HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
Department
of Earth and Planetary Sciences
and
School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences
SOLID
EARTH PHYSICS SEMINARS
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Pending
Seminars
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High-Performance Computing Simulations
of Broadband Ground Motions for an
Mw 7.0 Hayward Fault Earthquake
Arthur Rodgers
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Wednesday 17 January 2018, 3:00 pm
4thFloor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Lab, 20
Oxford Street
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Previous
Seminars (since fall term 2002)
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Branches
and offsets: Issues in 3D earthquake
models with complex
fault geometry
David Oglesby
Department of
Earth Sciences
University of
California at Riverside
Friday 1
November 2002, 2:00 pm
Room 129 Hoffman
Laboratory, 24 Oxford Street
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The
earthquake deformation cycle in the
corner of South
America subduction zone
Mohamed Chlieh
Laboratoire Tectonique
Institut de Physique du
Globe, Paris
Thursday 12
December 2002, 4:00 pm
Room 319 Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street
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Combining
tectonic stress and strain data
to investigate
plate boundary mechanics
in California and
Japan
John Townend
Department of
Geophysics
Stanford
University
Thursday 19
December 2002, 2:00 pm
Room 129 Hoffman
Laboratory, 24 Oxford Street
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Insights
on fault behavior from the
seismic
nucleation phase: scale-dependent
or nonlinear
friction?
Jean-Paul Ampuero
Department of
Geosciences
Princeton
University
Monday, 13
January 2003, 2:00 pm
Room 129 Hoffman
Laboratory, 24 Oxford Street
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Fault
propagation and strain
partitioning
in continental lithosphere
David Bowman
Department of
Geological Sciences
California State
University at Fullerton
Tuesday, 1 April
2003, 1:00 pm
Room 320 Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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The
role of off-fault damage in
the evolution
of normal faults
Charles Sammis
Department of
Earth Sciences
University of
Southern California
Tuesday, 8 April
2003, 1:00 pm
Room 320 Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Structural
constraints on
the location of
aftershocks
Suleyman S. Nalbant
Geophysics
Research Group
University of
Ulster, Northern Ireland
Monday, 11
August 2003, 2:00 pm
Room 318 Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street
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The
relation of seismic Q to subduction
zone structure and
processes
Brian Mitchell
Saint Louis
University
Monday, 15
September 2003, 4:00 pm
Room 318 Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street
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The
evolution of the seismic-aseismic
transition
during the earthquake cycle:
Constraints
from the time-dependent
depth distributions
of aftershocks
Frederique Rolandone
Berkeley
Seismological Laboratory
University of
California at Berkeley
Tuesday, 21
October 2003, 3:00 pm
Room 129 Hoffman
Laboratory, 24 Oxford Street
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Stress
orientations and time-evolution of
fault zone
properties: Insights from
3D
(fault) physics-based numerical models
Delphine Fitzenz
USGS Earthquake
Hazards Team
Menlo Park, CA
Thursday, March
25, 2004
1:00 PM
Room 319, Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street
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Plate
boundary deformation on time scales
ranging
from 10 to 10 million years
Anke Friedrich
Institute of
Geosciences
University of
Potsdam, Germany
Thursday, April
1, 2004
3:00 PM
Room 319, Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street
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A
high-frequency view of
asperity
ruptures during the
Chi-Chi
Taiwan earthquake
Charles Sammis
Youlin Chen
Department of
Earth Sciences
University of
South Carolina
Tuesday, April
6, 2004
3:00 PM
Room 318, Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street
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Estimation
of maximum regional
earthquake
magnitude mmax
Andrzej Kijko
Council for
Geoscience
Geological
Survey of South Africa
Pretoria
Wednesday, 25
August 2004, 2:00 pm
Room 318 Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street
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Localized
compaction
in porous
