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Earthquake Of The Week Schedule

Spring 2013: Monday at 1 PM sharp in McCone 220

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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 18 - President's Day
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
March 25 - Spring Break
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
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
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

 

Date Seismicity Paper Review
January 20 Scott French - Recap of Winter Break Seismicity (pdf) n/a
January 27 Sanne Cottaar - Tectonics and seismic deployments in Antarctica (pdf) Scott French - A Rayleigh wave back-projection method applied to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake (Roten, et. al.) (pdf)
February 3 Andrea Chiang - M 7.2 Northern Sumatra Rob Porritt - Model Update March 2011: Upper Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from Traveltime Tomography with Global and USArray Transportable Array Data (Burdick, et. al.)
February 10 Allen Zheng - Seismicity of the Philippines Andrea Chiang - Migrating Swarms of Brittle-failure Earthquakes in the Lower Crust Beneath Mammoth Mountain, California (Shelly & Hill)
Download movie from AGU website
February 17 Rob Porritt - Juan de Fuca plate system Sanne Cottaar - Combining Seismic Arrays to Image the High Frequency Characteristics of Large Earthquakes (Kiser & Ishi)
February 24 Rodrigo Music - Design Response Spectrum - A deterministic approach
March 2 Qingkai Kong - February 26 Russian earthquake and background Rodrigo Music - Identification of High Frequency pulse from Earthquake asperities along Chilean subduction zone using strong motion
March 9 Sierra Boyd - Hayward Fault sequence of events: El Cerrito, CA, March 5, 2012
March 16
Special seminar: Yoshio Fukao
March 23 Seung Hoon Yoo - M 7.4 Oaxaca, Mexico Allen Zheng - Tibetan plate overriding the Asian plate in central and northern Tibet (Zhao et. al.)
March 30
--- Spring Break ---
April 6 Michael Barnes - Scaling of Ground Motions Sierra Boyd - Location and Felt Reports for the 25 April 2010 mbLg 3.9 Earthquake near Alice Texas: Was it induced by Petroleum Production?
April 13 Cheng Cheng - The Cascadia Subduction Zone and Related Seismicity Qingkai Kong
April 20 Thomas Bodin Michael Barnes