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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G23AC00294 | Michael West, Brad Lobland, Natalia Ruppert & Matthew Gardine | Earthquake Early Warning | To support work on developing an implementation plan to expand ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system to Alaska ($350,000; June 2023 through December 2024) | Alaska Earthquake Center Geophysical Institute | Final Technical Report due March 2025 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00014 | Yihe Huang | Induced Seismology | Relative Magnitude Calculation and Variations in Magnitude-Frequency Distribution for Earthquakes in the Delaware Basin ($70,760; January 2023 through December 2023) | University of Michigan | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00017 | Brett Maurer | Engineering Seismology and Impacts | Informing Predictions from Above with Data from Below: A Hierarchical Geospatial Liquefaction Model for Rapid Response and Simulation ($78,966; January 2023 through December 2023) | University of Washington | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00020 | Peter Shearer | Southern California | Implications of Spatial Variations in Earthquake Stress Drop for Fault Mechanics and Strong Ground Motion ($125,111; January 2023 through December 2023) | University of California San Diego | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00021 | Fan-Chi Lin & Tonie Van Dam | Intermountain West | Towards an Improved Salt Lake Valley Community Velocity Model Through Seismic and Gravity Joint Inversion: Collaborative Proposal with University of Utah and Utah Geological Survey ($59,963; January 2023 through December 2023) | University of Utah | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00048 | Valerie Sahakian | Pacific Northwest and Alaska | Understanding the Effects of Willamette Valley Sedimentary Structure on Shaking ($94,892; March 2023 through March 2024) | University of Oregon | Final Technical Report due June 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00049 | Qimin Wu & Martin Chapman | Central and Eastern U.S. | Comprehensive Seismological Investigation of the 2020 Mw 5.1 Sparta, North Carolina, Earthquake Sequence ($62,271; January 2023 through December 2023) | Lettis Consultants International, Inc. | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00051 | Christian Hardwick & Adam McKean | Intermountain West | Towards an Improved Salt Lake Valley Community Velocity Model Through Seismic and Gravity Joint Inversion: Collaborative Proposal with University of Utah and Utah Geological Survey ($24,886.18; January 2023 through December 2023) | Utah Geological Survey | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00060 | Elnaz Seylabi & Seth Saltiel | Intermountain West | High-Resolution Subsurface Imaging Using Interfermometry of DAS Ambient Noise Strain Rate Measurements along a Dark Fiber Line in Downtown Reno, NV ($84,715; January 2023 through December 2023) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00062 | Robert Smalley, Jr | Central and Eastern U.S. | Determining GNSS Strain Rate and Uncertainity in Low Strain Rate Regions: Application for the New Madrid Seismic Zone and Northeastern Oklahoma ($93,079; January 2023 through December 2023) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00064 | Will Levandowski & Dan McNamara | National | Delineation of the frequency-dependent Gulf Coast / CEUS ground motion boundary ($33,356; January 2023 through December 2023) | Boulder Geophysics | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00065 | Allyson Carroll | Northern California | Assessing the Timing of the Penultimate Earthquake of the Northern Section of the San Andreas Fault using Dendrochronology: Collaborative Research with USGS ($99,765; January 2023 through December 2023) | Cal Poly Humboldt | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00066 | Chukweubuka Nweke | National | Geometric Parameterization of Southern California Sedimentar Basins for Site Response Analysis and Modeling ($74,448; January 2023 through December 2023) | University of Southern California | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00067 | Norman Abrahamson | Southern California | Including CyberShake 3-D Simulations into Non-Ergodic Ground-Motion Models for the Los Angelse Region ($84,857; January 2023 through December 2023) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00079 | Paul Segall | Induced Seismology | Constraints on Stress Heterogeneity from Modeling Induced Seismicity on Rough Faults in Oklahoma ($88,584; January 2023 through December 2023) | Stanford University | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00081 | Will Levandowski | Central and Eastern U.S. | High-precision 3D gravity investigation of the 2020 Mw5.1 Sparta, NC epicentral and aftershock zone ($15,319; January 2023 through December 2023) | Tetra Tech, Inc. | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00083 | Gregory Beroza | Northern California | Towards a Multi-Decadal Machine-Learning-Based Earthquake Catalog for Northern California ($93,764; January 2023 through December 2023) | Stanford University | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00091 | Ellen Rathje & Krishna Kumar | Engineering Seismology and Impacts | Investigating Shear Strength Proxies for us in Regional Seismic Landslide Assessments ($79,810; January 2023 through January 2024) | University of Texas at Austin | Final Technical Report due April 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00092 | Andreas Skarlatoudis, Paul Somerville, Hong Kie Thio & Scott Condon | National | Regionalization of Earthquake Source and Ground Motion Models for Subduction Interface Earthquakes ($69,421.80; January 2023 through December 2023) | AECOM Technical Services | Final Technical Report due March 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00111 | Zhongwen Zhan | Earthquake Early Warning | Data-Driven Analyses of DAS for EEW ($97,322; February 2023 through February 2024) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report due May 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00129 | Ashly Cabas | Engineering Seismology and Impacts | Towards Multiscale Evaluations of Lateral Spreading: Collaborative Research with North Carolina State University and Bucknell University ($74,728; May 2023 through May 2024) | North Carolina State