External Research Support
Funded Research - Grants & Cooperative Agreements
The Earthquake Hazards Program funds research in order to provide earth science data and information essential to mitigate earthquake losses.
For reports from awards made prior to 2000, use the advanced search of the USGS Library Catalog.
| Award No. | Principal Investigator(s) | Region | Project Title | Institution | Final Report | Journal Publication(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G09AC00255 | Thomas Jordan | General | Prototype Development of the New CISN Earthquake Alert System (EAS): Collaborative Research with California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ($135,012; August 2009 through July 2012). | University of Southern California | Final Technical Report Due October 2012 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00256 | Georgia Cua | General | Prototype Development of the New CISN Earthquake Alert System (EAS): Collaborative Research with California Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California ($210,000; September 2009 through July 2010) | Swiss Seismology Service (ETH) | Final Technical Report Due October 2012 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00258 | Thomas Heaton | General | Prototype Development of the New CISN Earthquake Alert System (EAS): Collaborative Research with California Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California ($450,000; August 2009 through July 2010) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due October 2012 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00259 | Richard Allen and Margaret Hellweg | Northern California | CISN Earthquake Warning: Collaborative Research with California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California,and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ($450,000; August 2009 through July 2012) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due October 2012 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00454 | Kathy Troost | Pacific Northwest | The Quaternary Geology of the Seattle-Tacoma Urban Corridor - Building the foundation for Geologic Hazard Mapping: East Lake Washington Area($224,996; September 2009 through June 2012) | University of Washington | Final Technical Report Due September 2012 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00464 | Harvey Kelsey | Pacific Northwest | Investigations of Tectonic Deformation in the Yakima River Canyon ($32,000; September 2009 through August 2012) | Humboldt State University | Final Technical Report Due November 2010 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00466 | Robert Herrmann | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | ARRA Upgrade of Some ANSS Seismic Stations in the Central U.S.($121,289; September 2009 through September 2011) | Saint Louuis University | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00467 | Walter Arabasz & Kristine Pankow | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Upgrades to Earthquake Monitoring Systems in the Utah Region ($458,025; September 2009 through September 2011) | University of Utah | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00469 | John Ebel | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | New England Seismic Network Vault Construction and Earthquake Monitoring Improvements ($170,496; September 2009 through September 2011) | Boston College | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00471 | Michael Stickney | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Upgrade of Selected Montana Regional Seismograph Network Stations($50,926; September 2009 through September 2011) | Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00472 | Douglas Toomey & Dennis Fletcher | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Pacific Northwest Seismic Network ARRA Upgrades ($103,435; September 2009 through August 2011) | University of Oregon | Final Technical Report Due November 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00486 | Mitchell Withers | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | ARRA Upgrades to the CERI Seismic Networks ($350,549; September 2009 through September 2011) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00487 | Barbara Romanowicz, Douglas Dreger & Margaret Hellweg | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Upgrading the Broadband and Borehole Seismic Networks Operated by the Berkeley Seismologial Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley ($721,000;September 2009 through August 2011) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due November 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00488 | Frank Vernon | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Modernization of ANSA Seismic Network Equipment ($146,617; September 2009 through August 2010) | University of California San Diego | Final Technical Report Due November 2010 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00490 | Robert Clayton & Egill Hauksson | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Upgrade of Joint USGS-CalTech Southern California Seismic Network ($1,200,000; September 2009 through September 2011) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00491 | Won-Young Kim | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Upgrading the Lamont Cooperative Seismographic Network and Modernization of the Advanced National Seismic System-Northeast Region ($255,000; September 2009 through September 2011) | Columbia University | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00492 | John Vidale & Paul Bodin | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Pacific Northwest Seismic Network ARRA Upgrades ($600,000; September 2009 through September 2011 | University of Washington | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00493 | Glenn Biasi & Kenneth Smith | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Upgrade Selected Western Great Basin Seismic Network Stations and Infrastructure ($307,109; September 2009 through September 2011) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AC00496 | Roger Hansen | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | ANSS Alaska Seismic Station Upgrade ($500,484; September 2009 through September 2011) | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2009 | |
