Come check out my talk on Monday at #AGU2022! I'll show work I did with Zachary Ross looking for rupture patterns in all large strike-slip earthquakes of the past few decades using a neat new Bayesian inversion for low dimensional source characteristics. See image for details:

In another talk at #AGU2022, I'll be presenting work with Zhongwen Zhan Yan Yang and Weiqiang Zhu on imaging the Garlock Fault Zone at high spatial resolution with DAS. Come check it out if you're interested! Details in the image below:

A hammer strike may not seem like much, but if you swing it 49 times (yes, I did that...) and stack the data, you can see it clearly on our new South Pole DAS array 2 miles away!! We are going to bring out the big hammer (40kg) today and hope to see more!

Rupture processes of the two Turkey major events. The M7.8 mainshck first ruptured NE direction for over 100km, then departed from hypocenter to the SW. The M7.6 event ruptured bilaterally, and its last subevent E4 activated a NE-trending subfault. Very complex ruptures.

I'm at SSA! Come say hi at my poster on Tuesday. I'll be talking about my work with Zachary Ross to find patterns in finite properties of large strike-slip ruptures using higher moments of the source distribution. Mine is poster #8.

#SSA2023 has begun! Check out Grad Student James Atterholt's Jimmy Atterholt poster where he presents an investigation of finite source characteristics of all large strike-slip earthquakes of the past three decades, finding several interesting patterns! seismosoc.secure-platform.com/a/solicitation…

I'll be giving a talk tomorrow at SSA on my work imaging the Garlock Fault Zone from the shallow subsurface to seismogenic depth with DAS. It's a collaborative effort with Zhongwen Zhan, Yan Yang, and Weiqiang Zhu. Come check it out if you're interested!

Interested in submarine DAS? Feel free to swing by my talk tomorrow at 8:15am #SSA. I will present how to enhance the T-wave signals on submarine cable through curvelet denoising and how to use them for ocean seismicity and thermometry. #WHOI

New paper out in #GJI with Zachary Ross! We invert for probabilistic estimates of low-dimensional source characteristics for every large strike-slip earthquake of the past three decades. We find several interesting patterns in rupture behavior. Link: academic.oup.com/gji/article/23…

Meet Jimmy Atterholt, a Seismo Lab Grad Student using new instruments and applied math to image crustal structure and earthquake ruptures! Jimmy is giving a talk on his Fiber Optic Seismology research today in the Benioff Room! (254 S Mudd) #SeismoLabSpotlight Jimmy Atterholt

We just published a preprint! We used a dark fiber to image the Garlock Fault and discovered some peculiar properties of its damage zone and velocity structure. This shows how useful DAS can be for imaging major faults. Link: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.22…

If you are interested in faults and fault zones and/or how they affect ruptures, please consider submitting an abstract to our interdisciplinary session at #AGU24! agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

Another outstanding PhD co-advised with Zachary Ross : Dr. James Atterholt Jimmy Atterholt! Published multiple papers on applying DAS to detect and image fault zones. Won 2 OSPAs from SSA andAGU. Will join USGS as a Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow soon. Congratulations! #proud #mentor

New paper led by Hao Guo! We carefully relocated events in the slab in southern Cascadia and computed their source parameters. Our observations suggest relatively low effective stress in the slab crust and, by extension, the megathrust. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1785/022024…

DAS meets the Moho! New Science Adv paper w/ Zhongwen Zhan. We developed a method for finding Moho reflections in DAS data. One EQ can yield 10s of km of fine-scale Moho depth estimates. We used it on SoCal EQs and learned about the Garlock, Coso, and more doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…