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 2017

• Co- and postseismic deformation of the 2010 Mw 7.2 El mayor-Cucapah earthquake in Baja California: Lithospheric structure and deformation in the Salton Trough

  Mong-Han Huang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Wed, Jan 11 10:30 AM

• Mega-earthquakes and their relationship to fault properties

  Quentin Bletery, University of Oregon

  Wed, Jan 18 10:30 AM

February 2017

• Complex spatiotemporal evolution of seismicity and source parameters of the 2008 Mw 4.9 Mogul earthquake swarm in Reno, Nevada

  Christine Ruhl, U.C. Berkeley

  Wed, Feb 1 10:30 AM

• Connecting crustal seismicity and earthquake-driven stress evolution in Southern California

  Fred Pollitz, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Feb 8 10:30 AM

• Joint ESC/GMEG Seminar - Mineralogical Results from the CheMin X-ray Diffractometer on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity

  David Blake, NASA AMES

  Wed, Feb 15 10:30 AM

• Joint VSC/ESC Seminar - Seismic evidence for a possible deep crustal hot zone beneath Southwest Washington

  Ashton Flinders, USGS

  Tue, Feb 21 11:00 AM

March 2017

• Seismic Hazard Analysis - Capturing Uncertainty: How Uncertain Should We Be?

  Bill Lettis, Lettis Consultants International

  Wed, Mar 1 10:30 AM

• How is Coseismic Strain Released across Damage Zones and with Depth? Insights using Sub-pixel Optical Image Correlation

  Chris Milliner, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Mar 8 10:30 AM

• Data Mining Microseismicity using PageRank

  Ana Aguiar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Wed, Mar 15 10:30 AM

• A New Approach to Constrain Near-Surface Seismic Wave Speed Based Upon Body-Wave Polarization

  Sunyoung Park, Harvard University

  Wed, Mar 22 10:30 AM

• Towards improved stress drop accuracy

  Nana Yoshimitsu, Stanford University

  Wed, Mar 29 10:30 AM

April 2017

• Mantle plumes rooted at the core-mantle boundary: evidence from seismic waveform tomography

  Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Apr 5 10:30 AM

• Moment-Rate Scaling for Earthquakes 3.3 <= M <= 5.3: Spectra Are Not Classic Aki-Brune

  Ralph Archuleta, UC Santa Barbara

  Wed, Apr 12 10:30 AM

• Geodesy for understanding seismic hazard

  Eileen Evans, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Apr 26 10:30 AM

May 2017

• Variations in stress, pore fluid pressure and rock strength using minor faults and mineral veins along megasplay fault in subduction zone

  Makoto Otsubo, Geological Survey of Japan

  Wed, May 3 10:30 AM

• Developing seismic monitoring capacity in Myanmar

  Emily Wolin, USGS Pasadena/Golden

  Wed, May 10 10:30 AM

• The Theoretical and Observational Limits of Earthquake Early Warning

  Sarah Minson, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, May 17 10:30 AM

• Slips, Screams, and Migrating Things: Repeating earthquakes as a toolbox to understand and monitor volcanoes. (Joint VSC/ESC Seminar)

  Alicia Hotovec-Ellis, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, May 24 10:30 AM

• Seismological and engineering aspects of the recent 14 November 2016 Mw7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand earthquake

  Brendon A. Bradley, University of Canterbury

  Tue, May 30 1:00 PM

June 2017

• Modeling the earthquake cycle with heterogeneous materials and off-fault plasticity

  Brittany Erickson, Portland State University

  Wed, Jun 7 10:30 AM

• What allows seismic events to grow big?: Insights from b-value and fault roughness analysis in laboratory stick-slip experiments

  Thomas Göbel, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Jun 14 10:30 AM

• Automatic Noise Removal from Seismic Data using Time-Frequency Analyses

  S. Mostafa Mousavi, Stanford University

  Wed, Jun 21 10:30 AM

• The Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Induced Seismicity Clusters in Oklahoma and Southern Kansas

