QUAKE Seminar

Spring 2011 Schedule

This quarter's topic: The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 11 March 2011

Wednesdays at 2:15 p.m., Mitchell 350

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	Date	Presenter	Title	Download
1.	30 March		Organizational meeting
2.	6 April	Tectonic setting, earthquake history, and segmentation
		Xenia Dmitrieva	Usami (2002), Historical earthquakes in Japan, 799-802
		Dan Sinnett	Ando (1975), Source mechanisms and tectonic significance of historical earthquakes along the Nankai Trough, Japan
3.	13 April	Geodesy and earthquake potential
			Suwa et al. (2006), Interplate coupling beneath NE Japan inferred from three-dimensional displacement field
			Hashimoto et al. (2009), Interplate seismogenic zones along the Kuril-Japan Trench inferred from GPS data inversion
		Noel Bartlow	Sato et al. (2011), Restoration of interplate locking after the 2005 off-Miyagi Prefecture earthquake, detected by GPS/acoustic seafloor geodetic observation
4.	20 April	Tsunami review and tsunami earthquakes
		Betsy Madden	Satake and Atwater (2007), Long-term perspectives on giant earthquakes and tsunamis at subduction zones
		Betsy Madden	Satake (2007), Tsunamis (from Treatise on Geophysics)
		Randi Walters	Kanamori (1972), Mechanism of tsunami earthquakes
5.	27 April	Strong motions, Source imaging Techniques and Results
		Kevin Seats	Ide, Beroza & McGuire Imaging earthquake source complexity
6.	4 May	Local triggering, Global triggerring, Effect on Volcanoes
		Noel Bartlow	Freed (2005), Earthquake triggering by static, dynamic, and postseismic stress transfer
			Parsons & Valesco (2011), Absence of remotely triggered large earthquakes beyond the mainshock region
7.	11 May	Foreshocks, Aftershocks and Forecasting
		Annemarie Baltay	Agnew & Jones (1991) Prediction probabilities from foreshocks
		Ana Aguiar	Reasenberg & Jones (1989), Earthquake hazard after a mainshock in California
		Ana Aguiar	Reasenberg & Jones (1994), Earthquake Aftershocks: Update
		Annemarie Baltay	Gerstenberger, Wiemer & Reasenberg (2005), Real-time forecasts of tomorrow's earthquakes
8.	18 May	Other great earthquakes (Cascadia's?)
		Stuart Schmitt	MacInnes et al. (2010), Slip Distribution of the 1952 Kamchatka Great Earthquake Based on Near-Field Tsunami Deposits and Historical Records
		Sarah Barrett	Ammon et al (2005), Process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake
			Satake et al (2003), Fault slip and seismic moment of the 1700 Cascadia earthquake inferred from Japanese tsunami descriptions
9.	25 May	Subduction mechanics (coupling and friction)
		Arjun Kohli	Pacheco , Sykes & Scholz (1993), Nature of seismic coupling along simple plate boundaries of the subduction type
			McCaffrey (1997), Statistical Significance of seismic coupling coefficient
10.	1 June	Policy, Preparedness and Response
		Owen	Thorne Lay et al. (2011), Outer trench-slope faulting and the great 2011 Tohoku (Mw 9.0) earthquake
			Hiratsuka and Sato (2011) Alteration of stress field brought about by the occurrence of the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku earthquake (Mw9.0)
			Rebuilding seismology

Ideas for future seminar themes:

• Instrumentation.
• Regional geology of interest to geophysicists, with a field trip.
• Rotational seismology.
• Physics of seismic waves in the near surface.
• Energy budget/fracture mechanics of earthquakes.
• Slow slip and tremor.
• Tsunami.

Past seminar themes:

• 2009 winter—Multi-week case studies of individual earthquakes.
• 2009 spring—Seismicity induced by changes in pore fluid pressure.
• 2009 fall—Updates about ongoing research.
• 2010 winter—Triggering seismicity.
• 2010 spring—Volcano seismicity.
• 2010 fall—Triggered/induced seismicity and associated seismic hazard.
• 2011 winter—Updates about ongoing research.