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Frank L. Vernon

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
Director, Array Network Facility

Expertise: Seismology
 
 
About Me Publications
Share, P., Vernon, F. L., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2022, 09). The variable continuous bimaterial interface in the San Jacinto fault zone revealed by dense seismic array analysis of fault zone head waves. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12318
Hollis, D. D., Vernon, F. L., Brenguier, F., Ben-Zion, Y., Higueret, Q., Mordret, A., Aubert, C., & Sheng, Y. (2022, 09). FaultScan - Monitoring Body Wave Velocity Changes Across the San Jacinto Fault (2022-2025). Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12223
Share, P., Qiu, H., Chi, B., Vernon, F. L., Fialko, Y., Vavra, E., Allam, A. A., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2021, 08). General seismic architecture of the Southern San Andreas fault zone around the Thousand Palms Oasis from a Large-N nodal array. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11629
White, M. C., Ben-Zion, Y., & Vernon, F. L. (2021, 08). A Detailed Earthquake Catalog for the San Jacinto Fault‐Zone Region in Southern California and the period 2008-2020. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11485
Sheng, Y., Mordret, A., Sager, K., Brenguier, F., Boué, P., Rousset, B., Vernon, F. L., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2021, 08). Long-base seismic interferometry reveals a hidden slow-slip event near the Anza seismic gap. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11435
Share, P., Vernon, F. L., Fialko, Y., Allam, A. A., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2020, 08). Structural properties of the Southern San Andreas fault around Thousand Palms, California, from analysis of large-N seismic array data. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10688
Donnellan, A., Lyzenga, G. A., Parker, J. W., Ansar, A., Goulet, C. A., Ben-Zion, Y., Vernon, F. L., & Lynch, D. K. (2019, 08). Targeted High-Resolution Topographic Imaging of Active Faults and the Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Ruptures in Southern California. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9834
Brenguier, F., Boué, P., Ben-Zion, Y., Vernon, F. L., Johnson, C. W., Mordret, A., Coutant, O., Share, P., Beaucé, E., Hollis, D. D., & Lecocq, T. (2019, 08). Train traffic as a powerful noise source for monitoring active faults with seismic interferometry. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9701
Johnson, C. W., Ben-Zion, Y., Meng, H., & Vernon, F. L. (2019, 08). Classifying emergent and impulsive signals in continuous seismic waveforms. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9564
Kilb, D., Johnson, C. W., Baltay, A. S., & Vernon, F. L. (2019, 08). On the Variability of Earthquake Ground Motion from the Sage Brush Flats High Density Array in Southern California . Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9386
Share, P., Peacock, J., Constable, S., & Vernon, F. L. (2019, 07). Structural Properties of the Southern San Andreas Fault System near Coachella Valley from Magnetotelluric Imaging. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9301
Johnson, C. W., Meng, H., Vernon, F. L., Nakata, N., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2018, 08). Characteristics of ground motion generated by interaction of wind gusts with trees, structures and other obstacles above the surface. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8443
Qin, L., Johnson, C. W., Vernon, F. L., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2018, 08). Multi-scale study of ground motion coherence in Piñon Flats Observatory. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8394
White, M. C., Ben-Zion, Y., & Vernon, F. L. (2018, 08). Detailed seismic catalog for the San Jacinto fault zone region (2008-2016) from automated processing of raw waveform data. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8309
Buehler, J., Kilb, D., Vernon, F. L., Wang, W., & Shearer, P. M. (2017, 08). Focal mechanism effects on S/P amplitude ratios in southern California. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7796
Wade, A., Arrowsmith, R., Donnellan, A., Vernon, F. L., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2017, 08). Dekameter-scale geologic structure validation of shallow seismic properties along the San Jacinto fault at Sage Brush Flat, Anza, California. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7738
Qin, L., Ben-Zion, Y., & Vernon, F. L. (2017, 08). Ground motion coherence study in multiple distance ranges and frequency bands. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7581
White, M. C., Ross, Z. E., Ben-Zion, Y., & Vernon, F. L. (2017, 08). A detailed, automatically-derived, seismicity catalog for the San Jacinto fault zone (1998-2016). Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7529
Sahakian, V. J., Baltay, A. S., Hanks, T. C., Buehler, J., & Vernon, F. L. (2017, 07). Path and site effects in GMPEs: Incorporating crustal physical properties for region-specific ground motion estimation using small magnitude data from Southern California. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7367
Qin, L., Ben-Zion, Y., Qiu, H., Share, P., Ross, Z. E., & Vernon, F. L. (2016, 08). Internal structure of the San Jacinto fault zone in the trifurcation area southeast of Anza, California, from data of dense linear arrays. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6784
Qiu, H., Ben-Zion, Y., Ross, Z. E., Share, P., & Vernon, F. L. (2016, 08). Internal structure of the San Jacinto fault zone at Jackass Flat from data recorded by a dense linear array. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6783
Allam, A. A., Lin, F., Share, P., Ben-Zion, Y., Vernon, F. L., Schuster, G., & Karplus, M. (2016, 08). Constraints on Fault Damage Zone Properties and Normal Modes from a Dense Linear Array Deployment along the San Jacinto Fault Zone. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6655