  Martin Schoenball, Stanford University

  Thu, Jun 29 10:30 AM

July 2017

• Seismic Zone at East Africa Rift and South Kansas using Ambient Seismic Noise

  Ezer Patlan, USGS Menlo Park

  Wed, Jul 5 10:30 AM

• The 1945 Makran tsunami in Karachi Harbour

  Brian Atwater, USGS Seattle / University of Washington

  Wed, Jul 12 10:30 AM

• Cascadia onshore-offshore site-response, submarine sediment slope-failures and flows, and earthquake recurrence

  Joan Gomberg, USGS Seattle / University of Washington

  Mon, Jul 24 10:30 AM

• Joint rupture scenarios of the Southern San Andreas, Imperial and intersecting Cross Faults south of Bombay Beach

  Christos Kyriakopoulos, UC Riverside

  Wed, Jul 26 10:30 AM

August 2017

• Survival in Seattle: Magnitude estimation, survival analysis, and hazard and loss from Puget Lowland paleoearthquakes

  Richard Styron, GEM

  Wed, Aug 2 10:30 AM

• PRISM, Processing and Review Interface for Strong Motion Data Software

  Erol Kalkan, USGS, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park

  Wed, Aug 9 10:30 AM

• Induced earthquake hazards: Forecasting seismicity rates using a hydromechanical earthquake nucleation model and saltwater disposal data

  Jack Norbeck, USGS, ESC, Menlo Park

  Wed, Aug 16 10:30 AM

• Core Mantle Boundary Imaging underneath the North Atlantic Ocean using Teleseismic Noise Correlations

  Lise Retailleau, Stanford University

  Wed, Aug 23 10:30 AM

• The New SAS Bay Bridge: Seismic Safety and Earthquake Engineering Issues

  Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, UC Berkeley

  Wed, Aug 30 10:30 AM

September 2017

• Is the modern Entiat seismicity cluster a long-lived aftershock sequence from the large 1872 Washington State earthquake?

  Tom Brocher, USGS, Menlo Park

  Wed, Sep 6 10:30 AM

• Mechanics of Earthquakes, Creep and Slow Slip - A Laboratory Perspective

  David Lockner, USGS, Menlo Park

  Wed, Sep 20 10:30 AM

• Miocene–Pleistocene deformation of the Saddle Mountains and ongoing work in the Cascadian backarc with implications for seismic hazard in Washington and Oregon

  Lydia Staisch, USGS, GMEG, Menlo Park

  Wed, Sep 27 10:30 AM

October 2017

• Deformation of the Pacific-North America plate boundary at Queen Charlotte Fault: The possible role of rheology

  Uri ten Brink, USGS, Woods Hole

  Wed, Oct 4 10:30 AM

• Earthquake Gates of the Altyn Tagh Fault: Linking Rupture Length to Geologically Constrained Dynamics of Fault Complexity

  Mike Oskin, University of California Davis

  Wed, Oct 11 1:00 PM

• Simulation of Coupled Geomechanics and Multiphase Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

  Timur Garipov, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering

  Wed, Oct 18 10:30 AM

• A new (time-domain) approach for earthquake source parameter inversion

  Itzhak Lior, Tel Aviv University

  Wed, Oct 25 10:30 AM

November 2017

• The influence of hydraulic fracturing in carbon storage performance

  Pengcheng Fu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Wed, Nov 1 10:30 AM

• Characterizing injection-induced seismicity in the United States

  Rob Skoumal, USGS, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park

  Wed, Nov 8 10:30 AM

• Seismic Site Characterization: Measure, Mark and Cut of V_S Profiles and V_S30 Using a Flexible Multi-method Approach

  Alan Yong, USGS, Earthquake Science Center, Pasadena

  Wed, Nov 15 10:30 AM

• Predicting Ground Motions from Magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquakes Using 3D Simulations

  Art Frankel, USGS

  Thu, Nov 16 10:00 AM

• Developments in the use of Micro-Positron Emission Tomography for sample characterization and transport quantification across laboratory scales

  Chris Zahasky, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering

  Wed, Nov 29 10:30 AM

December 2017

• AGU Preview

  Valerie Sahakian, David Shelly, and Andy Barbour, USGS

  Wed, Dec 6 10:30 AM

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