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 2014

• What does a continental transform fault look like ahead of a major earthquake? Results from the first phase of the DFDP drilling project, Alpine Fault, New Zealand

  John Townend, Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington

  Wed, Jan 15 10:30 AM

• Earthquake and Fault System Dynamics

  James Dieterich, University of California, Riverside

  Wed, Jan 22 10:30 AM

• Quantifying the Seismic Hazard From Natural and Induced Earthquakes

  Justin Rubinstein, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Jan 29 10:30 AM

February 2014

• All Earthquakes (Natural and Not so Natural): Geodesy at the NEIC

  Bill Barnhart, USGS Golden

  Mon, Feb 3 10:30 AM

• Geotechnical Array Monitoring in the United States: Insitu Observations of Nonlinear Soil Behavior and the Onset of Liquefaction

  Jamie Steidl, UC Santa Barbara

  Wed, Feb 19 10:30 AM

• Damage Proxy Maps from Radar Satellites

  Sang-Ho Yun, JPL

  Wed, Feb 26 10:30 AM

March 2014

• Sedimentary anatomy, climate-controlled cylicity, and faults of the Quaternary Santa Clara basin, southern San Francisco Bay region, Californi

  Carl Wentworth, USGS GEMEG

  Wed, Mar 5 10:30 AM

• Dynamic Rupture and Ground Motion Models on the Claremont-Casa Loma Stepover of the San Jacinto Fault, Incorporating Realistic Complexity

  Julian Lozos, Stanford/USGS Menlo Park

  Thu, Mar 13 10:30 AM

• Exotic event moment tensor analysis including the latest results for Bayou Corne

  Douglas Dreger, UC Berkeley Seismolab

  Wed, Mar 19 10:30 AM

• Strong Shaking From The 23 August 2011 M 5.8 Mineral Virginia Earthquake: Causes and Regional Hazards

  Rufus Catchings, USGS

  Wed, Mar 26 10:30 AM

April 2014

• Time-lapse changes in seismic wave velocities related to 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake estimated by cross-correlation techniques

  Nori Nakata, Stanford University

  Wed, Apr 2 10:30 AM

• The Aftershock Information Experience in Canterbury, New Zealand

  Anne Wein (WRSC, USGS Menlo Park) and Sally Potter (GNS Science)

  Wed, Apr 9 10:30 AM

• Catastrophic Earthquakes In a Crowded World (Public Lecture preview)

  Tom Holzer, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Apr 16 10:30 AM

• Ground-Motion Prediction Equations: Past, Present, and Future

  David Boore, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Apr 23 10:30 AM

May 2014

• Seismic Imaging of Fluid Distribution in The Geysers Geothermal Reservoir

  Roland Gritto, Array Information Technology

  Wed, May 14 10:30 AM

• UCERF3 Overview - from Multi-fault Ruptures to an Operational Earthquake Forecast

  Ned Field, USGS GHSC, Golden, CO

  Wed, May 21 10:30 AM

• Observed ground motions from induced earthquakes: implications for hazard, source properties, and the great Prague debate

  Sue Hough, USGS

  Wed, May 28 10:30 AM

June 2014

• Imaging P and S Attenuation in the Termination Region of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand

  Donna Eberhart-Phillips, UC Davis

  Tue, Jun 3 2:00 PM

• Teleseismic body wave retrieval from ambient seismic noise correlation

  Pierre Boue, Stanford University

  Wed, Jun 4 10:30 AM

• Rethinking turbidite paleoseismology at Cascadia

  Brian Atwater, USGS ESC Seattle

  Wed, Jun 11 10:30 AM

• An Update on USGS Real-time Earthquake Hazard and Loss Estimation Systems

  David Wald, USGS, GHSC, Golden, CO

  Wed, Jun 18 10:30 AM

• Cascade, Preslip, and the Seismic Signatures of Earthquake Rupture Initiation

  Greg McLaskey, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Jun 25 10:30 AM

July 2014

• Reverse Faulting and Probabilistic Surface Displacement Estimates

  Robb Moss, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

  Wed, Jul 9 10:30 AM

• Episodic Tremor and Slip (ETS) and Volcanoes: Tracking Messy Seismicity

  Aaron Wech, USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory

  Wed, Jul 16 10:30 AM

• Anything Common about the Physical Characteristics and Settings of the Upper Plate (Little) and Lower Plate (Much) Where Lengthy Ruptures Generated High Magnitude (>Mw8.0-8.5) Megathrusts?

