SCEC Research: 1997 Progress Reports

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1997 Progress Reports

Listed below are all funded research projects for 1997. If your research is listed below, and is not linked to an online version, please e-mail the report in text format to benthien@usc.edu, and attach figures in gif or jpeg format, no larger than 500 pixels wide.

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The progress reports published on these web pages were submitted by individual scientists funded by the Southern California Earthquake Center. The reports represent the views of the listed authors only. The reports have not been reviewed by the Southern California Earthquake Center or any other agency for accuracy, scientific content, or policy implications. The reports should be considered preliminary. Contents of these reports should not be reprinted or published without the express written permission of the authors.

Abinante, M. and Knopoff, L.	Model of Dynamic Fractures in a Continuum	G A
Abrahamson, N.	Uncertainty in Recurrence parameters	A
Anderson, G., Johnson, H., and Agnew, D.	Fault-Zone Interaction: A Study of the San Jacinto Fault	E
Anderson, J., Su, F., Zeng, Y., Lee, Y., Ni, S.	High Frequency Gound Motion Regression and Simulation	B
Archuleta, R.	Borehole Instrumentation Initiative	B
Archuleta, R.	Portable Broadband Instrument Center (PBIC)	I
Archuleta, R. and Olsen, K.	Long-Period Ground Motion in Southern California from 3-D Earthquake Simulations	B
Archuleta, R., Tumarkin, A., Lindley, G., and Tumarkin, A.	SCEC Strong-Motion Database SMDB and Empirical Green's Functions Library EGFL	I
Arrowsmith, R. and Rhodes, D.	Historic and paleoseismic behavior of the south-central San Andreas Fault between Cholame and the Carrizo Plain	C
Ben-Zion, Y.	Quantitative Analysis of Trade-Offs Between Model Parameters Governing Seismic Fault Zone Waves	D
Ben-Zion, Y.	Coupled Self-Organization of Seismicity Patterns and Networks of Faults, and Basis for Evaluating Seismic Risk and Precursors	G
Bock, Y., Dean, J., Fang, P., Jamason, P., Medina, M., Roelle, C., and Williams, S.,	Southern California Integrated GPS Network (SCIGN)/ Permanent GPS Geodetic Array (PGGA)	E
Clayton, R., Eisner, L.	Using Reciprical Green's Functions to Model Strong Ground Motions	B D
Clayton, R.	Analysies of the Onshore-Offshore Data from LARSE Lines 1 and 2	D
Clayton, R.	Analyses of the Explosion Data form LARSE Line 1	D
Cornell, A.	Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis and Communications Tools	A
Davis, P. and Persh, S.	Management of LARSE (UCLA) and Stress Analysis	D
Davis, P., Hong, L., Gao, S., Kohler, M.	Analysis of Northridge Aftershock Amplitudes and Damage	B
Day, S. and Harris, R.	Dynamic Modeling of Earthquakes on Inhomogeneous Faults	G
Day, S. and Magistrale, H.	Effects of Low-Velocity Near-Surface Sediments on Long Period Basin Response	B
Dolan, J.	Paleoseismology, Slip Rates, and Kinematics of the Raymond Fault, San Gabriel Valley	C
Dolan, J. and Weaver, K.	Paleoseismology and Slip Rate of the Easternmost Sierra Madre Fault, Claremont, California	C
Dong, D.	Optimal Separation of Coseismic and Post seismic Deformation from Secular Tectonic Motion	E, A, D
Duebendorfer,E. and Vermilye, J.	Evidence for aseismic deformation in the western Transverse Ranges, southern California: Implications for seismic risk assessment	C
