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 2006

• Mechanical Modeling of Volcanic Deformation

  Sang-Ho Yun, Stanford University

  Wed, Jan 4 10:30 AM

• Repeating Earthquakes in the NE Japan Subduction System

  Naoki Uchida, Tohoku University, Japan

  Thu, Jan 12 10:30 AM

• Gas hydrates: An overview of our 10+ years of laboratory studies on these unusual icy compounds

  Laura Stern, EHZ, USGS, Menlo Park

  Wed, Jan 25 10:30 AM

February 2006

• Global Deformation from the Sumatra Earthquake

  Fred Pollitz, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Feb 1 10:30 AM

• Modeling Earthquakes Mw>2; with Site and Path Corrections

  Donald V. Helmberger, Seismo Lab, Cal Tech

  Wed, Feb 8 10:30 AM

• Is there any use freezing to death to study surface faulting? What did we learn from the 2001 Mw7.8 Kokoxili (Tibet) earthquake

  Yann Klinger, IPGP

  Tue, Feb 14 10:30 AM

• Hazards vulnerabilities of the California Delta Levee System

  Les Harder, California Department of Water Resources

  Wed, Feb 15 10:30 AM

March 2006

• The seismology of liquefaction and its potential application to crustal earthquake remote triggering

  Thomas L Holzer, USGS

  Wed, Mar 1 10:30 AM

• A new way to forecast seismic shaking, and how it stacks up in Tokyo

  Serkan Bozkurt, EHZ -- USGS; Menlo Park

  Wed, Mar 8 10:30 AM

• Mapping the Crustal Stress Field Near the San Andreas Fault Using Shear Velocity Anisotropy

  Naomi Boness, Stanford University

  Wed, Mar 15 10:30 AM

• Lessons from faults in dirt and other poorly lithified materials

  Laurel B. Goodwin, University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Mon, Mar 20 2:00 PM

• A Synoptic Model for Slip on Ridge Transform Faults-Insights from Earthquakes and Laboratory Experiments

  Margaret Boettcher, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Mar 29 10:30 AM

April 2006

• Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Basin and Range Province in northwestern Nevada

  Joe Colgan, USGS, Menlo Park

  Wed, Apr 5 10:30 AM

• Reconstructing the world's largest collapsed turbidite basin:Tectonic & climatic significance of the Triassic Songpan-Ganzi complex, central China

  Amy Weislogel, Stanford University

  Wed, Apr 12 10:30 AM

• Patterns and timing of Late Cenozoic deformation in the evolving Southwest Tian Shan Foreland, W. China

  Richard Heermance, UC Santa Barbara

  Wed, Apr 26 10:30 AM

May 2006

• Ground Motion Modeling of the 1906 Earthquake

  Brad Aagaard, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, May 3 10:30 AM

• Subduction Thrusts: Frictional Melting and Selective Overpressuring: Mechanical Consequences

  Casey Moore, UCSC

  Wed, May 10 10:30 AM

• From Raindrops to Ranges: Quantifying Himalayan Orogenesis

  Doug Burbank, UCSB

  Fri, May 19 10:30 AM

• When the Big One Strikes Again - Estimated Losses due to a Repeat of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

  Charlie Kircher and Greg Beroza, Kircher and Associates/Stanford University

  Wed, May 24 10:30 AM

• New subducting slab geometry in central Chile and Argentina: Implications for the buoyancy of flat slabs

  Megan Anderson, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, May 31 10:30 AM

June 2006

• Getting Ready for an Earthquake:?Accelerating Seismicity and Earthquake Rupture Forecasts

  David Bowman, Cal State Fullerton

  Wed, Jun 14 10:30 AM

• Why Private Insurance Markets for Catastrophes Often Fail, and What to do About it

  Dwight Jaffe, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Jun 28 10:30 AM

July 2006

• Large Continental Faults and Earthquake Sequences in the Eastern Mediterranean: Their scars and aftermath throughout civilization

  Mustapha Meghraoui, Institut de Physique du Globe, Strasbourg

  Wed, Jul 12 10:30 AM

• Earthquake Exploration in the Other Half of California: A Historical Retrospective

  Susan Hough, USGS Pasadena

  Wed, Jul 19 10:30 AM

August 2006

• Linking properties of clustered seismicity to earthquake physics

  Jochen Woessner, Cal Tech

  Wed, Aug 9 10:30 AM

• Full 3D waveform tomography - a pathway to accurate strong-motion prediction

  Po Chen, Lamont

  Wed, Aug 23 10:30 AM

September 2006

• Uncovering Silicon Valley: A Tale of Three Sedimentary Basins

  Vicky Langenheim, USGS

  Wed, Sep 6 10:30 AM

• Effects of 3D rigidity structure on fault parameter inversions

  Rowena Lohman, JPL

  Wed, Sep 20 10:30 AM

• In Situ Study of Hydraulic Properties of Fault Zones

  Mai Linh Doan, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Sep 27 10:30 AM

October 2006

• Low-frequency Earthquake Swarms and Non-Volcanic Tremor Under Shikoku, Japan

  David Shelly, Stanford University

  Wed, Oct 11 10:30 AM

• Repeating Earthquakes on a Rapidly Creeping Thrust Fault: The Chihshang Fault in Eastern Taiwan

  Kate Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

  Wed, Oct 18 10:30 AM

• Triggering Earthquakes with Seismic Waves

  Emily Brodsky, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Oct 25 10:30 AM

November 2006

• 3D measurements of fault topography and fault zone structure

  Amir Sagy, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Nov 1 10:30 AM

• NELSAM Project Fault Reactivation and In-situ stress at the proximity of the M2.2 of Dec 12, 2004, Tautona mine, South Africa

  Vincent Heesakkers, University of Oklahoma

  Wed, Nov 8 11:15 AM

• Physical Limits on Ground Motion at Yucca Mountain

  Joe Andrews, USGS Menlo Park

  Fri, Nov 17 2:00 PM

• From displacements and dates to rates: Impact of riser reconstructions on estimation of secular variation in rates of strike-slip faulting

  Eric Cowgill, UC Davis

  Wed, Nov 29 10:30 AM

December 2006

• Hidden Topography - Pushing the Limits of Kinematic GPS to Investigate the Flattest Places on Earth

  Adrian Borsa, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  Wed, Dec 6 10:30 AM

• The plate boundary in southern California - new observations and implications for plate tectonics

  Gary Fuis, USGS

  Wed, Dec 20 10:30 AM

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