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Jean-Philippe Avouac
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
Director of Caltech Tectonics Observatory
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SCEC Participation
SCEC Board of Directors, Core Institution Member (2017 - 2021)Milliner, C., Avouac, J., Aati, S., Dolan, J. F., & Hollingsworth, J. (2023, 09). Do Faults Localize as They Mature? Insight From 17 Continental Strike-slip Surface Rupturing Events (Mw > 6.1) Measured by Optical and Radar Imaging Data.. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13258
Acosta, M., Avouac, J., Smith, J. D., Sirorattanakul, K., Kaveh, H., & Bourne, S. J. (2023, 09). Earthquake nucleation characteristics revealed by the effect of short-and-long-term stress variations on induced seismicity.. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13247
Vescu, V., Im, K., & Avouac, J. (2023, 09). The effect of thermal stress on injection-induced seismicity. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13217
Avouac, J., & Kim, T. (2023, 09). Factors Controlling the Rate and Magnitudes of Injection-Induced Earthquakes. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13189
Li, Y., Acosta, M., Sirorattanakul, K., Bourne, S., & Avouac, J. (2023, 09). InSAR Monitoring of Ground Deformation due to Subsurface Reservoir Operations at Groningen. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13147
Kaveh, H. H., Avouac, J., & Stuart, A. (2023, 09). Predictability of Extreme events in a dynamical model of earthquake cycles. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13083
Im, K., & Avouac, J. (2023, 09). Discrete Fault Network Modeling of Induced Seismicity. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12889
Avouac, J., & Kim, T. (2022, 09). Stress-Based and Convolutional Forecasting of Injection-Induced Seismicity: Application to the Helsinki Geothermal Reservoir Stimulation. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12346
Acosta, M., Smith, J. D., & Avouac, J. (2022, 09). Earthquake nucleation constrained from induced seismicity at Groningen: evidence that seasonal stress variations determine seismicity at the annual to multiannual time scale. . Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12292
Sirorattanakul, K., Ross, Z. E., Khoshmanesh, M., Cochran, E. S., Acosta, M., & Avouac, J. (2022, 09). The 2020 Westmorland, California earthquake swarm as aftershocks of a slow slip event sustained by fluid flow. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12106
Im, K., & Avouac, J. (2022, 09). Cascading Foreshocks and Aftershocks in a Discrete Fault Network. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12030
Milliner, C., Aati, S., & Avouac, J. (2022, 09). Constraining the Frictional Strength and State of Stress Along Coseismic Fault Ruptures using 3D Geodetic Imaging Data. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11951
Dal Zilio, L., Lapusta, N., Avouac, J., & Gerya, T. (2021, 08). Modeling sequences of seismic and aseismic deformation in a nonlinear viscoelastic megathrust. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11484
Im, K., & Avouac, J. (2021, 08). Tectonic Tremor as Friction-Induced Inertial Vibration. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11220
Milliner, C., Aati, S., & Avouac, J. (2021, 08). Resolving Coseismic Stresses Using 3D Geodetic Imaging Data: Examples from the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11136
Milliner, C., Avouac, J., Aati, S., Chen, R., Chiou, B., Dawson, T., Donnellan, A., & Dolan, J. F. (2021, 08). Characterizing the Deformation and Hazard of Fault Zones Using Geodetic Imaging Data. Oral Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11135
Penney, C., & Avouac, J. (2020, 08). Rheological implications of post-seismic deformation following the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10705
Dal Zilio, L., Lapusta, N., & Avouac, J. (2020, 08). Unraveling scaling properties of slow slip events in 3D simulations of fault slip. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10607
