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 2018
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Aseismic slip at the Mendocino Triple Junction from characteristically repeating earthquakes
Kathryn Materna, UC Berkeley Earth and Planetary Science
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Dynamic properties of unsaturated soils and their role in prediction of seismic compression
John McCartney, UC San Diego, Department of Structural Engineering
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Paleoseismology and earthquake chronology for the Santa Cruz Mountains San Andreas Fault, California
Ashley Streig, Portland State University
February 2018
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Extracting Heat from the Earth – Why does Micro-mechanics Matter?
Ingrid Tomac, UC San Diego
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Rapid magnitude estimation from seismogeodetic data
Dara Goldberg, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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An Overview of UCERF3 (the latest earthquake forecast model for CA) and the Implications for Operational Earthquake Forecasting
Ned Field, USGS, NEIC
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Joint ESC/VSC/GMEG Seminar - Asteroid Impact Risk Assessment
Donovan Mathias, NASA - Ames
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Cordillera thermal regime from Mexico to Alaska and tectonic implications
Roy Hyndman, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada
March 2018
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An optically-based sensor for the measurement of earthquake induced transient and residual building drift
David McCallen, Associate VP, University of California National Laboratories
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Serpentinite and creep along the Bartlett Springs Fault at Lake Pillsbury
Diane Moore, Earthquake Science Center
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Cumulative co-seismic fault damage and feedbacks on earthquake rupture
Tom Mitchell, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London
April 2018
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The Increasing Role of Surface-Wave Measurements in Site Characterization
Ken Stokoe, University of Texas
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Characterizing Active Crustal Deformation in the Pacific Northwest: Implications for Seismic Hazards and Landscape Evolution
Scott Bennett, USGS GMEG
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Seismic Landslide Assessments: Bridging the Gap between Engineers and Earth Scientists
Ellen Rathje, University of Texas
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Opportunities and challenges of fiber-optic seismology for permanent monitoring of subsurface processes
Biondo Biondi, Stanford University, Geophysics
May 2018
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On Seismic Implications of Advances in Anelastic Wave Theory and General Viscoelastic Ray Theory
Roger Borcherdt, ESC
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SSA Preview
Brad Aagaard, Annemarie Baltay, Andrea Llenos, USGS
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The 2016 earthquake sequence (Amatrice, Vetorre, Norcia) in central Italy: is complexity a recurrent feature of Italian earthquakes?
Daniela Pantosti, Instituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV, Rome)
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The Evolving Picture of Injection-Induced Seismicity in the U.S. Mid-Continent
Matt Weingarten, Stanford University
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When science fiction meets science fact: exploring the physical reality of giant dikes
Dave Pollard, Stanford University
June 2018
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Elastic imaging and its applications on investigating Earth’s structures and fault rupture processes
Hejun Zhu, UT Dallas
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Machine Learning Applications to Earthquake Source Characterization and Hazard Analysis
Daniel Trugman, Los Alamos National Lab
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Deadly Intraslab Mexican Earthquake of 19 September 2017 (Mw7.1): Ground Motion and Damage Pattern in Mexico City
Shri Krishna Singh, UNAM
July 2018
August 2018
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The Physics of Tall Building Collapse
Tom Heaton, CalTech
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Cybershake Simulations for Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in Southern California
CB Crouse, AECOM
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From the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model to U.S. building codes
Nico Luco, USGS-Golden
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Discussion: What Changes to Expect in Seismic Hazard Analyses in the Next 5 Years
Norm Abrahamson, UC-Berkeley
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High-Performance Computing Ground Motion Simulations of Large, Damaging Hayward Fault Earthquakes
Artie Rodgers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Characteristics and Seismic Performance of Tall Buildings in San Francisco Estimated with Nonlinear Response History Analyses
Robert Pekelnicky and James Malley, Degenkolb
September 2018
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Dense array observations of induced seismicity: The LArge-n Seismic Survey in Oklahoma (LASSO) experiment
Sara Dougherty, Earthquake Science Center
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Earthquake Forecasting in recent large events in New Zealand
Matt Gerstenberger, GNS Science
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From fishnet stockings to falling apples: Earthquake interactions on the scale of a fault to the planet
Ross Stein, USGS
October 2018
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The earthquake rates they are a-changin': Improving forecasts during earthquake swarms
Andrea Llenos, USGS
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A machine learning approach to characterization of sediment via reflection seismic profiles
Warren T. Wood, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
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State of stress in intraplate areas of the conterminous USA: Induced seismicity and new tectonic questions
Jens‐Erik Lund Snee, Stanford University
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Effects of Simulated Magnitude 9 Earthquake Motions on Structures Located in Deep Sedimentary Basins
Nasser Marafi, University of Washington
November 2018
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The History of Scientific Thinking about Earthquakes
Amos Nur, Stanford University
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Hydrodynamics of landsliding and aquifer systems revealed by satellite radar interferometry
Xie Hu, UC Berkeley
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Reexamination of the Subsurface Fault Structure in the Vicinity of the 1989 Mw 6.9 Loma Prieta Earthquake, Central California, Using Steep-Reflection, Earthquake, and Magnetic Data
Gary Fuis, USGS - ESC