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The SCEC collaboration emphasizes the connections between information gathering by sensor networks, fieldwork, and laboratory experiments; knowledge formulation through physics-based, system-level modeling; improved understanding of seismic hazard; and actions to reduce earthquake risk and promote resilience. Use the form below to search and view all poster and invited talk abstracts submitted to this meeting.


  
  

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SCEC ID Category Title and Authors SCEC Award
Poster
144
SAFS Multi-cycle Dynamics of the San Andreas and San Jacinto Faults in Southern California
Dunyu Liu, Benchun Duan
Natural fault systems have geometric complexities at various scales. Earthquake ruptures may halt at or propagate through these complexities, especially macroscopic ones (so called ‘earthquake gates’), depending on fault geometries and fault stress/... more
19238
Poster
056
Seismology Ambient Noise Love Wave Attenuation Inversion using the LASSIE Array through Los Angeles Basin
Xin Liu, Gregory Beroza
We present a simple and efficient method to extract the attenuation quality factors using the ambient seismic noise data from the LASSIE linear array located at the southeastern edge of the Los Angeles basin. The three-component LASSIE array spans ~... more

Poster
210
Geodesy Imaging tectonic and anthropogenic processes using ALOS-2 and Sentinel-1 InSAR
Zhen Liu, Paul Lundgren, Cunren Liang
The improved spatiotemporal resolution of surface deformation from recent satellite sensors such as Sentinel-1 (S-1) and ALOS-2 provides a great opportunity to better constrain and understand both tectonic and non-tectonic processes. In this study,... more

Poster
037
EFP Assessing declustering methods in Hawaii for probabilistic seismic hazard assessment
Andrea Llenos, Andrew Michael, Morgan Moschetti, Charles Mueller, Mark Petersen, Allison Shumway
Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments often use background earthquake rate estimates determined from a spatially smoothed declustered earthquake catalog. Declustering aims to remove aftershocks from catalogs, leaving behind a rate of independent... more

Poster
279
Ridgecrest Preliminary dynamic rupture simulations of the July 2019 M6.4 and M7.1 Ridgecrest, California, earthquakes
Julian Lozos, Ruth Harris
The primary events of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence were a M6.4 earthquake with left-lateral surface rupture that also produced aftershocks on a conjugate right-lateral fault, followed 34 hours later by a M7.1 earthquake that ruptured the... more

Poster
171
FARM Slip transient pattern changes: external perturbation or intrinsic interaction with earthquakes
Yingdi Luo, Zhen Liu
Advances in geodetic techniques enable us to detect slow-slip events (SSE) and shallow fault creeping events (part of shallow SSE) with improving accuracy and coverage. Recent observations reveal intriguing changes of SSE behavior before and/or... more

Poster
148
FARM Validation of Broadband Ground Motion from Dynamic Rupture Simulations: towards better characterizing seismic hazard for engineering applications
Shuo Ma, Kyle Withers, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Luis Dalguer, Yongfei Wang, Christine Goulet
In areas where observed ground motion data is lacking (e.g. near-source), seismicity is infrequent, or where geologic structures complicate seismic wave propagation, simulations provide an approach to improving the accuracy of ground motion... more
19077
Poster
067
Seismology Investigation of the Yorba Linda Trend using earthquake relocation based on waveform cross-correlation
Kyle Macy, Jascha Polet
The Yorba Linda Trend was defined in the early 1990s as a southwest trending series of earthquakes that starts near the center of the Chino Hills, transects the Whittier Fault and extends into the southeastern Los Angeles Basin. The Trend... more

Poster
268
Ridgecrest Prospective and Pseudo-prospective Aftershock Forecasts After the July 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley and M7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquakes
Simone Mancini, Margarita Segou, Tom Parsons, Maximilian Werner
On 4 July 2019, a M6.4 earthquake hit southern California west of Searles Valley, activating a system of NE-SW oriented left-lateral and NW-SE trending right-lateral strike slip faults. 34 hours later, a M7.1 earthquake struck near Ridgecrest,... more

Poster
059
Seismology Intra-slab stress field and waveform modeling to determine velocity structure of the Indoburman Range
Patcharaporn Maneerat, Doug Dreger, Roland Bürgmann
The Indoburman Range (IBR), was formed due to the India-Eurasia collision since the Paleogene, is a highly oblique subduction zone. The dominance of observed strike-slip and intra-slab earthquakes brings into question the current activity of... more

