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 2015

• Geodetic imaging of the earthquake cycle

  Eileen Evans, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Jan 21 10:45 AM

• Geodetic inversions of slow slip in Mexico: implications for large earthquakes

  David Bekaert, COMET, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds

  Thu, Jan 29 1:30 PM

February 2015

• Time dependent noise and velocity uncertainty in GPS data

  Ksenia Dmitrieva, Stanford University

  Wed, Feb 4 10:30 AM

• Pleistocene History of the Southern Death Valley (SDV) Fault Zone and Kinematic Evolution of the Eastern California Shear Zone, SDV Region

  John Caskey, San Francisco State University

  Wed, Feb 11 2:00 PM

• Fault-related deformation under brittle-ductile conditions: Inelastic constitutive behavior and resulting slip distributions

  Johanna Nevitt, Stanford University

  Wed, Feb 18 10:30 AM

• Seafloor Seismic and Geodetic Experiments on the Cascadia Megathrust

  Jeff McGuire, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Thu, Feb 19 9:30 AM

• Unraveling earthquake source, path-specific, and local site effects in ground motion prediction equations

  Annemarie Baltay, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Mon, Feb 23 10:00 AM

• Vertical-Component Ground Motion Prediction Equations for Active Crustal Regions

  Emel Seyhan, RMS Silicon Valley

  Wed, Feb 25 10:30 AM

• Broadband Ground Motions from Dynamic Models of Rupture on the Northern San Jacinto Fault, and Comparison with Precariously Balanced Rocks

  Julian Lozos, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Fri, Feb 27 10:30 AM

March 2015

• Recent Developments in the Stochastic Method of Ground Motion Simulation, Site Amplification, and Liquefaction Mapping

  Eric Thompson, San Diego State University

  Tue, Mar 3 9:30 AM

• Variations on a theme of varying aftershock productivity: Some observations from natural and induced seismicity

  Andrea Llenos, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Mar 11 10:30 AM

• Rock Physics Constraints on Seismic Signatures of the Campi Flegrei Caldera, Italy

  Tiziana Vanorio, Stanford University

  Wed, Mar 18 9:30 AM

• Vulnerability in the time of big data

  Emiliano Nuesch, Pacifico

  Tue, Mar 24 10:30 AM

• Exploring Paleoseismic Signals from Caves in the Central and Eastern USA

  John Tinsley, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Mar 25 10:30 AM

April 2015

• Monitoring with ambient noise: applications to volcanoes, fault zones and injection wells

  Anne Obermann, ETH

  Wed, Apr 1 10:30 AM

• Ambient noise-based monitoring of seismic velocity changes associated with the 2014 Mw 6.0 South Napa earthquake

  Taka'aki Taira, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

  Wed, Apr 8 10:30 AM

• Seismo-Mechanical Reservoir Characterization at NW The Geysers Geothermal Field

  Patricia Martínez Garzón, GFZ Potsdam, Germany

  Wed, Apr 15 10:30 AM

• Earthquake dynamics controlled by multi-scale heterogeneity: Implication of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

  Hideo Aochi, French Geological Survey (BRGM)

  Wed, Apr 29 10:30 AM

• GET READY to be prepared!

  Carol Parker, Menlo Park Fire District

  Wed, Apr 29 6:30 PM

May 2015

• Modeling injection-induced earthquakes and rupture directivity bias

  David Dempsey, Stanford University

  Wed, May 6 10:30 AM

• Cascadia Crustal Rotation, Strike Slip Faulting along Small Circle Paths, and Mantle Flow

  Tom Brocher, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, May 13 10:30 AM

• Reconsidering Earthquake Scaling

  Joan Gomberg, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, May 20 10:30 AM

• Off fault deformation in fault system evolution and seismic hazards

  Michele Cooke, UMass Amherst

  Wed, May 27 10:30 AM

June 2015

• Going HayWired: using earthquake science to make better resilience decisions in the San Francisco Bay area

  Anne Wein, Keith Porter, and Lucy Jones

  Wed, Jun 3 10:30 AM

• Carbon-dioxide gas bubble growth in groundwater: A mechanism for remote seismic triggering

  Jackson Crews, Desert Research Institute

  Wed, Jun 10 10:30 AM

• New Ways to Look at Present-Day Tectonic Deformation of the Western United States

  Wayne Thatcher, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Jun 17 10:30 AM

• When can we expect injection-induced earthquake behavior to correlate with injection operations?

