The October, 1995 Mw 8.0 Jalisco subduction earthquake has provided a thorough geodetic observation of the coseismic subduction process. An 11 station regional GPS network located directly onshore of the rupture demonstrates consistent vertical subsidence verified by tide gauge data and southwest-directed extension, with measured displacements reaching I meter. Unusually shallow and non-uniform...

Seismological observations of the 2012 moment magnitude 8.6 Sumatra earthquake reveal unprecedented complexity of dynamic rupture. The surprisingly large magnitude results from the combination of deep extent, high stress drop, and rupture of multiple faults. Back-projection source imaging indicates that the rupture occurred on distinct planes in an orthogonal conjugate fault system, with relati...

We develop flexural models of axial high topography which include the effects of plastic yielding, and use the results to examine the contribution of plate bending stresses and strains to fault patterns at the East Pacific Rise (EPR). The lithosphere responds to buoyancy near the ridge axis created by the presence of elevated temperatures and melt within the crust. Parameterizing these quantiti...

Surface deformation and earthquake swarms are correlated in space time with operations at the Brawley geothermal field southern California. The seismicity culminated 2012, about 2 years after onset of activity, a M5.4 earthquake. These earthquakes occurred >5km depth, much larger than ∼1km reach wells, raising questions triggering mechanism. shows that aseismic slip on normal fault intersecting...

The Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Wide Area Product (PSI-WAP) based on ERS1 & ERS2 radar data has been used in the seismic active area of Atalanti Faulting Zone (Central Greece) to spatially and temporally study the ground deformation for the period 1992-2003. The observed LOS velocity field, with values ranging between -0.5 to -5.0 mm/yr, combined with small standard deviation velocity v...

Basin-and-range geothermal resources are typically fault-controlled, deep-circulation systems. They commonly occur beneath thick sequences of Tertiary and Quaternary basin-fill sediments which hinder understanding of fault geometries and faulting patterns. Recent experience at Dixie Valley and survey of the literature for other systems suggest a low-cost and rapid exploration strategy for estab...

On 23 June 2014, the largest intermediate depth earthquake (Mw 7.9) of the last 100 years ruptured within the subducting Pacific plate about 100 km below the Rat Islands archipelago of the Western Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The unusual faulting orientation, strike = 206°, dip = 24°, and rake = 14°, is possibly related to curvature of the underthrust slab and high obliquity of the relative plate ...

Induced earthquakes currently pose a significant hazard in the central United States, but there is considerable uncertainty about the severity of their ground motions. We measure stress drops of 39 moderate-magnitude induced and tectonic earthquakes in the central United States and eastern North America. Induced earthquakes, more than half of which are shallower than 5 km, show a comparable med...