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Zachary E. Ross
California Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Geophysics
Expertise: Automated processing of large seismic datasets, fault zone imaging, dynamics of seismicity, earthquake source properties
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SCEC Participation
SCEC Board of Directors, Core Institution Member (2022 - Present)Shi, Y., Lavrentiadis, G., Asimaki, D., Ross, Z. E., & Azizzadenesheli, K. (2023, 09). BroadBand Ground Motion Synthesis using Generative Adversarial Neural Operator with Learnable Filtering Effect. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13284
Villa, V., & Ross, Z. E. (2023, 09). Time-Varying Background Rates of Swarms and Aftershock Sequences in the San Jacinto Fault Zone in Southern California. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13109
Sun, H., Ross, Z. E., Zhu, W., & Azizzadenesheli, K. (2023, 09). Phase Neural Operator for Multi-Station Picking of Seismic Arrivals. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12985
Yu, E., Acharya, P., Bhaskaran, A., Chen, S., Tepp, G., Biondi, E., Alvarez, M., Ross, Z. E., Husker, A. L., & Clayton, R. W. (2023, 09). Using the Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) and the Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) Products and Services for Earthquake Research . Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12981
Sun, H., Yang, Y., Azizzadenesheli, K., Clayton, R. W., & Ross, Z. E. (2022, 09). Time-Reversal Imaging with Neural Operators for Real-time Earthquake Location. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12285
Asimaki, D., Shi, Y., Lavrentiadis, G., & Ross, Z. E. (2022, 09). Ground Motion Synthesis via Generative Adversarial Network Operators: A Paradigm Shift from Simulated Broadband Ground Motions? . Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12258
Yoon, C., Tam, R., Tepp, G., Bhadha, R., Ross, Z. E., Yu, E., Zhu, W., Husker, A. L., & Black, M. (2022, 09). Progress toward modernizing the Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) earthquake catalog with cloud-native machine learning approaches. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12183
Wilding, J., & Ross, Z. E. (2022, 09). Scattering of Moment Tensors During Aftershock Sequences at Global and Local Scales. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12145
Page, M. T., Cochran, E. S., van der Elst, N. J., Ross, Z. E., & Trugman, D. (2022, 09). Linking fault roughness and earthquake behavior. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12126
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
Yu, E., Acharya, P., Bhaskaran, A., Chen, S., Andrews, J. R., Tepp, G., Yin, J., Thomas, V., Ross, Z. E., Husker, A. L., Hauksson, E., & Clayton, R. W. (2022, 09). Using the Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) and the Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) Products and Services for Earthquake Research . Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12072
Ramírez-Ramos, E. E., Stock, J. M., Ross, Z. E., & Vidal-Villegas, A. (2022, 09). Machine-Learning catalog for the California-Baja California, Mexico, border region. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12045
Ross, Z. E., Ben-Zion, Y., & Zaliapin, I. (2022, 09). Geometrical Properties of Seismicity in California. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12008
Liu, Y., Ross, Z. E., Cochran, E. S., & Lapusta, N. (2021, 08). A unified perspective of seismicity and fault coupling along the San Andreas Fault. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11496
Ramírez-Ramos, E. E., Stock, J. M., Ross, Z. E., Vidal-Villegas, A., & Ramírez Hernández, J. (2021, 08). Seismotectonics of the California-Baja California region.. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11453
Diaz, M. A., Ross, Z. E., & Wilding, J. (2021, 08). Understanding the physical properties of the Kilauea volcano by analyzing Long-Period volcanic earthquakes. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11378
Florez, M. A., Caporale, M., Pakpoom, B., Ross, Z. E., Asimaki, D., & Meier, M. (2021, 08). Data-driven synthesis of broadband earthquake ground motions using artificial intelligence. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11374
Atterholt, J. W., & Ross, Z. E. (2021, 08). Bayesian framework for inversion of second-order stress glut moments. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11364
Yu, E., Acharya, P., Bhaskaran, A., Chen, S., Andrews, J. R., Thomas, V., Ross, Z. E., Husker, A. L., Hauksson, E., & Clayton, R. W. (2021, 08). Using the Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) and the Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) Products and Services for Earthquake Research. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11353
Gao, A. F., Yang, Y., Castellanos, J. A., Ross, Z. E., Azizzadenesheli, K., & Clayton, R. W. (2021, 08). Seismic Wave Propagation and Inversion with Neural Operators. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11309