Milliner, C., Avouac, J., Chen, R., Aati, S., Chiou, B., Donnellan, A., Dawson, T., & Dolan, J. F. (2020, 08). Development of a Geodetic-based Probabilistic Fault Displacement Hazard Analysis Using Near-field Geodetic Imaging Data. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10551
Im, K., Avouac, J., Heimisson, E. R., & Elsworth, D. (2020, 08). Investigating the role of thermo-poro-elastic stresses and deformation on induced seismicity . Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10361
Chen, K., Avouac, J., AATI, S., Milliner, C., Zheng, F., & Shi, C. (2019, 08). Cascading, pulse-like ruptures during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes, East California Shear Zone. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9815
Kendrick, K. J., Akciz, S. O., Angster, S. J., Avouac, J., Bachhuber, J. L., Bennett, S. E., Blake, K., Bork, S., Brooks, B. A., Burgess, P., Chupik, C., Dawson, T., DeFrisco, M. J., Delano, J., DeLong, S., Dolan, J. F., DuRoss, C. B., Ericksen, T., Frost, E., Gold, R. D., Graehl, N. A., Haddon, E. K., Hatem, A. E., Hernandez, J. L., Hitchcock, C., Hudnut, K. W., Koehler, R. D., Kozaci, O., Ladinsky, T., Madugo, C. M., Mareschal, M., McPhillips, D., Milliner, C., Morelan, A. E., Nevitt, J., Olson, B., Padilla, S. E., Patton, J. R., Philibosian, B., Pickering, A., Pierce, I., Ponti, D. J., Pridmore, C., Rosa, C., Roth, N., Scharer, K. M., Seitz, G. G., Spangler, E., Swanson, B. J., Thomas, K., Thompson Jobe, J., Treiman, J. A., Williams, A. M., & Oskin, M. E. (2019, 08). Geologic observations of surface fault rupture associated with the Ridgecrest M6.4 and M7.1 earthquake sequence by the Ridgecrest Rupture Mapping Group. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9779
Hightower, E. J., & Avouac, J. (2019, 08). Revisiting the Earthquake Interevent Time Distribution and the Poisson Model with the QTM Catalog for Southern California. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9761
Avouac, J., Gualandi, A., Michel, S. G., & Faranda, D. (2019, 08). The Predictable Chaos of Slow Earthquakes. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9754
Dal Zilio, L., Lapusta, N., & Avouac, J. (2019, 08). Exploring slow slip events and their scaling in 3D simulations of fault slip. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9622
Im, K., & Avouac, J. (2019, 08). Thermally Induced Deformation and Seismicity. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9526
Aati, S., & Avouac, J. (2019, 08). Surface deformation of the Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquakes measured from subpixel correlation of Copernicus Sentinel-2 optical images . Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9503
Penney, C., & Avouac, J. (2019, 08). Rheological implications of post-seismic deformation following the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9454
Smith, J. D., Hadrien, M., Avouac, J., White, R. S., & Bourne, S. (2019, 08). Probabilistic forecasting of induced seismicity in the Groningen gas field. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9428
Sirorattanakul, K., Gualandi, A., & Avouac, J. (2019, 07). Imaging Slow-slip Events in Costa Rica. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9306
Avouac, J., Michel, S. G., & Gualandi, A. (2018, 08). Slow Slip Events: Earthquakes in Slow Motion. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8804
Chen, K., Smith, J., Avouac, J., Liu, Z., & Y. Tony, S. (2018, 08). Magma movement from Nāpau down to Leilani Triggered the 4th May 2018 Mw 7.0 Hawaii earthquake. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8664
Rollins, C., & Avouac, J. (2018, 08). A long-term-average estimate of earthquake likelihoods and the largest earthquake in central Los Angeles. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8314