| G09AP00005 | John Platt & Thorsten Becker | Earthquake Physics | The 3-D strain-rate field in California and its implications for seismic hazard ($71,113; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Southern California | Final Technical Report Due March 2010 | 2009 | |
| G09AP00006 | Patrick Williams | Northern California | Rate Constraints for the Northern Hayward Fault at Berkeley: Evaluation of th 335-Meter Strawberry Creek Offset ($58,623; December 2008 through November 2009) | San Diego State University | Final Technical Report Due February 2010 | 2009 | |
| G09AP00007 | Ray Weldon and David Schmidt | Pacific Northwest | More Accurate Uplift Rates for Western Washington to Constrain Models of Locking Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone ($74,692; December 2008 through November 2009) | University of Oregon | Final Technical Report Due February 2010 | 2009 | |
| G09AP00008 | Chris Cramer | Central and Eastern U.S. | In Support of the St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project: Update Hazard Map Uncertanity Analysis ($94,069; December 2008 through November 2010) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00009 | James Dieterich | Earthquake Physics | Simulation of Fault System Seismicity: Applications to Probabilistic Assessments of Earthquake Occurrence ($238,396; December 2008 through November 2010) | University of California Riverside | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00010 | Jonathan Bray | Earthquake Effects | Seismic Assessment of Earth Structures Overlying Potentially Liquefiable Soils ($76,968; December 2008 through November 2009) | University of California Berkeley | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00011 | John van de Lindt | Earthquake Effects | Developing Damage Potential Indicators through Coupling Intrinsic Mode Functions and Structural Characteristics for Improvement in Synthetic Ground Motion Generation:Collaborative Research with USGS ($60,000; December 2009 through January 2009) | Colorado State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00012 | Ray Weldon | Southern California | Slip Rates for the San Andreas fault between the Big Bend and the San Bernardino Valley, Southern California ($67,898; December 2008 through January 2009) | University of Oregon | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00013 | John Puchakayala & Robert Smalley | Central and Eastern U.S. | Consttraining Central US Deformation Models with Continuous GPS Data ($28,927; January 2009 through December 2009) | The University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00014 | Egill Hauksson | Southern California | Analysis of Earthquake Data from the Greater Los Angeles Basin and Adjacent Offshore Area, Southern California ($50,000; January 2009 through December 2009) | California Institute of Technology | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00015 | Randel Tom Cox | Central and Eastern U.S. | Holocene Faulting and Liquefaction along the Southern Margin of the North American Craton (Alabama-Oklahoma Transform)($37,885; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00016 | Chris Goldfinger | Northern California | Holocene Seismicity of the Northern San Andreas Fault: Refining the Earthquake Record with Precise Dating of Earthquake Triggered Turbidites ($45,875; January 2009 through December 2009) | Oregon State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00017 | Stephen Horton | Central and Eastern U.S. | The Effects of Radiation Pattern on Ground Motion in the NMSZ ($59,097; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00018 | Felix Waldhauser | Northern California | Real-Time Double-Difference Location at the CISN: Implementation and DD Catalog Maintenance ($97,946; January 2009 through December 2009) | Columbia University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00019 | Yehuda Ben-Zion & Danijel Schorlemmer | Southern California | Systematic Tests of Asymmetric Propagation Directions of Earthquakes on Southern CA Faults Based on Large Seismic Catalog Databasets ($56,541; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Southern California | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00020 | Alan Ramelli | National and Intermountain West | Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Fault Slip Rates on the Genoa Fault ($35,691; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Nevada Reno | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00021 | Recep Cakir & Timothy Walsh | Pacific Northwest | Shallow-Seismic Site Characterizations of Near-Surface Geology at 20 Strong-Motion Stations in Washington State ($45,629; January 2009 through December 2009) | Washington Department of Natural Resources | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00022 | John Baldwin & Robert Givler | Central and Eastern U.S. | Paleoseismic Characterization of the Penitentiary Fault and its Association with the Commerce Geophysical Lineament, Tamms, Southern Illinois ($74,890; January 2009 through December 2009) | William Lettis & Associates, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00023 | Chen Ji | National and Intermountain West | Global Earthquake Characterization on Irregular Fault Surfaces: Collaborative Research with University of CA., Santa Barbara and USGS ($64,766; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of California Santa Barbara | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00024 | Kenneth Creager & John Vidale | Pacific Northwest | Improved Monitoring of Tremor, Earthquakes and Volcanoes by the PNSN with Methods to Search Continuous Waveforms ($49,948; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of Washington | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00025 | Yuri Fialko | Southern California | Interseismic Deformation and Fault Slip Rates in Southern California from 15 years of InSAR Observations ($65,694; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of California San Diego | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00027 | Ralph Archuleta | National and Intermountain West | Strong Ground Motions in Salt Lake City and Other Metropolitan Areas from Large Earthquakes on the Wasatch Fault ($73,921; January 2009 through December 2009) | University of California Santa Barbara | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00030 | Susan Tubbesing | National and Intermountain West | Providing Building Data in Support of PAGER ($70,000; January 2009 through December 2009) | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00032 | Patricia Sutch | General | Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC) Conference | Western States Seismic Policy Council | download | 2009 | |
