Bridget R. Smith-Konter
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Professor
Expertise: Crustal deformation modeling
About Me
Publications
Sandwell, D. T., Guns, K. A., Xu, X., Bock, Y., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2023, 09). Estimates of Seismic Moment Accumulation Rate from Geodesy. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13160
Luttrell, K. M., Helgans, E. C., Burkhard, L., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2022, 09). Stress Constraints on Cajon Pass Fault Segments Informed by Focal Mechanism Inversion, Fault Loading, and Topography. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12595
Xu, X., Sandwell, D. T., Ward, L. A., Milliner, C., Smith-Konter, B. R., Fang, P., & Bock, Y. (2021, 08). Mapping faults from space with InSAR: Ridgecrest and beyond. Oral Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11112
Ward, L. A., Smith-Konter, B. R., Xu, X., & Sandwell, D. T. (2020, 08). Vertical Deformation Dependency on Spatially Variable Elastic Plate Thickness: Insights from the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10740
Xu, X., Sandwell, D. T., Ward, L. A., Smith-Konter, B. R., Milliner, C., Fang, P., & Bock, Y. (2020, 08). Surface deformation nearby the Ridgecrest earthquakes: Frictional slip or compliant fault?. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10563
Smith-Konter, B. R., Ward, L. A., Xu, X., & Sandwell, D. T. (2019, 08). Vertical Deformation of the 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley and M7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquakes. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9869
Xu, X., Ward, L. A., Smith-Konter, B. R., Milliner, C., Fang, P., Bock, Y., & Sandwell, D. T. (2019, 08). Surface rupturing and triggered slip on nearby faults from the Ridgecrest earthquakes revealed by InSAR . Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9637
Ward, L., Smith-Konter, B. R., Xu, X., & Sandwell, D. T. (2019, 08). Vertical Deformation Dependency on Spatially Variable Elastic Plate Thickness. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9555
Helgans, E. C., Luttrell, K. M., Smith-Konter, B. R., & Burkhard, L. (2019, 08). Multicomponent Model of Crustal Stress at Cajon Pass, Southern California with Implications for Stress Field Heterogeneity. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9518
Smith-Konter, B. R., Xu, X., Ward, L., Burkhard, L., & Sandwell, D. T. (2018, 08). InSAR/GPS time series deformation of the 2018 Kilauea event: Preparation for a large Southern California event. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8746
Helgans, E. C., Luttrell, K. M., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2018, 08). Multicomponent Model of Crustal Stress at Cajon Pass with Implications for Stress Field Heterogeneity. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8684
Burkhard, L., Smith-Konter, B. R., Ward, L., Scharer, K. M., & Sandwell, D. T. (2018, 08). Earthquake cycle stress accumulation disparities of the Cajon Pass region. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8617
Ward, L., Smith-Konter, B. R., Xu, X., & Sandwell, D. (2018, 08). Strain rate dependence on crustal rheology for the Cajon Pass, California. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8457
Xu, X., Ward, L., Jiang, J., Smith-Konter, B. R., Tymofyeyeva, E., Lindsey, E. O., Sylvester, A. G., & Sandwell, D. T. (2018, 07). Surface Creep Rate of the Southern San Andreas Fault Modulated by Stress Perturbations from Nearby Large Events. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8232
Smith-Konter, B. R., Sandwell, D. T., Tong, X., Xu, X., Ward, L., & Higa, J. (2017, 08). Deformation of the southern San Andreas Fault System induced by lateral variations in crustal rigidity. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7770
Sandwell, D. T., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2017, 08). A 4-D Earthquake Cycle Model with Lateral Variations in Shear Modulus. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7507
Tong, X., Gonzalez-Ortega, A., Smith-Konter, B. R., & Sandwell, D. T. (2016, 08). Postseismic deformation and viscosity of the Mexicali region following the El-Mayor Cucapah earthquake inferred from GPS observations. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6925
Smith-Konter, B. R., Luttrell, K. M., Tong, X., & Sandwell, D. T. (2016, 08). 4D stress evolution models of the San Andreas Fault System using improved geodetic and paleoseismic constraints. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6686
Gonzalez-Huizar, H., Hardy, S., & Smith-Konter, B. (2016, 08). Investigating tremor sources along the San Andreas Fault using integrated static and dynamic stress models . Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6483
Solis, T., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2015). Estimating variations in locking depth for the Mojave segment of the San Andreas fault over the past 1500 years from paleoseismic stress drop. Journal of Geophysical Research, (in preparation). SCEC Contribution 6116
Ward, L. A., Smith-Konter, B. R., Xu, X., & Sandwell, D. T. (2021). Seismic Moment Accumulation Response to Lateral Crustal Variations of the San Andreas Fault System. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,. doi: 10.1029/2020JB021208. SCEC Contribution 10963
