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 2007

• Developing the USGS PAGER System (Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response)

  David Wald, U.S. Geological Survey

  Tue, Jan 9 3:00 PM

• Chasing tsunamis: Progress and problems with U.S. tsunami hazard mitigation, April 1992 - November 2006

  Lori Dengler, Humboldt State University

  Wed, Jan 10 10:30 AM

• Using laboratory experiments to investigate the damaging effects of earthquakes

  Art McGarr, U.S. Geological Survey

  Wed, Jan 17 10:30 AM

• Kite runners: Travels and training in Afghanistan, December 2006

  Walter Mooney, Tom Holzer, and Art McGarr, U.S. Geological Survey

  Mon, Jan 22 12:00 PM

• Aseismic transients in subduction zones: What physical basis?

  Jim Rice, Harvard University

  Wed, Jan 24 10:30 AM

February 2007

• Theoretical earthquake nucleation: Implications for slow slip events and possibly more

  Allan Rubin, Princeton University

  Wed, Feb 7 10:30 AM

• 2007 Joyner Lecture: Predicting Earthquake Ground Motions: Myths and Mysteries

  Gail Atkinson, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

  Wed, Feb 14 10:30 AM

• Deflecting Disinformation about Climate Change

  Naomi Oreskes, UC San Diego

  Tue, Feb 20 10:30 AM

• The Effect of reduced slab-mantle coupling on mantle wedge flow and the thermal reime and serpentization of forearc mantle wedge

  Ikuko Wada, Pacific Geosciences Centre, BC

  Tue, Feb 20 2:00 PM

• Dynamics of earthquake rupture through branched and offset fault systems

  Renata Dmowska, Harvard University

  Wed, Feb 21 10:30 AM

• National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (Japan)

  Yoshimitsu Okada, NIED

  Wed, Feb 21 1:00 PM

• New Paleosiesmological Constraints on the Behaviour of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain

  Sinan Akciz, UC Irvine

  Wed, Feb 28 10:30 AM

March 2007

• Laboratory Earthquakes: Modes, Directionality, and Super Shear

  Ares J. Rosakis, Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, CalTech

  Wed, Mar 14 10:30 AM

• The Pacific Northwest - An Earth Scientist's Candy Shop (A Seminar of Samples)

  Joan Gomberg, USGS-Seattle

  Mon, Mar 19 10:30 AM

• 3-D Distribution of Anisotropy and Attenuation in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand

  Donna Eberhart-Phillips, UC Davis

  Tue, Mar 27 10:30 AM

April 2007

• Structure and Properties of the San Andreas Fault at Seismogenic Depths: Recent Results from the SAFOD Experiment

  Steve Hickman, U.S. Geological Survey

  Wed, Apr 4 10:30 AM

• Space geodesy in the Bay Area: surface deformation, fault kinematics and creep

  Gareth Funning, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Apr 18 2:30 PM

• What's new with the Plate Boundary Observatory?

  Greg Anderson, UNAVCO

  Fri, Apr 20 1:00 PM

• Intraslab structure and outer-rise earthquakes

  Hiroo Kanamori, Caltech

  Fri, Apr 27 3:00 PM

May 2007

• Geo-information for Disaster Management

  Orhan Altan, Istanbul Technical University

  Tue, May 1 10:30 AM

• CISN Display Tutorial Session-CA Integrated Seismic System Network

  David Oppenheimer, US Geological Survey

  Tue, May 8 10:00 AM

• Examples of Fault Zone Geometry Between Paleoseisomological Trench Depths and Seismogenic Depths: Why Geometry is Important.

  Rufus Catchings, U.S. Geological Survey

  Wed, May 9 10:30 AM

• Imaging Hazards with Ground-Based Tripod LiDAR - The Parkfield Earthquake to the Ka Loko Dam Failure

  Gerald Bawden, USGS, Sacramento

  Wed, May 16 10:30 AM

• Earthquake Simulations in the San Francisco Bay Area

  Arthur Rodgers, Lawrence Livermore National laboratory

  Wed, May 23 10:30 AM

• Late Quaternary Tectonic Deformation in the LA Basin: New Insights from Sequence Stratigraphy

  Dan Ponti, U.S. Geological Survey

  Wed, May 30 2:00 PM

June 2007

• Mapping lava flow thickness and compaction, and volcanic deformation at Okmok volcano, Alaska from InSAR

  Zhong Lu, Casadia Volcano Observatory, (Joint with VHZ seminar)

  Wed, Jun 6 10:30 AM

• Investigation into the nature of large-magnitude mining-induced earthquakes in South Africa and their seismic hazard