Michel, S. G., Avouac, J., Lapusta, N., & Jiang, J. (2017, 08). Pulse-Like Partial Ruptures and High-Frequency Radiation at Creeping-Locked Transition during Megathrust Earthquakes. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7863
Ye, L., Lapusta, N., & Avouac, J. (2017, 08). Dynamic Stress Changes during the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7778
Ye, L., Kanamori, H., Lay, T., & Avouac, J. (2017, 05). Strike-slip Faulting Energy Release. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6899
Yue, H., Simons, M., Liang, C., Fattahi, H., Fielding, E. J., Kanamori, H., Helmberger, D. V., Zhu, L., Sylvain, M., & Avouac, J. (2016, 08). Kinematic Rupture Process of the 2016 Mw 7.1 Kumamoto Earthquake Sequence. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6990
Michel, S. G., Avouac, J., Jolivet, R., & Wang, L. (2016, 08). Seismic and Aseismic Moment Budget and Implication for the Seismic Potential of the Parkield Segment of the San Andreas Fault. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6694
Rollins, C., Argus, D. F., Landry, W., Barbot, S. D., & Avouac, J. (2016, 08). Strain accumulation on faults beneath Los Angeles: a geodesy-based picture accounting for the effects of sedimentary basins and anthropogenic surface deformation. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6654
Barbot, S. D., Agram, P. S., Lapusta, N., Avouac, J., & Simons, M. (2012). Geodetic Constraints on the Parkfield Seismogenic Zone: Implications for the Earthquake Prediction Experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research, (in preparation). SCEC Contribution 1586
Milliner, C., Aati, S., & Avouac, J. (2022). Fault Friction Derived From Fault Bend Influence on Coseismic Slip During the 2019 Ridgecrest Mw 7.1 Mainshock. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(11). doi: 10.1029/2022JB024519. SCEC Contribution 11829
Aati, S., Milliner, C., & Avouac, J. (2022). A new approach for 2-D and 3-D precise measurements of ground deformation from optimized registration and correlation of optical images and ICA-based filtering of image geometry artifacts. Remote Sensing of Environment, 277. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2022.113038. SCEC Contribution 11828
Im, K., Avouac, J., Heimisson, E. R., & Elsworth, D. (2021). Ridgecrest aftershocks at Coso suppressed by thermal destressing. Nature, 595(7865), 70-74. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03601-4. SCEC Contribution 11029
Ponti, D. J., Morelan, A. E., Padilla, S. E., Oskin, M. E., Olson, B., O'Neal, M., Nevitt, J. M., Nale, S., Mongovin, D. D., Philibosian, B., Milliner, C., McPhillips, D., McDonald, J., Mareschal, M., Madugo, C. M., Leeper, R. J., Ladinsky, T., patton, j. R., Pierce, I., Koehler, R. D., Jobe, J., Zimmerman, J., Zachariasen, J., Xu, X., Williams, A. M., Vanderwal, J., Valencia, F. N., Treiman, J. A., Swanson, B. J., Pridmore, C., Spangler, E., Smith-Konter, B. R., Singleton, D. M., Seitz, G. G., Scharer, K. M., Sandwell, D. T., Roth, N., Kozaci, O., Kendrick, K. J., Blair, J., Barth, N. C., Burgess, P., Bullard, T., Brooks, B. A., Bork, S., Blake, K., Bennett, S. E., Bacon, S., Dawson, T., Bachhuber, J. L., Avouac, J., Angster, S. J., Akciz, S. O., Pickering, A., Thomas, K., Rosa, C., Chupik, C., DeFrisco, M. J., Hudnut, K. W., Graehl, N. A., Holland, P., Hitchcock, C., Hernandez, J. L., Helms, J., Hatem, A., Haddon, E. K., Gutierrez, C., Gold, R. D., Delano, J., Funning, G. J., Frost, E., Ericksen, T., DuRoss, C. B., Donnellan, A., Dolan, J. F., DeLong, S., & Zinke, R. (2020). Documentation of Surface Fault Rupture and Ground-Deformation Features Produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Seismological Research Letters, 91(5), 2942-2959. doi: 10.1785/0220190322. SCEC Contribution 10852
Rollins, C., & Avouac, J. (2019). A Geodesy‐ and Seismicity‐Based Local Earthquake Likelihood Model for Central Los Angeles. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(6), 3153-3162. doi: 10.1029/2018GL080868. SCEC Contribution 9380
