Earthquake of the Week
Spring 2017: Mondays, 1:00-2:00 in McCone 220
| Date | Seismicity timeframe | Seismicity Presenter | Paper | Paper Presenter |
| January 23 |
since Nov. 2016 | Sierra | - | - |
| January 30 |
Jan 23 - 29 | Kathryn | Freed et al. | William |
| February 6 |
Jan 30 - Feb 5 | William | Inbal et al. | Nate |
| February 13 |
Feb 6 - Feb 12 | Li-Wei | De Plan et al. | Avinash |
| February 20 |
Holiday - President's Day | |||
| February 27 |
2 weeks Feb 13 - 26 | Nate | Frank | Alex |
| March 6 |
Feb 27 - Mar 5 | Clotilde | Bletery et al. | Robert |
| March 13 |
Mar 6 - 12 | Corinna | Daout et al. | Kathryn |
| March 20 |
Mar 13 - 19 | Avinash | Hedzajian | Corinna |
| March 27 |
Spring Break | |||
| April 3 |
2 weeks: Mar 20- Apr 2 | Alex | Lund-Snee | Sierra |
| April 10 |
Apr 3 - 9 | Robert | Tauzin | Clotilde |
| April 17 |
Apr 10 - 16 | Dan | Nishida | Li-Wei |
| April 24 |
Apr 17 - 23 | Satish | Yen | Kai |
| May 1 |
Apr 23 - 30 | Kai | Wesnousky | Satish |
Spring 2016: 12:00-1:00 in McCone 220
Link to full reading list (PDF)| Date | Seismicity timeframe | Seismicity Presenter | Paper | Paper Presenter |
| February 1 | Jan 25-Jan 31 | Laura | Chaves and Schwartz | Avinash |
| February 8 | Feb 1- Feb 7 | Robert | Herrendorfer | William |
| February 15 | Holiday - President's Day | |||
| February 22 | 2 weeks: Feb 8-Feb 21 | William | Gerya | Robert |
| February 29 | Feb 22-Feb 28 | Chris | Wei et al. | Chris |
| March 7 | Feb 29-March 6 | Avinash | Zhan and Shearer | Laura |
| March 14 | March 7- March 13 | Sierra | TBD | Corinna |
| March 21 | Spring Break | |||
| March 28 | 2 weeks: March 15-March 27 | Qingkai | Hung et al. | Kathryn |
| April 14 | March 28-April 3 | Corinna | Trugman et al. | Landon |
| April 11 | April 4- April 10 | Kathryn | Denolle et al. | Qingkai |
| April 18 | April 11-April 17 | Alex | Martinez-Garzon | Sierra |
| April 25 | April 18- April 24 | Landon | Shillington | Alex |
| May 2 | April 25- May 1 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Fall 2015: 12:00-1:00 in McCone 220
| Date | Seismicity | Presenter | Topic |
| September 14 |
Angie Chung | Robert Martin-Short | Mantle flow geometry from ridge to trench beneath the Gorda-Juan de Fuca plate system |
| September 21 |
Cheng Cheng | ||
| September 28 |
Avinash Nayak | Angie Chung | Operational Earthquake Forecasting: "When is the Probability of a Large Earthquake Too Small?" |
| October 5 |
Laura MacLean | Avinash Nayak | |
| October 12 |
Sierra Boyd | William Hawley | |
| October 19 |
Chris Johnson | Kathryn Materna | |
| October 26 |
Chris Johnson | ||
| November 2 |
Monica | ||
| November 9 |
Robert Martin-Short | Sierra Boyd | |
| November 16 |
William Hawley | Laura MacLean | |
| November 23 |
No class. | ||
| November 30 |
Kathryn Materna | Cheng Cheng | |
Fall 2014: 12:30-1:30 in McCone 220
| 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