Earthquake Seminar Series
- Seminars typically take place at 10:30 AM Wednesdays in the main USGS Conference Room
- The USGS Campus is located at 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA
July 2009
Geodetic evidence for en echelon dike emplacement and concurrent slow-slip on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, June 17-19, 2007 
- Wednesday July 15, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Emily (Desmarais) Montgomery-Brown, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David Shelly |
Was that a foreshock? A tale of earthquake fundamentals and public warnings
- Wednesday July 22, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Andy Michael, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
TBA
- Wednesday July 29, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Eric Dunham, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David Shelly |
August 2009
Accounting for Seismic Site Conditions (Soil and Topographic Effects) Using Systematic Terrain-type Classification
- Wednesday August 05, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Alan Yong, USGS Pasadena |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Rufus Catchings |
TBA
- Wednesday August 12, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | George Hilley, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Outer-rise/outer-trench-slope earthquakes in the instrumental era: distribution, subduction system settings, and flexure mechanics
- Wednesday August 19, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Steve Kirby, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Physics-based earthquake source characterization and modeling for strong ground motion prediction with Geostatistics
- Wednesday August 26, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Seok Goo Song, URS Corporation |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David Shelly |
September 2009
TBA
- Wednesday September 02, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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Aseismic slip events in the Cascadia subduction zone: New insights from PBO borehole strainmeters
- Wednesday September 09, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Evelyn Roeloffs, USGS Vancouver |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
No Seminar - SCEC Annual Meeting
- Wednesday September 16, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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TBA
- Wednesday September 23, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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TBA
- Wednesday September 30, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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October 2009
TBA
- Wednesday October 07, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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Eruption of Kasatochi Volcano, Alaska
- Wednesday October 14, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Stephanie Prejean, USGS, Alaska Volcano Observatory |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
TBA
- Wednesday October 21, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Elizabeth Hearn, University of British Columbia |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
TBA
- Wednesday October 28, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jessica Murray-Moraleda, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Please contact the seminar committee to suggest a future topic or speaker:
- David Shelly, 650-329-4024
- Rufus Catchings, 650-329-4749