University | Final Technical Report due August 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00130 | Ellen Chamberlin | Engineering Seismology and Impacts | Toward Multiscale Evaluations of Lateral Spreading: Collaborative Research with North Carolina State University and Bucknell University ($8,514; May 2023 through May 2024) | Bucknell University | Final Technical Report due August 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00131 | David Schaff | Earthquake Physics | Using Repeating Foreshocks as Creep Meters at Depth to Test an Aseismic Pre-Slip Model for Some Large Earthquakes ($86,026; May 2023 through April 2024) | Columbia University | Final Technical Report due July 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00142 | Chelsea Scott | Intermountain West | Constraining Coseismic Surface Displacement and Fault Slip from Topographic Difference for the 1983 M6.9 Borah Peak, Idaho, Earthquake ($54,534: March 2023 through February 2024) | Arizona State University | Final Technical Report due June 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00162 | Michael Brudzinski | Earthquake Early Warning | Investigating Access and Barriers to use of the San Diego Emergency App for ShakeAlert through a Multi-Methods Approach: Collaborative Research with Miami University and The Incorporated Research Institutions of Seismology ($55,589; March 2023 through March 2024) | Miami University | Final Technical Report due June 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00167 | Danielle Sumy | Earthquake Early Warning | Investigating Access and Barriers to use of the San Diego Emergency App for ShakeAlert through a Multi-Methods Approach: Collaborative Research with Miami University and The Incorporated Research Institutions of Seismology ($98,692; March 2023 through March 2024) | Earthscope Consortium, Inc. | Final Technical Report due June 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00168 | California State University Long Beach | Southern California | Tectonic Geomorphic Mapping, Geochronology, and Structural Modeling of Quaternary Active Faults in the Santa Maria Basin, San Louis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties California: Collaborative Research with California State University Long Beach and Lettis Consultants International Inc ($22,620; April 2023 through March 2024) | Nate Onderdonk | Final Technical Report due June 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00169 | Ian McGregor | Southern California | Tectonic Geomorphic Mapping, Geochronology, and Structural Modeling of Quaternary Active Faults in the Santa Maria Basin, San Louis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties California: Collaborative Research with California State University Long Beach and Lettis Consultants International Inc ($34,779; April 2023 through March 2024) | Lettis Consultants International, Inc. | Final Technical Report due June 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00170 | Christopher Bloszies & John Baldwin | Northern California | Exploratory Paleoseismic Investigation of the Quien Sabe Fault, San Benito County, California ($59,626; April 2023 through March 2024) | Lettis Consultants International, Inc. | Final Technical Report due June 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00212 | Daniel Trugman | Earthquake Early Warning | Toward Earthquake Early Warning in Nevada ($66,520; June 2023 through May 2024) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report due August 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00242 | John Louie | Intermountain West | Building a CVM for Seismic Resilience in Western Nevada's Industrial Base: Collaborative Research with the University of Nevada, Reno and University of Cincinnati ($43,410; May 2023 through May 2024) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report due August 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00243 | Sarah Woodroffe, Simon Engelhart & Robert Witter | Pacific Northwest and Alaska | Detection Thresholds for Large to Great Subduction Earthquakes in Alaska: Collaborative Research with Durham University and the USGS ($99,736.36; May 2023 through April 2024) | Durham University | Final Technical Report due July 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00244 | Daniel Sturmer | Intermountain West | Building a CVM for Seismic Resilience in Western Nevada's Industrial Base: Collaborative Research with the University of Nevada, Reno and University of Cincinnati ($30,156; May 2023 through May 2024) | University of Cincinnati | Final Technical Report due August 2024) | 2023 | |
| G23AP00268 | Ryan Hurley | Earthquake Physics | Force Chain Buckling as a Granular Fault Gouge Stick-Slip and Seismicity Mechanism ($95,593; April 2023 through April 2024) | Johns Hopkins University | Final Technical Report due July 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00269 | Karl Wegmann, Elana Leithold & DelWayne Bohnenstiehl | Pacific Northwest and Alaska | Holocene Paleoseismology of the Darrington-Devils Mountain Fault Zone at Lake Cavanaugh, Washington: Testing the Lake's Sensitivity to Local and Regional Earthquakes ($121,776; June 2023 through June 2024) | North Carolina State University | Final Technical Report due September 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00282 | Susu Xu | Engineering Seismology and Impacts | Integrating Satellite Imagery and PAGER Loss Modeling for Improved Building Damage Estimates: Collaborative Research with Stony Brook University and USGS ($74,913; June 2023 through May 2024) | Stony Brook University | Final Technical Report due August 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00287 | Kristin Morell & Suoya Fan | Pacific Northwest and Alaska | Kinematic and Paleoseismic Investigation of an Upper-Plate Fault on Chirikof Island: A Potential Tsunami-Seismic Hazard Source within the Alaska Subduction Zone ($92,453; June 2023 through May 2024) | University of California Santa Barbara | Final Technical Report due August 2024 | 2023 | |
| G23AP00293 | Carl Tape | Pacific Northwest and Alaska | Aftershock Regions of Mw > 6.5 Earthquakes on the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Plate Boundary, 1918 to 2013 ($78,694; June 2023 through May 2024) | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | Final Technical Report due August 2024 | 2023 |
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