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Seismology: 2005 Projects

Projects associated with Seismology:

Title and Principal Investigators
Annual Report
Continued Examination of the Scaling of Rupture Velocity from Small to Large Earthquakes  (McGuire, Jeff)
McGuire_05015_report.pdf
(768 KB)

Rapid Response to the 2004 September 28 M6 Parkfield Earthquake: Study of the Spatio-Temporal Variations of Damage on the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield.  (Li, Yong-Gang)
Li_05039_report.pdf
(2.1 MB)

The Transition from Mainshock to Aftershocks from Continous Recordings of Moderate Earthquakes in Southern California  (Vidale, John)
Vidale_05044_report.pdf
(376 KB)

Regional Scale Event Relocation in Northern and Southern California: A Comparison of Performance and Results  (Waldhauser, Felix and Schaff, David)
Waldhauser_05051_report.pdf
(8.4 MB)

Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) Operations  (Clayton, Robert and Appel, Vikki)
Clayton_05110_report.pdf
(364 KB)

Imaging Structure with Scattered Waves  (Clayton, Robert)
None
Spatial Variation of CODA Q and Amplification from Network Data for Stochastic Ground Motion  (Davis, Paul)
Davis_05157_report.pdf
(892 KB)

SCEC Borehole Instrumentation Program  (Steidl, Jamison)
Steidl_05162_report.pdf
(4.5 MB)

SCEC Portable Broadband Instrument Center  (Steidl, Jamison)
Steidl_05163_report.pdf
(1.2 MB)

Extensions to the Online Database of Finite-Source Rupture Models  (Mai, Paul Martin and )
Mai_05014_report.pdf
(216 KB)

Improving S-wave Velocity in the SCEC Community Velocity Model by Teleseismic Broadband Data  (Tanimoto, Toshiro)
Tanimoto_05020_report.pdf
(2.9 MB)

Earthquake probabilities based on clustering and stress interactions  (Kagan, Yan and others)
Kagan_05022_report.pdf
(788 KB)

Multifractal Stress Activation Model  (Sornette, Didier)
None
Analysis of P and S Spectra from Southern California Seismograms for Earthquake Source Properties and Attenuation Structure  (Shearer, Peter and Hauksson, Egill)
Shearer_05034_report.pdf
(2.5 MB)

Site-Condition Measurements at Precariously Balanced Rocks Constraining Ruptures on the Elsinore and San Jacinto Faults  (Louie, John and others)
Louie_05046_report.pdf
(1.3 MB)

Analysis of P and S Spectra from Southern California Seismograms for Earthquake Source Properties and Attenuation Structure  (Shearer, Peter and Hauksson, Egill)
Shearer_05070_report.pdf
(2.5 MB)

Tomographic Imaging of Southern California Mantle: Applying Modern Methods  (Humphreys, Eugene)
Humphreys_05071_report.pdf
(452 KB)

Improving 3D Velocity Models and Catalogs: Reliability of Hypocenters and 3D Vp and Vp/Vs Models  (Hauksson, Egill)
Hauksson_05105_report.pdf
(272 KB)

Active-fault structure of the northern Los Angeles basin  (Fuis, Gary and Catchings, Rufus)
Fuis_05122_report.pdf
(160 KB)

Developing and implementing waveform modeling based ground motion models for OpenSHA  (Thio, Hong Kie and Graves, Robert)
Thio_05136_report.pdf
(236 KB)

1D Rock Broadband Synthetic Ground Motion Simulation Module for OpenSHA  (Zeng, Yuehua and Su, Feng)
None
A Unified Approach to the Inversion of Waveform Data for Source and Earth Structure in Southern California  (Jordan, Thomas and others)
None
Fully Three-Dimensional, Multi-Scale Waveform Tomography for the Los Angeles Basin  (Zhao, Li and Jordan, Thomas)
Zhao_05165_report.pdf
(800 KB)

Earthquake Nucleation on Nonplanar Fault Systems  (Oglesby, David and Xu, Guanshui)
Oglesby_05012_report.pdf
(1.4 MB)

Collaborative Proposal (with Nadia Lapusta, Caltech): Supershear Rupture Dynamics  (Rice, James and Lapusta, Nadia)
Rice_05019_report.pdf
(728 KB)

Inversion of Seismic and Geodetic Data from the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake  (Archuleta, Ralph and )
Archuleta_05040_report.pdf
(1.2 MB)

Developing and Validating a Method for Prediction of Broadband Time Histories  (Liu, Pengcheng and Archuleta, Ralph)
Liu_05048_report.pdf
(996 KB)

Investigation of the Observed Difference in Ground Motion From Surface and Subsurface Fault Ruptures Based on Rupture Dynamic Simulations and Recorded Data Analyses  (Pitarka, Arben)
Pitarka_05059_report.pdf
(108 KB)

Improving Southern California Earthquake Locations and Focal Mechanisms  (Shearer, Peter)
Shearer_05066_report.pdf
(1.1 MB)

Coupling of the Random Properties of the Source and the Ground Motion for the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake  (Lavallee, Daniel)
Lavallee_05072_report.pdf
(416 KB)

Investigation of the Observed Difference in Ground Motion From Surface and Subsurface Fault Ruptures Based on Rupture Dynamic Simulations and Recorded Data Analyses  (Day, Steven)
None
T-RELM: Testing Regional Earthquake Likelihood Models in Southern California  (Wiemer, Stefan and others)
Wiemer_05082_report.pdf
(700 KB)

Inference of Crustal Rheology from Observations of Postseismic Deformation following the 2004 Parkfield, California, Earthquake  (Burgmann, Roland and Freed, Andy)
Burgmann_05089_report.pdf
(1.9 MB)

An Accurate Model of the Salton Trough in the CVM  (Magistrale, Harold)
None
Creating a Framework for Evaluating Earthquake Predictions Using Accelerating Moment Release  (Bowman, David and Jordan, Thomas)
Bowman_05109_report.pdf
(180 KB)

Broadband Simulation of Ground Motion From Large Earthquakes in the Los Angeles Area Using Stochastic and Deterministic Approaches  (Olsen, Kim)
Olsen_05111_report.pdf
(444 KB)

Workshop on: Strong Ground Seismic Motion and Building Damage  (Davis, Paul and Heaton, Thomas)
None
Analysis of spatio-temporal strain patterns associated with southern California earthquakes  (Becker, Thorsten)
Becker_05118_report.pdf
(900 KB)

Laboratory Experiments on Fault Shear Resistance Relevant to Coseismic Earthquake Slip  (Tullis, Terry and Goldsby, David )
Tullis_05119_report.pdf
(360 KB)

Developing Testable Models of Heterogeneous Crustal Stress  (Heaton, Thomas)
Heaton_05127_report.pdf
(360 KB)

Ultimate earthquake triggering: Where and why seismicity migrates along fine-scale lineations in Southern California  (Houston, Heidi)
None
The 2004 Parkfield Earthquake as the Second Reference Earthquake  (Aagaard, Brad and others)
Aagaard_05151_report.pdf
(2.1 MB)

Collaborative Proposal: Supershear Rupture Dynamics  (Rice, James and Lapusta, Nadia)
Rice_05152_report.pdf
(728 KB)

Modeling earthquake nucleation and triggering on faults with rate and state friction  (Lapusta, Nadia)
Lapusta_05160_report.pdf
(256 KB)





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