Cheng, Y., Ross, Z. E., Hauksson, E., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2021, 08). A Refined Comprehensive Earthquake Focal Mechanism Catalog for Southern California Derived with Deep Learning Algorithms . Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11306
Ross, Z. E., & Cochran, E. S. (2021, 07). Evidence for Latent Crustal Fluid Injection Transients in Southern California From Long-Duration Earthquake Swarms. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11047
Florez, M. A., Caporale, M., Pakpoom, B., Ross, Z. E., Asimaki, D., & Meier, M. (2020, 08). Data-Driven Ground Motion Synthesis using Deep Generative Models. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10699
Smith, J. D., Azizzadenesheli, K., & Ross, Z. E. (2020, 08). EikoNet: Solving the Eikonal equation with Deep Neural Networks, with applications to earthquake location. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10665
Yu, E., Acharya, P., Bhaskaran, A., Chen, S., Andrews, J. R., Thomas, V., Ross, Z. E., Hauksson, E., & Clayton, R. W. (2020, 08). Cloud Computing and Big Data – Using the Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) and the Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) Products and Services for Earthquake Research. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10464
Cochran, E. S., Skoumal, R., McPhillips, D., Ross, Z. E., & Keranen, K. M. (2020, 08). Varied Fault Orientations in a Uniform Stress Field: The 2011 M5.7 Prague Earthquake Sequence. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10400
Trugman, D. T., Ross, Z. E., & Johnson, P. A. (2020, 07). Imaging Stress and Faulting Complexity Through Earthquake Waveform Similarity. Oral Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10209
Idini, B., Simons, M., Zhong, M., Stephenson, O., Ross, Z. E., Fielding, E. J., Yun, S., Hauksson, E., Milliner, C., Moore, A. W., & Liu, Z. (2019, 08). The first few days of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9884
Plesch, A., Shaw, J. H., Ross, Z. E., & Hauksson, E. (2019, 08). Detailed 3D source fault representations for the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9709
Stephenson, O., Koehne, T., Zhan, E., Cahill, B., Ross, Z. E., & Yun, S. (2019, 08). Deep Learning-based Damage Mapping with InSAR Coherence Time Series. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9633
Trugman, D. T., Ross, Z. E., & Johnson, P. A. (2019, 08). Anti-similar aftershocks in the Ridgecrest, California earthquake sequence. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9506
Yu, E., Acharya, P., Bhaskaran, A., Chen, S., Andrews, J. R., Thomas, V., Ross, Z. E., Hauksson, E., & Clayton, R. W. (2019, 08). Cloud Computing and Big Data – Using the Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) and the Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) Products and Services for Earthquake Research. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9487
Cheng, Y., Ross, Z. E., Hauksson, E., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2019, 07). A focal mechanism catalog for Southern California derived with deep learning algorithms. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9273
Ross, Z. E., Trugman, D. T., Azizzadenesheli, K., & Anandkumar, A. (2019, 07). Directivity Modes of Earthquake Populations with Unsupervised Learning. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9271
Meier, M., Ross, Z. E., Ramachandran, A., Balakrishna, A., Kundzicz, P., Nair, S., Li, Z., Hauksson, E., & Heaton, T. H. (2018, 08). Reliable Real-Time Signal/Noise Discrimination with Deep and Shallow Machine Learning Classifiers. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8837
Hauksson, E., Ross, Z. E., & Cochran, E. S. (2018, 08). Sudden Surges of Seismicity within Natural Slow Growing and Long Duration Seismicity Swarms near Cahuilla Valley in the Central Peninsular Ranges, Southern California. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8765
Schulte-Pelkum, V., Ross, Z. E., Mueller, K. J., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2018, 08). Dipping fault structures near the brittle-ductile transition and deep foliation fabric in southern California. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8605
Dougherty, S. L., Cochran, E. S., Harrington, R. M., & Ross, Z. E. (2018, 08). Tracking thousands of microearthquakes for a month in northern Oklahoma: What a large-N array can reveal about induced seismicity. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8569
Roh, B., Heaton, T. H., & Ross, Z. E. (2018, 08). Envelope-Based Early Warning Algorithm Using Nested Grid Search. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8440
Ross, Z. E., Hauksson, E., Trugman, D. T., & Shearer, P. M. (2018, 08). Detecting millions of earthquakes in southern California with template matching. Oral Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8287
Hauksson, E., Meier, M., & Ross, Z. E. (2017, 08). Can the Depth Distribution of Seismicity be Applied to Probe the Rheology of the Seismogenic Crust in Southern California?. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7620