| G09AP00043 | Harvey Kelsey | Pacific Northwest | Late Holocene Tectonics of Northwesternmost Washington: Laying the Groundwork for an Improved Model of Northern Cascadia Forearch Deformation: Collaborative Research with Humbotldt State University and the USGS ($62,131; June 2009 through May 2010) | Humboldt State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00047 | James Bay | National and Intermountain West | Determination of Modulus Reduction and Damping Curves for Bonneville Soils ($24,618; May 2009 through April 2010) | Utah State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00048 | Judith Zachariasen | Northern California | Paleoseismic Investigation of Holocene Earthquake Recurrence on the Penisula Segment of the San Andreas Faults, Woodside, CA: Collaborative Research between URS Group and USGS ($45,016; May 2009 through April 2010) | URS Group, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00049 | Lee Liberty | Pacific Northwest | High Resolution Imaging of Megathrust Splay Faults in Prince William Sound, AK ($75,352; May 2009 through April 2010) | Boise State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00050 | John Louie | Southern California | Shear-Velocity Measurements at CISN Stations along the Southern San Andreas Fault ($66,171; May 2009 through May 2010) | University of Nevada Reno | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00051 | John Louie & Ileana Tibuleac | National and Intermountain West | Gathering Critical Data Toward the Western Basin and Range CVM ($48,813; May 2009 through May 2010) | University of Nevada Reno | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00052 | Peter Shearer | Southern California | Analysis of Southern California Seismicity Using Improved Locations, Focal Mechanisms and Stress Drops ($74,688; May 2009 through April 2010) | University of California San Diego | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00053 | Terry Tullis & David Goldsby | Earthquake Physics | Experiments to Understand Dynamic Friction During Earthquakes ($112,896; May 2009 through April 2010) | Brown University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00054 | Paul Somerville | National and Intermountain West | Earthquake Source and Ground Motion Characteristics in the Central and Eastern United States ($68,830; May 2009 through April 2010) | URS Group, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00057 | Jennifer Haase & Robert Nowack | Central and Eastern U.S. | Evansville PSHA and Earthquake Scenarios in Support of Earthquake Training Exercises ($20,000; May 2009 through April 2010) | Purdue Univeristy | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00058 | Janet Sowers & Jeffrey Unruh | Northern California | Mapping, Assessment and Digital Compilation of the Connection Between Rogers Creek and Maacama Faults, Sonoma County, for the Northern CA Quaternary Fault Map Database: Collaborative Research between William Lettis and USGS ($31,234; May 2009 through May | William Lettis & Associates, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00059 | Keith Knudsen | Earthquake Effects | Geologic and Geomorphic Evaluation of World-Wide Liquefaction Case Histories, and Development and Testing of Rapid Hazard Mapping Approaches ($44,101; May 2009 through May 2010) | URS Group, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00060 | Harold Magistrale | National and Intermountain West | Enhancement of the Wasatch Front Community Velocity Model ($22,292; May 2009 through April 2010) | San Diego State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00061 | Harold Magistrale | National and Intermountain West | Construction of a Western Basin and Range Community Velocity Model ($49,643; May 2009 through April 2010) | San Diego State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00062 | Laurie Baise | Earthquake Effects | Near Surface Velocity Structure and Site Response at Parkfield, CA ($60,941; June 2009 through May 2010) | Tufts University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00063 | Swaminathan Krishnan | Southern California | Numerical Assessment Methodology for the Collapse Potential of Tall Steel Moment Frame Buildings Using End-to-End Simulations ($67,034; June 2009 through May 2010) | California Institute of Technology | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00064 | Diane Doser | Pacific Northwest | A Study of Seismicity and Fault Interaction in the Upper-Southeast Alaska Region ($42,702; June 2009 through May 2010) | University of Texas El Paso | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00065 | David Dolenc | Central and Eastern U.S. | Effects of Shallow 3D Structure of the Mississippi Embayment on Ground-Motion Amplification: Collaborative Research between University of Minnesota Duluth and University of Memphis ($53,032; June 2009 through May 2010) | University of Minnesota Duluth | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00066 | Stephen Horton | Central and Eastern U.S. | Effects of Shallow 3D Structure of the Mississippi Embayment on Ground-Motion Amplification: Collaborative Research between University of Minnesota Duluth and University of Memphis ($20,158; June 2009 through May 2010) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00067 | David