Earthquake Science Center Seminars

Seminars typically take place virtually at 10:30 AM (Pacific) on Wednesdays on Microsoft Teams.

We record most seminars. You can watch live or check the archives to view a past seminar.

January 2000

• Three Habits of Effective Structural Analysis (EHZ Job Interview)

  Donald Medwedeff, ARCO

  Wed, Jan 5 10:00 AM

• The Iceland Plume: 670 km Origin

  G. R. Foulger, Univ. of Durham, UK

  Wed, Jan 12 1:30 PM

• The Seismotectonics of Italy

  Lucilla Benedetti, LLNL

  Thu, Jan 27 1:30 PM

February 2000

• Earthquakes: Brittle Failure of Intact Fault Zones or Frictional Sliding Between Blocks?

  Ze'ev Reches, Hebrew Univ.

  Tue, Feb 1 1:30 PM

• The High Altitude Mapping Mission's Topographic Data Collection Plans

  Hal Malliot, HAMM Incorporated

  Thu, Feb 10 1:30 PM

• Mapping the Topography and Amplitude of Upper Mantle Discontinuities from SS and PP Precursors

  Megan Flanagan, LLNL

  Thu, Feb 17 1:30 PM

• Earthquake Focal Mechanisms from the Bay Area: Evidence for a Weak Lower Crust

  Goetz Bokelmann, Stanford Univ.

  Thu, Feb 24 1:30 PM

• The 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes-Tecumseh's Prophecy and Other Legends

  Sue Hough, USGS, Pasadena

  Mon, Feb 28 2:00 PM

• The Hector Mine Earthquake

  Ken Hudnut, USGS Pasadena

  Tue, Feb 29 1:30 PM

March 2000

• Streaks, Holes, and Multiplets: Viewing Hayward and San Andreas Fault Seismicity Through the Double- Difference Algorithm

  Felix Waldhauser

  Thu, Mar 2 1:30 PM

• The Chi Chi (Taiwan) Earthquake: A First-Order Geologic Event

  Bruce Clark

  Thu, Mar 9 1:30 PM

• Mechanics of Intraplate Earthquakes

  Paul Segall, Stanford

  Thu, Mar 16 1:30 PM

• On the Importance of Three-dimensional Earth Structure for Recovering the Earthquake Source-rupture Process

  Dave Wald, USGS Pasadena

  Thu, Mar 23 1:30 PM

• Near-Fault Ground Motions from the Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake

  Norm Abrahamson, PG&E

  Thu, Mar 30 1:30 PM

April 2000

• The Growth and Rise of Tibet

  Paul Tapponnier, IPG Paris

  Thu, Apr 6 1:30 PM

• Seismic Studies on Active Fault Structure: Several Topics in Japan and the US

  Kin'ya Nishigami, DPRI, Kyoto University

  Fri, Apr 7 1:30 PM

• The New Quaternary Fault and Fold Database for the US: A Web-based Resource for Seismic Hazard Assessment

  Michael Machette, USGS Denver

  Thu, Apr 20 1:30 PM

• EERI Distinguished Lecture: Earthquake Engineering for Transportation Structures: Past, Present, and Future

  Prof. Joseph Penzien, UC Berkeley

  Thu, Apr 27 1:30 PM

May 2000

• Continuous Crustal Deformation Across the Southern Dead Sea Transform -- Paleomagnetic Tests

  Hagai Ron (visiting Stanford)

  Thu, May 4 1:30 PM

• Discovery of Important New Crustal Faults and Basins in Puget Lowland: Results from SHIPS

  Tom Brocher, USGS

  Thu, May 18 1:30 PM

• What Can be Done at the Present and What Comes Next in Earthquake Prediction

  Dr. Volodya Keilis-Borok, UCLA

  Fri, May 19 1:30 PM

• Rescaling ShakeMap for Northern California

  Jack Boatwright, USGS, Menlo Park

  Thu, May 25 1:30 PM

June 2000

• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Genetic Algorithms but Were Afraid to Ask (With Applications to Stress and Waveform Modeling)

  Andy Michael

  Thu, Jun 1 1:30 PM

• Volcanism, sedimentary basins, and slip rates of right- stepping strike-slip faults, northeast San Francisco Bay Region, California

  R. J. McLaughlin and A. Sarna- Wojcicki

  Thu, Jun 8 1:30 PM

• Neogene Development of the Hayward Fault Zone - A Different Perspective on an Active Strike-Slip Fault

  Russell Graymer

  Thu, Jun 15 1:30 PM

• Structural Evolution of Mt. Diablo, Eastern San Francisco Bay Area

  Jeff Unruh, William Lettis and Assoc.