sandstone
John W. Rudnicki
Departments of
Civil and Environmental Engineering
and Mechanical
Engineering
Northwestern
University
Thursday, 2
September 2004, 3:00 pm
Room 318 Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street
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Animating
and forecasting Southern California
seismicity
(the patient only looks dead)
Ross Stein
USGS Earthquake
Hazards Team
Menlo Park, CA
Friday, 22
October 2004, 12:00 pm
Room 129 Hoffman
Laboratory, 24 Oxford Street
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Southern
symphony: Seismoacoustic
records
from icebergs, 2000 - 2004
Emile Okal
Department of Geological Sciences
Northwestern
University
Friday, 22
October 2004, 4:00 pm
Room 320 Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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The
dynamics and near-source ground
motion of supershear earthquakes
Eric Dunham
Departments of
Physics and Geological Sciences
University of
California at Santa Barbara
Thursday, 4
November 2004, 3:00 pm
Faculty Lounge,
4th Floor, Hoffman Lab, 20 Oxford Street
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Source
properties of small earthquakes:
implications
for earthquake scaling
and fault-zone
structure
Jeffrey McGuire
Department of
Geology and Geophysics
Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
Thursday, 13
January 2005, 3:00 pm
Room 307 Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Compacting
porous rocks
by means of dilatancy
Yves Guguen
Adjoint Director for
Sciences, and
Department of Terre
Atmosphre Ocean
cole Normale Suprieure, Paris, France
Tuesday, 25
October 2005, 3:00 pm
209 Pierce Hall,
29 Oxford Street
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Earthquake
triggering, stress changes:
Estimating
stress heterogeneity from
aftershock
rate using the rate-and-state model
Agnes Helmstetter
Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory
Columbia
University
Thursday, 27
October 2005, 3:00 pm
Room 318, Cruft Laboratory, 29 Oxford Street
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Effects
of soft soil stratum and
foundation
elements on seismic waves
Fook Hou Lee
Department of
Civil Engineering
National
University of Singapore
Wednesday 1
March 2006, 2:30 PM
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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(Also announced
as an Applied Mechanics Colloquium)
Soil
liquefaction - physical
and numerical
modeling
Hoe I. Ling
Department of
Civil Engineering and
Engineering
Mechanics, Columbia University
Wednesday 8
March 2006, 4:00 PM,
209 Pierce Hall,
29 Oxford Street
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Aseismic
creep associated with seismic
swarms in the Salton
Trough, CA
Rowena Lohman
Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
Wednesday 22
March 2006, 2:30 PM
100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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(Also announced
as an Applied Mechanics Colloquium)
How
and why submarine channelized
flows and landscape
development are
different
from the terrestrial system
David Mohrig
Department of
Earth, Atmospheric
and Planetary
Sciences, MIT
Wednesday 19
April 2006, 4:00 PM
209 Pierce Hall,
29 Oxford Street
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(Also announced
as an Environmental
Sciences and
Engineering Seminar)
The
hydrology and biogeochemistry
of the arsenic
crisis in Bangladesh
Charles Harvey
Department of
Civil and
Environmental
Engineering, MIT
Friday 28 April
2006, 12:00 noon
100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Paleoseismology
and earthquake surface ruptures:
Could
we learn anything about earthquake processes?
Yann Klinger
Laboratoire Tectonique
Institut de Physique du
Globe, Paris
Tuesday, 24
October 2006, 3:00 pm
EPS Faculty
Lounge, 4th Floor of Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Spontaneous
shear localization
in a model brittle
solid
Craig Maloney
Department of
Physics
Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore
Tuesday, 14
November 2006, 1:00 pm
EPS Faculty
Lounge, 4th Floor of Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Recurrence
nature of short-term slow
slip and correlated
tremor episodes in
the southwest Japan
subduction zone
Hitoshi Hirose
National
Research Institute for Earth Science
and Disaster
Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan
(and Pacific Geoscience Centre,
Geological
Survey of Canada)
Thursday, 16
November 2006, 3:00 pm
209 Pierce Hall,
29 Oxford Street
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Seismology,
ice sheets, soil moisture,
and transients: New
results from GPS
Kristine M.