  Steve Spottiswoode, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

  Wed, Jun 13 10:30 AM

• Precise determination of shear stress level at the subduction zone thrust from forearc stresses: Implications for interplate earthquakes and mountain building

  Tetsuzo Seno, Earthquake Research Institute, Univ. of Tokyo

  Wed, Jun 20 10:30 AM

• Earthquakes and Eruptions at Sierra Negra volcano, Galapagos, constrained by GPS and InSAR data

  Sang-Ho Yun, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Jun 27 10:30 AM

July 2007

• Models and observations of non-steady interseismic deformation

  Eric Hetland, Caltech

  Wed, Jul 11 10:30 AM

• New Achievments

  The Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities

  Tue, Jul 17 9:30 AM

• Imaging and Monitoring with Coda Waves and Microseisms

  Michel Campillo, LGIT, France

  Wed, Jul 18 10:30 AM

• Interpretation of interseismic deformation in the Western United States

  Fred Pollitz, US Geological Survey

  Wed, Jul 25 10:30 AM

August 2007

• Dynamic Modeling of the 2004 Mw 6.0 Parkfield Earthquake

  Shuo Ma, Stanford University

  Wed, Aug 15 10:30 AM

• Shells on a Sphere: Insights from Indian Plate motion

  Edwin, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Aug 22 2:00 PM

• Fault interaction and stress changes in the Aegean

  Thanassis Ganas, Fulbright Scholar, National Observatory of Athens

  Wed, Aug 29 2:00 PM

September 2007

• Western U.S. Tectonics and North American Dynamics

  Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon

  Wed, Sep 5 10:30 AM

• Welcoming Message to 1st International Workshop on Rotational Seismology

  R. D. Catchings, USGS

  Tue, Sep 18 9:00 AM

• An Introduction to the Workshop on Rotational Seismology and Engineering Applications

  W. H. K. Lee, USGS

  Tue, Sep 18 9:10 AM

• Observations of Rotational Ground Motions from Local Earthquakes in Taiwan

  W. H. K. Lee, USGS

  Tue, Sep 18 9:35 AM

• Rotations in Structural Response

  M. D. Trifunac, USC

  Tue, Sep 18 10:20 AM

• Observations of Rotational Ground Motions using Ring Laser Gyros

  H. Igel, University of Munich

  Tue, Sep 18 11:10 AM

• PyLith and other CIG software for modeling crustal deformation

  Brad Aagaard, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Sep 26 10:30 AM

October 2007

• The Earth's hum: bridging the gap between seismology and oceanography

  Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Oct 3 11:30 AM

• PBO Borehole Observatory: New tools for studying aseismic transients, subduction tremor and volcanic systems in the Pacific Northwest

  Wendy McCausland, Cascades Volcano Observatory

  Wed, Oct 10 10:30 AM

• The Kern Canyon fault system in the Sierra Nevada batholith: Middle Cretaceous until today

  Elisabeth Nadin, Caltech

  Wed, Oct 17 10:30 AM

• Interseismic and Geologic Deformation along Interacting Non-Planar Faults in the Greater Los Angeles Region, CA

  Scott Marshall, University of Massachusetts

  Wed, Oct 24 10:30 AM

• Extending Seismology Into Buildings: Prototype Studies of the UCLA Factor Building

  Monica Kohler, UCLA

  Wed, Oct 31 10:30 AM

November 2007

• Constraining Earthquake Source Inversions with GPS Data: Resolution Based Removal of Artifacts

  Morgan Page, USGS

  Wed, Nov 14 10:30 AM

• Seismological, Geodetic, and Geological Aspects of the M5.4 Alum Rock Earthquake

  Scientists at USGS, USGS

  Tue, Nov 20 10:30 AM

December 2007

• [AGU preview] Compaction Can Limit Peak Vertical Velocity at Yucca Mountain

  Joe Andrews, USGS

  Wed, Dec 5 10:30 AM

• [AGU preview] Numerical Simulations of Multi-phase, Multi-component Hydrothermal Fluid Flow: Implications for Heat and Mass Transport and Deformation of the Yellowstone Caldera

  Michael Hutnak, Shaul Hurwitz, Paul A. Hsieh, Steven E. Ingebrit, USGS

  Wed, Dec 5 10:45 AM

• [AGU preview] Segregating Gas from Melt: an Experimental Look at Ostwald Ripening in Rhyolitic Magma

  Nicole C. Lautze, Tom Sisson, Margaret Mangan, Ben Hankins, USGS

  Wed, Dec 5 11:00 AM

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