Schaff | Earthquake Physics | Analysis of Microseismicity at Parkfield, CA, through Improved Detection and Location ($65,736; June 2009 through May 2010) | Columbia University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00070 | William McCann | Central and Eastern U.S. | Estimating the Lower Limit of the Seismogenic Zone & Rates of Aseismic Slip on the Puerto Rico Megathrust Using Focal Mechanisms and Repeating Earthquakes ($46,494; May 2009 through May 2010) | William McCann | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00071 | Lee Liberty | National and Intermountain West | Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Mount Rose Fault Zone, Reno, Nevada ($35,961; May 2009 through May 2010) | Boise State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00072 | John Baldwin & Gregory DePascale | Northern California | Structural Characterization and Pilot Paleoseismic Investigation of the Southernmost Rodgers Creek Fault, Northern San Pablo Bay, CA ($44,271; June 2009 through May 2010) | William Lettis & Associates | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00073 | Pedro de Alba | Central and Eastern U.S. | Use of Ground Failure Case Histories to Characterize a Design Earthquake for Coastal New England ($20,695; June 2009 through May 2010) | University of New Hampshire | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00074 | Martin Chapman | Central and Eastern U.S. | Investigation into the Nature of Vertical Strong Ground-Motion for the Charleston, SC Area ($67,755; June 2009 through May 2010) | Virginia Polytechnic and State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00075 | Patrick Williams | Southern California | Recent Slip-per-Event History, Coachella Valley Segment San Andreas Fault ($55,000; May 2009 through May 2010) | San Diego State University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00077 | Mitchell Craig | Northern California | Near-Surface Geophyscial Imaging of Paleochannels for the Determination of Slip Rate at the Green Valley Fault ($29,907; June 2009 through May 2010) | California State University East Bay | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00078 | Jessie Bonner | National and Intermountain West | Rapid and Robust Seismic Moments from Variable-Period Surface Wave Magnitudes ($34,551; June 2009 through June 2010) | Weston Geophysical Corporation | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00079 | Charles Langston | Central and Eastern U.S. | Finding the Path Effect for Shear Waves in the Central US Using Broadband Waveform Inversion ($69,717; June 2009 through May 2010) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00082 | Donald Helmberger | Southern California | Modeling Broadband Seismograms ($50,000; June 2009 through May 2010) | California Institute of Technology | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00086 | Charles Sammis | Earthquake Physics | Using Microstructures in Pulverized Rock to Constrain Dynamical Earthquake Source Models ($71,150; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of Southern California | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00087 | Yehuda Ben-Zion | Earthquake Physics | Theoretical Constraints on Large Earthquake Ground Motion ($92,000; July 2009 through June 2011) | University of Southern California | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00096 | Jer-Ming Chiu | Central and Eastern U.S. | High-Resolution P- and S- Wave Velocity Structure of the Post-Palezoic Sediments in the Upper Missippi Embayment: Collaborative Research between the University of Kentucky and the University of Memphis ($55,000; July 2009 through June 2011) | University of Memphis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00097 | Kaj Johnson | Northern California | Fault Creep Dynamics, Earthquake Cycles and Earthquake Potential on the Hayward Fault: Collaborative Research between University of California Berkeley and Indiana University ($31,090; July 2009 through June 2010) | Indiana University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00098 | Deborah Kilb | Southern California | State of Stress at the Southermost End of the San Andreas Fault: Integration of Seismicity Patterns and Focal Mechanisms with Fault Structure Observed in Seismic Reflection Data Beneath the Salton Sea ($43,351; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California San Diego | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00101 | Ramesh Govindan | Earthquake Effects | Documenting Pre-event System Identification of USGS-Instrumented Structures: Collaborative Reseach between UCLA and USC ($35,000; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of Southern California | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00102 | Monica Kohler | Earthquake Effects | Documenting Pre-event System Identification of USGS-Instrumented Structures: Collaborative Reseach between UCLA and USC ($37,345; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California Los Angeles | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00103 | Roland Burgmann | Northern California | Fault Creep Dynamics, Earthquake Cycles and Earthquake Potential on the Hayward Fault: Collaborative Research between University of California Berkeley and Indiana University ($55,886; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California Berkeley | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00104 | Kevin Mayeda | Southern California | Mapping Lateral Variations in Apparent Stress: Application of the Coda Ratio Methodology to Southern California Sequences ($58,281; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California Berkeley | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00105 | Ian Shennan, Anthony Long, Natasha Barlow | Pacific Northwest | Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Deformation Associated with Multiple Late Holocene Earthquakes in Alaska ($75,000; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of Durham | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00112 | Edward Woolery | Central and Eastern U.S. | Ground Motion Site