Larson
Department of
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
University of
Colorado, Boulder
Tuesday, 28
November 2006, 11:00 am
EPS Faculty
Lounge, 4th Floor of Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Rupture
dynamics and branch
nucleation
at kinks in wavy faults
Ryosuke Ando
Lamont-Doherty
Earth Obs., Columbia Univ.,
Univ. of Tokyo,
and Japan Soc. for Promotion of Science
Friday, 5
January 2007, 11:00 am
Room 209 Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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A structural
geologist's view of
earthquake
ruptures: geometry, thickness
and kinematics of
exhumed fault zones
Zoe Shipton
Department of
Geographical and Earth Sciences,
University of
Glasgow, Scotland
Tuesday, 2
October 2007, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Numerical
modeling of physical processes
occurring
during the spontaneous
propagation
of 3-D earthquake ruptures
Andrea Bizzarri
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia,
Sezione di Bologna,
Italy
Tuesday, 16
October 2007, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Strike-slip
fault segmentation from
field observation:
Could we find some
systematics
and is it useful?
Yann Klinger
Laboratoire Tectonique, Institut de Physique
du Globe, Paris,
and Department of
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard
Tuesday, 23
October 2007, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Tsunamis:
What have we learned?
Emile A. Okal
Department of
Geological Sciences,
Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois
Friday, 16
November 2007, 3:00 pm
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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A
high-frequency secondary event
during the 2004 Parkfield earthquake
Peter Shearer
Scripps
Institute of Oceanography,
University of
California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Tuesday, 20
November 2007, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Deformation
and flow in disordered materials
Lisa Manning
Department of
Physics
University of
California at Santa Barbara
Tuesday, 27
November 2007, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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The
Non-Critical Precursory
Accelerating
Seismicity Theory
Arnaud Mignan
Science and
Technology Research
Risk Management
Solutions, London, UK
Friday, 25 January
2008, 3:00 pm
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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A
New Continuum Model for
Dense
Granular Deformations
Kenneth N. Kamrin
Applied
Mathematics Program
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Tuesday, 12
February 2008, 11:30 am
Room 209 Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
[note change from usual room]
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Surface
Cracks as a Long-term Record of
Seismic
Segmentation along the Andean Margin
Jack Loveless
Department of
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard
University
Tuesday, 19
February 2008, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Makran (Iran/Pakistan)
Subduction Zone, its
Seismogenic
Behavior and Tsunami Potential
Zoya Zarifi
Department of Earth Science
University of
Bergen, Norway
Tuesday, 4 March
2008, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Slip and Depth
Dependent Variations in
Fault Strength
and Gouge Properties:
Insights from
Particle Dynamics Simulations
Julia Morgan
Department of
Earth Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX,
and visiting,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard
Tuesday, 11
March 2008, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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A
Micro-Scale Model of Pressure Solution
Creep:
Stress Transfer Within and
Between
Neighboring Grain Contacts
Yves Bernabe
Department of
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT;
on leave, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Tuesday, 18
March 2008, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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The
Presence of a Stagnant Forearc Mantle
Wedge
and its Role in Subduction-zone
Petrologic,
Volcanic, and Seismic Processes
Kelin Wang
Geologic Survey
of Canada
Sidney, British
Columbia
Tuesday, 1 April
2008, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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The
Great Sumatran Earthquakes: 2004-2007
--
Results from New Marine Studies
Satish Singh
Marine
Geophysics
Institut de Physique du
Globe de Paris, France
Tuesday, 22
April 2008, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Self-healing
Shear Rupture Pulse Driven
by Thermal
Pressurization of Pore Fluid
Dmitry Garagash
Department of
Civil and Resource Engineering
Dalhousie
University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Tuesday, 29
April 2008, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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A
Two-Step Approach for Combining GPS
and Seismic Data in
Kinematic Inversions
Susana Custodio
Institute for
Crustal Studies
University of
California, Santa Barbara
Friday 23 May 2008,
11:30 am
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Finite
Volume Methods for Elastodynamic
Problems,
with Application to the Study
of Remarkably
Strong Tremor Episodes
Heralding
the Onset of the Current Eruption
at Mount St.
