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 2004

• Flexure of India: Great Himalayan earthquakes and mid-plate seismicity

  Roger Bilham, University of Colorado

  Thu, Jan 1 10:30 AM

• Stress Evolution in the San Francisco Bay Region since 1838: A Physical Model

  Fred Pollitz, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Jan 7 10:30 AM

• Basin-centered Asperities in Great Circum-Pacific Subduction Zone Earthquakes - Constraints on Landward Limit of Large Coseismic Slip, and Their Possible Link to Subduction Erosion

  Ray Wells, USGS, Menlo Park

  Wed, Jan 21 10:30 AM

• Japanese Records of the 1700 Cascadia Tsunami

  Brian Atwater, U.S. Geological Survey, Seattle

  Fri, Jan 23 10:30 AM

• Modeling the Uplift and Earthquake Belt of Britain as Response to Underlying Hot Low-density Upper Mantle

  Martin H.P. Bott, University of Durham

  Wed, Jan 28 10:30 AM

February 2004

• Kinematic Rupture Models of the November 3, 2002 Mw 7.9 Denali, Alaska, Earthquake

  Doug Dreger, U.C. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

  Wed, Feb 4 10:30 AM

• Probabilistic Formulation of Inverse Problems

  Albert Tarantola, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

  Fri, Feb 6 10:30 AM

• Overview of the Dec. 22, 2003 M6.5 San Simeon Eartquake. This talk will be preceded by a special EHZ poster session from 9-11 am

  Jeanne Hardebeck, John Tinsley, Marcia McLaren, Vladimir Grazier, USGS, Menlo Park; PG&E; California Geological Survey

  Tue, Feb 10 11:00 AM

• Springs, dashpots, and sponges in the Mojave crust: Insights from space geodetic observations in the Eastern California Shear Zone

  Yuri Fialko, IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  Wed, Feb 11 10:30 AM

• The 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake Revisited

  Marleen Nyst and Fred Pollitz, USGS, Menlo Park

  Wed, Feb 18 10:30 AM

• Geodetic Detection of Eruption Precursors at Pu`u `O`o Cone, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

  Peter Cervelli, U.S. Geological Survey, HVO

  Mon, Feb 23 10:30 AM

• Catastrophe Risk Management in the Insurance/Reinsurance Industry

  Craig Tillman, Senior Vice President, Wyndham Partners Consulting, Ltd.

  Wed, Feb 25 10:30 AM

• Earthquakes and Animals - From Folk Legends to Electromagnetic Seismology

  Motoji Ikeya, Osaka University

  Fri, Feb 27 10:00 AM

March 2004

• The Plume's Progress: Current Status of the Plume Controversy

  Gillian Foulger, University of Durham, U.K.

  Tue, Mar 2 10:30 AM

• Rock and Roll on the Tundra, Part II: Slip Distribution and Paleoearthquakes along the M7.9 Denali Fault Surface Rupture

  Peter Haeussler and David Schwartz, USGS - Alaska and Menlo Park

  Wed, Mar 10 10:30 AM

• High Precision GPS Geodesy from BARGEN and Prospects for PBO

  Rick Bennett, Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

  Mon, Mar 15 10:30 AM

• All Hands With David Applegate, Earthquake Hazards Program Coordinator

  David Applegate, USGS, Reston, VA

  Wed, Mar 17 11:00 AM

• Science, Hazard, and Policy Questions for Continental Intraplate Earthquakes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone

  Seth Stein, Northwestern University

  Wed, Mar 24 10:30 AM

• Basin and Range Lithospheric Dynamics Measured with the Global Positioning System

  Bill Hammond, USGS, Menlo Park

  Fri, Mar 26 10:30 AM

• Fault Systems of the 1971 San Fernando and 1994 Northridge Earthquakes: Possible Implications for Precursory Slow Earthquakes

  Gary Fuis, USGS

  Wed, Mar 31 10:30 AM

April 2004

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Earthquake Studies in China

  Walter Mooney, USGS, Menlo Park

  Wed, Apr 7 10:30 AM

• Seismological Constraints on the Evolution of the Continental Lithosphere

  Karen Fischer, Brown University

  Wed, Apr 14 10:30 AM

• THEN AND NOW: Bridging the Gap between Earthquake Science and Engineering - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Story

