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 2013

• Small Strains Near Yellowstone Lake (and what they tell us about magma)

  Karen Luttrell, USGS Mendenhall, Volcano Science Center

  Wed, Jan 9 10:30 AM

• Seismic evidence for fluid-related embrittlement as a cause of intermediate-depth earthquake

  Junichi Nakajima, Associate Professor, Research Center for Earthquake and Volcano Eruption Prediction

  Thu, Jan 10 10:30 AM

• Have Recent Earthquakes Exposed Flaws in or Misunderstandings of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis?

  Tom Hanks, USGS, ESC

  Wed, Jan 16 10:30 AM

• Communication of Aftershock Information during the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence

  Anne Wein

  Tue, Jan 22 10:30 AM

• Defeating Earthquakes

  Ross Stein, ESC-USGS

  Fri, Jan 25 10:30 AM

• Tsunami risk reduction in Padang

  Brian Tucker, GeoHazards International

  Wed, Jan 30 10:30 AM

• Role and responsibility of science: the L'Aquila trial and the work of the Italian High Risk Commission

  Domenico Giardini, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

  Wed, Jan 30 2:30 PM

February 2013

• Quantifying landscape-altering events using ground based lidar and environmental sensors

  Steve DeLong, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park

  Wed, Feb 6 10:30 AM

• Understanding ground motion prediction equations using strong ground motion data, and tectonic tremor

  Annemarie Baltay, USGS

  Wed, Feb 13 10:30 AM

• Implications of Strong-Rate-Weakening Friction for the Length-Scale Dependence of the Strength of the Crust; Why Earthquakes Are so Gentle

  Thomas Heaton, Cal Tech, Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Lab

  Fri, Feb 22 10:30 AM

March 2013

• Mobile Laser Scanning for Earthquake Science

  Ben Brooks, USGS, ESC

  Wed, Mar 6 10:30 AM

• Propagation dynamics of episodic tremor and slip - Curious similarity to trigger of 2011 Tohoku earthquake.

  Ryosuke Ando, GSJ/AIST

  Fri, Mar 8 10:30 AM

• Slow slip and the absence of tremor at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

  Emily Montgomery-Brown, USGS, Mendenhall PostDoc

  Wed, Mar 13 10:30 AM

• Annual modulation of non-volcanic tremor in northern Cascadia

  Fred Pollitz, Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Mar 20 10:30 AM

• Siletz-Crescent Forearc Terrane Revisited - Does a New Kinematic Model Solve an Old Puzzle?

  Patricia McCrory, ESC, USGS

  Wed, Mar 27 10:30 AM

April 2013

• Imaging with Geophysics: Heat and Water Cycling in Modern Subduction Zones

  Geoff Abers, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

  Wed, Apr 3 10:30 AM

• Ground Motion Prediction using the Virtual Earthquake Approach

  Marine Denolle, Stanford University

  Wed, Apr 10 10:30 AM

• Satellite-SSA: 10:30 am - noon and 1 pm - 2:20

  SSA Presentations from your USGS Peers

  Wed, Apr 17 10:30 AM

• The Context and Impact of the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence of 2010 - 2011

  Kelvin Berryman, GNS Science - Manager: Natural Hazards Research Platform

  Wed, Apr 24 10:30 AM

May 2013

• On the Broad Range of Responses to Dynamic Triggering

  Dave Hill, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, May 1 10:30 AM

• San Andreas Fault Investigations in Marin County: A Retrospective

  Tim Hall, Senior Consulting Geologist, with assistance from Tina M. Niemi

  Wed, May 8 10:30 AM

• Soliciting engineering judgments on building collapse fragility using structured elicitation process

  Kishor Jaiswal, U.S. Geological Survey Golden CO/Synergetics Inc.

  Thu, May 9 10:30 AM

• Weighing the Greenland Ice Sheet with GPS

  Mike Bevis, Ohio State University

  Wed, May 15 10:30 AM

• Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Southern San Andreas Fault System: Insights From Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis

  Rebecca Dorsey, University of Oregon

  Wed, May 29 10:30 AM

June 2013

• Observations of seismic interactions and of a nucleation phase before large earthquakes

  Virginie Durand, ISTerre, University of Grenoble

  Wed, Jun 5 10:30 AM

• What is a foreshock? What is an asperity?