Helens, Washington
Roger P. Denlinger
USGS Cascades
Volcano Observatory
Vancouver, WA
Tuesday, 27 May
2008, 11:30 am
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford Street
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Hydro-Mechano-Chemical Behaviors of
Clays
and Silicate Minerals: From Molecular
Characteristics
to Macro Analysis
Yasuaki Ichikawa
Department of
Environmental Engineering and Architecture
Nagoya
University, Nagoya, Japan
Tuesday 30
September 2008, 11:30 am
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Fluid
Flow in Viscoplastic Porous
Media:
Porosity Waves as a
Mechanism
for Fluid Expulsion
Viktoriya Yarushina
Physics of Geological
Processes
University of
Oslo, Norway
Tuesday 7
October 2008, 11:30 am
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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True
Triaxial Testing of Rock
John W. Rudnicki
Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering
and Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL
Tuesday 4
November 2008, 11:30 am
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Dynamic
Stress Drop and Rupture
Velocity
for Mining Induced Seismicity
Wojciech Debski
Institute of Geophysics
Polish Academy
of Sciences, Warsaw
Thursday 13
November 2008, 2:00 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Ductile
Rheology of the Lithosphere: Lessons
from the 1992
Landers, the 1999 Hector
Mine and the 2004 Parkfield
Earthquakes
Sylvain Barbot
Scripps
Institute of Oceanography
University of
California at San Diego
Tuesday 2
December 2008, 11:30 am
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Fluid
Mechanics of Sea Ice and Ice Shelves
Grae Worster
Institute of
Theoretical Geophysics, and Department
of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of
Cambridge, UK
Friday 6
February 2009, noon (start 12:10 sharp)
209 Pierce Hall,
29 Oxford St
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Boundary
layer transitions in rotating
convection
and dynamo systems
Jonathan Aurnou
Simulated Planetary Interiors
Lab
Department of Earth and
Space Sciences
University of California,
Los Angeles
Thursday 16
April 2009, 2:00 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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A
Probabilistic Description
of Tsunami Phenomenology
Eric L. Geist
U.S. Geological Survey
Menlo Park, California
Wednesday 20 May
2009, 1:30 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Petrified
Earthquakes: Signals in Fault
Zone
Rocks for the Mechanics of Faulting
Ory Dor
Department of Geological
Sciences
Brown University,
Providence, RI
Tuesday 7 July
2009, 11:00 am
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Scaling of Earthquake Rupture
Growth in Parkfield
Area
Takahiko
Uchide
Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, Univ. Calif. San Diego,
and Department of Earth &
Planetary Sci., Univ. of Tokyo
Thursday 15
October 2009, 1:15 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Interaction of Earthquakes and Slow Slip:
Insights from Fault Models Governed
by Lab-Derived Friction Laws
Nadia Lapusta
Divisions of Engineering
& Applied Science and
Geological & Planetary
Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Tuesday 20
October 2009, 1:15 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Effects of the Free Surface
and
Low-Velocity Layers on
Seismic
and Aseismic Fault Slip
Yoshihiro Kaneko
Scripps
Institution of Oceanography
University of California at
San Diego
Friday 26 March
2010, 1:30 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Rock Damage, Earthquakes and Faults
Yehuda Ben-Zion
Department of Earth
Sciences
University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA
Friday 9 April
2010, 1:30 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Reducing the Tsunami Risk in
Padang,
West Sumatra, Indonesia:
A
Focus on Vertical Evacuation
Veronica Cedillos
GeoHazards International
Palo Alto,
California
Tuesday 27 April
2010, 1:30 pm
Rm. B-108
(basement), Northwest Building, 52 Oxford St.
