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 2022

• Physics-based simulations of Cascadia earthquake rupture and tsunamis

  Yihe Huang, University of Michigan

  Wed, Jan 12 10:30 AM

• The Seismic Signature of California's Droughts, Floods, and Earthquakes

  Timothy Clements, USGS

  Wed, Jan 19 10:30 AM

• Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop - Day 1

  Multiple speakers

  Tue, Jan 25 9:00 AM

• Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop - Day 2

  Multiple speakers

  Wed, Jan 26 9:00 AM

• Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop - Day 3

  Multiple speakers

  Thu, Jan 27 9:00 AM

February 2022

• Finite-source attributes of 39 M 3.9 to 5.5 Ridgecrest, California earthquakes

  Haoran Meng, University of California, San Diego

  Wed, Feb 2 10:30 AM

• The AGU Bridge Program: An approach to advancing equity in geoscience graduate education

  Eva Kostyu, American Geophysical Union

  Wed, Feb 9 10:30 AM

• Train traffic as a seismic noise source for imaging the shallow crust with seismic interferometry

  Laura Pinzon-Rincon, Université Grenoble Alpes

  Wed, Feb 16 10:30 AM

• Very-long-period seismic events reveal evolving magma temperature and volatile contents over the 2008-2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano.

  Joshua Crozier, USGS

  Wed, Feb 23 10:30 AM

March 2022

• Frictional properties affect earthquake size distributions during fluid injection

  Daniel Faulkner, University of Liverpool

  Wed, Mar 2 10:30 AM

• Marine Paleoseismic Evidence for Seismic and Aseismic Slip Along the Hayward-Rodgers Creek Fault System in Northern San Pablo Bay

  Janet Watt, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

  Wed, Mar 9 10:30 AM

• Insights into the effect of fault complexity on high-frequency earthquake radiation

  Shanna Chu, USGS ESC

  Wed, Mar 16 10:30 AM

• Listen to the Ocean Warming

  Wenbo Wu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Wed, Mar 23 10:30 AM

April 2022

• New features of rapid finite fault modeling at the National Earthquake Information Center

  Dara Goldberg, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center

  Wed, Apr 6 10:30 AM

• Neotectonics of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault Zone and the Resistance of Sands to Earthquake-Triggered Deformation

  Vashan Wright, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  Wed, Apr 13 10:30 AM

May 2022

• SSA 2022 Revue

  Kathryn Materna, Morgan Page, Lisa Schleicher, USGS ESC

  Wed, May 4 10:30 AM

• The geologic fingerprint of multi-fault earthquakes in southern California

  Alba Rodríguez Padilla, University of California, Davis

  Wed, May 11 10:30 AM

• Predicting the instantaneous and future laboratory fault slips through deep learning

  Kun Wang, Geophysics Group & Center for Nonlinear Studies, LANL

  Wed, May 18 10:30 AM

• The Hunga-Tonga Hunga Ha'apai Eruption of January 15, 2022: Seismological Perspectives

  Fred Pollitz, USGS ESC Moffett Field

  Wed, May 25 10:30 AM

June 2022

• High-Performance Discrete Element Modeling of Earthquake Surface Fault Rupture

  Prof. Estéfan Garcia, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Michigan

  Wed, Jun 1 10:30 AM

• Designing actionable and equitable earthquake impact information

  Sabine Loos, Mendenhall Fellow, USGS, NHC

  Wed, Jun 8 10:30 AM

• The Pyrocko Seismological Toolbox: Extending tooling to DAS data handling and processing

  Marius Isken and Sebastian Heimann, GFZ Potsdam and University of Potsdam, Germany

  Wed, Jun 15 10:30 AM

• Effective visualization for seismic hazard and aftershock forecast maps

  Max Schneider, USGS ESC

  Wed, Jun 22 10:00 AM

• An Interactive Viewer to Analyze Operational Aftershock Forecasts and a Practical Application in Southern Alaska

  Gabe Paris, University of Alaska Fairbanks AEC

  Wed, Jun 29 10:30 AM

July 2022

• Broadband ground motion simulations with sediment nonlinearity: A case study at Garner Valley, California

