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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G10AC00072 | Duncan Agnew and Frank Wyatt | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Infrastructure Upgrades and Repairs for Improved Monitoring of Crustal Deformation at Pinon Flat and Durmid Hill ($62,200; February 2010 through February 2011) | University of California San Diego | Final Technical Report Due May 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AC00075 | Michael Jackson | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | Installation of Permanent GPS Networks in Northern California to Support Crustal Deformation Monitoring by the U.S. Geological Survey ($582,524; February 2010 through September 2011) | UNAVCO | Final Technical Report Due December 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AC00081 | Timothy Melbourne | ARRA Funded Monitoring Upgrades | A Magnitude 9-Capable Pacific Northwest Geodetic Array ($694,350; March 2010 through August 2011) | Central Washington University | Final Technical Report Due November 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00002 | Ileana Tibuleac, John Louie and David Von Seggern | Intermoutain West | Higher Resolution Seismic Velocity Model in the Reno Basin ($30,372; December 2009 through November 2010) | University of Nevada | Final Technical Report Due February 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00003 | Thomas Rockwell | Southern California | A Long Record of Earthquake with Timing and Displacements for the Imperial Fault: A Test of Earthquake Recurrence Models ($137,353; December 2009 through November 2011) | San Diego State University | Final Technical Report Due February 2012 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00004 | Jeffrey McGuire | Southern California | Detecting and Modeling Earthquake Swarms in the Salton Trough ($59,614; December 2009 through November 2010) | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Final Technical Report Due February 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00005 | Danielle Hutchings | Northern California | Using Risk Communications Research for Improved Integration of Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Mitigation Information into ABAG's Bay Area Model Earthquake Website ($80,000; December 2009 through November 2010) | Association of Bay Area Governments | Final Technical Report Due February 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00006 | Jonathan Bray | National | iShake: Using Personal Devices to Deliver Rapid, Semi-Quantitative Earthquake Shaking Information ($99,872; December 2009 through November 2010) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due February 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00007 | Kim Olsen | Central and Eastern U.S. | 3D Broadband Ground Motion Estimation for Large Earthquakes on the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Central United States ($43,866; January 2010 through December 2010) | San Diego State University | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00008 | Charles Langson and Stephen Horton | Central and Eastern U.S. | 3D Seismic Velocity Model for the Unconsolidated Mississippi Embayment Sediments from H/V Ambient Noise Measurements ($74,837; January 2010 through December 2010) | University of Memphis | Final Techinal Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00009 | Paul Segall | Earthquake Physics | The Mechanics of Episodic Tremor and Slip and Potential for ETs Triggered Earthquakes ($100,004; January 2010 through December 2010) | Stanford University | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00010 | Chen Ji, Ralph Archuleta and Toshiro Tanimoto | Earthquake Effects | Inversion and Prediction of Ground Motion for the 2009 L'Aquila Italy Mw 6.3 Earthquake ($68,846; January 2010 through December 2010) | University of California Santa Barbara | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00011 | Susan Tubbesing | National | Providing building vulnerability data and analytical fragility functions for PAGER ($100,000; January 2010 through December 2010) | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00012 | Maria Beatrice-Magnani | Central and Eastern U.S. | Characterizing the geometry and time of deformation of the Meeman-Shelby Fault, near Memphis, TN ($152,810; January 2010 through December 2011) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due March 2012 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00013 | Heather DeShon | Central and Eastern U.S. | Imaging Body Wave Attenuation Heterogeneity within the New Madrid Seismic Zone using Local Earthquakes ($64,361; January 2010 through December 2010) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00014 | Laurence Becker | Central and Eastern U.S. | Utilizing the Surficial Geology of the Northeast United States to Improve NEHRP Site Effect Classifications in HAZUS-MH ($14,908; January 2010 through December 2010) | Northeast States Emergency Consortium-NESEC | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00015 | Douglas Burbank | Intermoutain West | Temporal Patterns of Fault Slip Rates on the Genoa Fault ($57,838; January 2010 through December 2010) | University of California Santa Barbara | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00016 | Gregory Beroza | Northern California | Location of Triggered Tremor Near the Calaveras Fault ($83,589; January 2010 through December 2010) | Stanford University | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00017 | Egill Hauksson | Southern California | Analysis of Earthquake Data from the Greater Los Angeles Basin and Adjacent Offshore Area, Southern California ($69,000; January 2010 through December 2010) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00018 | Shuo Ma | Southern California | Dynamic Modeling of Mw 7.0 Earthquake on the Sierra Madre - Cucamonga Fault System and Its Implications for Strong Ground Motions in Greater Los Angeles: Effects of Inelastic Off-Fault Response ($74,885; January 2010 through December 2010) | San Diego State University | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00019 | John Anderson, Abdolrasool Anooshehpoor, James Brune and Matthew Purvance | National | Workshop on the Applications of Precarious Rocks and Related Phenomena to US National Hazards Maps ($16,028;January 2010 through December 2010) | Univesity of Nevada | Final Technical Report March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00020 | Guoqing Lin | Central and Eastern U.S. | Improving Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Models and