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It Takes Three to Tango:
Bubble Dynamics in Basaltic Volcanoes
and a Critical Look at Current
Models
of Normal Strombolian Activity
Jenny Suckale
Department of Earth,
Atmospheric
and Planetary Science, MIT
Tuesday 25 May
2010, 1:30 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Two Subduction Stories:Importance of 3D Flowand Bend-faulting
Jason Phipps Morgan
Department of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell University
Friday, 22
October 2010, 2:00 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Towards Understanding Slip on
Oceanic Transform Faults through
Relatively Predictable Earthquakes
Margaret Boettcher
Department of Earth Sciences
University of New Hampshire,
Durham
Tuesday, 16
November 2010, 1:00 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Physico-chemical Effects of Dehydration
Reactions during
Nucleation and Seismic
Slip: Experiments and Theory
Nicolas Brantut
Rock and Ice Physics
Laboratory
University College London,
UK
Tuesday, 8
February 2011, 3:00 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Using Large-Scale Numerical Simulations
to Forecast Earthquake
Ground Motions
Thomas H. Jordan
Southern California
Earthquake Center
and Department of Earth
Sciences,
University of Southern
California, Los Angeles
Tuesday, 22
March 2011, 4:15 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Seismic Imaging of Crustal
Structure in Southern
California
Thomas H. Jordan
Southern California
Earthquake Center
and Department of Earth
Sciences,
University of Southern
California, Los Angeles
Friday, 25 March
2011, 2:00 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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The Micromechanics of Brittle
Failure at Very High Loading Rates
Harsha S. Bhat
Department of Earth
Sciences, Univ. of Southern Calif.
and Graduate Aerospace
Laboratories, Caltech
Tuesday, 29
March 2011, 4:15 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Diffuse Fields in Layered Media
Francisco
J. Snchez-Sesma
Instituto de Ingeniera,
Universidad
Nacional Autnoma de Mxico
Cd. Universitaria,
Coyoacn 04510, Mexico DF
Tuesday, 31 May
2011, 4:00 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Extracurricular Geophysics or,
when instruments record what
they were not
designed for
Emile A. Okal
Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Wednesday 28
September 2011, 2:00 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Modeling
Time-Dependent
Dike
Propagation from
Seismicity and
Deformation Data
Andrea L. Llenos
Earthquake Science Center
US Geological Survey
Menlo Park, CA
Thursday 3
November 2011, 2:00 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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20,000
Foreshocks Under the Sea:
Capturing the
End of a Seismic Cycle on the
Gofar Transform Fault, East
Pacific Rise
Jeff J. McGuire
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Tuesday 22
November 2011, 2:00 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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(Also announced as a
Harvard Applied Mechanics
Colloquium)
Mechanistic
Emulation of Numerical Models
abstract
Simon Mathias
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Durham, UK
Wednesday 8
February 2012, 4:00 pm
Room 209 Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford St.
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(Also announced as a
Harvard Environmental
Sciences and Engineering Seminar)
Estimating
Pressure Limited CO2
Storage
Capacity in the UK North Sea
Simon Mathias
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Durham, UK
Friday 10
February 2012, 12:00 pm
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford St.
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(Also announced as a
Harvard Environmental
Sciences and Engineering Seminar)
Injection-Induced
Seismic Slip: Theoretical
Insights and
Proposed Experiment in a Mine
Dmitry I. Garagash
Department of Civil and Resource Engineering
Dalhousie University, Halifax
(on
sabbatical leave at Harvard University)
Friday 17
February 2012, 12:00 pm
Room 100F Pierce
Hall, 29 Oxford St.
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Thermal
Pressurization of Pore
Fluid --
Mechanism for Seismic and
Aseismic
Self-healing Fault Slip
Dmitry I. Garagash
Department of Civil and Resource Engineering
Dalhousie University, Halifax
(on sabbatical leave at
Harvard University)
Thursday 1 March
2012, 2:30 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Seismology at
Active Hawaiian Volcanoes
abstract
Paul Okubo
U.S. Geological
Survey
Hawaiian
Volcano Observatory
Wednesday 7
March 2012, 2:30 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Controls on the
Earthquake Source
and the Ongoing Controversy
of Earthquake Self-Similarity
Rachel E. Abercrombie
Department of Earth Sciences
Boston University
Tuesday 20 March
2012, 1:30 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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From Stable to Destructive: How
Creeping Fault Segments Can
Join Earthquakes and Implications
for Seismic Hazard
Nadia Lapusta
Divisions of Geological and Planetary Sciences and
of Engineering and Applied
Science, Caltech
Thursday 5 April
2012, 2:30 pm
4th Floor
Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Fractal Morphology of the
Roughness of Fault Surfaces
Franois Renard
Institut des Sciences de la Terre, University of Grenoble I,
and Physics of Geologic Processes, University of Oslo
Friday 8 June 2012, 2:30 pm
4th Floor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Ab Initio Lower
Mantle Model
abstract
Taku Tsuchiya
Geodynamics Research Center
Ehime University, Japan
Tuesday 11
December 2012, 12:00 pm
(NOTE: This s a
change from the originally announced date)
4th Floor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Jointly
announced as EPS BiSEPP Seminar
Is the earthquake rupture
process self-similar
between km- and cm- scale (Mw – 5 to 4)?