  Thu, Jun 22 1:30 PM

July 2000

• Policy Conundra for Emergency Services

  Rich Eisner, CalOES

  Thu, Jul 6 1:30 PM

• Views from the seismogenic zone of circum-Pacific subduction zones

  Sue Bilek

  Thu, Jul 13 1:30 PM

• Intraslab Earthquakes in the Subducted Cocos Plate below Mexico

  Prof. S.K. Singh, Univ. of Mexico

  Thu, Jul 20 1:30 PM

• Looking Beyond Izmit's Fate to Istanbul's Future

  Ross Stein

  Thu, Jul 27 1:30 PM

August 2000

• Thermal Structure and Evolution of Precambrian Continental Lithosphere

  Irina Artemieva, Uppsala Univ.

  Thu, Aug 3 1:30 PM

• Seismicity Rate Changes, Dynamic Triggering, and Earthquake Failure Models

  Joan Gomberg

  Tue, Aug 8 1:30 PM

• Santa Clara Basin Structure from Teleseismic and Local Waveforms

  Doug Dreger, UC Berkeley

  Thu, Aug 10 1:30 PM

• Are the Sierra Overriding a Deep Volcanic Source at Long Valley? West Central Basin and Range Tectonics

  Ken Smith, Univ. of Nevada, Reno

  Thu, Aug 17 1:30 PM

September 2000

• Oceanic Transform Earthquakes: Slow or Deep?

  Rachel Abercrombie, Harvard

  Tue, Sep 5 1:30 PM

• Status and Services of Network Operations

  David Oppenheimer, USGS, Menlo Park

  Thu, Sep 14 1:30 PM

• The September 3, 2000 Yountville Earthquake

  Jim Luetgert

  Thu, Sep 21 1:30 PM

• New Techniques for Estimating Local Tsunami Hazards

  Eric Geist

  Thu, Sep 28 1:30 PM

October 2000

• Stratigraphy of the LA (River?) Basin: Preliminary Results from FOQUS-LA Coring

  Dan Ponti, USGS, Menlo Park

  Thu, Oct 5 1:30 PM

• Tectonic Evolution of the Northern San Andreas Fault System

  John Wakabayashi

  Thu, Oct 12 1:30 PM

• Field trip: The Hayward Fault from the Inside Out

  David Schwartz

  Thu, Oct 19 1:30 PM

• Regional Velocity Structure in Northern California from Inversion of Scattered Seismic Surface Waves

  Fred Pollitz

  Wed, Oct 25 1:30 PM

• Occurrence and Evaluation of Earthquake Induced Landslides

  Dave Keefer

  Thu, Oct 26 1:30 PM

November 2000

• Numerical Models of 3-D Mantle Convection: Simulating Plate Tectonics

  Valery Trubitsyn, Inst. of the Physics of the Earth, Moscow

  Thu, Nov 2 1:30 PM

• Neotectonics of the Devil's Mountain Fault and Related Structures, Northern Puget Lowland, Washington

  Sam Johnson, USGS, Denver

  Wed, Nov 8 2:00 PM

• From Observations of Earthquake Occurrence to Probability Calculations

  Andy Michael, USGS, Menlo Park

  Thu, Nov 9 1:30 PM

• A Simple Stick-slip and Creep-slip Model for Repeating Earthquakes and its Implications for Microearthquakes at Parkfield

  Nick Beeler

  Thu, Nov 16 1:30 PM

• Tectonics of the Los Angeles Region: New Discoveries from LARSE

  Gary Fuis

  Thu, Nov 30 1:30 PM

December 2000

• Seismic Hazard Analysis Developments in Southern California

  Ned (Edward) Field

  Thu, Dec 7 1:30 PM

• Forward modeling the earthquake process: Tectonics, Fluids, and Stress Transfer

  Steve Miller and Delphine Fitzenz, ETH, Zurich

  Tue, Dec 12 1:30 PM

• 3-D Crustal and Mantle Structure, Southwestern USA, From Seismic and Gravity Data

  Mikhail Kaban, visiting scientist USGS, Menlo Park, and IPE Moscow

  Wed, Dec 13 1:30 PM

• Recent Largest Earthquakes of the World Confirm Earthquake Prediction Method

  Volodya Kossobokov, MIDPAN, Russian Academy of Sciences

  Thu, Dec 21 1:30 PM

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