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Katie KERANEN
Institute
Cornell University
Title
Associate Professor
Country
USA
Period of Stay
2020/01/01 – 2020/05/31
Research Theme

Characterizing earthquake triggering, upper-plate faults, and fault-volcano interactions using seismicity recorded on dense arrays

Host Researcher
Aitaro KATO

Self-Introduction


I am an associate professor at Cornell University in the U.S. I use a range of seismic methods to study deformation in the Earth’s crust, including local seismicity, multi-channel active-source imaging, and passive source structural methods such as receiver functions and tomography. My research is focused on actively deforming regions including extension in the East African Rift System and the western US, subduction megathrust behavior in Alaska and Cascadia, and upper plate faulting in Cascadia and Chile. In the last 10 years my work has expanded to include seismicity in the previously quiet region of Oklahoma, in the central United States, related to industrial operations. I use this frequent and well-monitored seismicity dataset from Oklahoma to study fault structures and earthquake nucleation patterns. In each of these regions, I am interested in understanding the interplay between deformation and aqueous or magmatic fluids.

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