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
Ross, Z. E., Kanamori, H., & Hauksson, E. (2017, 08). Anomalously large complete stress drop during the 2016 Mw 5.2 Borrego Springs earthquake inferred by waveform modeling and near-source aftershock deficit. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7506
Cheng, Y., Ross, Z. E., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2017, 08). Diverse volumetric seismicity in the Trifurcation area of the San Jacinto fault zone . Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7462
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
Ross, Z. E., Hauksson, E., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2016, 08). Complex active faults and seismicity rates in the trifurcation area of the San Jacinto fault zone illuminated by aftershocks of the 2016 Mw 5.2 Borrego Springs earthquake. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6776
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
Ross, Z. E., Ben-Zion, Y., & Zhu, L. (2014). Isotropic source terms of San Jacinto fault zone earthquakes based on waveform inversions with a generalized CAP method. Geophysical Journal International, (under review). SCEC Contribution 1918
Ross, Z. E., Ben-Zion, Y., & Zaliapin, I. (2022). Geometrical properties of seismicity in California. Geophysical Journal International, 231(1), 493-504. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggac189. SCEC Contribution 12711
Yu, E., Bhaskaran, A., Chen, S., Ross, Z. E., Hauksson, E., & Clayton, R. W. (2021). Southern California Earthquake Data Now Available in the AWS Cloud. Seismological Research Letters, 92(5), 3238-3247. doi: 10.1785/0220210039. SCEC Contribution 11739
Hauksson, E., Olson, B., Grant, A., Andrews, J. R., Chung, A. I., Hough, S. E., Kanamori, H., McBride, S. K., Michael, A. J., Page, M. T., Ross, Z. E., Smith, D. E., & Valkaniotis, S. N. (2020). The Normal-Faulting 2020 Mw 5.8 Lone Pine, Eastern California, Earthquake Sequence. Seismological Research Letters, 92(2A), 679-698. doi: 10.1785/0220200324. SCEC Contribution 11888
Schulte-Pelkum, V., Ross, Z. E., Mueller, K. J., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2020). Tectonic Inheritance With Dipping Faults and Deformation Fabric in the Brittle and Ductile Southern California Crust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(8). doi: 10.1029/2020JB019525. SCEC Contribution 10822
Trugman, D. T., Ross, Z. E., & Johnson, P. A. (2020). Imaging Stress and Faulting Complexity Through Earthquake Waveform Similarity. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(1). doi: 10.1029/2019GL085888. SCEC Contribution 10126
Ross, Z. E., Cochran, E. S., Trugman, D. T., & Smith, J. D. (2020). 3D fault architecture controls the dynamism of earthquake swarms. Science, 368(6497), 1357-1361. doi: 10.1126/science.abb0779. SCEC Contribution 10109
Plesch, A., Shaw, J. H., Ross, Z. E., & Hauksson, E. (2020). Detailed 3D Fault Representations for the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 110(4), 1818-1831. doi: 10.1785/0120200053. SCEC Contribution 10096
Ross, Z. E., Idini, B., Jia, Z., Stephenson, O., Zhong, M., Wang, X., Zhan, Z., Simons, M., Fielding, E. J., Yun, S., Hauksson, E., Moore, A. W., Liu, Z., & Jung, J. (2019). Hierarchical interlocked orthogonal faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Science, 366(6463), 346-351. doi: 10.1126/science.aaz0109. SCEC Contribution 9956
Ross, Z. E., Idini, B., Jia, Z., Stephenson, O. L., Zhong, M., Wang, X., Zhan, Z., Simons, M., Fielding, E. J., Yun, S., Hauksson, E., Moore, A. W., Liu, Z., & Jung, J. (2019). Hierarchical interlocked orthogonal faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Science, 366(6463), 346-351. doi: 10.1126/science.aaz0109. SCEC Contribution 10124
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
Hauksson, E., Meier, M., Ross, Z. E., & Jones, L. M. (2017). Evolution of seismicity near the southernmost terminus of the San Andreas Fault: Implications of recent earthquake clusters for earthquake risk in southern California. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(3), 1293-1301. doi: 10.1002/2016GL072026. SCEC Contribution 7176
Ross, Z. E., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2016). Towards reliable automated estimates of earthquake source properties from body wave spectra. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, 4390-4407. doi: doi:10.1002/2016JB013003. SCEC Contribution 7111
Ross, Z. E., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2016). Towards reliable automated estimates of earthquake source properties from body wave spectra. J. Geophys. Res., 121(6), 4390-4407. SCEC Contribution 6234
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
Ross, Z. E., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2013). Spatio-temporal variations of double-couple aftershock mechanisms and possible volumetric earthquake strain. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118(5), 2347-2355. doi: 10.1002/jgrb.50202. SCEC Contribution 1708
Last updated Mar 08, 2024.