Field, E.	Phase III Summary, PSHA Source Model, and Ground Motion Simulation Comparisons	A,B
Foxall, B.	Uncertainty in Earthquake Source Characterization for the Los Angeles Basin
Gath, E.	Cooperative Research into the Neotectonic Uplift of the San Joaquin Hills Based on Marine Terrace Chronology, Orange County, California	C
Grant, L.	Neotectonics and Earthquake Potential of the San Joaquin Hills, Orange County, California	C
Graves, R., Wald, D.	Analysis of Long Period Ground Motion Variability Related to Uncertainty in the Los Angeles Region 3D Velocity Model	B and D
Hafner, K., and Clayton, R.	SCEC Data Center Operations	I
Hafner, K., Marquis, J., and Hauksson, E.,	Earthquake Web Module	I
Hager, B.	Continuum Mechanics Models of Blind Thrusts in the LA Basin	E
Hardebeck, J., Deng, J., and Hauksson, E.	Tectonic Stress and Earthquake Hazards	D
Hauksson, E.	3-D Velocity Models and Focal Mechanisms	D
Hauksson, E., Kanamori, H., and Maechling, P.	Enhancement of TERRAscope	I
Herring, T., King, R., and McCluskey, S.	Geodetic Constraints on Interseismic, Coseismic, and Postseismic Deformation in Southern California	E
Hitchcock, C., and Lettis, W.	Paleoseismic Investigation of the Simi fault at Arroyo Simi, Simi Valley, Ventura County, California	C
Huftile, G., Lindvall, S., Anderson, L., Gurrola, L., and Tucker, M.	Paleoseismic Investigation of the Red Mountain Fault: Analysis and Trenching of the Punta Gorda Terrace	C
Humphreys, G., Hearn, L., and Palmer, R.	Post-seismic Stress Evolution in California's Visco-elastic Crust Southern California Kinematics and Dynamics	A
Jackson, D.	Management and Public Relations	I
Jackson, D., Kagan, Y., Ge, B., and Potter, D.	Seismic Hazard Estimation	A
Johnson, H.	Extremal Modeling of Geodetic Velocities	E
Johnson, H., Agnew, D., and Anderson, G.	GPS Infrastructure: Data Archiving	I
Kagan, Y., Jackson, D., and Shen, Z.	Influence of Stress on Future Earthquakes	A
Kanamori, H.	Initiation of Earthquake Rupture	D
Keller, E. and Gurrola, L.	Earthquake Hazard of the Santa Barbara Fold Belt, California	C
Kellogg, L.	Determination of a regional velocity map near the Big Bend segment of the San Andreas fault, Tejon Pass, southern California	E
Kelson, K. and Baldwin, J.	Paleoseismic Characterization of the Northridge Hills Fault at Northridge Park, San Fernando Valley	C
King, B., Herring, T., and McClusky, S.	Support for GPS Analysis	E
Knopoff, L.	Healing of Fractures: A Model for Precursory Seismicity	G
Knopoff, L.	Model of the Southern California Fault Network	G
Kohler, M., and Davis, P.	Integration and Analysis of LARSE Passive and Active Data	D
Li, Y.G., Aki, K., and Vidale, J.	A Systematic Analysis of Fault-Zone Guided Wave Data Recorded at Landers, California from Earthquakes and Explosions``	D
Lindvall, S.	Paleoseismic Investigations of the Western Sierra Madre Fault Zone	C
Lindvall, S.	Paleoseismic Studies of the San Andreas Fault	C
Magistrale, H.	Integrated Los Angeles Area Velocity Model	D
Magistrale, H., and Day, S.	Path Dependent Short Period Focusing in the Southern California Crust	D
Magistrale, H., Day, S., and McLaughlin, K.	3D Simulation of Long Period Ground Motion In L.A. Basin	B
Mahdyiar, M.	Probablistic Seismic Hazard Analysis of Southern California	A
McGill, S.	Paleoseismic Studies of the San Andreas Fault in the San Bernardino Area	C
Minster, J., and Sammis, C	Testing Hypotheses Related to Intermediate-Term Earthquake Prediction Algorithms	A
