Multiple Announcements: Submit to Geosphere Issue, AGU 19 Sessions

Dear SCEC Community,

Please see below for the following announcements:

1. Submit to Geosphere’s themed issue on Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass region
2. Call for Submissions, AGU session S021 - How do earthquakes start?
3. Call for Submissions, AGU session NH030. National Seismic Hazard Model: advances, challenges and issues, state-of-the-art and perspectives
4. Call for Submissions, ED046 Scientists, Artists and the Earth: Co-operating for the Planet

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1. Submit to Geosphere’s themed issue on Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass region:
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The Geosphere themed issue on the Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass region will remain open for submission of new papers until early January 2020. The call for Papers is appended below and can be found here:

When ready, you can submit your manuscripts using this link at Geosphere. When you submit your paper, note in the cover letter that you are submitting to the themed issue on the Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass region. This will insure that the paper is routed appropriately.

cheers,
-MIchele Cooke, Doug Yule and David Oglesby

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Seismotectonics of the San Andreas Fault System in the San Gorgonio Pass region
The San Gorgonio Pass region is the most geometrically complex part of the San Andreas fault system, and may serve as both a barrier and an initiation point for devastating earthquakes. Over the past 5 years, the San Gorgonio Pass was a site of focused investigation (a Special Fault Study Area, or SFSA) for researchers in the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) with support from their various organizations and institutions. This special issue invites contributions from seismologists, geophysicists, geologists, crustal deformation modelers, geodesists and dynamic rupture modelers that endeavor to better understand the rupture potential though the geometric complexities in this region. For example, recent evidence suggests that slip may be partitioned among several sub-parallel active strands (though debate continues on this issue) and that 1 out of 4 San Andreas events initiate within, or rupture though the pass. These and other insights emerging from the collective focussed study of the San Gorgonio pass region may inform many other regions that also host fault complexity.

2. Call for Submissions, AGU session S021 - How do earthquakes start?
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Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the following session organized by the Seismology section at the upcoming 2019 AGU Fall Meeting. The deadline for abstract submissions for this year's meeting is Wednesday, July 31 at 23:59 EDT.

S021 - How do earthquakes start?

Session Description:
While a number of physical processes and properties, such as fault frictional/structural heterogeneity, the presence of fluids, thermal effects, aseismic deformation, as well as static and dynamic stress changes, have been proposed to play a role in the nucleation and triggering of earthquakes, their relative significance and relevant spatial and temporal scales remain uncertain. We welcome experimental, theoretical and observational studies that explore and provide constraints on the mechanisms and conditions that are critical for understanding how ruptures begin, including but not limited to the following questions: (1) To what degree and at what spatio-temporal scales does heterogeneity impact nucleation? (2) Under what conditions do fluids induce unstable slip? (3) What role do static/dynamic stress changes play in promoting seismicity? (4) What is the relationship between aseismic deformation and earthquake nucleation? (5) Why do some ruptures accelerate and become large dynamic events while others remain small or aseismic?

Conveners:
Valère Lambert, California Institute of Technology
Yihe Huang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Thomas Goebel, University of California, Santa Cruz
Zach Ross, California Institute of Technology

3. Call for Submissions, AGU session NH030. National Seismic Hazard Model: advances, challenges and issues, state-of-the-art and perspectives:
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Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to join the session
NH030. National Seismic Hazard Model: advances, challenges and issues, state-of-the-art and perspectives
at the next AGU Fall meeting (Dec. 9-13, San Francisco)

Several probabilistic seismic hazard models at national and transnational scale have been issued recently (Australia, California, Italy, Switzerland, Europe and world), and the release of updated versions of prominent models is due soon (e.g. USA, Canada). The construction of these models faced the challenge of integrating data of different kinds, modelling uncertainties, checking the consistency and forecasting performance of the models, calculating a wide set of products to satisfy the needs of different stakeholders. The aim of this session is to gather contributions illustrating the most recent efforts in this field. Topics include, but are not limited to: national, regional and continental seismic hazard models; empirical and physical ground motion models; testing of hazard and forecast models; innovative modeling, which include physics-based and artificial intelligence, with application to seismic hazard analysis; seismic hazard modeling that includes foreshocks and aftershocks; improvements in modelling products that are more useful to stakeholders.

The deadline for all submissions is Wednesday, 31 July at 23:59 EDT.

Looking forward!
Warner Marzocchi, Laurentiu Danciu, Matt Gerstenberger, Marco Pagani

4. Call for Submissions, ED046 Scientists, Artists and the Earth: Co-operating for the Planet:
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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We invite you to submit an abstract to the Earth Sciences and Art session that we are organizing at the next AGU (American Geophysical Union) (San Francisco 9-13 Dec 2019)

for more details about the conference visit here: https://www2.agu.org/fall-meeting

Please note that the deadline for abstract submission 31 July 2019 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT.

Our session:

session n. ED046

Scientists, Artists and the Earth: Co-operating for the Planet

Climate change, pollution, desertification, natural hazard, animal extinction are some of the challenges we face everyday. Very often Science is charged of the solutions while Art is intended mainly for entertainment. A community of scientists and artists is growing to drive people attention on the impelling problems demanding urgent solutions. Art involves people emotionally; it represents a valid tool for cognitive learning; it can help to convey messages and values for reawakening the sense of beauty and responsibility for the planet. The precious cooperation between the two facilitates the identification of more effective methods to involve people into a deep knowledge of the Earth while educating them to a sustainable life-style. If you are using any form of Art in this sense or investigating how Art meets Earth sciences issues, then join the session. As an immediate experiment of the emotional involvement of the public, we encourage performative presentation.

submit here:

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/82281

and follow the guidelines here:
https://www2.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/Pages/Submit-an-abstract/

We would like to hear about the work that you are doing and encourage you to submit your abstracts.

Best regards,

Tiziana Lanza, George Sand Franca, Francesco Mugnai, Giuliana D’A

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