Earthquake Of The Week Schedule
Fall 2014: 12:30-1:30 in McCone 220
Conference Room Projector Instructions
Guidance For Student Presentations
| Date (Mondays) | Seismicity | Research |
| September 8 | Introduction to course | |
| September 15 | Robert Martin-Short | Andrea Chiang: Regional moment tensor source-type discrimination sensitivity analysis |
| September 22 | Qingkai Kong | Cheng Cheng |
| September 29 | Eoghan Totten | Chris Johnson: Global catalog analysis shows that dynamic triggering of remote ≥5.5 earthquakes is rare |
| October 6th | Chris Johnson | Taka'aki Taira: Monitoring of Relative Velocity Change Following the 2014 Mw 6.0 South Napa Earthquake |
| October 13 | Andrea Chiang | Marco Calo: Imaging North America velocity structure |
| October 20 | Cheng Cheng | Thomas Bodin: Is there anisotropy in the Mantle? |
| October 27 | Laura Salmi | Angie Chung: Using ambient vibrations of buildings to obtain a building response |
| November 3 | Katie Wooddell | Ran Nof: Israel's Seismic Network: Towards Earthquake Early Warning |
| November 10 | William Hawley | |
| November 17 | Avinash Nayak | Cheng Cheng |
| November 24 | Qingkai Kong: MyShake: Building a smartphone seismic network | |
| December 1 | Mong-Han: Twenty-five years of postseismic viscous relaxation following the 1989 Mw 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake | |
Spring 2014 Earthquake of the Week
| Date (Mondays) | Paper presentation | Seismicity/current events |
| February 3 |
Qingkai Kong - Hoshiba (2014)Real-Time Correction of Frequency-Dependent Site Amplification Factors for Application to Earthquake Early Warning. , BSSA | Zhao (Allen) Zheng |
| February 10 |
Chris Johnson (1) Wei et al. | William? |
| February 17 |
holiday - President's Day | holiday |
| February 24 |
Michael (1) - Ide The proportionality between relative plate velocity and seismicity in subduction zones, Natgeo, 6, - pp780 - 784 | Cheng |
| March 3 |
Cheng Cheng (1) Fichtner et al. )The deep structure of the North Anatolian Fault Zone, EPSL, 373, 109-117. | Sierra? |
| March 10 |
Avinash (1) Bean et al. (2014) Long-period seismicity in the shallow volcanic edifice formed from slow-rupture earthquakes, Natgeo 7,71-75 | Avinash |
| March 17 |
William - Conrad et al. (2013) Stability of active mantle upweling revealed by net characteristics of plate tectonics, Nature, 498, 479-482 | Michael Heid |
| March 24 |
Spring break - no class | Spring break |
| March 31 |
James Koenig | Heidi Hansen |
| April 7 |
Meng Cai (1) ) Tsunami source of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake detected by an ocean-bottom magnetometer, EPSL, 382, 117-124 | Meng Cai |
| April 14 |
Sierra (3) Faulkner and Armitage (2013) The effect of tectonic environment on permeability development around faults and in the brittle crust, EPSL, 375, Pages 71-77 | Chris Johnson |
| April 21 |
Heidi Hansen TBD | Liliana |
| April 28 |
Liliana(1) glacial earthquakes tbd | James Koenig |
Spring 2013 Earthquake of the Week
Conference Room Projector Instructions
Guidance For Student Presentations
| Date | Seismicity | Paper Review |
| February 4 |
Rob Porritt | Review of recent seismicity/organizational meeting |
| February 11 | Mong-Han Huang | Qingkai Kong - High-resolution 3D shallow crustal structure in Long Beach, California: application of ambient noise tomography on a dense seismic array (Lin, Fan-Chi; Li, Dunzhu; Clayton, Robert; Hollis, Dan) |
| February 25 | Cheng Cheng | Andrea Chiang - Seismicity near the slip maximum of the 1960 Mw 9.5 Valdivia earthquake (Chile): Plate interface lock and reactivation of the subducted Valdivia Fracture Zone (Dzierma et. al, JGR 2012) |
| March 4 | Andrea Chiang | Cheng Cheng - Interferometric imaging of the underside of a subducting crust (Oleg V. Poliannikov, Stéphane Rondenay, Ling Chen, GJI 2012) |
| March 11 | Qingkai Kong | Chris Johnson - Earthquake nucleation and triggering on an optimally oriented fault, Tape, et. al., EPSL 2012 |
| March 18 | Special seminar: Jesus Ibañez, University of Grenada High definition seismic tomography in volcanoes |
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| April 1 | Special seminar: Graham Kent, Nevada Seismological Laboratory Development of underwater paleoseismic techniques: An application to transtensional environments along the Western U.S. plate boundary |
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| April 8 | Robert Martin-Short | Avinash Nayak |
| April 15 | Sanne Cottaar | Scott French |
| April 22 | Special seminar: Florian Rickers Adjoint tomography of Iceland and the North Atlantic region |
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| April 29 | Avinash Nayak | Mong-Han Huang - Rolling hills on the core-mantle boundary, Sun et. al., EPSL 2013 |
Spring 2012 Earthquake of the Week
