Earthquake Science Center Seminars

Determination, by 10Be Cosmogenic Dating, of Slip-Rates on the Karakorum Fault (Tibet) and Paleoclimatic Evolution since 200ka

Marie-Luce Chevalier, Stanford University

Structural Models for Rational Design, Structural Health Monitoring and Seismic Risk and Loss Assessment

Maria Todorovska, University of Southern California

Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop

Jim Lienkaemper, David Oppenheimer, Bill Bakun, Janet Watt, Jeff

Earthquake occurrence in geometrically complex fault systems

Jim Dieterich, UC Riverside

Role of Structural Engineering in Probabilistic Loss Estimation for Natural Catastrophes

Hesaam Aslani, Risk Management Solutions

Interseismic strain and slip transients on the Cascadia subduction zone

David Schmidt, University of Oregon

Understanding slow spreading mid-ocean ridges: How do they work? (joint seminar with the volcano hazards team)

Barbara E. John & Michael J. Cheadle, University of Wyoming

Earthquake rupture velocity and shear stress drop on exhumed faults: insights from field mapping and lab experiments (joint seminar with the volcano hazards team)

W. Ashley Griffith and David D. Pollard, Stanford University

Adaptive Nonlinear Analysis as Applied to Performance Based Earthquake Engineering

Erol Kalkan, California Geological Survey

Sierra Nevada EarthScope Project [SNEP]: Lithospheric foundering

George Zandt, University of Arizona

The Quake-Catcher Network: Rapid Earthquake Detection with Laptop Seismometers

Jesse Lawrence, Stanford University

The Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect and Continental Evolution Involving Subduction Underplating and Synchronous Foreland Thrusting

Gary Fuis, USGS

Seismic tomography of southern California using adjoint methods

Carl Tape, Caltech

Rigorous Observational Tests Contradict the Accelerating Moment Release Hypothesis

Jeanne Hardebeck, USGS, Menlo Park

Natural Disasters and Risk Assessment in Australia

Matthew C. Hayne, Geoscience Australia

Rupturing in Fluid-Overpressured Crust - Compressional Inversion Earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand

Richard H. Sibson, University of Otago

Slow Slip Events and Triggered Earthquakes: Some Observations from Hawaii and Speculation on Mechanisms

Paul Segall, Stanford University

Hayward Fault Earthquakes: Past, Present, and Future?

Jim Lienkaemper, USGS, Menlo Park

Into the Future: Continuing Evolution of the Pacific-Juan de Fuca-North America Plate System

Pat McCrory, USGS, Menlo Park

Very near source observations of very small earthquakes: Insights from the Natural Earthquake Laboratory in South African Mines

Margaret Boettcher, USGS, Menlo Park

Subduction, upwelling, earthquakes and tremor, all in the Pacific Northwest (joint seminar with the volcano hazards team)

Richard Allen, UC Berkeley

Observations on the East Bay Fault System

Russ Graymer, USGS, Menlo Park

Mechanics of Deep Tremor and Slow Slip: Insights from Southwest Japan and Implications for the San Andreas

David R. Shelly, USGS, Menlo Park

Stress Triggering of Non-Volcanic Tremor

Justin Rubinstein, USGS, Menlo Park

Strain Release along the Northern Costa Rica Seismogenic Zone

Susan Schwartz, UC Santa Cruz

Report on the M 7.9 Sichuan, China, Earthquake

Walter Mooney, Yingying Huang, Sarah Bahan

Geomechanical Modelling of Fracture Networks: Patterns and Flow (joint seminar with Water Resources Division)

Adriana Paluszny, Imperial College, London

Experimental and seismological evidence strongly constraining the mechanisms of earthquakes in subduction zones: A story nearing completion

Harry Green, UC Riverside

Earthquake Ground Motion Prediction using the Ambient Seismic Field

German Prieto, Stanford University

The Global Earthquake Model Initiative: A response to humanitarian and scientific imperatives

Ross Stein, USGS Menlo Park, Kate Stillwell, AED Global Earthquake Model

A Physical Model for Widespread Near-Surface and Fault Zone Damage Induced by Earthquakes

Shuo Ma, Stanford University

Seismology in the Source: New Insights from SAFOD

Bill Ellsworth, USGS, Menlo Park

Recent and active tectonics in Tehran region and Central Alborz, Iran

Jean-François Ritz, Geosciences Montpellier, France

talk postponed by speaker

New developments in Aleutian subduction science: Earthquake rupture geometry and sources of ocean-crossing tsunamis

David Scholl (with introduction by Steve Kirby), USGS, Menlo Park

How variations in subduction zone fluid sources affect decollement pore pressure estimates for Barbados, Nankai, Costa Rica, and Cascadia (joint seminar with Water Resources Division)

Barbara Bekins, USGS Menlo Park

Liquefaction scenarios for a repeat of the 1868 Hayward earthquake

Tom Holzer, USGS, Menlo Park

The NetQuakes Project - Expanding Earthquake Monitoring in Urban Areas

David Oppenheimer, USGS Menlo Park

Probing the rheology of Tibet using postseismic motion from large earthquake

Isabelle Ryder, UC Berkeley

Fractures and Faults at Coso: Using Seismology to Monitor Geothermal Energy Exploitation

Bruce Julian, USGS, Menlo Park

Constraints on earthquake recurrence, nucleation, energy and source parameters from large lab faulting experiments

Nick Beeler, USGS, CVO

Fault system behavior of the Eastern California Shear Zone

Michael Oskin, UC Davis

Deformation & Stress Changes on the Sunda Megathrust Preceeding the Mw 8.4 2007 Earthquake

Kelly Grijalva, UC Berkeley

Seismic Vulnerability of Critical Lifelines in the San Francisco Bay Area - An Engineers Perspective

Ahmed Nisar, MMI Engineering

Epistemic Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences

Tom Hanks, USGS, Menlo Park

CREATIVE DESTRUCTION: Timber and Masonry Earthquake Resistant Construction before the Age of Steel and Reinforced Concrete

Randolph Langenbach, Conservationtech Consulting, Oakland

Mitigating Climate Change: Will Direct Removal of CO2 be Necessary? (Joint with USGS WR Colloquium)

Margaret Leinen, Climos

AGU Practice Talks

Sulfur Dioxide from Volcanoes Initiates Global Climate Change in Four Ways

Peter Ward, Teton Tectonics

Forecast and Prediction of Extreme Events

Vladimir Kossobokov