QUAKE Seminar
Winter 2010 Schedule
This quarter's topic: Triggering seismicity.
Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m., Mitchell 350
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| Date | Leader | Topic and papers | Download | ||
| 1. | 6 Jan. | Organizational meeting | |||
| Dan Sinnett | A principal component analysis of Hawaiian volcanoes deformation | ||||
| 2. | 13 Jan. | Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes | |||
| Justin Brown | King & others (1994) Static stress changes and the triggering of earthquakes |  |
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| Mallman & Zoback (2007) Assessing elastic Coulomb stress transfer models using seismicity rates in southern California and southwestern Japan | |
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| 3. | 20 Jan. | Dynamic triggering, with an additional discussion of the recent Haiti earthquake | |||
| Angie Chung | Hill & others (1993) Seismicity remotely triggered by the magnitude 7.3 Landers, California, earthquake | |
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| Gomberg & others (2001) Earthquake triggering by seismic waves following the Landers and Hector Mine earthquakes | |
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| group | Manaker & others (2008) Interseismic Plate coupling and strain partitioning in the Northeastern Caribbean | |
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| 4. | 27 Jan. | Triggering by aftershocks (the hypothesis of Felzer & others) | |||
| Dan Sinnett | Felzer & others (2002) Triggering of the 1999 MW 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake by aftershocks of the 1992 MW 7.3 Landers earthquake | |
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| 5. | 3 Feb. | Tidal triggering | |||
| Ana Aguiar | Vidale & others (1998) Absence of earthquake correlation with Earth tides: An indication of high preseismic fault stress rate | |
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| Cochran & others (2004) Earth tides can trigger shallow thrust earthquakes | |
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| ALL | Felzer & Brodsky (2006) Decay of aftershock density with distance indicates triggering by dynamic stress | |
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| 6. | 10 Feb. | Ross Stein's perspective on the hypothesis of Felzer & Brodsky (2006) | |||
| Ross Stein | Felzer & Brodsky (2006) Decay of aftershock density with distance indicates triggering by dynamic stress | |
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| Gomberg & Felzer (2008) A model of earthquake triggering probabilities and application to dynamic deformations constrained by ground motion observations | |
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| 7. | 17 Feb. | Epidemic-type aftershock sequences (ETAS) | |||
| Owen Hurd | Guo & Ogata (1997) Statistical relations between the parameters of aftershocks in time, space, and magnitude | |
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| Helmstetter & others (2005) Importance of small earthquakes for stress transfers and earthquake triggering | |
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| 8. | 24 Feb. | Time dependent ETAS | |||
| Noel Bartlow | Llenos & others (2009) Modeling seismic swarms triggered by aseismic transients | |
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| 9. | 3 March | Laboratory studies of friction under oscillatory loading | |||
| Stuart Schmitt | Beeler & Lockner (2003) Why earthquakes correlate weakly with the solid Earth tides: Effects of periodic stress on the rate and probability of earthquake occurrence | |
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| 10. | 10 March | Discrete, interacting rate/state faults in an aftershock sequence | |||
| Annemarie Baltay | Ziv & Rubin (2003) Implications of rate-and-state friction for properties of aftershock sequence: Quasi-static inherently discrete simulations | |
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