  Greg McLaskey, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Jun 19 10:30 AM

• The paradox of disaster: Extracting the good from the bad and the ugly

  John Vargo, University of Canterbury, Resilient Organizations

  Fri, Jun 21 10:30 AM

• Connections between seismic and aseismic fault slip in the Salton Trough and Salton Sea Geothermal Field

  Jeff McGuire, WHOI

  Wed, Jun 26 10:30 AM

July 2013

• Frictional properties of shale reservoir rocks: Insights into induced slip during hydraulic stimulation

  Arjun Kohli, Stanford University

  Wed, Jul 17 10:30 AM

August 2013

• Induced Seismicity in Basel and Paradox Valley

  Corinne Bachmann, Lawrence Berkeley Lab

  Wed, Aug 7 10:30 AM

• Current Kinematic Laser Scanning Research at the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping

  Craig Glennie, University of Houston

  Thu, Aug 8 10:30 AM

• Crustal Structure and Seismicity Around the Deep Fault Drilling Project Site, Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand

  Cliff Thurber, University of Wisconsin

  Mon, Aug 12 10:30 AM

• LITHO1.0: An updated crust and lithospheric model of the Earth

  Michael Pasyanos, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

  Wed, Aug 14 10:30 AM

• Low Coseismic Friction on the Tohoku Fault Determined from Temperature Measurements: Results of the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project

  Patrick Fulton, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Aug 28 10:30 AM

September 2013

• Offset of latest Pleistocene shoreface reveals slip rate(s) on the Hosgri stirke-slip fault, offshore central California

  Samuel Johnson, USGS

  Tue, Sep 17 1:00 PM

• Upper Mantle Rheology Constrained From Subduction Zone Earthquake Cycle Deformation and Post-glacial Rebound

  Yan Hu, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Sep 18 10:30 AM

• Nuclear Explosion Monitoring and the Source Physics Experiments

  Bill Walter, LLNL

  Wed, Sep 25 10:30 AM

October 2013

• An Informal Refresher/Introduction Training Session for the Deployment of Portable Seismic Systems

  Chris Dietel et al., USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Oct 2 10:30 AM

• Sampling the Source of the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

  Frederick Chester, Texas A&M University

  Wed, Oct 9 10:30 AM

• TBD

  Sinan Ackiz

  Wed, Oct 16 10:30 AM

• UAVSAR Reveals Surface Faulting and GPS PPP(AR) Assists in Earthquake Early Warning

  Kenneth Hudnut, U. S. Geological Survey, Pasadena

  Mon, Oct 21 2:00 PM

• The Relationship Between Seismicity and Fault Structure on Discovery Transform Fault, East Pacific Rise

  Monica Wolfson-Schwehr, University of New Hampshire

  Wed, Oct 23 10:30 AM

• Seismic regolith: maximum past and future shaking in Greater Los Angeles

  Norm Sleep, Stanford University

  Wed, Oct 30 10:30 AM

November 2013

• Northern Costa Rica seismogenic zone through an earthquake cycle

  Susan Schwartz, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Nov 6 10:30 AM

• Progress and Challenges in Performance-based Engineering of Earthquake Resilient Communities

  Greg Deierlein, John A. Blume Professor of Engineering, Stanford University

  Thu, Nov 14 10:30 AM

• Strong ground motion of Lushan Ms7.0 earthquake on April 20, 2013

  Yefei Ren, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administra

  Thu, Nov 21 10:30 AM

December 2013

• Injection-Induced Seismicity

  Bill Ellsworth, USGS

  Mon, Dec 2 3:15 PM

• Healing of near-surface and fault zone damage following the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake: Observation and simulation of repeating earthquakes

  Kate Huihsuan Chen, Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University

  Wed, Dec 4 10:30 AM

• Can Geoscience genuinely assist with international development?

  Mike Petterson, SOPAC

  Mon, Dec 16 10:30 AM

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