Experiences from induced
seismicity, volcanic-
hybrid seismic events and laboratory experiments
Grzegorz Kwiatek
GFZ German Research Centre
for Geosciences
Potsdam, Germany
Wednesday, April
24, 2013, 12:00 p.m.
Room
204 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
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Rheology of
the Lower Crust –
Laboratory Data and Field
Observations
Georg
Dresen
GFZ German Research Centre
for Geosciences
Potsdam, Germany, and
University of Potsdam
(Visiting,
Earth Resources Laboratory, MIT)
Friday May 31,
2013, 2:00 p.m.
4th Floor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Global Tomography of Seismic
Anisotropy
and Geophysical Interpretations
Jean-Paul Montagner
Laboratoire de Sismologie
Institut de Physique du Globe de
Paris,
Universit Paris-Diderot, I.U.F.,
Paris
Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 2:00 p.m.
Room 204 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
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Jointly announced as a ClimaTea Seminar
Experimental
constraints on the flow
of ice: From Greenland to
Ganymede
David L. Goldsby
Department of Geological
Sciences
Brown University,
Providence, RI
Thursday, 29
August 2013, 1:30 pm
Faculty Lounge,
4th Floor, Hoffman Lab, 20 Oxford Street
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Earthquake surface ruptures as a
tool to get
insights into earthquake
behavior and fault
segmentation
Yann Klinger
Laboratoire Tectonique, Institut
de Physique du
Globe, Paris
(speaker in EPS Dept. Colloq. on previous day)
Tuesday, 24
September 2013, 1:15 pm
Faculty Lounge,
4th Floor, Hoffman Lab, 20 Oxford Street
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Temporal clustering of tsunami sources
Eric L. Geist
U.S. Geological Survey,
Menlo Park, California
Tuesday, 1
October 2013, 1:15 pm
Faculty Lounge,
4th Floor, Hoffman Lab, 20 Oxford Street
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Variations in
off-fault damage and hydraulic
properties induced by earthquake
rupture
Tom Mitchell
Department of Earth Sciences
University College London,
UK
Tuesday, 22
October 2013, 1:15 pm
Faculty Lounge,
4th Floor, Hoffman Lab, 20 Oxford Street
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The Role of
Fluids on the Brittle-
Ductile
Transition in the Crust
Greg Hirth
Department of Geological
Sciences
Brown University
Monday, 25
November 2013, 2:30 pm
Faculty Lounge,
4th Floor, Hoffman Lab, 20 Oxford Street
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Monitoring and Locating Changes in
the Elastic Properties
of the Crust with
Ambient Seismic Noise Interferometry
Anne Obermann
Institut
des Sciences de la Terre
Grenoble, France
Thursday, 5 December 2013, 2:00 p.m.
Room 204 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street
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Localised and
Distributed Deformation
in the Crust
and Lithosphere
Geoffrey C. P. King
Laboratoire Tectonique
Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris
1:15 p.m. Tuesday 4 February 2014
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Crustal Seismic Velocity Changes
Associated
with Earthquakes
and Slow Slip Events:
Indications for a
Widespread Non-elastic
Short-term
Response of the Crust?
Michel Campillo
Institut des Sciences de la Terre
Grenoble, France
1:15
p.m. Thursday 6 February 2014
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Reproducing the
2002 Denali, Alaska
Earthquake in
the Laboratory
Harsha S. Bhat
Laboratoire Tectonique
Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris
1:15
p.m. Tuesday 11 February 2014
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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(Jointly announced as a SEAS
Applied Mechanics Colloquium)
Mechanics of
Hydraulic Fracturing
and Related Seismicity
(opening
presentation for series of Applied Mechanics Colloquia,
continuing over subsequent weeks, on hydraulic
fracture issues)
Dmitry I. Garagash
Civil and Resource Engineering
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
4:00
p.m. Wednesday 12 February 2014
209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St.