  Jack Norbeck, Stanford

  Wed, Jun 24 10:00 AM

July 2015

• A long-term deformation transient and increasing rate of repeating earthquakes preceding the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

  Andreas Mavrommatis, Stanford

  Wed, Jul 1 10:30 AM

• Stress Drop and Near-Source Ground Motions

  Thomas Heaton, Caltech

  Wed, Jul 15 10:30 AM

• Ground motion and damage from the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake: A Defiance of Expectations

  Susan Hough, USGS Pasadena

  Wed, Jul 22 10:30 AM

• High-rate injection is associated with the increase in U.S. mid-continent seismicity

  Matthew Weingarten, University of Colorado

  Fri, Jul 24 10:30 AM

• Napa seminar day

  T. Dawson, G. Seitz, C. Prentice, R. Catchings, F. Pollitz, B. Brooks, R. Stein, J. Hardebeck, A. Baltay, J. Chan

  Tue, Jul 28 2:30 PM

August 2015

• Earthquake detection through computationally efficient similarity search

  Clara Yoon and Karianne Bergen, Stanford

  Wed, Aug 5 10:30 AM

• Napa Earthquake of August 24, 2014 (Mw6.0) Responses of the Odd Couple Carquinez, Ca, Bridges: Suspension Bridge and Other Relevant Topics

  Mehmet Celebi, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Aug 12 10:30 AM

• Rupture Characteristics of Major and Great (MW ≥ 7.0) Megathrust Earthquakes from 1990-2015: Source Scaling and depth-dependence Relationships

  Lingling Ye, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Aug 19 10:30 AM

• Advancing USGS Subduction Zone Science

  Eileen Evans (for USGS Subduction Zone Science Working Group), USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Aug 26 10:30 AM

September 2015

• Physical constraints on earthquake magnitudes: Insights from triggered earthquakes

  Nicholas Van Der Elst, USGS Pasadena

  Wed, Sep 2 10:30 AM

• Seismogenic response to fluid injection in California hydrocarbon basins: The role of permeability structure and implications for crustal stresses

  Thomas Gobel, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Sep 9 10:30 AM

• Validating a Dynamic Earthquake Model to Produce Realistic Ground Motion.

  Joe Andrews, USGS (retired)

  Wed, Sep 23 10:30 AM

• Detecting small induced earthquakes and their source properties

  Yihe Huang, Stanford

  Wed, Sep 30 10:30 AM

October 2015

• Geoscientists' Capacity to Supply Engineers' Demands for Seismic Hazard Inputs

  Paul Somerville, AECOM

  Thu, Oct 1 10:30 AM

• Constraints from Fault Roughness on the Scale-Dependent Strength of Rocks

  Emily Brodsky, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Oct 7 10:30 AM

• Stress orientations in subduction zones and the strength of subduction megathrust faults

  Jeanne Hardebeck, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Oct 14 10:30 AM

• Dehydration-Induced Weakening of Serpentinite at Sub-Seismic and Seismic Strain-Rates

  Brooks Proctor, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Oct 21 10:30 AM

• Radiated Energy of Shallow Earthquakes

  Marine Denolle, UC San Diego

  Wed, Oct 28 10:30 AM

November 2015

• New thoughts about injection induced seismicity

  Paul Segall, Stanford

  Tue, Nov 3 10:30 AM

• Disruption of groundwater system by large earthquakes

  Chi-Yuen Wang, UC Berkeley

  Tue, Nov 10 2:00 PM

• Tectonic geomorphology and seismic hazard in strike-slip and buried fault settings

  Stephen DeLong, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Nov 18 10:30 AM

• A city shocked into the future: The consequences and new opportunities

  Margot Christeller, Independent Consultant: Recovery and Resilience

  Fri, Nov 20 11:00 AM

December 2015

• Residual Topography and Gravity Anomalies Reveal Structural Controls on the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-oki Earthquake

  Daniel Bassett, Scripps

  Wed, Dec 2 1:30 PM

• Quantitative Models of Fluid Injection-Induced Seismicity

  Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford

  Wed, Dec 9 10:30 AM

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