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 2002
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A New Mechanism for Seismically-Induced Distant Pore Pressure Changes
Emily Brodsky, Berkeley
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A solution to the slip rate debate: Temporal and spatial variability of crustal deformation
Ank Friedrich, Caltech
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Earthquake Hazard in Australia
Trevor Dhu, Geoscience Australia
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Can Elephants Close Their Ears and Hear Through Their Feet?
Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University
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Fault Interaction in the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1838
Fred Pollitz, USGS, Menlo Park
February 2002
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Earthquake Rupture at the Focal Depth of M=5.1 and M=3.7 Earthquakes in Gold Mines, South Africa
Ze'ev Reches, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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Update on use of precarious rocks to estimate sesimic hazard, including response to critics
James N. Brune, University of Nevada, Reno
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World Trade Center Investigations - A Summary
Ron O. Hamburger, Earthquake Engineering International
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Improving Public Warning Systems in the US
Peter Ward, Art Botterell, and Darrell Ernst, Partnership for Public Warning
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A Fault Friction Driven Model of Crustal Stress in the Los Angeles Region
Brad Aagaard, USGS, Pasadena
March 2002
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A Leaky Microplate Zigsaw, Not a Plume, Forms the Iceland Volcanic Plateau
Gillian Foulger, Univ. of Durham (U.K.)
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Computational Global Seismology
Jeroen Tromp, Caltech
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Amplification Factors for Spectral Acceleration in Active Regions
Jonathan P. Stewart, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, UCLA
April 2002
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The North Anatolian Fault in the Sea of Marmara and the Expected Istanbul Earthquake
Xavier Le Pichon, Rice University
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The Subduction Zone Transport of Continental Crustal Material to the Mantle, Evidence, Quantities, and Linked Geologic and Seismologic Wonderments
David W. Scholl, U.S. Geological Survey
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The Role of Science Societies in Science Policy both Inside and Outside Washington, DC
Sue Ginsberg, American Physical Society
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Which Forces Drive North America?
Goetz Bokelmann, Stanford University
May 2002
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Global Anisotropy Tomography
Jean-Paul Montagner, Seismologic Laboratory, IPG Paris
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Two Introductory Lectures on Earthquake Probability Forecasting: Modelling and Simulation Issues
David Vere-Jones, Victoria University - Wellington, New Zealand
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Two Introductory Lectures on Earthquake Probability Forecasting: Assessment and Use of Probability Forecasts
David Vere-Jones, Victoria University - Wellington, New Zealand
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Evidence for Multiple Earthquake-generating Processes in Katmai National Park, Alaska, from Analysis of Fault-plane Solutions
Seth Moran, USGS, Alaska Volcano Observatory
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Evidence for the Movement of Fluids During the 1997-98 Long Valley Caldera Crisis
Dr. Stephanie Prejean, USGS, Menlo Park
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Continental Accretion of the Southwest U.S.
Alan Levander, Rice University
June 2002
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Extrasolar Planets
Jack Lissauer, NASA Ames Research Laboratory
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Implications of Volcanism in Coastal California for the Deformation History of North America
Doug Wilson, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Crustal Seismicity and Seismic Deformation Rates in the Anchorage Region (1930-2002)
Diane Doser, Univ. of Texas, El Paso
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30 Years of Salton Trough Crustal Deformation
Greg Anderson, USGS, Pasadena
July 2002
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Ski field warning of lahars: The Mt. Ruapehu Eruption Detection System
Carol J Bryan, USGS, CVO
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Frictional heating of pore fluid produces complete stress drop in large earthquakes
Joe Andrews, USGS, WEHZ, Menlo Park
August 2002
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Intensities, Stable Continental Regions, and Revised Magnitudes for the 1811-1812 New Madrid (and other) EUS Earthquakes
Bill Bakun, USGS, WEHZ, Menlo Park
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Putting the hazard into liquefaction hazard mapping
Tom Holzer, USGS, WEHZ, Menlo Park
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Stress and strain of subduction zone forearcs
Kelin Wang, Geol. Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC
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Statistical constraints on physical aftershock models
Karen Felzer, Harvard University
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Evidence from the world's most energetic swarm that stressing rate governs seismicity
Shinji Toda, Geological Survey of Japan
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In pursuit of tall volcanoes and large animals -- Kilimanjaro and beyond
Mary Lou Zoback, USGS EHZ Team, Menlo Park
September 2002
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A possible deep source for water in the San Andreas Fault system: A ghost of subduction past?
Steve Kirby, USGS, WEHZ, Menlo Park
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Scaling and spatial variation of earthquake's energies
Satoshi Ide, University of Tokyo
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Study of Induced Microearthquakes with Similar Waveforms in Soultz HDR field, France
Hirokazu Moriya, Tohoku University, Japan
October 2002
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A sensitivity analysis for ground motion in Oakland from a Hayward fault earthquake
Eric Hand, Stanford Univ. & The Oregonian
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Remote monitoring of the earthquake cycle using radar interferometry: the North Anatolian Fault
Tim Wright, Oxford University
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Great Earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas Fault: a Paleoseismic View
Tom Fumal, USGS - WEHZ, Menlo Park
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Heat Flow and Frictional Strength of the San Andreas Fault
Colin Williams, USGS, WEHZ, Menlo Park
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Wildlife Conservation in Kenya
James Makau, Tropical Ice, Kenya
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Recent studies on fault-zone trapped waves in Japan: borehole observations and event-array analyses
Kin'ya Nishigami, Disaster Prevention Research Inst., Kyoto
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Plumbing the Mysteries of the San Andreas Fault
Steve Hickman, USGS, WEHZ, Menlo Park
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New Developments in Structural Monitoring and the Federal Building Program
Mehmet Celebi, USGS, WEHZ, Menlo Park
November 2002
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Extreme earth - History, chronology, and energetics
Prof. Ari Ben-Menahem, Weizmann Institute, Israel
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What Is an Average Shear-Wave Velocity? Creating Shaking Amplification Maps
Tom Holzer, USGS, WEHZ, Menlo Park
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GIS at the USGS and beyond...
Timothy Rood, David Howell, Daniel Bosch, Skip Pack &Dave Ramsey, Calthorpe Assoc, USGS, Robert Mondavi, Dynamic Graphics
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Where Were the 1811-1812 New Madrid Mainshocks? (And Who is Buried in Grant's Tomb?)
Susan Hough, EHZ Team, USGS, Pasadena
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The great M7.9 Denali Fault, Alaska earthquake of Nov 3, 2002: a report from the front lines
Tim Dawson, David Keefer, Rob Kayen & Greg Anderson, USGS, EHZ Team
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Volcanic, earthquake, and post-seismic deformation in west-central South America
Matt Pritchard, Cal Tech
December 2002
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Hawai'i's volcanoes -Never a dull moment!
Don Swanson, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, USGS
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Demonstration of a New Computational and Analysis Tool for Modeling the Mechanical Behavior of Geometrically Complex Fault Systems
David Pollard, Frantz Maerten, and Phil Resor, Stanford University