Ben-Zion, Y., Share, P., Allam, A. A., Lin, F., & Vernon, F. L. (2016, 08). Internal structure of the San Jacinto fault zone at Blackburn Canyon from a dense linear deployment across the fault. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6526
White, M. C., Ross, Z. E., Vernon, F. L., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2016, 08). A detailed automatic 1998-2015 earthquake catalog of the San Jacinto fault zone region. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6432
Share, P., Tábořík, P., Stepancikova, P., Stemberk, J., Rockwell, T. K., Wade, A., Arrowsmith, R., Donnellan, A., Vernon, F. L., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2020). Characterizing the uppermost 100 m structure of the San Jacinto fault zone southeast of Anza, California, through joint analysis of geological, topographic, seismic and resistivity data. Geophysical Journal International, 222(2), 781-794. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggaa204. SCEC Contribution 10903
Cheng, Y., Ben-Zion, Y., Brenguier, F., Johnson, C. W., Li, Z., Share, P., Mordret, A., Boué, P., & Vernon, F. L. (2020). An Automated Method for Developing a Catalog of Small Earthquakes Using Data of a Dense Seismic Array and Nearby Stations. Seismological Research Letters, 91(5), 2862-2871. doi: 10.1785/0220200134. SCEC Contribution 10803
Share, P., Allam, A. A., Ben-Zion, Y., Lin, F., & Vernon, F. L. (2018). Structural Properties of the San Jacinto Fault Zone at Blackburn Saddle from Seismic Data of a Dense Linear Array. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 176(3), 1169-1191. doi: 10.1007/s00024-018-1988-5. SCEC Contribution 9073
Qiu, H., Ben-Zion, Y., Ross, Z. E., Share, P., & Vernon, F. L. (2017). Internal structure of the San Jacinto fault zone at Jackass Flat from data recorded by a dense linear array. Geophysical Journal International, 209(3), 1369-1388. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggx096. SCEC Contribution 9278
White, M. C., Reyes, J., Hollis, D. D., Barklage, M., Meng, H., Ross, Z. E., Vernon, F. L., Ozakin, Y., Zigone, D., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2015). Basic data features and results from a spatially dense seismic array on the San Jacinto fault zone. Geophysical Journal International, 202(1), 370-380. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv142. SCEC Contribution 8221
Li, Z., Peng, Z., Ben-Zion, Y., & Vernon, F. L. (2015). Spatial variations of shear wave anisotropy near the San Jacinto Fault Zone in Southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(12), 8334–8347. doi: 10.1002/2015JB012483. SCEC Contribution 6111
Kane, D. L., Kilb, D. L., & Vernon, F. L. (2013). Selecting Empirical Green’s Functions in Regions of Fault Complexity: A Study of Data From the San Jacinto Fault Zone, Southern California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 103(2A), 641-650. doi: 10.1785/0120120189. SCEC Contribution 1701
Kane, D. L., Prieto, G. A., Vernon, F. L., & Shearer, P. M. (2011). Quantifying seismic source parameter uncertainties. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 101, 535-543. doi: 10.1785/0120100166. SCEC Contribution 1543
Prieto, G. A., Thomson, D., Vernon, F. L., & Parker, R. (2007). Reducing the bias of multitaper spectrum estimates. Geophysical Journal International, 171(3), 1269-1281. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03592.x . SCEC Contribution 979
Prieto, G. A., Parker, R. L., Vernon, F. L., Shearer, P. M., & Thomson, D. J. (2006). Uncertainties in Earthquake Source Spectrum Estimation using Empirical Green Functions. In R. E. Abercrombie (Eds.), Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting, (, pp. 69-74) San Francisco, USA: AGU doi: 10.1029/GM170. SCEC Contribution 933
Prieto, G. A., Shearer, P. M., Vernon, F. L., & Kilb, D. L. (2004). Earthquake source scaling and self-similarity estimation from stacking P and S spectra. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109(B08310). doi: 10.1029/2004JB003084. SCEC Contribution 766
Li, Y., & Vernon, F. L. (2001). Characterization of the San Jacinto Fault Zone near Anza, California, from Fault Zone Trapped Waves. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(B12), 30671-30688. SCEC Contribution 598
Lewis, J., Day, S. M., Magistrale, H., Castro, R. R., Astiz, L., Rebollar Bustamante, C., Eakins, J., Vernon, F. L., & Brune, J. N. (2001). Crustal thickness of the Peninsular Ranges and Gulf Extensional Province in the Californias. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(B7), 13599-13611. SCEC Contribution 521
Li, Y., Vernon, F. L., & Aki, K. (1997). San Jacinto fault zone guided waves: A discrimination for recently active fault strands near Anza, California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102(B6), 11689-11701. doi: 10.1029/97JB01050. SCEC Contribution 355
Haase, J. S., Hauksson, E., & Vernon, F. L. (1996). Modeling of Ground Motion from a 1994 Northridge Aftershock using a Tomographic Velocity Model of the Los Angeles Basin. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 86(1B, supplement), S156-S167. SCEC Contribution 181
Steidl, J. H., Martin, A., Tumarkin, A. G., Lindley, G. T., Nicholson, C., Archuleta, R. J., Vernon, F. L., Edelman, A., Tolstoy, M., Chin, J., Li, Y., Robertson Haver, M., Teng, T., Scott, J. B., Johnson, D., & Magistrale, H. (1994). SCEC Portable Deployment Following the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters: Northridge Supplement, 65(3-4), 243. SCEC Contribution 159
Scott, J., Hauksson, E., Vernon, F. L., & Edelman, A. (1994). Los Angeles Basin Structure from Waveform Modeling of Aftershocks of the January 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters: Northridge Supplement, 65(3-4), 252. SCEC Contribution 157

Last updated Sep 22, 2022.