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 2011
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Capabilities and limitations of linear elastic models to simulate cumulative deformation and provide insight to evolution of a young extensional fault system, Volcanic Tableland, Bishop, CA.
Peter Lovely, Stanford University
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Earthquake Damage to Delicate Cave Formations in Missouri's Ozarks
John Tinsley, USGS Menlo Park
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Depth dependent azimuthal anisotropy in the western US upper mantle
Huaiyu Yuan, UC Berkeley
February 2011
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Great Earthquakes and Mountain Building in the Southern and Central Andes
Ben Brooks, HIGP University of Hawaii, Manoa
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Using Ambient Noise to Probe the Earth
Victor Tsai, USGS, Golden, CO
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Modeling of Injection-Induced Seismicity Using a Coupled Fluid Flow and Rate/State Friction Simulator
Mark McClure, Stanford University
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Ground Motion Prediction Equations on Instrumentally Verified Subsoil Classes of Californian Strong-Motion Recording Sites & Instrumentally Based Vulnerability Studies for the Stock of the Seramar Project
Lars Abrahamczyk & Christian Kaufmann, Weimar University
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Nonlinear Dynamical Triggering of Slip
Paul Johnson, Los Alamos NL
March 2011
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Modeling interaction of earthquakes and slow slip with applications to spatio-temporal complexity of slip, small repeating earthquakes, and supershear transition
Nadia Lapusta, California Institute of Technology
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Long-period (3-10 s) strong ground motions during Mw8.0 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake, Japan and Mw7.2 2010 El-Mayor Cucapah earthquake
Ken Hatayama, National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, Japan
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Seismicity and Seismic Hazard Analysis in Complex Geotectonic Environments: The Case Study of Greece
Margarita Segou, University of Athens (visiting scientist at USGS)
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Stress perturbations from lake and ocean loading with implications for the southern San Andreas Fault earthquake cycle
Karen Luttrell, USGS, VSC
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A unique 5600-year history of great 1964-type earthquakes recorded in the stratigraphy of the Copper River Delta, Alaska
George Plafker, Research Scientist Emeritus, USGS
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The M=9 Tohoku Earthquake, Japan: New Results and A Japanese Perspective
Prof. Jim Mori, Kyoto University
April 2011
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Complex earthquake rupture and tsunami edge waves
Eric Geist, USGS
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Influence of mantle flow, lower crustal fault creep, and distributed crustal deformation on geodetic estimates of fault slip rates in California
Kaj Johnson, Indiana University
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Reducing U.S. CO2 Emissions Through Fuel-Switching to Natural Gas from Coal: The Implications for Triggered Seismicity
Mark Zoback, Stanford University
May 2011
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Earthquakes, deformation, and large mud volcano eruptions
Robert Mellors, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Uncertainty Quantification in Fractured Media
Souheil M. Ezzedine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Fault Bumps
Emily E. Brodsky, UC Santa Cruz
June 2011
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Attenuation structure beneath central California, focused on The Geysers geothermal area
Makoto Matsubara, NIED, Tsukuba, Japan
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Investigation of magmatic processes in the Yellowstone caldera from multiplet analysis
Frederick Massin, University of Utah
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Using earthquake rate changes to detect aseismic slip and dike intrusions
Andrea Llenos, USGS
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Regional Spectral Analysis of Moderate Earthquakes in Northeastern North America
John Boatwright, Earthquake Science Center, USGS
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Apparent stress, stress drops, and variability in Western US and Eastern Honshu, Japan, earthquakes
Annemarie Baltay, Stanford University
July 2011
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A Mechanism for Extreme Slip and Exceptional Tsunamigenesis in the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
Gregory C. Beroza, Stanford University
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The 2011 M9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: Mosaicking the Megathrust from Seconds to Centuries
Mark Simons, California Institute of Technology
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Mechanisms of Dynamic Fault Weakening seen in High Speed Laboratory Experiments and their Relevance to Earthquakes
Nick Beeler, USGS
August 2011
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iShake: Mobile Phones as Seismic Sensors
Shideh Dashti, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
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Spatiotemporal crustal deformation field monitoring and modeling using advanced InSAR time series and time-dependent modeling
Manoochehr Shirzaei, U.C. Berkeley
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Slow slip and tremor in Costa Rica and New Zealand: Contrasts with Cascadia and SW Japan
Susan Schwartz, U.C. Santa Cruz
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TCDP Fault-Zone in situ Borehole Seismometers: Microearthquakes Scaling and Observation of Explosive Events
Kuo-Fong Ma, National Central University, Taiwan
September 2011
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Stressful times following the 2010 Maule earthquake, Chile
Isabelle Ryder
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Damage by the 2011 East-Japan Mega Earthquake and Its Lessons
Omer Aydan, Tokai University
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Geoscience as a component of an all-of-government response to the Canterbury earthquake sequence of 2010-2011
Kelvin Berryman, GNS Science, New Zealand
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Ultra-low co-seismic stiffness of crystalline fault damage zone rocks at 8-11 km depth
W. Ashley Griffith, University of Akron
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The Salton Seismic Imaging Project-this year's field work and geometry of the southern San Andreas Fault
Gary Fuis, USGS
October 2011
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Lessons learned from the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake
Kazuhiko Kawashima, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Migration of slow slip and tectonic tremor in Cascadia with implications for physics of tremor
Noel Bartlow, Stanford University
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Analysis of Neogene deformation between Beaver, Utah and Barstow, California: Suggestions for altering the extensional paradigm (Joint seminar with Geology, Minerals, Energy and Geophysics Science Center)
Ernie Anderson, USGS, Kernville, CA
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Non-invasive instruments and holes of opportunity - seeking reservoir scale dynamics and properties
Alison Labonte, AAAS Fellow, Department of Energy
November 2011
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How many catastrophic earthquakes will there be in the 21st century?
Thomas L. Holzer, Earthquake Science Center, USGS
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Recent Imaging Efforts in the Salton Sea - SSIP 'wet'
Anne Kell, UNR- Nevada Seismological Laboratory
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Fracture mechanics at a large scale: Central Washington's faults, folds and OWL
Thomas L. Pratt, USGS, Seattle
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Suppressed post-15.8 ka slip rate along the Warm Springs Valley fault system, northern Walker Lane
Ryan Gold, USGS, Golden