Poster
045
Seismology On The Measurement Of Seismic Travel-Time Changes In The Time-Frequency Domain With Wavelet Cross-Spectral Analysis
Shujuan Mao, Aurelien Mordret, Michel Campillo, Hongjian Fang, Rob van der Hilst
The spatial distribution of temporal variations in seismic wavespeed is key to understanding the sources and physical mechanisms of various geophysical systems. The imaging of wavespeed changes requires accurate measurements of travel-time delays... more

Poster
205
Geodesy Dynamically Triggered Changes in Interface Coupling in Southern Cascadia
Kathryn Materna, Noel Bartlow, Aaron Wech, Charles Williams, Roland Bürgmann
The Mendocino Triple Junction (MTJ) is a rapidly deforming plate boundary zone at the intersection of the San Andreas fault, the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ), and the Mendocino Fault Zone. Earthquake cycle deformation in this region results in... more

Poster
133
SAFS Is the Mission Creek Fault in the San Gorgonio Pass region of southern California a long-abandoned strand of the San Andreas Fault? Or is it a major player in the San Andreas Fault’s late Quaternary strain budget?
Jonathan Matti, Katherine Kendrick, Doug Yule, Richard Heermance
The San Andreas Fault (SAF) zone in the San Gorgonio Pass (SGP) region is geologically and geomorphically more complex than perhaps anywhere else in southern California. Here, the zone consists of at least six separate strands that, acting together... more

Poster 248
Ridgecrest Strong Ground Motions from 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Mainshocks
Silvia Mazzoni, Tadahiro Kashida, Pengfei Wang, Sean Ahdi, Yousef Bozorgnia, Jonathan Stewart
The Ridgecrest Earthquake sequence included a M6.4 foreshock on 4 July 2019 and a M7.1 mainshock event on 5 July 2019. These events occurred in the Eastern California Shear Zone, near Indian Wells Valley, south of China Lake and west of Searles... more

Poster
099
Geology Late Pleistocene rates of folding and faulting in the western Transverse Ranges, California, from reconstruction and luminescence dating of the late Pleistocene Orcutt formation
Ian McGregor, Nate Onderdonk
The onshore Santa Maria Basin in central California is an inverted basin with up to 9 kilometers of estimated shortening that has folded, faulted, and uplifted Miocene through Quaternary rocks. Previous studies have used subsurface data from oil... more

Poster
225
Ridgecrest Resolving Ridgecrest complex deformation modes characterized with differential LiDAR topography
Emmons McKinney, Adam Wade, Christopher Madugo, Ozgur Kozaci
Pre- and post-earthquake Airborne LiDAR-derived point clouds with a density of ~26 points/m2 were collected by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) along sections of the M6.4 July 4 and M7.1 July 5 2019 surface ruptures and mapped Quaternary... more

Poster
290
GM Preliminary survey of fragile geological features for use as ground motion constraints, southern Oregon
Devin McPhillips, Katherine Scharer
Fragile geological features, which are extant on the landscape but vulnerable to earthquake ground shaking, provide rare geological constraints on the intensity of prior shaking. These features may be especially valuable in regions such as the... more

Poster
082
Seismology A Systematic Investigation into Dynamic and Delayed Earthquake Triggering in a Seismically Hazardous Himalayan Fault Segment
Manuel Mendoza, Bo Li, Abhijit Ghosh, Shyam Rai
Observations of remote earthquake triggering by the passage of teleseismic waves is well-documented [e.g. Prejean et al., 2015; Ghosh et al., 2009]; however, the mechanisms driving both the “dynamic” and “delayed” facets of this phenomenon remain... more

Poster
023
GM Fully Nonergodic Ground Motion Models in Central California Using NGA-West2 and SCEC CyberShake Datasets
Xiaofeng Meng, Christine Goulet, Kevin Milner, Scott Callaghan
A key input to probabilistic seismic hazard analyses (PSHA) is the total standard deviation of the misfits between ground motion observations and the median ground motion models (GMMs, a.k.a GMPEs), commonly known as σtot. The most promising way to... more

Poster
109
Geology STRATIGRAPHIC AND GEOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON TIME-SPACE PATTERNS OF LATEST QUATERNARY SURFACE RUPTURES ON THE EASTERN PINTO MOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN MESQUITE LAKE FAULT ZONES NEAR TWENTYNINE PALMS, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Christopher Menges, Shannon Mahan
Recent surficial geologic mapping and new luminescence dating provide constraints on the time-space patterns of latest Quaternary surface ruptures along the E Pinto Mountain fault (PMf) and S Mesquite Lake fault (MLf) near Twentynine Palms in... more