  Lloyd Cluff, Pacific Gas and Electric

  Wed, Apr 28 10:30 AM

May 2004

• Continental Deformation in Asia: New Insights from GPS Measurements and Deformation Models

  Eric Calais, Purdue University

  Wed, May 12 10:30 AM

• 2000 years of earthquakes along the Dead Sea Transform: Integrating geology and historical seismicity to assess the potential for future large earthquakes in the Middle East

  Thomas Rockwell, San Diego State University

  Wed, May 19 10:30 AM

• Repeating History

  Mark Klett, Arizona State University

  Fri, May 21 10:30 AM

• Remotely Triggered Earthquakes in all the Wrong Places: Evidence that Faults are Brittle?

  Susan Hough, USGS - Pasadena

  Wed, May 26 10:30 AM

June 2004

• Structure of the SAFOD Drill Site from Geologic Mapping and Seismic Profiling

  Michael Rymer, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Jun 2 10:30 AM

• Laboratory and Numerical Experiments on Coseismic Friction and Earthquakes

  Terry Tullis, Brown University

  Wed, Jun 9 10:30 AM

• A new look at the Hayward Fault: Overview of New and Recent Developments in our Understanding of the Character of the Ancient and Active Hayward Fault

  Russ Graymer, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Jun 30 10:30 AM

July 2004

• Seismic Structure of the Yellowstone Hotspot Upper Mantle

  Greg Waite, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Jul 7 10:30 AM

• Viscoelastic earthquake cycle models of contemporary deformation in Taiwan

  Kaj Johnson, Stanford University

  Wed, Jul 21 10:30 AM

August 2004

• A model of strain accumulation and release at the triple junction lurking beneath Tokyo

  Takuya Nishimura, Geographical Survey Inst of Japan

  Wed, Aug 4 10:30 AM

• Persistence of directivity in small earthquakes

  Jack Boatwright, USGS, Menlo Park

  Wed, Aug 11 10:30 AM

• Dome growth behavior at Soufriere Hills volcano, Montserrat, revealed by precise relocation of volcanic event swarms, 1995-1996

  Charlotte Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Thu, Aug 26 10:30 AM

September 2004

• Reconstruction of the San Gabriel Mountains block, with implications for mid-Miocene to Recent faulting in the northeastern Los Angeles basin

  Jon Nourse, Cal Poly Pomona

  Wed, Sep 1 10:30 AM

• Impact of deformation mechanisms on fault zone architecture and hydrology in sedimentary rocks: an example from the Moab fault, Utah

  Nick Davatzes, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Sep 15 10:30 AM

• Earthquake Prediction Months in Advance

  Vladimir Keilis-Borok, UCLA

  Wed, Sep 29 10:30 AM

October 2004

• Aftershock scaling and continuum damage mechanics

  Robert Shcherbakov, UC Davis

  Wed, Oct 6 10:30 AM

• Hydrologic change in wetlands reveals earthquake history of a Price Lake fault, southeastern Olympic Peninsula, Washington

  Jonathan Hughes, USGS Seattle, WA

  Wed, Oct 20 10:30 AM

• Are Aftershocks Triggered by Static or Dynamic Stresses? Clues from Stress Shadows and Aftershock Decay Patterns

  Karen Felzer, UCLA

  Wed, Oct 27 10:30 AM

• The Geology of Subduction Thrust Faults

  Christie Rowe, UC Santa Cruz

  Fri, Oct 29 10:30 AM

November 2004

• The Plate Boundary Observatory: Purpose, Progress, and Plans

  Greg Anderson, UNAVCO

  Wed, Nov 3 10:30 AM

• Investigating the mechanics of the seismic cycle on megathrust (Himalaya, Taiwan, Peru)

  Jean-Philippe Avouac, California Institute of Technology

  Wed, Nov 10 10:30 AM

• Poro-elastic triggering in the 1992 Landers aftershock Sequence

  Greg Beroza, Stanford University

  Wed, Nov 17 10:30 AM

December 2004

• Synthesis of Seismicity, 3D velocity and Q models for southern California

  Egill Hauksson, Caltech

  Wed, Dec 1 10:30 AM

• Slip behaviour of phyllosilicate-bearing faults under hydrothermal conditions: Insights from rock-analogue experiments

  Andre Niemeijer, Universiteit Utrecht

  Wed, Dec 8 10:30 AM

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