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 2012

• Bayesian Kinematic Earthquake Models

  Sarah Minson, USGS, Seattle

  Wed, Jan 11 10:30 AM

• Modeling Long Period (T > 4 sec) Strong Ground Motions for the 2011 Mw 9 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

  Rob Graves, USGS Pasadena

  Wed, Jan 18 10:30 AM

• Global distribution of M9 earthquakes (Joint Seminar with G&G)

  Rob McCaffrey, Portland State University

  Mon, Jan 30 2:00 PM

February 2012

• Mid-Quaternary to Holocene slip rate behavior of the San Jacinto fault zone, California

  Kimberly Blisniuk (Le), UCD

  Wed, Feb 1 10:30 AM

• Seismology in the rock mechanics laboratory: From asperity micromechanics to dynamic fault rupture

  Greg McLaskey, USGS, Menlo Park

  Wed, Feb 8 10:30 AM

• Using pseudotachylytes to probe the earthquake source

  Jamie Kirkpatrick, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Feb 15 2:00 PM

• GPS constraints on crustal deformation and fault slip rates in the Central Walker Lane and Sierra Nevada frontal fault

  Jayne Bormann, UNR- Nevada Geodetic Laboratory

  Wed, Feb 22 10:30 AM

• The mechanisms of earthquakes and faulting in the southern Gulf of California

  Danielle Sumy, USGS, Pasadena

  Wed, Feb 29 10:30 AM

March 2012

• Measurement- and Proxy-based Site Estimates of Vs30

  Alan Yong, USGS Pasadena

  Mon, Mar 12 10:30 AM

• Yellowstone dynamics from earthquake-volcano interactions (Joint seminar with VSC)

  Jamie Farrell, University of Utah

  Wed, Mar 14 10:30 AM

• Up and Down of the Japanese Island Before and After the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake/ Stress Triggering of the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake and Increased Probability of a Large Earthquake Beneath Tokyo

  Manabu Hashimoto and Shinji Toda, DPRI, Kyoto University

  Wed, Mar 21 10:30 AM

• Fault structure and earthquake rupture properties at the Gofar Fault, East Pacific Rise

  Emily Roland, USGS, Alaska Science Center

  Wed, Mar 28 10:30 AM

April 2012

• U-Th dating of striated fault planes

  Perach Nuriel, University of Queensland, Australia

  Wed, Apr 4 10:30 AM

• Can we monitor Yellowstone with ambient noise? (Joint seminar with VSC)

  Jesse Lawrence, Stanford University

  Wed, Apr 11 10:30 AM

• Induced Seismicity: Seven steps to recovery

  Ernie Majer, LBNL

  Wed, Apr 25 10:30 AM

May 2012

• Ground Shaking and Seismic Source Spectrum Variations for Large Megathrust Earthquakes

  Thorne Lay, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, May 2 10:30 AM

• Global mantle tomography in the age of numerical wavefield computations

  Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley

  Wed, May 9 10:30 AM

• Potential contribution of seafloor geodesy towards understanding slip behavior along the Cascadia Subduction Zone

  David Chadwell, UCSD

  Wed, May 16 10:30 AM

• Combining physics-based and statistical forecast models for Northern California

  Margarita Segou, USGS, Menlo Park

  Wed, May 23 10:30 AM

• Effects of heat flow, shear strain rate, and other geophysical variables on the southern California seismicity and state of stress

  Egill Hauksson, Caltech

  Wed, May 30 10:30 AM

June 2012

• Multifault mechanics at a dilational step

  Betsy Madden, Stanford University

  Wed, Jun 6 10:30 AM

• The far reach of megathrust earthquakes: evolution of stress, deformation, and seismicity following the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake.

  Kelly Wiseman, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Jun 13 10:30 AM

• Performances of buildings during five recent large earthquakes and data from instrumented buildings including MIT's Green building

  Mehmet Celebi, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Jun 20 10:30 AM

• Imaging complex evolution of slow earthquakes using seismic arrays

  Abhijit Ghosh, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Jun 27 10:30 AM

July 2012

• 2012 William B. Joyner Memorial Lecture: Building Near Faults

  Jonathan D. Bray, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Jul 18 10:30 AM

August 2012

• Numerical Modeling of Volcanic Tremor Sources

  Eric Dunham, Stanford University

  Wed, Aug 1 10:30 AM

• Multivariate integer-valued autoregressive models applied to earthquake counts

  Mathieu Boudreault, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

  Wed, Aug 8 10:30 AM

• Missing Great Earthquakes

  Sue Hough, USGS

  Wed, Aug 22 10:30 AM

• Volcano Deformation and Subdaily GPS Products

  Ronni Grapenthin, U.C. Berkeley

  Wed, Aug 29 10:30 AM

September 2012

• The 11 April 2012 M=8.6 East Indian Ocean earthquake triggered large aftershocks worldwide

  Fred Pollitz, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Sep 5 10:30 AM

• Surface rupture and paleoseismic history of the 2011 Mw6.6 Iwaki earthquake, a normal faulting event triggered by the 2011 Mw9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake

  Prof. Hiroyuki Tsutsumi, Kyoto University

  Thu, Sep 13 10:30 AM

• Navigating Earthquake Physics with High Resolution Array Back-Projection

  Lingsen Meng, Caltech

  Wed, Sep 26 10:30 AM

October 2012

• Probabilistic elevation models from waveform topographic LiDAR

  Andre Jalobeanu

  Wed, Oct 3 10:30 AM

• What is wrong with Earthquake Physics?

  Amos Nur, Stanford University

  Wed, Oct 17 10:30 AM

• What triggers most earthquakes? (the answer lies in the shadows)

  Volkan Sevilgen, Seismicity.net (USGS Contractor)

  Wed, Oct 24 10:30 AM

• L'Aquila earthquake 2009: reconstruction between temporary and definitive

  Michele Calvi, Università degli Studi di Pavia

  Fri, Oct 26 12:00 PM

• Foreshocks of Parkfield and Landers (revisited)

  Sean Ford, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Wed, Oct 31 10:30 AM

November 2012

• Rapid and Inexpensive Reservoir Modeling from Micro-earthquake Analysis

  Lawrence Hutchings, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Wed, Nov 7 10:30 AM

• Origins of Deep Ocean Microseisms in the North Atlantic Ocean and Implications for Noise Tomography

  Sharon Kedar, JPL

  Wed, Nov 14 10:30 AM

• Seeing What's at Fault in Subduction Zones: Examining Great Earthquake Megathrusts

  Nathan Bangs, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

  Fri, Nov 30 12:00 PM

December 2012

• Exploiting the Demographics of "Did You Feel It?" Responses to Estimate the Felt Area of Moderate Earthquakes

  Jack Boatwright, USGS

  Wed, Dec 12 10:30 AM

• Temporal and kinematic patterns of fault slip along the southeastern Sierra Nevada block

  Colin Amos, Western Washington University

  Wed, Dec 19 10:30 AM

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