Xu, X., Sandwell, D. T., Ward, L. A., Milliner, C., Smith-Konter, B. R., Fang, P., & Bock, Y. (2020). Surface deformation associated with fractures near the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Science, 370(6516), 605-608. doi: 10.1126/science.abd1690. SCEC Contribution 10864
Xu, X., Sandwell, D. T., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2020). Coseismic Displacements and Surface Fractures from Sentinel-1 InSAR: 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes. Seismological Research Letters, 91(4), 1979-1985. doi: 10.1785/0220190275. SCEC Contribution 10855
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
Helgans, E. C., Luttrell, K. M., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2018, 12). Multicomponent Model of Crustal Stress at Cajon Pass with Implications for Stress Field Heterogeneity. Poster Presentation at Fall AGU Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9030
Xu, X., Ward, L., Jiang, J., Smith-Konter, B. R., Tymofyeyeva, E., Lindsey, E. O., Sylvester, A. G., & Sandwell, D. T. (2018). Surface Creep Rate of the Southern San Andreas Fault Modulated by Stress Perturbations From Nearby Large Events. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(19), 10,259-10,268. doi: 10.1029/2018GL080137. SCEC Contribution 8924
Sandwell, D. T., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2018). Maxwell: A Semi-analytic 4D Code for Earthquake Cycle Modeling of Transform Fault Systems. Computers and Geosciences,. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2018.01.009. SCEC Contribution 8007
Luttrell, K., & Smith-Konter, B. (2017). Limits on crustal differential stress in southern California from topography and earthquake focal mechanisms. Geophysical Journal International, 211(1), 472-482. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggx301. SCEC Contribution 6064
Hardy, S., Gonzalez-Huizar, H., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2016). Integrated Static and Dynamic Stress Modeling for Investigating Tremor Source Regions in the San Andreas Fault. Poster Presentation at Integrated Static and Dynamic Stress Modeling for Investigating Tremor Source Regions in the San Andreas Fault. SCEC Contribution 7150
Howell, S. M., Smith-Konter, B. R., Frazer, N., Tong, X., & Sandwell, D. T. (2016). The vertical fingerprint of earthquake-cycle loading in Southern California. Nature Geosciences, 9, 611-614. SCEC Contribution 6117
Tong, X., Sandwell, D. T., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2015). An integral method to estimate the moment accumulation rate on the Creeping Section of the San Andreas Fault. Geophysical Journal International, 203(1), 48-62. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv269. SCEC Contribution 6197
Gonzalez-Huizar, H., Hardy, S., Velasco, A. A., Smith-Konter, B. R., & Luttrell, K. M. (2015). Integrated Static and Dynamic Stress Models for Investigating Tremor Source Regions. Poster Presentation at 2015 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6063
Tong, X., Smith-Konter, B. R., & Sandwell, D. T. (2014). Is there a discrepancy between geological and geodetic slip rates along the San Andreas Fault System?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(3), 2518-2538. doi: 10.1002/2013JB010765.. SCEC Contribution 2089
Tong, X., Smith-Konter, B. R., & Sandwell, D. T. (2014). Is there a discrepancy between geological and geodetic slip rates along the San Andreas Fault System?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(3), 2518-2538. doi: 10.1002/2013JB010765. SCEC Contribution 2005
Tong, X., Sandwell, D. T., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2013). High-resolution interseismic velocity data along the San Andreas Fault from GPS and InSAR. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118(1), 369-389. doi: 10.1029/2012JB009442. SCEC Contribution 1748
Del Pardo, C., Smith-Konter, B. R., Serpa, L. F., Kreemer, C. W., Blewitt, G., & Hammond, P. (2012). Interseismic deformation and geologic evolution of the Death Valley Fault Zone . Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117(B6), B06404. doi: 10.1029/2011JB008552. SCEC Contribution 1514
Smith-Konter, B. R., Sandwell, D. T., & Shearer, P. M. (2011). Locking depths estimated from geodesy and seismology along the San Andreas Fault System: Implications for seismic moment release,. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 116(B6), B06401. doi: 10.1029/2010JB008117. SCEC Contribution 1471
Wei, M., Sandwell, D. T., & Smith-Konter, B. R. (2010). Optimal combination of InSAR and GPS for measuring interseismic crustal deformation. Advances in Space Research, 46(2), 236-249. doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.03.013. SCEC Contribution 1874
Smith-Konter, B. R., Sandwell, D. T., & Wei, M. (2010). Integrating GPS and InSAR to resolve stressing rates of the SAF System. EarthScope inSights Newsletter, (, pp. ) , : SCEC Contribution 1873
Smith-Konter, B. R., & Sandwell, D. T. (2009). Stress evolution of the San Andreas Fault System: Recurrence interval versus locking depth. Geophysical Research Letters,. doi: 10.1029/2009GL037235. SCEC Contribution 1268
Wdowinski, S., Smith-Konter, B. R., Bock, Y., & Sandwell, D. T. (2007). Diffuse interseismic deformation across the Pacific-North American plate boundary. Geology, 35(4), 311-314. doi: 10.1130/G22938A.1. SCEC Contribution 1189
Last updated Sep 20, 2023.