Hollingsworth, J., Ye, L., & Avouac, J. (2017). Dynamically triggered slip on a splay fault in the Mw 7.8, 2016 Kaikoura (New Zealand) earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 44. SCEC Contribution 7250
Lay, T., Ye, L., Kanamori, H., & Avouac, J. (2016, 12). The 16 April 2016, Mw 7.8 Ecuador earthquake: a quasi-repeater of the 1942 Ms 7.5 earthquake and partial re-rupture of the 1906 Ms 8.6 Colombia-Ecuador earthquake. Oral Presentation at AGU Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7257
Ye, L., Avouac, J., & Lapusta, N. (2016, 12). Dynamic Stress Changes during the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake. Oral Presentation at AGU Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7256
Rollins, J. C., Barbot, S. D., & Avouac, J. (2015). Postseismic Deformation Following the 2010 M=7.2 El Mayor–Cucapah Earthquake: Observations, Kinematic Inversions, and Dynamic Models. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 172, 1305-1358. doi: 10.1007/s00024-014-1005-6. SCEC Contribution 1862
Rubino, V., Lapusta, N., Rosakis, A. J., Leprince, S., & Avouac, J. (2015). Static laboratory earthquake measurements with the digital image correlation method. Experimental Mechanics, 55(77). SCEC Contribution 1810
Avouac, J., Ayoub, F., Wei, S., Ampuero, J., Meng, L., Leprince, S., Jolivet, R., Duputel, Z., & Helmberger, D. V. (2014). Seismic slip boosted on a misoriented fault bend during the 2013, Mw7.7 Balochistan Earthquake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 391, 128-134. SCEC Contribution 2006
Jolivet, R., Duputel, Z., Riel, B., Simons, M., Rivera, L., Minson, S. E., Zhang, H., Aivazis, M., Ayoub, F., Leprince, S., Avouac, J., Samsonov, S. S., Motagh, M., & Fielding, E. J. (2013, 12). A fully Bayesian analysis of the 2013 Balochistan earthquake using long period seismic and space-based geodetic observations. Presentation at 2013 AGU Fall Meeting. SCEC Contribution 2042
Konca, A. O., Kaneko, Y., Lapusta, N., & Avouac, J. (2013). Kinematic Inversion of Physically Plausible Earthquake Source Models Obtained from Dynamic Rupture Simulations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 103(5), 2621-2644. doi: 10.1785/0120120358. SCEC Contribution 1819
Inbal, A., Ampuero, J., Avouac, J., Lengline, O., & Helmberger, D. V. (2012, 12). Tying the spectral ends of the M9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake sequence: High-frequency radiators and early quasi-static afterslip. Oral Presentation at AGU Fall Meeting 2012. SCEC Contribution 1880
Barbot, S. D., Lapusta, N., & Avouac, J. (2012). Under the Hood of the Earthquake Machine: Toward Predictive Modeling of the Seismic Cycle. Science, 336(6082), 707-710. doi: 10.1126/science.1218796. SCEC Contribution 1751
Ader, T. J., Ampuero, J., & Avouac, J. (2012). The role of velocity-neutral creep on the modulation of tectonic tremor activity by periodic loading. Geophysical Research Letters, 39(16), n/a-n/a. doi: 10.1029/2012GL052326. SCEC Contribution 1647
Barbot, S. D., Lapusta, N., & Avouac, J. (2012). Under the Hood of the Earthquake Machine: Towards Predictive Modeling of the Seismic Cycle. Science, 336(6082), 707-710. doi: 10.1126/science.1218796. SCEC Contribution 1600
Barbot, S. D., Lapusta, N., & Avouac, J. (2012). Under the Hood of the Earthquake Machine: Towards Predictive Modeling of the Seismic Cycle. Science, 336(6082), 707-710. doi: 10.1126/science.1218796. SCEC Contribution 1585
Wei, S., Fielding, E. J., LePrince, S., Sladen, A., Avouac, J., Helmberger, D. V., Hauksson, E., Chu, R., Simons, M., Hudnut, K. W., Herring, T. A., & Briggs, R. (2011). Superficial simplicity of the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake of Baja, California in Mexico. Nature GeoScience,. doi: 10.1038/NGEO1213. SCEC Contribution 1622
Bruhat, L., Barbot, S. D., & Avouac, J. (2011). Evidence for postseismic deformation of the lower crust following the 2004 Mw6.0 Parkfield earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(B08401), 11. doi: 10.1029/2010JB008073. SCEC Contribution 1584
Last updated Sep 20, 2023.
