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OVERVIEW AGENDA TRAVEL APPLY PARTICIPANTS
IMPORTANT DATES

Applications Due: June 30, 2016

Arrival Date: July 24, 2016

Departure Date: July 27, 2016

 

SUNDAY,  JULY 24, 2016
15:00 Check-in at Lake Arrowhead Resort  
18:00-21:00 Welcome Dinner (Lower Pool Area, Lake Arrowhead Resort)  

 

MONDAY, JULY 25, 2016
07:00-08:00 Breakfast (Emerald Bay Room, Lake Arrowhead Resort)  
08:00-10:00 Introduction to Ambient noise analysis in seismology
  • Introduction to the excitation of microseisms
  • Basics of methods to construct Green’s functions
 K. Nishida
10:00-12:00 Structural imaging using the ambient seismic field
  • Robustness of surface-wave tomography (phase and amplitude)
  • Appropriateness of various theory
  • Pros and cons of measurement techniques
 V. Tsai
12:00-13:00 Lunch (Emerald Bay Room, Lake Arrowhead Resort)  
13:00-15:00 Seismic amplification and scattering in sedimentary basins
  • High-frequency ambient field correlation
  • Site amplification based on near-surface velocity estimation
  • Imaging deterministic and stochastic representations of structure
 N. Nakata
15:00-17:00 Virtual Earthquakes
  • Reproducing waveforms from past earthquakes using the ambient field: case studies from Japan (Kanto, Hi-net) and Los Angeles
 M. Denolle
18:00-20:00 Group Dinner (Lower Pool Area, Lake Arrowhead Resort)  
20:00-22:00 Poster Viewing (Pine Cone and Acorn Rooms, Lake Arrowhead Resort)  

 

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2016
07:00-08:00 Breakfast (Emerald Bay Room, Lake Arrowhead Resort)  
08:00-08:10 Day overview R. Arrowsmith
08:10-09:00 Motivation: Kumamoto Earthquake sequence, prior geological work, and high resolution topography in Japan K. Okumura
 
  Geological observations of Kumamoto earthquake T. Maruyama
09:00-09:15 Questions and discussion  
09:15-10:00 Introduction to High Resolution Topography and applications to active faulting R. Arrowsmith
10:00-10:15 Break  
10:15-11:00 Lidar topography demonstration -- Sonoma County R. Arrowsmith
M. Oskin
  Brief lecture on DSM/DTM  
11:00-12:00 El Mayor Cucupah earthquake lecture and vertical differencing demonstration M. Oskin
12:00-13:00 Lunch (Emerald Bay Room, Lake Arrowhead Resort)  
13:00-14:00 El Mayor Cucupah earthquake lecture and vertical differencing demonstration R. Arrowsmith
M. Oskin
14:00-14:45 Topographic differencing: overview and applications to El Mayor Cucupah and Japanese earthquakes E. Nissen
14:45-15:00 Break  
15:00-16:00 Kumomoto topography: mapping traces and offsets R. Arrowsmith
E. Nissen
16:00-16:45 Kumomoto offsets examined using LaDiCaOz R. Arrowsmith
E. Nissen
16:45-17:00 Discussion and wrap up  
18:00-20:00 Dinner (Lower Pool Area, Lake Arrowhead Resort)  
20:00-22:00 Poster Viewing (Pine Cone and Acorn Rooms, Lake Arrowhead Resort)  

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2016
07:00-08:00 Breakfast (Emerald Bay Room, Lake Arrowhead Resort)  
08:00-09:00 Site conditions from microtremors S. Matsushima
09:00-11:00 Geometry effects on dynamic ruptures J. Lozos
11:00-12:00 The Kumamoto Earthquake and other complex ruptures J. Mori
12:00-13:00 Boxed Lunches (Ballroom Foyer)  
13:00 Depart Lake Arrowhead Resort