Blue Earth Seismology Seminar

2019-S semester (Friday 10:30-12:00) @ERI Bld#1-3F
Coordinator(2019 S): Ta-Wei Chang

• 4/5 short introductory meeting
• 4/19 The hidden simplicity of subduction megathrust earthquakes; Meier et al. (2017) Science (reported by Ta-Wei Chang, EPS) PDF;
  related paper: "Global variations of large megathrust earthquake rupture characteristics" by Ye et al. (2018) Sci. Adv. PDF;
• 4/26 The nature of subslab slow velocity anomalies beneath South America; Portner et al. (2017) GRL (by HyeJeong Kim, ERI) PDF;
• 5/10 Large scale lithospheric detachment of the downgoing Cocos plate: The 8 September 2017 earthquake (Mw 8.2); Suarez et al. (2019) EPSL (by Raymundo Plata, EPS) PDF;
• 5/17 What can we do to forecast tsunami hazards in the near field given large epistemic uncertainty in rapid seismic source inversions?; Cienfuegos et al. (2018) GRL (by Yuchen Wang, ERI) PDF
• 5/24(skipped for JpGU)
• 5/31(skipped for JpGU)
• 6/7 High seismic attenuation at a mid-ocean ridge reveals the distribution of deep melt; Eilon and Abers (2017) Sci. Adv. (by Jumpei Maruyama, ERI) PDF
• 6/14 The 2018 rift eruption and summit collapse of Kilauea Volcano; Neal et al. (2018) Science (by Osamu Sandanbata, ERI) PDF;
  related paper: "The rupture process of the 2018 Mw 6.9 Hawaii earthquake as imaged by a genetic algorithm-based back-projection technique" by Kehoe et al. (2019) GRL PDF;
  related paper#2: PDF;
• 6/21 Water input into the Mariana subduction zone estimated from ocean-bottom seismic data; Cai et al. (2018), Nature (by Yang Shen, ERI visiting professor) PDF;
• 6/28 A unified continental thickness from seismology and diamonds suggests a melt-defined plate; Tharimena et al. (2017) Science (by Yuki Kawano, ERI) PDF