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 2025
February 2025
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Leveraging high temporal and spatial resolution geodetic data through the earthquake cycle
Cassie Hanagan, USGS
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Friction and faulting in heterogeneous systems
Doron Morad, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Imaging Big Things at Fine Scales with Fiber-Measured Earthquake Wavefields
James Atterholt, USGS
March 2025
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Investigating seismic hazard across timescales using field methods and numerical modeling
Betsy Madden, San Jose State University
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Applying AI foundation models to continuous seismic waveforms
Chris Johnson, Los Alamos National Lab
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How Global Warming Shakes the Earth: Multi-Decadal Global Microseism History and Ocean Wave Climate
Rick Aster, Colorado State University
April 2025
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Improving Subduction Zone Hazards Assessments Using the Coastal Stratigraphic Record
Tina Dura, Virgina Tech
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The perturbing influence of small earthquakes on slow fault slip synchronization
Gaspard Farge, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Source characterizations of northern California earthquakes through moment rate function properties
Taka'aki Taira, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley
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Improved Surface Faulting Displacement Hazard Estimations from Non-Ergodic Probabilistic Fault Displacement Hazard Analysis
Irene Liou, University of California, Davis
May 2025
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Special Seminar: Towards the Development of Static Ground Displacement & Transient Ground Strain ShakeMaps
David Wald, USGS National Earthquake Information Center
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Towards Strongly coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Constitutive Models: Experiments on Thermal Cracking Under Stress with Near-field Acoustic Data
Ben Holtzman, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
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Evolving tidal modulation of seismicity before and after the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake: Implications for the physics of preparatory processes?
Eric Beaucé, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
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Illuminating Earthquake Processes and Active Faults in Low-strain-rate Regions
Susan Hough, USGS Earthquake Science Center
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Developing 3D gridded seismicity models in shallow subduction regions: an example from Aotearoa New Zealand
Chris Rollins, GNS Science
June 2025
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Advancing Ground Motion Directionality Characterization for Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis
Alan Poulos, USGS
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Towards Next-generation Catastrophe Modelling
Nikola Blagojevic, Stanford University
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Statistical Models to Forecast Induced Seismicity
Gina-Maria Geffers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Next-generation crustal stress mapping: Seismic hazards, active tectonics, and resource development
Jens-Erik Lund Snee (Lundstern), USGS
July 2025
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Validation of Two Recent CyberShake Ground Motion Simulation Studies
Xiaofeng Meng, Statewide California Earthquake Center
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Compact Seismicity Bursts Have Different Characteristics from Background Seismicity in both Southern California and Japan
Nicolas DeSalvio, UC San Diego
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Teaching Seismology from Elementary School to Graduate School with Live Data, Music, Sonified Seismograms, and Comparisons
Andy Michael, USGS
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Regional Earthquake Monitoring with Deep Learning
Albert Leonardo Aguilar Suarez, Stanford University
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Stress and Fault Strength
Jeanne Hardebeck, USGS
August 2025
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Progress on understanding and modeling earthquake ground motions and site response in the central and eastern United States
Oliver Boyd, USGS
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Earthquake Nowcasting and Forecasting in the Age of Machine Learning and AI: Building QuakeGPT, Methods and First Results
John Rundle, University of California, Davis
September 2025
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Imaging earthquakes using optical remote sensing at regional and local scale: insights into earthquake source and fault zone deformation processes
Solène Antoine, California Institute of Technology
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The 2025 M8.8 Kamchatka earthquake: Rapid characterization in the face of sparse near-source observations
Zoe Yin, USGS
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The Variability of Stress and What to Do About It
Emily Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz