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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 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