Effects in the Wabash Valley Region from the 18 April 2008 Mt. Carmel, Illinois Earthquake and Aftershocks ($45,896; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of Kentucky | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00113 | Joe Gillman | Central and Eastern U.S. | Detailed Surficial Materials Mapping for the O'Fallon 7.5 Minute Quadrangle as a Portion of the St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards apping Project (SLAEHMP) ($57,346; July 2009 through June 2010) | Missouri Division of Geology and Land Survey | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00114 | Zhigang Peng | Earthquake Physics | Systematic Analysis of Early Aftershocks of the 2004 Mw6.0 Parkfield Earthquake Detected by a Matched Filter Technique ($70,008; July 2009 through June 2010) | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00115 | Clifford Thurber | Northern California | Earthquake Hazard in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Area: Insight from Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Tomography: Collaborative Research between with UW Madison and UC Davis ($66,470; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of Wisconsin Madison | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00116 | Louise Kellogg | Northern California | Earthquake Hazard in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Area: Insight from Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Tomography: Collaborative Research between with UW Madison and UC Davis ($46,252; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California Davis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00117 | Duncan Agnew | Southern California | Creep Events on the Southern San Andreas Fault: Modeling and Measurement ($60,000; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California San Diego | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00119 | John Segan | General | Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake (TCLEE) 2009 Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering in a Multihazard Environment ($7,500; June 2009 through September 2009) | American Society of Civil Engineers | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00120 | Susan Tubbesing | General | Support of the 9th U.S. National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Reaching Beyone Borders ($15,000; June 2009 through July 2010) | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00121 | Ross Boulanger | Earthquake Effects | Predicting Void Redistribution-Induced Strength Loss in Liquefied Soil ($75,000; July 2009 through June 2010) | University of California Davis | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00123 | Youssef Hashash | Central and Eastern U.S. | Site Amplification Factors for Deep Deposits & Their Application in Seismic Hazard Analysis for Central US ($74,381; August 2009 through August 2010) | University of Illinois | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00126 | Edward Woolery & Zhenming Wang | Central and Eastern U.S. | High-Resolution P- and S- Wave Velocity Structure of the Post-Palezoic Sediments in the Upper Missippi Embayment: Collaborative Research between the University of Kentucky and the University of Memphis ($89,421; Two Year Award) | University of Kentucky | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00129 | Kevin Clahan & Andrew Lutz | National and Intermountain West | Empirical Relationships between Lithology and Shear Wave Velocity: Revised Digital NEHRP Site Classification Maps for Albuquerque, NM ($51,541; September 2009 through August 2010) | William Lettis & Associates | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00131 | Ellen Rathje | Earthquake Effects | Validation of Methodologies Used to Map Earthquake-Induced Landslide Potential ($72,657; September 2009 through August 2010) | University of Texas Austin | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00132 | Felix Waldhauser & David Schaff | National and Intermountain West | Towards Near Real-Time Double-Difference Event Relocation at the NEIC ($76,385; September 2009 through August 2010) | Columbia University | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00133 | Jeffrey Unruh | Southern California | Refining the Southern Extent of the 1872 Owens Valley Earthquake Rupture - Paleoseismic Investigations at Sage Flat and Haiwee Meadows, CA ($50,034; September 2009 through August 2010) | William Lettis & Associates | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00134 | Roland Burgmann | Northern California | Space Geodetic Measurements and Models of Crustal Deformation in the San Francisco Bay Area ($58,448; September 2009 through August 2010) | University of California Berkeley | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00135 | Paolo Bazzurro, Polsak Tothung & Jaesung Park | National and Intermountain West | Vector-Valued Probabilisitc Seismic Hazard Analysis of Correlated Ground Motion Parameters ($64,064; August 2009 through September 2010) | AIR Worldwide Corp. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00138 | John Vidale & Ken Creager | Pacific Northwest | Refined Seismic Amplification Forecasting by Improved Basin-Structure with Noise Correlation Methods ($50,225; August 2009 through July 2010) | University of Washington | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00139 | Robert Graves | Central and Eastern U.S. | Ground Motion Simulations for the 1811 and 1812 New Madrid Earthquakes ($69,535; September 2009 through August 2010) | URS Group, Inc. | 2009 | ||
| G09AP00140 | Ronald Eguchi | General | Seventh International Workshop on Remote Sensing for Disaster Management ($5,000; September 2009 through November 2009) | ImageCat, Inc. | Final Technical Report Due February 2010 | 2009 | |
| G09AP00141 | Charles Langston, Heather Deshon, Stephen Horton, & Mitch Withers | Central and Eastern U.S. | Detection and Location of Non-Volaic Tremor in the New Madrid Seismic Zone ($53,000; September 2009 through August 2010) | University of Memphis | 2009 |
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