Poster
228
Ridgecrest OR-Corr a New Outlier-Resistant Image Correlation Method: Examples of Surface Deformation and Complex Fracturing from the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Imaged by High-resolution Optical and Radar Imagery
Chris Milliner, Andrea Donnellan, Rui Chen, Robert Zinke, Xiaohua Xu, Alex Morelan, Timothy Dawson, Christopher Madugo, James Dolan, Alexandra Sarmiento, Yousef Bozorgnia, Adnan Ansar
The 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, CA, involved a Mw 6.4 foreshock on July 4th and the Mw 7.1 mainshock that occurred 34 hours later located ~12 km to the north. This sequence resulted in a complex array of surface fractures that were measured... more
19222
Poster 271
Ridgecrest Operational earthquake forecasting during the M6.4 Searles Valley and M7.1 Ridgecrest sequence using the UCERF3-ETAS model—evaluation and lessons learned
Kevin Milner, Edward Field, William Savran, Thomas Jordan, Morgan Page, Maximilian Werner
By 11:10 am on July 4, 2019 (36 minutes after the M6.4 Searles Valley earthquake), the first UCERF3-ETAS aftershock simulations were running at the University of Southern California’s High-Performance Computing Center. UCERF3-ETAS (Field et al.,... more
19227
Poster
154
FARM Rheology of the Borrego Springs Shear Zone segment of the Eastern Peninsular Ranges Mylonite Zone: implications for the development of the Community Rheology Model
Elena Miranda, Miguel Zamora-Tamayo, Joshua Schwartz, Jennifer Bautista, Sinan Akciz
We define and constrain the rheology of mylonites in the Eastern Peninsular Ranges Mylonite Zone (EPRMZ) in order to place realistic constraints on the strength of ductile shear zones as part of the development of a Community Rheology Model (CRM)... more
19023
Poster
022
GM An empirical- and simulation-based ground-motion model for Southern California
Morgan Moschetti, Eric Thompson, Nicolas Luco, Thomas Jordan, Peter Powers, Allison Shumway, Mark Petersen, Robert Graves, Scott Callaghan, Christine Goulet, Kevin Milner, Philip Maechling, Feng Wang, John Rekoske
We report progress on the development of a long-period (T>=2 s) ground-motion model (GMM) for Southern California based on an empirical GMM and the CyberShake simulations. Ground-motion prediction within sedimentary basins is hampered by complex... more

Poster
265
Ridgecrest Visualising the Ridgcrest Earthquakes using Wavefield Reconstruction
Jack Muir, Zhongwen Zhan
The high station density of the Southern California Seismic Networks gives us the opportunity to treat earthquake wavefields as unified objects rather than as a collection of individual seismograms, allowing robust computation of useful higher order... more

Poster
235
Ridgecrest Mitigating the Effect of the Ridgecrest Earthquakes on the USGS’s Automated Analysis of Global Positioning System Data
Jessica Murray, Jerry Svarc
The two largest earthquakes of the Ridgecrest sequence caused significant coseismic and ongoing postseismic displacement at regional GPS stations. Coseismic offsets exceed 0.5 meter at near-fault stations, and exceed 5 millimeters at stations ~240... more

Poster
003
GM Shallow crustal heterogeneity in Southern California estimated from earthquake coda waves
Nori Nakata, Hongjian Fang, Malcolm White, Arben Pitarka
High-frequency scattered waves contain important information to reveal small-scale structure such as heterogeneities of velocities and attenuation, which should be considered and included for high-frequency ground motion modeling. Here, we are... more
19174
Poster
294
EEII How will the risk and losses change by using the newest Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast models in Catastrophe Modeling?
NEGAR NAZARI
The Earthquake Catalog is the core of the loss calculation. Currently, as far as I know, only the “UCERF3-time independent” model is being used in most of Catastrophe modeling evaluations for California. Obviously, it takes time for industry to... more

Poster 017
GM Ground motion simulation validation with explicit uncertainty incorporation for small magnitude earthquakes in the Canterbury region
Sarah Neill, Robin Lee, Brendon Bradley
This study explicitly investigates uncertainties in physics-based ground motion simulation validation for earthquakes in the Canterbury region. The simulations utilize the Graves and Pitarka (2015) hybrid methodology, with separately quantified... more