Earthquake Location for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands: Collaborative Research between University of Miami and University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez ($40,000; February 2010 thru January 2011) | University of Miami | Final Technical Report April 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00021 | Victor Huerfano Moreno | Central and Eastern U.S. | Improving Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Models and Earthquake Location for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands: Collaborative Research between University of Miami and University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez ($24,249; February 2010 thru January 2011) | University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez | Final Technical Report Due April 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00022 | Eric Calais | Central and Eastern U.S. | Intraplate strain and stress in the North American plate interior: Collaborative Research with Purdue University and University of Wisconsin ($140,323; January 2010 through December 2011) | Purdue University | Final Technical Report Due March 2012 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00023 | Andrew Freed | Pacific Northwest | Contemporary Stressing of the Alaskan Crust from Coseismic, Postseismic, and Interseismic Processes ($59,525; January 2010 through December 2010) | Purdue University | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00024 | Dennis DeMets | Central and Eastern U.S. | Intraplate Strain and Stress in the North American Plate Interior: Collaborative Research with Purdue University and University of Wisconsin ($26,092; January 2010 through December 2011) | Univeristy of Wisconsin Madison | Final Technical Report Due March 2010 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00025 | Laurie Baise | Earthquake Effects | Collaborative Research with Tuft University and University of Alaska Fairbanks: Application of Satellite Data for Post-liquefaction Reconnaissance ($58,084; January 2010 through December 2010) | Tufts University | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00026 | Rudiger Gens | Earthquake Effects | Collaborative Research with Tuft University and University of Alaska Fairbanks: Application of Satellite Data for Post-liquefaction Reconnaissance ($17,824; January 2010 through December 2010) | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00027 | Recep Cakir and Timothy Walsh | Pacific Northwest | Shallow-Seismic Site Characterizations at 20 Strong-Motion Station Sites in and near Washington State ($39,664; January 2010 through December 2010) | Washington State Dept of Natural Resources | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00028 | Elizabeth Cochran | Southern California | Assessing FEMA HAZUS-MH MR3: Constraining seismic hazard estimates for Riverside County using precariously balanced rocks and seismic amplification data ($56,167; January 2010 through December 2010) | University of California Riverside | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00029 | Adrian Rodriquez-Marek | Earthquake Effects | Towards constraining ground motion uncertainty using surface and borehole ground motion data ($85,901; January 2010 through December 2010) | Washington State University | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00030 | Jonathan Nourse | Southern California | Late Quaternary Evolution of the East-Central San Gabriel Mountains Frontal Fault System ($61,014; January 2010 through December 2010) | California State Polytechnic University | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00031 | Nadia Lapusta | Earthquake Physics | Studying fault friction properties based on observations of small repeating earthquakes ($115,446; December 2009 through November 2010) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due February 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00032 | Po Chen | Northern California | Full 3-D Waveform Tomography and Rapid Seismic Source Parameter Inversion for San Francisco Bay Region ($142,130; January 2010 through December 2011) | University of Wyoming | Final Technical Report Due March 2012 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00033 | Kenneth Creager | Pacific Northwest | Improved detection, location and characterization of Cascadia Tremor ($65,793; January 2010 through December 2010) | University of Washington | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00034 | Robert McCaffrey | National | Western U.S. fault slip rates and regional strain rates from inversion of geologic, seismologic and geodetic data ($49,256; January 2010 through December 2010) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00035 | C. Guney Olgun and James Martin | Earthquake Effects | Investigation of NEHRP/IBC Simplified Seismic Design Procedures for Non-Traditional Site Conditions ($74,587; January 2010 through December 2010) | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State Univ. | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00036 | Christine Goulet | Earthquake Effects | Reference site standard deviation for integration of site effects into ground motion prediction equations and seismic hazard analyses ($68,806; January 2010 through December 2010) | URS Group, Inc. | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00037 | John Ebel | Central and Eastern U.S. | Analysis of Aftershock Sequences for Use in Predicting Aftershock Probabilities Immediately Following Strong Earthquakes ($42,867; January 2010 through December 2010) | Boston College | Final Technical Report Due March 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00040 | Patrick Williams | Northern California | Earthquake Recurrence, Northern Hayward Fault: Paleoseismic Investigation of San Pablo Creek Flood Deposit ($59,960; February 2010 thru January 2011) | San Diego State University | Final Technical Report Due April 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00041 | Abbie Liel | Earthquake Effects | Effect of Near-Fault Directivity on Building Seismic Collapse Risk ($62,615; February 2010 thru January 2011) | University of Colorado at Boulder | Final Technical Report Due April 2011 | 2010 | |
| G10AP00042 | James Dolan | Southern California | Direct mega-trench exposure of the buried fold scarp from the most recent Compton Thrust earthquake: Implications for surface deformation and seismic hazard ($70,000; February 2010 thru January 2011) | Univeristy of Southern California | Final Technical Report Due April 2011 | 2010 |
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