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 2003
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The melt anomaly at Iceland results from mantle refertilised by subducted slabs, not from a plume (joint with VHZ)
Gillian Foulger., U. Durham, UK
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Stemming the Excess Heat of Expert Testimony: Increasing Frictional Resistance to Bad Science
David L. Faigman, University of California, Hastings (SF)
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Relocation of Seismicity at Mauna Loa, Hawaii and Hengill, Iceland: Improved Delineation of Seismogenic Structures
Shirley Baher, USGS WEHZ Mendenhall postdoc
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Long-Term Earthquake Forecasts in the San Francisco Bay Area:A Contrarian Perspective
Allan Goddard Lindh, USGS, Earthquake Hazards, Menlo Park
February 2003
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Why are earthquakes so gentle?
Tom Heaton, Cal Tech
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A New Kind of Science
Steve Wolfram, Wolfram Research, Inc.
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The Dynamics of the 2002 Denali, Alaska, Earthquake
David Oglesby, UC Riverside
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University earthquake research in Japan; the special project for earthquake disaster mitigation in urban areas
Naoshi Hirata, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
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Estimation of Seismic Demands of Structures Built on Very Soft Soils: Similarities Between Mexico City and the S.F. Bay Area
Prof. Eduardo Miranda, Civil Engineering, Stanford University
March 2003
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Lake Tahoe's submerged record of active faulting is characteristic of the Basin and Range
Gordon Seitz, SDSU
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Toward Global Seismic Safety: Successes, Failures and A New Approach
Brian Tucker, Geohazards International
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Science Writing for a Non-specialist Audience: Lessons, Challenges, Opportunities
Susan Hough, USGS, WEHZ, Pasadena
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High precision relocations of deep (>13 km) Hawaiian earthquakes: evidence for a mantle fault zone beneath Kilauea volcano
Cecily Wolfe, University of Hawaii
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Coupled seismic slip on adjacent oceanic transform faults, and other neat seismological observations from an Easter microplate swarm
Don Forsyth, Brown University
April 2003
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Breaking of new lithosphere and hotspot-ridge interaction at ultra-slowly spreading mid-ocean ridges
Jian Lin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
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Transient rheology of the uppermost mantle inferred beneath the Mojave Desert, California
Fred Pollitz, USGS, EHZ, Menlo Park
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Influence of liquefaction on seismic ground motion at a liquefied site in Sakai-Minato during the Western Tottori, Japan earthquake (M 7.2) on October 6th, 2000
Shinichiro Mori, Cornell University
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Using Seismic Energy to Understand the Physics of Earthquakes
Anu Venkataraman, Stanford University Dept. of Geophysics
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Nucleation and early seismic propagation in a crustal earthquake model
Nadia Lapusta, California Institute of Technology
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Viscoelasticity, Post-Seismic Slip, Fault Interactions, Self-Similarity, and the Recurrence of Large Earthquakes
Andy Michael, USGS, EHZ, Menlo Park
May 2003
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Self-Consistent Earthquake Ruptures: Working Towards a Model of Crustal Stress in the Los Angeles Region
Brad Aagaard, USGS
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Why the shaking from the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake was not very severe
Brad Aagaard, USGS, EHZ, Pasadena
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Measuring fault slip - why and how?
Ken Hudnut, USGS Earthquake Hazards, Pasadena
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Space-Time Patterns, Computer Simulations, and Earthquakes: Is this a "New Kind of Geophysics"?
John Rundle, University of California, Davis
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Shaking Down the Seismological Mechanics of ShakeMap
Jack Boatwright, USGS, EHZ, Menlo Park
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Microstructural evidence for coseismic loading and elevated postseismic creep rates in the mid-crust: Comparison to numerical models
Susan Ellis, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (New Zealand)
June 2003
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Identification of seismic sources and modelling of seismic hazard and ground shaking scenarios in the Alps
Dominico Giardini, Institute of Geophysics, ETHZ
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Catching earthquakes in Africa and the origin of the East African rift system
Andy Nyblade, Penn State
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Why the United States is Becoming More Vulnerable to Natural Disasters: The Science, Economics, and Politics of Hazard Mitigation.
Greg van der Vink, Princeton University/IRIS
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Gambling on Subduction: A New Look at the Seismotectonics of the Cascadia Subduction System
Pat McCrory, USGS
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Symposium to honor Mike Blanpied
Jim Dieterich, Ned Field, David Lockner, David Schwartz, EHZ
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Public Lecture: New Estimates of Earthquake Hazard and Risk Across the Bay Region
Mike Blanpied, USGS, EHZ
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Building an infrastructure for physics-based seismic hazard analysis
Ned Field, USGS, EHZ, Pasadena
July 2003
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A 100 year average recurrence interval for the San Andreas Fault, Southern San Francisco Bay area
Tom Fumal, USGS
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Stress Orientations Near the San Andreas Fault: Implications for Fault Strength
Jeanne Hardebeck, USGS, EHZ, Menlo Park
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Post-Earthquake Deformation From Insar and Strainmeters Correlated to Pore-Pressure Transients
Paul Segall, Stanford University
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Temporal and Spatial Patterns in the Seismogenic Behavior at the Costa Rica Subduction Margin
Susan Schwartz, University of California, Santa Cruz
August 2003
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Integrated Geophysical Studies in Taiwan: Great Earthquakes and Deep Drilling
Kuo-Fong Ma, Insititute of Geophysics, National Centeral University, Taiwan
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Expected Performance of the Plate Boundary Observatory from Numerical Simulations
David Schmidt, Stanford Geophysics/University of Oregon
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Postseismic Relaxation: Rock Mechanics Experiments of Lithospheric Dimension
Roland Burgmann, University of California, Berkeley
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Fluids in Subduction Zones: A Summary of Results and Implications for Future Studies
Barbara Bekins, USGS, WRD, Menlo Park
September 2003
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What Long Recurrence Records Can Tell Us About How Faults Work
Ray Weldon, University of Oregon
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Earthquake clustering and time-dependent probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for California
Matt Gerstenberger, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
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Non-double couple earthquakes
Bruce Julian, USGS, Menlo Park
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Seismic Hazard Assessment in Mines
Gerrie van Aswegen, ISS International, South Africa
October 2003
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Plate-tectonic analysis of shallow earthquakes: Toward long-term seismic hazard models based on tectonics
Peter Bird, U.C.L.A.
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Prediction of structural response and damage from earthquakes: Problems and research needs
Erdal Safak, USGS, Pasadena
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One model to explain them all: Insights from modeling transform plate boundary deformation throughout the earthquake cycle
Liz Hearn, University of British Columbia
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Dating offset fans along the Mojave section of the San Andreas Fault using cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be
Ari Matmon, USGS, Menlo Park
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Incorporating earthquake science into building codes
Maury Power, Geomatrix Consultants
November 2003
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Are Volcanic Eruptions More Predictable than Earthquakes?
Jean-Robert Grasso, Observatoire de Grenoble
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Recent Discoveries of Crustal Faults in the Puget Lowland: Highlights from GSA Meeting
Tom Brocher, USGS, Menlo Park
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Sources, Nature and Impact of Uncertainties on Catastrophe Modeling
Patricia Grossi, Risk Management Solutions, Inc.