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(Jointly announced as a SEAS
Applied Mechanics Colloquium)
Geology Rules:
Unconventional Development
of Oil/Gas from Shale Formations
Anthony R. Ingraffea
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1:15
p.m. Tuesday 18 February 2014
Haller Hall (room 102 of Geological
Museum), 24 Oxford St.
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(Jointly announced as a SEAS
Applied Mechanics Colloquium)
Science and
Technology of
Unconventional
Fossil Fuel Production
Robert L. Kleinberg
Schlumberger
Cambridge, MA
4:00
p.m. Wednesday 19 February 2014
209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St.
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(Jointly announced as a SEAS
Applied Mechanics Colloquium)
Gas-driven Fracturing – Influence
of Gas Composition and State
Derek Elsworth
Energy and Mineral Engineering and Geosciences
Pennsylvania State University
4:00
p.m. Wednesday 26 February 2014
209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St.
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(Jointly announced as a SEAS
Applied Mechanics Colloquium)
Mixing water and
faults: the changing
patterns of
seismicity in stable North America
William D. Ellsworth
Earthquake Hazards
US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
4:00
p.m. Wednesday 5 March 2014
209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St.
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(Jointly announced as a SEAS
Applied Mechanics Colloquium)
Complex fluid and proppant
placement in
the hydraulic
fracturing of oil and gas wells
Brice Lecampion
Schlumberger, Paris
4:00
p.m. Wednesday 26 March 2014
209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St.
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(Jointly announced as a SEAS
Applied Mechanics Colloquium)
Geosciences Inspiring Engineering: What
Dyke
Swarms Teach us
about Hydraulic Fracturing
Andrew P. Bunger
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Pittsburg
4:00
p.m. Wednesday 2 April 2014
209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St.
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Brittle
faults are weak, yet the ductile middle crust
is strong:
Implications for lithospheric mechanics
Whitney Behr
Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School
of
Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
1:15 p.m. Tuesday 1
July 2014
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Dynamic Rupture Processes during
Stick-slip
Experiments in Westerly Granite
Franois X. Passelgue
Laboratoire
de Gologie
Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris
1:15 p.m. Monday 25
August 2014
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Reflections
off Upper Mantle Seismic Discontinuities:
What
do they tell us about the Mantle?
Christine Thomas
Institute of Geophysics
University of Mnster
1:15 p.m. Tuesday 23
September 2014
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Liquefaction
Susceptibility of Engineering
Sites:
Studying Earthquake-Induced
Pore
Pressure Evolution
Sandy Seale
Earth Research Institute
University of California Santa Barbara
1:15 p.m. Tuesday 4
November 2014
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St.
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Long-term observation of submarinelandslide on the surface of the sliding mass
Yoshio Fukao
Institute for Research on Earth Evolution (IFREE),
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology,
University of Tokyo
1:15 p.m. Tuesday 24
March 2015
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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The Deep Structure and Evolution
of the Red Sea and Afar
Walter Mooney
U. S. Geological Survey Earthquake Science
Center
Menlo Park, California
Monday (not the usual day!), 30 March 2015, 1:30 pm
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Layers, Ripples and Channels: Shocks
and Surprises
with Ice-Ocean Interaction
Andrew Wells
Atmospheric, Oceanic &
Planetary Physics
Oxford University
Tuesday 28 July 2015, 1:15 pm
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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First Principles Investigation of the
Hydrous Phases in the Earths Interior
Jun Tsuchiya
Geodynamics Research Center
Ehime University, Japan
Wednesday 29
July 2015, 1:15 pm
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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On the Rupture Dynamics of
Shallow Dip-Slip Earthquakes
Koji Uenishi
Department of Aeronautics
and Astronautics
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Friday 31
July 2015, 1:15 pm
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Modeling the Migration
of Ice Stream Margins
Marianne Haseloff
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Princeton University
Friday 7
August 2015, 1:15 pm
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Friction is Fracture (sort
of)
Jay Fineberg
Racah
Institute of Physics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tuesday 11 August 2015, 1:15 pm
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Is Fault Geometry Importantfor Earthquake Mechanics?
