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 2005

• Generating Laboratory Earthquakes

  Kaiwen Xia, Caltech

  Wed, Jan 12 10:30 AM

• Next Generation Attenuation Project

  Norm Abrahamson

  Fri, Jan 21 10:30 AM

• The Fragility of Faults: Cracks Damage and Fault Interaction

  Elizabeth Cochran, UCLA

  Wed, Jan 26 10:30 AM

February 2005

• Continuum brittle deformation in the earth's crust: An application of damage mechanics

  David Manaker, UC Davis

  Tue, Feb 1 10:30 AM

• Frictional Heating of Faults (or lack thereof)

  Matthew d'Alessio, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Feb 2 10:30 AM

• Anomalous Aftershock Decay Rates in the First Hundred Seconds

  Zhigang Peng, UCLA

  Wed, Feb 9 10:30 AM

• “Shocked Out”: Family Life After the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

  Andrea Davies-Henderson, Stanford University

  Wed, Feb 16 10:30 AM

• Deviations from self-similarity: the EGF approach

  German Prieto, Scripps, UC San Diego

  Wed, Feb 23 10:30 AM

• What's moving in Luzon? GPS Measurement of tectonic and volcanic deformation in the northern Philippine Island arc (joint EHZ-VHZ seminar)

  Michael Hamburger, Indiana University

  Thu, Feb 24 10:30 AM

March 2005

• Earthquake early warning in California

  Richard Allen, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Mar 2 10:30 AM

• Linking paleoseismic sites into complete ruptures on the Southern San Andreas fault

  Ray Weldon, U of Oregon

  Wed, Mar 2 1:30 PM

• Fluid-influenced faulting in the Long Valley volcanic region

  Dennise Templeton, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Mar 9 10:30 AM

• The Great Sumatran Earthquake and Tsunami

  Walter Mooney and Eric Geist, USGS

  Wed, Mar 16 10:30 AM

• Imaging slow moving landslides in the Bay Area using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Permanent Scatterer Analysis

  George Hilley, Stanford University

  Wed, Mar 23 10:30 AM

• Evidence for Nonlinear Strong Ground Motion in Three Moderate California Earthquakes

  Justin Rubinstein, Stanford University

  Wed, Mar 30 10:30 AM

April 2005

• Some ideas for advancing earthquake prediction research

  Tom Jordan, University of Southern California (SCEC)

  Wed, Apr 6 10:30 AM

• Is hot fluid migration the source of deformation in Campi Flegrei?

  Maurizio Battaglia, Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen (USGS visitor)

  Wed, Apr 13 10:30 AM

• Imaging Deformation in Non-Urban Settings Using InSAR Persistent Scatterers

  Andy Hooper, Stanford

  Wed, Apr 20 10:30 AM

May 2005

• Automated Post-Earthquake Damage Assessment of Instrumented Buildings

  Farzad Naeim, JOHN A. MARTIN & ASSOCIATES

  Wed, May 4 10:30 AM

• SESAC presentations by project chiefs

  Jack Boatwright, Ruth Harris, David Lockner, Wayne Thatcher, USGS

  Mon, May 9 10:30 AM

• SAFOD and beyond: Using geochemistry and mineralogy to constrain fault behavior

  John Solum, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, May 11 10:30 AM

• Earthquakes and Volcanic Unrest in South Iceland

  Thora Arnadottir, Nordic Volcanological Center, University of Iceland

  Wed, May 18 10:30 AM

• Submarine wedges in subduction earthquake cycles: the concept of dynamic critical taper

  Kelin Wang, Pacific Geoscience Center, Sidney, BC

  Wed, May 25 10:30 AM

June 2005

• The 2004 Niigata-Chuetsu earthquake: Four short talks

  Yoshihisa Iio, T. Shibutani, S. Matsumoto, T. Okada, Kyoto, Kyushu, and Tokyo Universities

  Wed, Jun 1 10:30 AM

• ANSS Instrumentation Needs and Specifications: Update and Example

  John R. Evans, USGS

  Wed, Jun 15 10:30 AM

• An incomplete comparison of spectral estimates of radiated energy

  Jack Boatwright, US Geological Survey

  Wed, Jun 29 10:30 AM

July 2005

• The agony and ecstasy of earthquake prediction: electromagnetic signals, disappointments, and surprises at Parkfield

  Steve Park, UC Riverside

  Wed, Jul 6 10:30 AM

• Coseismic slip estimated for the 2004 M9.0 Sumatra-Andaman Islands Earthquake

  Chen Ji, UC Santa Barbara

  Wed, Jul 13 10:30 AM

• Risk communication in a networked society

  Louise Comfort, University of Pittsburgh

  Wed, Jul 27 10:30 AM

• Observations, hazard implications and a likely mechanism for slow slip events in subduction zones

  Tony Lowry, University of Colorado

  Fri, Jul 29 10:30 AM

August 2005

• Interpreting Focal Mechanisms and Stress Rotations in the Context of a Heterogeneous Stress Field

  Deborah Smith, Caltech

  Wed, Aug 3 10:30 AM

• Recent Plate Reconstruction and Subduction Zone Discoveries Compel Rethink of Much Loved Models - A Tour of The Observations and the Debates

  Dave Scholl, US Geological Survey

  Wed, Aug 31 10:30 AM

September 2005

• A data driven methodology for assessing the impact of earthquakes on the health of building structural systems

  Dennis Bernal, Northeastern University

  Wed, Sep 14 10:30 AM

• Geostatistical inversion and its application to tomography and 3D basin modeling

  Miguel Bosch, Caracas University

  Wed, Sep 21 10:30 AM

• How well do we know the kinematic parameters of faulting? An example: the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake

  Ralph Archuleta, UC Santa Barbara

  Wed, Sep 28 10:30 AM

October 2005

• Briefing on the Bam, Iran earthquake of 12/26/2003

  Farhang Ostadan, Bechtel Corporation, San Frnacisco

  Wed, Oct 5 10:30 AM

• Creep and Quakes: Aseismic slip at San Juan Bautista from GPS and InSAR

  Ingrid Johanson, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Oct 12 10:30 AM

• High-Rate GPS: What is to be done?

  Kristine Larson, University of Colorado, Boulder

  Wed, Oct 19 11:00 AM

• Benioff's hypothesis relating postearthquake relaxation and aftershock decay to laboratory-observed creep

  Jim Savage, USGS

  Wed, Oct 26 10:30 AM

November 2005

• Liquefaction Hazard Mapping: Into the 21st Century

  Tom Holzer, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Nov 2 10:30 AM

• Repeat Photography, Virtual Repeat Photography, and Ecologic and Geologic Change in the Photographic Era

  Tom Hanks, EHZ, U.S. Geological Survey

  Wed, Nov 9 10:30 AM

• Continental micro-plate tectonics

  Wayne Thatcher, US Geological Survey

  Wed, Nov 16 10:30 AM

• Statistical testing of a significant radon-earthquake connection in the Dead Sea rift

  Gideon Steinitz, Geological Survey of Israel

  Wed, Nov 30 10:30 AM

December 2005

• The northern Gulf of California: new, non-oceanic crust in a young rift system

  Joann Stock, Caltech

  Wed, Dec 14 10:30 AM

• Quantitative Earthquake Prediction

  Volodoya Kossobokov, Russian Academy of Science

  Thu, Dec 15 10:00 AM

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