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 2009

• Sequestering Carbon Dioxide in the Built Environment

  Brent Constantz, Calera Corporation

  Wed, Jan 7 10:30 AM

• Shaking up Faults: Insight from the lab on Earthquake Triggering

  Heather Savage, UCSC

  Wed, Jan 14 10:30 AM

February 2009

• Towards a Unified Theory for Pre-Earthquake Signals

  Friedemann Freund, NASA Ames

  Wed, Feb 4 10:30 AM

• Submarine landslides and tsunamis at Seward and Valdez triggered by the 1964 Magnitude 9.2 Great Alaska earthquake

  Peter Haeussler, USGS

  Tue, Feb 10 10:30 AM

• Applied GIS within the Earthquake Hazards Team

  J. Luke Blair, Jacob DeAngelo, Thomas Noce, Stephen Walter, USGS

  Wed, Feb 11 10:30 AM

• Spatial correlation of strong ground motion intensities: measurement and implications for engineering applications

  Jack Baker, Stanford University

  Wed, Feb 18 10:30 AM

• 3D Geometry of Fault Surfaces

  Ole Kaven, Stanford University

  Wed, Feb 25 10:30 AM

March 2009

• Subduction forearc structure and its relation with episodic tremor and slip

  Pascal Audet, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Mar 4 10:30 AM

• The Night the Earth Shook! 1959 M 7.3 Hebgen Lake Earthquake and Madison Canyon Landslide west of Yellowstone National Park

  Jack Epstein, USGS Reston, Emeritus

  Wed, Mar 11 10:30 AM

• Megathrust behavior from corals

  Rich Briggs, USGS

  Wed, Mar 18 10:30 AM

• Regional moment tensor inversion for source-type identification

  Sean Ford, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Mar 25 10:30 AM

April 2009

• Lg Attenuation Modeling in the Middle East

  Michael Pasyanos, LLNL

  Fri, Apr 3 10:30 AM

• Geologic applications of terrestrial and airborne LiDAR data: characterizing tectonic landscapes and quantifying fluvial-system change

  Steve DeLong, USGS

  Tue, Apr 14 10:30 AM

• Slow slip, tremor and deep asperities: heterogeneous rate-and-state fault models

  Jean-Paul Ampuero, CalTech

  Wed, Apr 22 10:30 AM

• Evaluation of Ground Motion of the 2007 Niigata Chuetsu-oki Earthquake at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant and Multi-Purpose Observation System for Deep Seismic Ground Motions

  Kenta Okano, Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES)

  Mon, Apr 27 11:00 AM

• Site response: beyond the first dimension

  Sue Hough, USGS Pasadena

  Tue, Apr 28 10:30 AM

• Seismic Evidence for Remote Triggering of Fault-Strength Changes on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield

  Taka'aki Taira, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Apr 29 10:30 AM

May 2009

• Moment release rate of Cascadia tremor constrained by GPS

  Ana Aguiar, Stanford

  Wed, May 6 10:30 AM

• A REVIEW OF OBSERVATIONS OF THE L'AQUILA (ABRUZZO, ITALY) EQ Of APRIL 6, 2009

  Mehmet Celebi, USGS

  Fri, May 8 10:30 AM

• Reconstructing the late Quaternary slip history of the central Altyn Tagh Fault (NW Tibet) from faulted terrace risers

  Ryan Gold, UC Davis

  Wed, May 13 10:30 AM

• Seismic Detection of CO2 Leakage Along Monitoring Wellbores

  Marco Bohnhoff, Stanford University

  Wed, May 20 10:30 AM

• Connecting near and farfield earthquake triggering to dynamic strain

  Nicholas van der Elst, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, May 27 10:30 AM

June 2009

• Advances in Rotational Seismology and Monitoring Rotational Ground Motions in the San Francisco Bay Area

  Willie Lee, USGS (retired)

  Wed, Jun 10 10:30 AM

• The First 200 dB Broadband Seismometer and 10^-11 g Gravimeter - Doing Better Geophysics at One Microkelvin

  Mark Kasevich, Stanford University

  Wed, Jun 17 10:30 AM

• Fault geometry and strength evolution in the Naukluft Nappe Complex, Namibia

  Christie Rowe, University of Cape Town

  Wed, Jun 24 10:30 AM

July 2009

• Development of an Operational Earthquake Forecast for California (from UCERF2 to UCERF3)

