Faults: Collaborative Research with the Utah Geological Survey and Arizona Geological Survey ($29,468; January 2020 through December 2020) | Utah Geological Survey | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00009 | Steve Bowman & Emily Kleber | Intermountain West | 2020 Utah Earthquake Working Groups and Update of Working-Group-Related Databases ($27,251; January 2020 through December 2020) | Utah Geological Survey | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00010 | John Anderson & llia Zaliapin | National | Effects of Earthquake Declustering on the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Maps ($72,144; January 2020 through January 2021) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report due April 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00011 | Elnaz Seylabi | National | Robust Site Characterization by Data Fusion and Assimilation of Recorded Grount Motions and Geotechnical Measurements: Collaborative Research with University of Nevada Reno and California Institute of Technology ($52,735; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00012 | Domniki Asimaki | National | Collaborative Research with the University of Nevada, Reno and Caltech: Robust Site Characterization by Data Fusion and Assimilation of Recorded Ground Motions and Geotechnical Measurements ($30,000; January 2020 through December 2020) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00013 | Elizabeth Hearn | Southern California | Quantifying the Effect of Ductile and Brittle Material Properties on Southern California Crustal Deformation: PyLith Finite-Element Models ($29,868; January 2020 through December 2020) | Elizabeth Hearn | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00014 | Rich Koehler & Seth Dee | Intermountain West | Fault Trace Mapping and Paleoseismic Investigation of Earthquake History and Recurrence along the Bonham Ranch Fault Zone, North of Reno, Nevada ($65,597; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00015 | Gregory Beroza | Southern California | Earthquake Monitoring in an Urban Setting Through Deep-Learning-Based Noise Suppression and Back-Projection: Case Study for the Long Beach Dense Array ($75,169; January 2020 through December 2020) | Stanford University | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00016 | Noel Bartlow | Pacific Northwest and Alaska | Bridging the Gap Between Locking and ETS in Cascadia using Geodetic Data and Vixcoelastic Models: Collaborative Research with Indiana University and University of California, Berkeley ($51,347; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00017 | Kaj Johnson | Pacific Northwest and Alaska | Bridging the Gap Between Locking and ETS in Cascadia using Geodetic Data and Vixcoelastic Models: Collaborative Research with Indiana University and University of California, Berkeley ($19,357; January 2020 through December 2020) | Indiana University | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00018 | N. Seth Carpenter, Zhenming Wang & Edward Woolery | Central and Eastern U.S. | Improving Estimates of Ground-Motion Site Response in the New Madrid and Wabash Valley Seismic Zone ($64,462; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of Kentucky | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00019 | Jack Baker | Engineering Seismology and Impacts | Detection of Ground Motion Spatial Correlation Nonstationarities Using Network Analysis ($88,168; January 2020 through December 2020) | Stanford University | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00020 | Roland Burgmann | Northern California | The Distribution of Fault Creep and Coupling on San Francisco Bay Area Faults ($84,921; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00021 | Christine Ruhl | Earthquake Early Warning | Investigating the Influence of Stress Drop and Source Directivity on Earthquake Early Warning Magnitude and Ground Motion Estimates: Collaborative Research with the University of Tulsa and USGS ($66,587; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of Tulsa | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00022 | Nori Nakata | Earthquake Physics | Quantifying Uncertainity in Earthquake Source Parameters Using the Large N LASSO Array: Collaborative Research with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University ($67,832; January 2020 through December 2020) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00023 | Rachel Abercrombie | Earthquake Physics | Quantifying Uncertainity in Earthquake Source Parameters Using the Large N LASSO Array: Collaborative Research with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University ($27,111; January 2020 through December 2020) | Boston University | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00024 | Toshiro Tanimoto & Ralph Archuleta | Engineering Seismology and Impacts | Shallow Rigidity Structure from Co-Located Pressure and Seismic Data and its Comparison to Vx30 ($71,929; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of California Santa Barbara | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00025 | David Schaff & Felix Waldhauser | Northern California | Precision Seismic Monitoring in Northern California: Updating and Improving the Real-Time Double-Difference (RTDD) System ($91,079; January 2020 through December 2020) | Columbia University | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00026 | Michael West and Natalia Ruppert | Pacific Northwest and Alaska | AACSE Earthquake Catalog ($97,990; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00027 | Peter Shearer | Southern California | Implications of Spatial Variations in Earthquake Stress Drop for Fault Mechanics and Strong Ground Motion ($111,932; January 2020 through December 2021) | University of California San Diego | Final Technical Report Due March 2022 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00028 | Kristine Pankow | Intermountain West | Temporal Characteristics of Aftershock Sequences in the Intermountain West ($48,009; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of Utah | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00029 | Laurie Baise | Engineering Seismology and Impacts | Updating the Geospatial Liquefaction Database and Model ($98,619; January 2020 through December 2020) | Tufts University | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00030 | Matt Morgan | Intermountain West | Assessing Late Quaternary Activity along the Ute Pass Fault, El Paso County, Colorado Front Range ($30,477; January 2020 through December 2020) | Colorado School of Mines | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00031 | Elizabeth Reddy | Earthquake Early Warning | ShakeAlert's Community of Practice: A Qualitative and Collaborative Reseach of ShakeAlert Operations with USGS ($50,833; January 2020 through December 2020) | Colorado School of Mines | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00032 | Michael Oskin | Northern California | Geologic Slip Rate of the Bartlett Springs Fault at Wilson Valley and Elk Creek, California ($41,724; January 2020 through December 2020) | University of California Davis | Final Technical Report Due March 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00037 | Ares Rosakis | Earthquake Physics | Laboratory Earthquakes Along the Intefaces with Rock Gouge ($100,000; February 2020 through January 2021) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report due April 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00039 | Zhigang Peng | Central and Eastern U.S. | Improved Understanding of Earthquake Behaviors Along the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone from Template Matching Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone from Template Matching ($80,659; February 2020 through February 2021) | Georgia Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report due April 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00042 | Amir Allam | Northern California | Seismic Imaging of Hayward Fault Zone with a Dense Nodal Seismic Array for Refined Ground Motion Estimation: Collaborative Research with University of California Berkeley and University of Utah ($59,516; March 2020 through February 2021) | University of Utah | Final Technical Report Due May 2021 | 2020 | |
| G20AP00043 | Takaaki Taira & Douglas Dreger | Northern California | Seismic Imaging of Hayward Fault Zone with a Dense Nodal Seismic Array for Refined Ground Motion Estimation: Collaborative Research with University of California Berkeley and University of Utah ($87,716; March 2020 through February 2021) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report due May 2021 | 2020 |
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