  Dave Scholl and Steve Kirby, PCMSC/ESC, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Jul 23 10:30 AM

• Modeling Megathrust Rupture through Stable-Sliding Zones, and Implications for an Alaskan-Aleutian Megathrust Earthquake and Tsunami

  Kenny Ryan, UC Riverside

  Wed, Jul 30 10:30 AM

August 2014

• Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges in British Columbia (BCSIMS)

  Yavuz Kaya, UBC-Canada

  Mon, Aug 4 10:30 AM

• Evolution of Stress and Induced Seismicity at the Enhanced Geothermal System in Soultz-sous-Forêts, France

  Martin Schoenball, USGS GMEG Science Center

  Wed, Aug 6 10:30 AM

• Brown bag lunch and movie screening of Discovery Channel's "Build it Bigger: Al Hamra Skyscraper, Kuwait"

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  Thu, Aug 7 12:00 PM

• Effects of the San Jacinto Fault Earthquake Cycle Observed in Pore Pressure Measurements

  Andrew Barbour, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Aug 13 10:30 AM

• What have we learned from two decades of post-earthquake geodesy in the Mojave Desert?

  Fred Pollitz, USGS ESC

  Wed, Aug 20 10:30 AM

September 2014

• Participatory decision making under uncertainty

  Gordon Woo, Risk Management Solutions (RMS), London

  Tue, Sep 2 10:30 AM

• Operational earthquake forecasting in Italy: scientific issues and motivations

  Warner Marzocchi, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy

  Wed, Sep 3 10:30 AM

• Lessons from the South Napa Earthquake

  USGS scientists and others

  Thu, Sep 4 10:00 AM

• Structure and tectonics of the Salton Trough: New results from the Salton Seismic Imaging Project

  Gary Fuis, ESC, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Sep 17 10:30 AM

• Earthquake 101: Resources for Reporting on Earthquakes (For News Media)

  USGS scientists and public affairs, USGS, Menlo Park, CA

  Wed, Sep 24 10:00 AM

October 2014

• Seismic Instrumentation of Structures - A GeoNet Programme

  SR Uma, GNS Science

  Thu, Oct 2 11:00 AM

• Paying it Forward: 25 Years of Building Resilience in the Bay Area

  Mary Lou Zoback, Stanford University

  Wed, Oct 8 10:30 AM

• Tsunami forecasting with kinematic slip models derived from land- and ocean-based geophysical data

  Diego Melgar, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

  Wed, Oct 15 11:00 AM

• Page Rank for Earthquakes

  Ana Aguiar, Stanford University

  Wed, Oct 22 10:30 AM

• Introduction of the Shinkansen Earthquake Early Warning system and its future direction

  Shunta Noda, Railway Technical Research Institute / USGS ESC

  Wed, Oct 29 10:30 AM

November 2014

• Simulating the coseismic behavior and evolution of segmented strike-slip fault systems

  Elizabeth (Betsy) Madden, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Wed, Nov 5 10:00 AM

• Enhancing the GMPE model space for estimating epistemic uncertainty

  Nicholas Kuehn, PEER Center, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Nov 12 10:30 AM

• Imaging fluid pathways at the Middle America Trench with marine electromagnetic data

  Samer Naif, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  Thu, Nov 20 11:00 AM

• Large earthquakes and non-steady creep: eighteen years of GPS data reveal the nature of sliding along the northern Japan subduction zone

  Kaj Johnson, Indiana University

  Fri, Nov 21 10:30 AM

December 2014

• Interseismic deformation along the Calaveras fault and refining the geometry of the Hayward-Calaveras stepover

  Estelle Chaussard, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

  Wed, Dec 3 10:30 AM

• Using Paleoseismic Trenching and LiDAR Analysis to Evaluate Rupture Propagation Through Segment Boundaries of the Central Wasatch Fault Zone, Utah

  Scott Bennett, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center -- Golden, Colorado

  Wed, Dec 10 10:30 AM

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