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2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake:

Date: 06/22/2015

On behalf of Kayla Kroll, UC Riverside:
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We would like to draw your attention to the following special session for the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December:

Session ID#: 7427

Session Description: The 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake has sparked ongoing research efforts on a variety of topics in earthquake physics and tectonics. Unprecedented seismic, geodetic, optical and geologic coverage of the mainshock revealed a geometrically and temporally complex earthquake, motivating many studies of many topics including rupture dynamics, fault segmentation, and co- and post- seismic deformation. Additionally, the earthquake triggered both 1) a vigorous aftershock and fault creep sequence that has made for ideal case studies of static and dynamic stress triggering, fault zone structure, and crustal anisotropy and 2) longer-term postseismic deformation that, along with new seismic studies of the Salton Trough, has provided a window into the rheology and geodynamic evolution of the Pacific-North American plate boundary. We invite contributions that provide new insights into this earthquake and the surrounding region and into the earthquake process at!
  all spatial and temporal scales.

Conveners:
Kayla Kroll, University of California Riverside
Chris Rollins, Caltech

Index Terms:
        7209 Earthquake dynamics [SEISMOLOGY]
        7230 Seismicity and tectonics [SEISMOLOGY]
        8111 Continental tectonics: strike-slip and transform [TECTONOPHYSICS]
        8159 Rheology: crust and lithosphere [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Cross-Listed:
G - Geodesy
S - Seismology

Deadline: 5 August 2015, 11:59 P.M. EDT

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Kayla A. Kroll
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Earth Sciences
University of California, Riverside