Amir Sagy
The Geological Survey of
Israel
Tuesday 8 December 2015, 2:30 pm (not the usual time!)
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Okhotsk 2013 and Bonin 2015:
Surprises from recent large deep
earthquakes
Emile A. Okal
Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences
Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois
Tuesday 26 January 2016, 1:00 pm
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Earthquake Early Warning
in Japan and
Improvements after the
Tohoku Earthquake
Masumi Yamada
Disaster Prevention Research
Institute
Kyoto University, Japan
Tuesday 16 February 2016, 1:00 pm
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Understanding Sea Level Rise
from Antarctica
and Greenland
Victor C. Tsai
Seismological Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Friday 29 April 2016, 2:00 pm
EPS Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Hoffman
Laboratory, 20 Oxford St
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Passive Imaging Beyond
Surface Wave Tomography
Michel Campillo
Universit
Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
(and visiting professor at
MIT)
Tuesday 24 May 2016, 2:00 pm
Room 209 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge
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Shake and Sink: Liquefaction
Without Pressurization
Einat Aharonov
Institute of Earth Sciences
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Friday 26 August 2016, 2:30 pm
Hoffman Lab, 4th Floor Faculty Lounge, 20
Oxford Street
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Probing Sources and Structure with
Multi-Station and Multi-Array Techniques
Brian Kennett
Research School of Earth Sciences
Australian National University
Thursday 15 September 2016, 1:00 pm
Hoffman Lab, 4th Floor Faculty Lounge, 20
Oxford Street
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Permeability that Changes over Times
Emily
E. Brodsky
University of California, Santa Cruz
Thurs. 20 October 2016, 1:00 pm
Room 310 Geological Museum, 26 Oxford
Street
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Constraints on the evolution of oceanic
lithosphere from
surface wave tomography
Zhitu Ma
Dept. of Earth, Environmental
and
Planetary Sciences,
Brown University
Thurs. 3 November 2016, 1:00 pm
Room 310 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford
Street
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Watching a
Volcano as It Stirs
Paul Okubo
United States Geological Survey
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Wednesday 18 January 2017, 2:00 pm
4thFloor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Lab, 20
Oxford Street
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Estimating the Locations of Past and
Future
Large Earthquake Ruptures in California
using Recent M4
Events
John E. Ebel
Weston Observatory
Department
of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Boston College
Wednesday 25 January 2017, 1:30 pm
Room 310 Geological Museum, 24 Oxford
Street
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Complex Spatiotemporal Evolution of
Seismicity
and Source
Parameters of the 2008 Mw 4.9 Mogul
Earthquake Swarm in Reno, Nevada
Christine J. Ruhl
UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday 15 February 2017, 1:45 pm
4thFloor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Lab, 20
Oxford Street
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JFAST Project - Drilling to
the Fault Zone
of the
2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake
Jim Mori
Disaster Prevention Research Institute
Kyoto University
Monday 27 March 2017, 2:00 pm
4thFloor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Lab, 20
Oxford Street
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Fast Computation of Elastodynamic Half-space
Greens Function using the Equipartition Theorem
Francisco J (Paco)
Snchez-Sesma
Institute of Engineering, UNAM
Universidad
Nacional Autnoma de Mxico
Thursday 18 May 2017, 1:00 pm
4thFloor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Lab, 20
Oxford Street
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Geodetic Constraints on Slow Slip in Parkfield, CA
Brent G. Delbridge
Berkeley Seismological
Laboratory
Department of Earth and Planetary
Science
UC Berkeley
Monday 22 May 2017, 1:00 pm
Room 309 Cruft
Lab, 19A Oxford Street
(see abstract for directions)
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Bayesian Moment Tensor Inversion for
Repeating Earthquakes – From Induced
Seismicity to Pico-seismicity (Acoustic Emission)
Chen
Gu
Earth Resources Laboratory, Department of
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, MIT
Thursday 2 November 2017, 1:30 pm
4thFloor Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Lab, 20
Oxford Street
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