Poster 310
CXM Full Waveform Seismic Tomography for geophysical velocity model in Canterbury region based on the Adjoint-Wavefield method
Trung Dung Nguyen, Robin Lee, Alan Juarez, Brendon Bradley
In this paper we apply Full Waveform Tomography (FWT) based on the Adjoint-Wavefield (AW) method to iteratively invert a 3-D geophysical velocity model for the Canterbury region (Lee, 2017). The seismic wavefields was generated using numerical... more

Poster
323
CXM Continued Updates, Expansion and Improvements to the Community Fault Model (CFM version 5.3)
Craig Nicholson, Andreas Plesch, Christopher Sorlien, John Shaw, Scott Marshall, Egill Hauksson
The Community Fault Model (CFM) is one of the most mature modeling efforts within SCEC, yet it remains critical that the CFM be continually evaluated, updated and improved to more effectively support the wide range of research activities targeted by... more
19031, 19102
Poster
009
GM Simulation of elastic waves in the presence of topography using a curvilinear staggered grid finite difference method
Ossian O'Reilly, Alexander Breuer, Yifeng Cui, Christine Goulet, Kim Olsen, Daniel Roten, Guillaume Thomas-Collignon, Te-Yang Yeh
We are in the process of incorporating topography into the anelastic wave propagation code AWP. This code is used within SCEC’s Cybershake project and High-F simulation activities. AWP solves the elastic wave equation by staggering velocity and... more

Poster 156
FARM The role of lithology in fault re-strengthening: A case study of the 2011 Prague, Oklahoma induced earthquake sequence
Kristina Okamoto, Heather Savage, Kathleen Keranen, Brett Carpenter
Faults dynamically weaken during earthquakes and strengthen between them. Thus, fault healing is an important part of the seismic cycle, which depends on in situ conditions as well as lithology. Understanding how faults re-strengthen after... more

Poster
049
Seismology Towards identifying its seismic observables in models of coseismic off-fault damage
Kurama Okubo, Harsha Bhat, Esteban Rougier, Marine Denolle
Coseismic off-fault damage is dynamically activated during earthquake ruptures due to stress concentration in the off-fault medium. The contribution of off-fault damage to the radiation and overall energy budget is non-negligible, and thus important... more

Poster
126
Geology Paleoseismology of the largest earthquakes from the Himalayan front
Koji Okumura, Javed Malik, Prakash Pokhrel, Soma Sapkota
A lot of new paleoseismological data and new interpretations of past data on the rapture history of the Himalayan frontal thrusts have been presented since 2015 Gorkha earthquake. There are plenty of exciting findings and interesting ideas that may... more

Poster
176
FARM Slip evolution across geometric barrier during the 2018 Palu Indonesia earthquake
Ryo Okuwaki, Yuji Yagi
How does a slip follow earthquake-rupture front propagating faster than at a local shear-wave velocity (supershear speed)? How does a supershear-rupture front go across geometric discontinuity in a fault system? Resolving in detail such a complex... more

Poster
136
SAFS Using UAV-mounted LiDAR surveys to investigate potential slip rate sites along the northernmost San Jacinto fault zone near its junction with the San Andreas fault in the Cajon Pass area, California
Nate Onderdonk, Drake Kerr, Paula Figueiredo
Paleoseismic data, slip-rate data, and modeling suggest that slip transfer between the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults may occur during simultaneous rupture of the two faults in the Cajon Pass area. To test this idea, slip-rate measurements and... more
18124
Poster 145
FARM Does a damaged fault zone mitigate the near-field landslide risk during supershear earthquakes?—Application to the 2018 magnitude 7.5 Palu earthquake
Elif Oral, Huihui Weng, Jean-Paul Ampuero
The 2018 Mw 7.5 Palu earthquake ruptured a strike-slip fault with a length of 150 km and struck the city of Palu severely by triggering many catastrophic phenomena in the proximity of the fault. Devastating tsunamis in the Palu Bay are triggered... more

Poster
078
Seismology A Percolation Model for Induced Seismicity: An Avalanche Burst Model for Induced b-Value Seismicity.
Ronaldo Ortez, John Rundle
In the interest of being able to reproduce the kinds of fracture networks produced during hydraulic fracking, we use percolation models which, near criticality, seem to produce the kinds of networks consistent with those produced during fracking. To... more

