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
January 2009
Sequestering Carbon Dioxide in the Built Environment 
- Wednesday January 07, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Brent Constantz, Calera Corporation |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Shaking up Faults: Insight from the lab on Earthquake Triggering
- Wednesday January 14, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Heather Savage, UCSC |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
No Seminar -- NEHRP Workshop
- Wednesday January 21, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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February 2009
Towards a Unified Theory for Pre-Earthquake Signals
- Wednesday February 04, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Friedemann Freund, NASA Ames |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Submarine landslides and tsunamis at Seward and Valdez triggered by the 1964 Magnitude 9.2 Great Alaska earthquake
- Tuesday February 10, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Peter Haeussler, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Applied GIS within the Earthquake Hazards Team
- Wednesday February 11, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | J. Luke Blair, Jacob DeAngelo, Thomas Noce, Stephen Walter, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Spatial correlation of strong ground motion intensities: measurement and implications for engineering applications
- Wednesday February 18, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jack Baker, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
3D Geometry of Fault Surfaces
- Wednesday February 25, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Ole Kaven, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
March 2009
Subduction forearc structure and its relation with episodic tremor and slip
- Wednesday March 04, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Pascal Audet, UC Berkeley |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
The Night the Earth Shook! 1959 M 7.3 Hebgen Lake Earthquake and Madison Canyon Lanslide west of Yellowstone National Park
- Wednesday March 11, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jack Epstein, USGS Reston, Emeritus |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Megathrust behavior from corals
- Wednesday March 18, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Rich Briggs, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Wayne Thatcher |
Regional moment tensor inversion for source-type identification
- Wednesday March 25, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Sean Ford , UC Berkeley |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
April 2009
Lg Attenuation Modeling in the Middle East
- Friday April 03, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Michael Pasyanos, LLNL |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
No Seminar Due to SSA Meeting
- Wednesday April 08, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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Geologic applications of terrestrial and airborne LiDAR data: characterizing tectonic landscapes and quantifying fluvial-system change
- Tuesday April 14, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Steve DeLong, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Slow slip, tremor and deep asperities: heterogeneous rate-and-state fault models
- Wednesday April 22, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Jean-Paul Ampuero, CalTech |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Evaluation of Ground Motion of the 2007 Niigata Chuetsu-oki Earthquake at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant and Multi-Purpose Observation System for Deep Seismic Ground Motions
- Monday April 27, 2009
- 11:00 AM
| Speaker: | Kenta Okano, Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES) |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Bill Ellsworth |
Site response: beyond the first dimension
- Tuesday April 28, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Sue Hough, USGS Pasadena |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Seismic Evidence for Remote Triggering of Fault-Strength Changes on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield
- Wednesday April 29, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Taka'aki Taira, UC Berkeley |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
May 2009
Moment release rate of Cascadia tremor constrained by GPS
- Wednesday May 06, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Ana Aguiar, Stanford |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David Shelly |
A REVIEW OF OBSERVATIONS OF THE L'AQUILA (ABRUZZO, ITALY) EQ Of APRIL 6, 2009
- Friday May 08, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Mehmet Celebi, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Reconstructing the late Quaternary slip history of the central Altyn Tagh Fault (NW Tibet) from faulted terrace risers
- Wednesday May 13, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Ryan Gold, UC Davis |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Rufus Catchings |
Seismic Detection of CO2 Leakage Along Monitoring Wellbores
- Wednesday May 20, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Marco Bohnhoff, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Bill Ellsworth |
Connecting near and farfield earthquake triggering to dynamic strain
- Wednesday May 27, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Nicholas van der Elst, UC Santa Cruz |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David Shelly |
June 2009
No Seminar
- Wednesday June 03, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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Advances in Rotational Seismology and Monitoring Rotational Ground Motions in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Wednesday June 10, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Willie Lee, USGS (retired) |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
The First 200 dB Broadband Seismometer and 10^-11 g Gravimeter - Doing Better Geophysics at One Microkelvin
- Wednesday June 17, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Mark Kasevich, Stanford University |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | John R. Evans |
Fault geometry and strength evolution in the Naukluft Nappe Complex, Namibia
- Wednesday June 24, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Christie Rowe, University of Cape Town |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David Shelly |
July 2009
Development of an Operational Earthquake Forecast for California (from UCERF2 to UCERF3)
- Wednesday July 01, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Ned Field, USGS Pasadena |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Tectonics of the western United States illuminated by seismic surface-wave tomography
- Wednesday July 08, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Fred Pollitz, USGS |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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) |
Ground Motion from Earthquakes with Strong Dynamic Weakening on Nonplanar Faults
- 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
Speaker cancellation - No seminar
- Wednesday August 05, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
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Topographic Response to Active Deformation in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California
- 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
Dynamic weakening during earthquakes by solid lubrication
- Wednesday September 02, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Ze'ev Reches, University of Oklahoma |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David Lockner |
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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Yet Another New Look at the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes: Taking the
- Wednesday September 23, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Sue Hough, USGS Pasadena |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Near-source and remote earthquake triggering
- Wednesday September 30, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Tom Parsons, USGS Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
October 2009
Slip rate behavior of the southern San Jacinto fault zone - implications from 10Be and U-series dating of late Quaternary landforms
- Wednesday October 07, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Kim Le, UC - Davis |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Lessons Learned from the 2008 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) |
| Host: | Bill Ellsworth |
Ongoing postseismic deformation from the 1999 Izmit, Turkey earthquake sequence: What our models can and cannot explain
- 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) |
| Host: | Ruth Harris |
The Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Recent on-fault paleoseismic studies
- Wednesday October 28, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Robert Langridge, GNS Science - New Zealand |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Carol Prentice |
November 2009
Magnitude-frequency statistics on a single fault: Gutenberg-Richter or Characteristic?
- Wednesday November 04, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Morgan Page, USGS, Pasadena |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Isla Guafo: Riding the Seismic Cycle Roller Coaster
- Friday November 06, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Rob Wesson, USGS, Golden |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | Wayne Thatcher |
Field and Seismological Investigations of the Sept. 30, 2009, M7.6 Padang (West Sumatra), Indonesia Earthquake
- Thursday November 12, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Walter D. Mooney and Art McGarr, USGS Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
Normal-Faulting Displacement Maxima and Stress Drop Variability: a Geological Perspective
- Wednesday November 18, 2009
- 10:30 AM
| Speaker: | Suzanne Hecker, USGS - Menlo Park |
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| Location: | Building 3, Room 3240 (main USGS conference room) |
| Host: | David Schwartz |
Please contact the seminar committee to suggest a future topic or speaker:
- Steve DeLong, 650-329-5648
- Wayne Thatcher, 650-329-4810