  Ned Field, USGS Pasadena

  Wed, Jul 1 10:30 AM

• Tectonics of the western United States illuminated by seismic surface-wave tomography

  Fred Pollitz, USGS

  Wed, Jul 8 10:30 AM

• Geodetic evidence for en echelon dike emplacement and concurrent slow-slip on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, June 17-19, 2007

  Emily (Desmarais) Montgomery-Brown, Stanford University

  Wed, Jul 15 10:30 AM

• Was that a foreshock? A tale of earthquake fundamentals and public warnings

  Andy Michael, USGS

  Wed, Jul 22 10:30 AM

• Ground Motion from Earthquakes with Strong Dynamic Weakening on Nonplanar Faults

  Eric Dunham, Stanford University

  Wed, Jul 29 10:30 AM

August 2009

• Topographic Response to Active Deformation in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California

  George Hilley, Stanford University

  Wed, Aug 12 10:30 AM

• Outer-rise/outer-trench-slope earthquakes in the instrumental era: distribution, subduction system settings, and flexure mechanics

  Steve Kirby, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Aug 19 10:30 AM

• Physics-based earthquake source characterization and modeling for strong ground motion prediction with Geostatistics

  Seok Goo Song, URS Corporation

  Wed, Aug 26 10:30 AM

September 2009

• Dynamic weakening during earthquakes by solid lubrication

  Ze'ev Reches, University of Oklahoma

  Wed, Sep 2 10:30 AM

• Aseismic slip events in the Cascadia subduction zone: New insights from PBO borehole strainmeters

  Evelyn Roeloffs, USGS Vancouver

  Wed, Sep 9 10:30 AM

• Yet Another New Look at the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes: Taking the

  Sue Hough, USGS Pasadena

  Wed, Sep 23 10:30 AM

• Near-source and remote earthquake triggering

  Tom Parsons, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Sep 30 10:30 AM

October 2009

• Slip rate behavior of the southern San Jacinto fault zone - implications from 10Be and U-series dating of late Quaternary landforms

  Kim Le, UC - Davis

  Wed, Oct 7 10:30 AM

• Lessons Learned from the 2008 eruption of Kasatochi Volcano, Alaska

  Stephanie Prejean, USGS, Alaska Volcano Observatory

  Wed, Oct 14 10:30 AM

• Ongoing postseismic deformation from the 1999 Izmit, Turkey earthquake sequence: What our models can and cannot explain

  Elizabeth Hearn, University of British Columbia

  Wed, Oct 21 10:30 AM

• The Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Recent on-fault paleoseismic studies

  Robert Langridge, GNS Science - New Zealand

  Wed, Oct 28 10:30 AM

November 2009

• Magnitude-frequency statistics on a single fault: Gutenberg-Richter or Characteristic?

  Morgan Page, USGS, Pasadena

  Wed, Nov 4 10:30 AM

• Isla Guafo: Riding the Seismic Cycle Roller Coaster

  Rob Wesson, USGS, Golden

  Fri, Nov 6 10:30 AM

• Field and Seismological Investigations of the Sept. 30, 2009, M7.6 Padang (West Sumatra), Indonesia Earthquake

  Walter D. Mooney and Art McGarr, USGS Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park

  Thu, Nov 12 10:30 AM

• Normal-Faulting Displacement Maxima and Stress Drop Variability: a Geological Perspective

  Suzanne Hecker, USGS - Menlo Park

  Wed, Nov 18 10:30 AM

December 2009

• Geologic evidence for a Virgin Island tsunami from Lisbon or the Puerto Rico Trench.

  Brian Atwater, USGS - Seattle

  Wed, Dec 2 10:30 AM

• How fault geometric parameters effect seismic behavior and earthquake recurrence models

  Olaf Zielke, Arizona State University

  Wed, Dec 9 10:30 AM

• Supraslab earthquake clusters above the subduction plate boundary of offshore NE Japan: Seismogenesis in a graveyard of detached seamounts

  Naoki Uchida, Tohoku University

  Thu, Dec 10 12:00 PM

• Behind the Scenes Tour of the EHP Web Site

  Lisa Wald, USGS, Golden

  Thu, Dec 10 1:30 PM

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