  Elnaz Seylabi, University of Nevada, Reno

  Wed, Jul 6 10:30 AM

• What Rubber and Jello Can Teach Us About Earthquakes and Fractures

  Will Steinhardt, UC Santa Cruz Seismo Lab

  Wed, Jul 13 10:30 AM

• Investigating the Subsurface at High Resolution Using Dark Fiber Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS)

  Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Wed, Jul 20 10:30 AM

• Site Specific Coseismic Time Window using Seismogeodesy and the Extraction of Earthquake Source Parameters

  Dorian Golriz, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  Wed, Jul 27 10:30 AM

August 2022

• Be Social: Science Communication during the 2018 Kīlauea Eruption

  Robert Goldman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Wed, Aug 3 10:30 AM

• Estimates of kappa and effects on ground motions in the San Francisco Bay area

  Tara Nye, Univ. of Oregon / Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Aug 10 10:30 AM

• Earthquakes at an Uncoupled Subduction Zone: The 2020-2021 Shumagin Gap Earthquake Sequence

  Matt Herman, CSU Bakersfield

  Wed, Aug 17 10:30 AM

• Frequency dependent seismic wave attenuation and dispersion in fluid saturated rocks - Experimental and numerical simulation results

  Sam Chapman, Laboratoire de Géologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure

  Tue, Aug 23 9:00 AM

• Analyzing human behavioral responses captured on video: From the M7.1 Anchorage Earthquake in 2018 to Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption, atmospheric shockwaves, and tsunami  

  Sara McBride, USGS Earthquake Science Center

  Wed, Aug 24 10:30 AM

• Fluid injection fault reactivation experiments in the field and the lab

  Quinn Wenning, Bedretto Underground Laboratory, ETH Zurich

  Thu, Aug 25 10:00 AM

• Complexities in Fault Healing

  Tamara Jeppson, Earthquake Science Center, USGS

  Thu, Aug 25 2:00 PM

• Earthquake initiation, fluid injection, rupture arrest, and the scaling of fracture energy: Insights from 3-meter laboratory rock experiments and dynamic rupture simulations

  Greg McLaskey, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng., Cornell University

  Mon, Aug 29 10:00 AM

• The Role of Phylosilicates in Seismogenesis: Lessons Learned from Experiments on Serpentinite

  Eric Burdette, Dept. of Earth, Environ. and Planetary Sci., Brown University

  Tue, Aug 30 10:30 AM

September 2022

• Large-N and large-T seismology with structural vibrations

  Ethan F. Williams, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

  Wed, Sep 7 10:30 AM

• Machine listening to geothermal micro-and laboratory nano-seismicity: can we improve heat mining safety and efficacy?

  Ben Holtzman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

  Wed, Sep 21 10:30 AM

• Fracture behavior at low effective stress

  Harry Lisabeth, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  Wed, Sep 28 10:30 AM

October 2022

• [NOTE: Waiting to hear from speaker before publishing online.]Taking the temperature of earthquakes

  Heather Savage, UC Santa Cruz

  Wed, Oct 5 10:30 AM

• Advancing the Frontier of Subduction Zone (Earthquake) Science, by the USGS and its Partners

  Joan Gomberg, USGS

  Wed, Oct 12 10:30 AM

• WaveDecompNet: a multi-task encoder-decoder network to separate earthquake and ambient noise signals in seismograms

  Jiuxun Yin, Caltech Seismological Laboratory

  Wed, Oct 19 10:30 AM

• Accessible and Multi-Lingual Earthquake Safety Messaging

  Mark Benthien, Earthquake Country Alliance

  Wed, Oct 26 10:30 AM

November 2022

• Seismoelectric effects for subsurface characterization

  Christina Morency, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Wed, Nov 9 10:30 AM

• Subregional anelastic path effects in California

  Tristan Buckreis, UCLA

  Wed, Nov 16 10:30 AM

• Roles of Dynamic Rupture Simulations in the Development of Next Generation Probabilistic Fault Displacement Hazard Analysis (PFDHA) Models

  Yongfei Wang, SCEC

  Wed, Nov 30 10:30 AM

December 2022

• AGU Preview Talks

  USGS Researchers, USGS

  Wed, Dec 7 10:30 AM

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