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 2016
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Taking the Fear Out of Emergency Preparedness
Ana-Marie Jones, CARD (Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters)
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Old wounds: The impact of inherited density anomalies on the stress field and modern seismicity in the central and eastern United States
William Levandowski, USGS National Earthquake Information Center
February 2016
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The Nature of Carbonate Fault Mirrors
Shalev Siman Tov, UC Santa Cruz
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A Quantitative Risk Assessment of Oklahoma Fault Slip
Rall Walsh, Stanford
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Uncertainties and inaccuracies of earthquake hypocenter absolute locations: one geothermal application and one theoretical development
Emmanuel Gaucher, KIT
March 2016
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Southernmost California: Surprises from shear wave velocities and splitting
Simon Klemperer, Stanford University
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(Joint with Pacific Region Colloquium) Lighting up the lithosphere: Information on the continental upper mantle from deep-probing electromagnetic studies combined with geochemical and other geophysical data
Alan G Jones, Stanford University
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Deformation history of the Yakima fold province and implications for seismic hazard in central Washington: new constraints from geochronology, structural interpretation, and stream profile inversion
Lydia Staisch, USGS Earthquake Science Center - Seattle
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Geodetic constraints on frictional properties and unmapped faults in the Imperial Valley, Southern California
Eric Lindsey, NTU
April 2016
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Coupling Tectonic Geomorphology and Paleoseismology for Understanding of Earthquake Recurrence along the San Andreas Fault, Carrizo Plain, CA
Barrett Salisbury, Arizona State University
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Extreme waves a century before Columbus along the Puerto Rico Trench
Brian Atwater, USGS, Seattle
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Numerical Shake Prediction for Earthquake Early Warning: real-time prediction of ground shaking without source information
Mitsuyuki Hoshiba, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
May 2016
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Seafloor Evidence of Remotely Triggered Slope Failures and Turbidity Currents
Joan Gomberg, USGS, Seattle
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Dr. Lucy explains it all
Lucy Jones
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Evidence for damaging induced earthquakes during the early 20th century in the Los Angeles basin
Susan Hough, USGS, Pasadena
June 2016
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Amateur Radio Development, Challenges and Lessons Learned during Gorkha Earthquake of 2015
Dr. Sanjeeb Panday, Tribhuvan University
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Self-similar and deterministic properties of earthquake rupture - New insight and its application to early warning
Shunta Noda, USGS/RTRI
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Missing Link between the Hayward and Rodgers Creek Faults
Janet Watt, USGS
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Joint ESC/VSC Seminar: Fracturing around magmatic dikes as a precursor to the development of volcanic plugs
Meredith Townsend, Stanford University
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Sedimentary and Geophysical Investigations Offshore Sumatra: Riddling the Seafloor for Evidence of Earthquakes and Submarine Landslides
Jay Patton, Humboldt State University
July 2016
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Deep Structure and Evolution of the Afro-Arabian Rift
Walter Mooney, USGS
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Site Response Uncertainty and its Implications for Seismic Risk Characterization
Jon Stewart, UCLA
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Hazard Analysis: Seismologists Building the Foundation for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering
Khalid Mosalam, UC Berkeley
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Identifying potentially induced seismicity and assessing statistical significance in Oklahoma and California
Mark McClure, McClure Geomechanics/Stanford
August 2016
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Earthquake Early Warning: Potential for Damage Mitigation vs. Physical & Technical Limitations
Men-Andrin Meier, Caltech
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The Indonesian MONSOON (MONitering Subduction by Ocean Observatory Network) program
Professor Sang-Mook Lee, Seoul National University
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Teleseismic constraints on the geological environment of deep episodic slow earthquakes in subduction zone forearcs.
Professor YoungHee Kim, Seoul National University
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A Quarter Century of Reducing Risk in the World's Most Vulnerable Communities. What Have We Learned?
Anne Sanquini, GeoHazards International
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Fakequakes: generating kinematic rupture scenarios and synthetic displacement data, an example application to the Cascadia subduction zone.
Diego Melgar, UC Berkeley
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Imaging and Mapping of Active Fault Structures in Southern California with Marine Active-Source Seismic Data
Valerie Sahakian, USGS
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Taiwan Earthquake Model: Probability and Disaggregation of Seismic Hazard Potential of Taiwan
Kuo-Fong Ma, National Central University
September 2016
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Airborne and Spaceborne Geodetic Imaging of the Slumgullion Landslide
Brent Delbridge, UC Berkeley
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Fault slip and related deformation in the shallow crust
Josie Nevitt, USGS
October 2016
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Consideration of ground motion duration in engineering assessment of building safety
Jack Baker, Stanford
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Direct Measurement of Seismic Moment Accumulation Rate from Space Geodesy
David Sandwell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Using marine geophysical data to study earthquake tectonics and geohazards
Maureen Walton, USGS
November 2016
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Bounding the Moment Deficit Rate: Methods and Application to Southern California
Jeremy Maurer, Stanford
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The Global Earthquake Model: Recent developments in earthquake hazard and risk modelling
John Schneider, Global Earthquake Model
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New geomorphic and sedimentologic insights on fault activity, slip rates, and seismic hazard along the San Andreas fault system in the San Gorgonio Pass and the Santa Cruz Mountains: What we know and what we think we know
Kim Blisniuk, San Jose State University