Poster
219
Ridgecrest Fault slip distribution along the southern 15 km of the M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake surface rupture
Salena Padilla, Sinan Akciz, Alexandra Hatem, James Dolan, Ridgecrest Rupture Mapping Group
A pair of large earthquakes struck the Searles Valley, California area on July 4 and 5, 2019. The July 5, M7.1 earthquake northeast of Ridgecrest, CA, ruptured bilaterally along an ~50 km long, right-lateral, fault zone striking NW-SE. We followed... more

Poster
028
EFP Explaining the paleo-event hiatus in California
Morgan Page, Edward Field, Kevin Milner, Nicholas van der Elst
There has been a notable absence of large earthquakes in the last century in California, particularly on the highest slip-rate faults. This lull was noted by Jackson (2014), who argued that the observed data precluded Poissonian or lognormal... more

Poster
047
Seismology Near-Surface Structure Constrained Using Body-Wave Polarization
Sunyoung Park, Victor Tsai, Miaki Ishii
Body-wave polarization is sensitive to properties immediately beneath a seismic instrument, and has been demonstrated to be effective at estimating the near-surface P- and S-wave speeds (Park & Ishii, 2018*). In this presentation, we discuss... more

Poster
077
Seismology The Guy-Greenbrier seismic sequence revisited with deep learning
Yongsoo Park, Mostafa Mousavi, Weiqiang Zhu, William Ellsworth, Gregory Beroza
The emerging deep-learning-based algorithms for earthquake detection and phase arrival time picking have shown to be promising replacements for traditional methods such as STA/LTA and template matching. We revisited the Guy-Greenbrier, Arkansas,... more

Poster
245
Ridgecrest Source, Site and Path Characterization of the July 2019 M7.1 and M6.4 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence
Grace Parker, Annemarie Baltay, Eric Thompson, John Rekoske, Dan McNamara
The 2019 July 5 M7.1 Ridgecrest, California earthquake generated peak ground motions in excess of 50% g and 60 cm/s near the fault and was recorded on over 700 local and regional seismic stations across California and eastern Nevada. In addition,... more

Poster
215
Geodesy Tools for GNSS application to tectonics
Jay Parker, Michael Heflin, Andrea Donnellan
We propose a common set of tools for regional GNSS time series analysis. To retrieve regional time-limited sets of time series for earthquakes and other phenomena simple scripting elements reduce the varieties of center-specific formats to a... more

Poster 305
CEO The Future of the SCEC Community Information System
Edric Pauk, Tran Huynh, Mei-Hui Su, Philip Maechling
SCEC provides scientists with collaborative, computing and data management facilities to support research collaborations, project administration, education and outreach programs, and advanced computational science. The SCEC Community Information... more

Poster
107
Geology Paleoseismic Results from the Christmas Canyon West Site, Central Garlock Fault, Searles Valley, California
Kyle Peña, Sally McGill, Ed Rhodes, James Dolan, Nathan Brown, Bryan Castillo, Alexandra Hatem, Sourav Saha, Robert Zinke
In this study, a paleoseismic trench with limited age constraints that was previously excavated in 1990 across the central Garlock Fault west of Christmas Canyon, in Searles Valley, California, was reopened to take advantage of new advances in... more

Poster
239
Ridgecrest Rheological implications of post-seismic deformation following the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes
Camilla Penney, Jean-Philippe Avouac
Large earthquakes provide an opportunity to probe the rheology of the lithosphere and upper asthenosphere. The 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes occurred in an area which may have significantly heterogeneous rheological properties, due to its proximity to... more

Poster
285
Seismology Field Volunteers for the Los Angeles BASIN Seismic Experiment – Phase IV
Patricia Persaud, Robert Clayton, Marine Denolle, Jascha Polet
In mid-November 2019, we will launch the fourth and final phase of the BASIN seismic deployments in the greater Los Angeles area. We are seeking further volunteers to help make the deployment of an additional 262 compact seismic units called nodes... more
19033, 18029
Poster
137
SAFS Using Ground-based Magnetics, VLF, and DC Resistivity to Examine Faulting at the San Andreas Oasis, Dos Palmas Preserve
Stacey Petrashek, Nathan Pulver, Raul Contreras, Drew Faherty, Jascha Polet
The San Andreas Oasis is located northeast of the Salton Sea near the convergence of several faults including the Hidden Spring and Powerline Faults, traces of which are mapped along a series of oases, seeps, and springs. Due to declining water... more


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