Mueller, K.	Structural and Geomorphic Analysis of Active Folding and Blind Thrusting in the San Joaquin Hills	C
Mueller, K., Champion, J., and Bielecki, A.	Structural Analysis of Active Blind Thrusts and Folds in East Los Angeles	C
Okaya, D., Henyey, T.	Crustal Setting of the Northridge Earthquake: Analysis of the LARSE Malibu-Northridge-West Mojave Transect	D
Olsen, K.	Participation in the 3-D Model Verification Study	A,B
Olsen, K.	3-D Elastic Finite-Difference Simulation of a Dynamic Rupture	G
Rice, J.	Elastodynamic Simulations of Rupture Propagation and Earthquake Sequences along Complex Fault Systems	G, c,b,a
Rice, J.	New Methodology in Computational Seismology for Dynamic Rupture along Complex Fault Systems	G, c,b,a
Rockwell, T.	Paleoseismic and Soil Geomorphic Studies Along the Sierra Madre and San Fernando Faults	C
Rockwell, T., Lindvall, S., and Dawson, T.	Paleoseismic Studies of the San Andreas Fault	C
Rubin, C.	Post-Processing Software and Graphical User Interface for Reducing Total Station Data	C
Rubin, C., Lindvall, S., and Rockwell, T.	Synthesis, Compilation, and Publication of Paleoseismic Data: Sierra Madre fault, California	C
Saikia, C.	Broadband Time Histories Due to Hypothesized Earthquake on the Santa Monica Fualt System Including Basin Effects	B
Sammis, C. and Sornette, D.	Gouge Turbulence: A Possible Structural Signature of Low Friction	G,C
Seeber, L., and Armbruster, J.	Earthquakes, Faults, and Stress in South California	A,D,C,G
Shearer, P.	Precision Relocation of Los Angeles Region Seismicity	D
Shen, Z., Ge, X., Potter, D., and Jackson, D.	Landers Post-Earthquake GPS Survey	E
Shen, Z., Kong, X., and Jackson, D.	Finite Element Strain Modeling	E
Sieh, K.	Completion of Landers Surface-Fault Database	C
Sieh, K. and Oskin, M.	Characterization of Active Faults in East Los Angeles	C
Silva, W.	SCEC Scenario Earthquake Time History Simulation	B
Song, X., Helmberger, D.	Pseudo Green's Functions And Waveform Tomography
Spotilla, J and Sieh, K.	Characterizing Seismogenic Sources Associated with Uplift of the San Bernardino Mountains	C
Steidl, J. and Archuleta, R.	SCEC Borehole Instrumentation Initiative	B
Steidl, J. and Tumarkin, A.	Site Response: Completion of Phase III and Beyond	A, B
Stock. J.	Temporal and Spatial Variations in the Observed Shallow Stress Field of Southern California	D
Sung, L., Shen, Z., and Jackson, D.	Crustal Deformation Velocity Map	E
Sykes, L. and Deng, J.	Development of a Physical Model of Stresses in Southern California	A
Tumarkin, A., Archuleta, R.	Integrated Approach to Time Histories Prediction	B
Vucetic, M.	Densification of the SCEC Geotechnical Data Base and Its Integration with a Nonlinear Site Response Model in a GIS Environment	B
Ward, S.	Multidisciplinary Approaches toward the Master Model	A
Weldon, R.	Characterization of the San Andreas Fault Paleoseismic Events at Wrightwood and Pitman Canyon	C
Wesnousky, S.	Comparison and Evaluation of Seismic Hazard Models	A
Wyatt, F., and Agnew, D.	Pinon Flat Observatory: Continuous Monitoring of Crustal Deformation	I
Yeats, R. and Goldfinger, C.	Pre-Upper Miocence structure of the Western Los Angeles Basin: Implications for Strong Ground Motion	D
Sieh, K. and Yule, D.	Neotectonic and Paleoseismic Investigation of the San Andreas Fault System, San Gorgonio Pass	C
Zeng, Y. and Anderson, J.	Simulation of Ground Motion in the Los Angles Basin	B

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