The Beginnings of Earthquakes

DATE: 20 February 1997

TIME: 1-5 pm

LOCATION: Building: Baxter Hall, CALTECH

ROOM: Baxter Lecture Hall

SCHEDULE:

Introduction

1. Bill Ellsworth (USGS)
"Seismograms and the beginnings of earthquakes"

2. Jim Dieterich (USGS)
"Nucleation of unstable fault slip"

3. Jim Mori (USGS)
"Looking at rupture initiations across several orders of
magnitudes from earthquake sequences in southern California"

COFFEE BREAK

4. Doug Dodge (LLNL)
"Detailed observations of California foreshock sequences:
Implications for the earthquake initiation process"

5. Greg Beroza (Stanford)
"What Will it Take to Discriminate Between the Cascade and Preslip Models?"

6. Hiroo Kanamori (Caltech)
"Prologram: Beginning of Earthquakes and Its Implications for Earthquake Process"

Open Discussion

5:00 End