A Bibliography of Parkfield Publications from UC Berkeley

M6 sequences

Wilson, J.T., Foreshocks and aftershocks of the Nevada earthquake of December 20, 1932 and the Parkfield earthquake of June 7, 1934, Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 26, 189-194, 1936.

McEvilly, T.V., Contribution in Parkfield earthquakes of June 27-29, 1966, Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties, California -- Preliminary report, Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 56, 967-971, 1966.

McEvilly, T.V., W.H. Bakun and K.B. Casady, The Parkfield, California earthquakes of 1966, Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 57, 1221-1244, 1967.

J. Filson and T.V. McEvilly, Love wave spectra and the mechanism of the 1966 Parkfield sequence, Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 57, 1245-1257, 1967.

Bakun, W.H. and T.V. McEvilly, Earthquakes near Parkfield, California: Comparing the 1934 and 1966 sequences, Science, 205, 1375-1377, 1979.

Bakun, W.H. and T.V. McEvilly, Are foreshocks distinctive? Evidence from the 1966 Parkfield and the 1975 Oroville, California sequences, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 69, 1027-1038, 1979.

Bakun, W.H. and T.V. McEvilly, P-wave spectra for M 5 foreshocks, aftershocks and isolated earthquakes near Parkfield, California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 71, 423-436, 1981.

Early prediction ideas - velocity change and Vp/Vs anomalies

McEvilly, T.V. and L.R. Johnson, Stability of P and S velocities from central California quarry blasts, Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 64, 343-353, 1974.

Boore, D., T.V. McEvilly and A. Lindh, Quarry blast sources and earthquake prediction: the Parkfield, California earthquake of June 28, 1966, Pure and Appl. Geophys., 113, 293-296, 1975.

Boore, D., A. Lindh, T.V. McEvilly and W. Tolmachoff, A search for travel time changes associated with the Parkfield, California earthquake of June 28, 1966, Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 65, 1407-1418, 1975.

Structure of the fault zone

McNally, K.C. and T.V. McEvilly, Velocity contrast across the San Andreas fault in central California: small-scale variations from P-wave nodal plane distortion, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 67, 1565-1576, 1977.

McEvilly, T. V., Extended Reflection Survey of the San Andreas Fault Zone, U.S. Geol. Surv. Open-file Rept. No. 81-388, 1981.

Feng, R. and T. V. McEvilly, Interpretation of seismic reflection profiling data for the structure of the San Andreas fault zone, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 73, 1701-1720, 1983.

Daley, T.M. and T.V. McEvilly, Shear wave anisotropy in the Parkfield Varian Well VSP, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 80, 857-869, 1990.

Michelini, A. and T.V. McEvilly, Seismological studies at Parkfield: I. Simultaneous inversion for velocity structure and hypocenters using B-splines parameterization, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 81, 524-552, 1991.

Korneev, V.A., T.V. McEvilly and R.M. Nadeau, Seismological Studies at Parkfield IX: Characteristics of Fault-zone Trapped Waves (in preparation), 2000.

More prediction ideas - Characteristic earthquakes and probabilities

Bakun, W. H. and T. V. McEvilly, Recurrence models and Parkfield, California earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 3051-3058, 1984.

Ellsworth, Matthews, Nadeau, Nishenko, Reasenberg and Simpson, A Physically-Based Earthquake Recurrence Model for Estimation of Long-Term Earthquake Probabilities, Workshop On Earthquake Recurrence: State of The Art and Directions for the Future, Istituto Nazionale de Geofisica, Rome, Italy, 22-25 February, 1999.

Yet more prediction ideas - Monitoring for precursors

Clymer, R. W. and T. V. McEvilly, Travel-time monitoring with Vibroseis, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 71, 1903-1927, 1981.

Karageorgi, E., R. Clymer and T.V. McEvilly, Seismological studies at Parkfield. II. Search for temporal variations in wave propagation using Vibroseis, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 82, 1388-1415, 1992.

Dubrovsky, V.A., T.V. McEvilly, A.S. Belyakov, V.V. Kuznetzov and M.V. Timonov, Borehole investigations of seismoacoustic emissions at the Parkfield prediction site (in Russian), Doklady Akad. Nauk, SSSR, 325, no. 6, 1142-1145, 1992.

Antolik, M., R. M. Nadeau, R. C. Aster and T. V. McEvilly, Differential analysis of coda Q using similar microearthquakes in seismic gaps. Part 2: Application to seismograms recorded by the Parkfield High Resolution Seismic Network, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 86, 890-910, 1996.

Karageorgi, E.D., T.V. McEvilly and R.W. Clymer, Seismological Studies at Parkfield IV: Variations in controlled-source waveform parameters and their correlation with seismic activity, 1987-1994, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 87, 39-49, 1997.

Korneev, V.A., T.V. McEvilly and E.D. Karageorgi, Seismological Studies at Parkfield VIII: Modeling the Observed Controlled-Source Waveform Changes, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am.,90, 702-708, 2000.

Fault-zone dynamics - High resolution view of active processes

Nadeau, R, M. Antolik, P. Johnson, W. Foxall and T.V. McEvilly, Seismological studies at Parkfield III: Microearthquake clusters in the study of fault-zone dynamics, .Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 84, 247-263, 1994.

Nadeau, R., W. Foxall and T. V. McEvilly, Periodic recurrence and spatial clustering in characteristic microearthquakes on the San Andreas fault, Science, 267, 503-507, 1995.

Johnson, P.A. and T.V. McEvilly, Parkfield seismicity: Fluid-driven?, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 12,937-12,950, 1995.

Nadeau, R. M. and T. V. McEvilly, Seismological Studies at Parkfield V: Characteristic microearthquake sequences as fault-zone drilling targets, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 87, 1463-1472, 1997.

Nadeau, R.M. and T.V. McEvilly , Fault slip rates at depth from recurrence intervals of repeating microearthquakes, Science, 285, 718-721, 1999.

Burgmann, R., D. Schmidt, R.M. Nadeau, M. d'Alessio, E. Fielding, D. Manaker, T.V. McEvilly, and M.H. Murray, Earthquake Potential along the Northern Hayward Fault, California, Science, 289, 1178-1182, 2000.

Nadeau, R.M. and T.V. McEvilly, Seismological Studies at Parkfield X: Slip-rate pulses on the Central San Andreas Plate Boundary (in preparation), 2000.

Fault-zone dynamics - Source mechanisms, scaling, stress and strength

Nadeau, R. M. and L. R. Johnson, Seismological Studies at Parkfield VI: Moment Release Rates and Estimates of Source Parameters for Small Repeating Earthquakes, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am.,. 88, 790-814, 1998.

Sammis, C.G.,R.M. Nadeau and L.R. Johnson, How strong is an Asperity, J. Geoph. Res., 104, 10609-10619, 1999.

Wenk, H-R., L.R. Johnson and L. Ratschbacher, Pseudotachylites in the Eastern Peninsular Ranges of California, Tectonophysics, 321, 253-277, 2000.

Nadeau, R.M., L.R. Johnson and H.-R. Wenk, A quantitative relationship between pseudotachylites and small earthquakes, Nature (submitted, in review), 2000.

Johnson, L.R. and R.M. Nadeau, Asperity model of an earthquake - Static problem, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. (submitted), 2000.

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