Physical applications of GPS geodesy: A review

Y Bock, D Melgar - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesy, the oldest science, has become an important discipline in the geosciences, in
large part by enhancing Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities over the last 35 years …

Post-glacial sea-level change along the Pacific coast of North America

DH Shugar, IJ Walker, OB Lian, JBR Eamer… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sea-level history since the Last Glacial Maximum on the Pacific margin of North America is
complex and heterogeneous owing to regional differences in crustal deformation …

Deep learning of aftershock patterns following large earthquakes

PMR DeVries, F Viégas, M Wattenberg, BJ Meade - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Aftershocks are a response to changes in stress generated by large earthquakes and
represent the most common observations of the triggering of earthquakes. The maximum …

New empirical earthquake source‐scaling laws

KKS Thingbaijam, PM Mai… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We develop new empirical scaling laws for rupture width W⁠, rupture length L⁠, rupture
area A⁠, and average slip D⁠, based on a large database of rupture models. The database …

Probabilistic tsunami forecasting for early warning

J Selva, S Lorito, M Volpe, F Romano, R Tonini… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Tsunami warning centres face the challenging task of rapidly forecasting tsunami threat
immediately after an earthquake, when there is high uncertainty due to data deficiency. Here …

Rupture characteristics of major and great (Mw  ≥ 7.0) megathrust earthquakes from 1990 to 2015: 1. Source parameter scaling relationships

L Ye, T Lay, H Kanamori… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Source parameter scaling for major and great thrust‐faulting events on circum‐Pacific
megathrusts is examined using uniformly processed finite‐fault inversions and radiated …

The surge of great earthquakes from 2004 to 2014

T Lay - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
During the decade from mid-2004 to mid-2014 18 great (M w≥ 8.0) earthquakes occurred
globally (∼ 1.8 per year), compared to 71 from 1900 to mid-2004 (∼ 0.68 per year), yielding …

A block model of present‐day kinematics of Alaska and western Canada

J Elliott, JT Freymueller - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present an updated GPS velocity field for Alaska and western Canada and use it to
develop the first regionally comprehensive tectonic block model for the area based on …

A self‐consistent fault slip model for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

Y Yamazaki, KF Cheung, T Lay - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The unprecedented geophysical and hydrographic data sets from the 2011 Tohoku
earthquake and tsunami have facilitated numerous modeling and inversion analyses for a …

The 2017 Mw 8.2 Chiapas, Mexico, Earthquake: Energetic Slab Detachment

L Ye, T Lay, Y Bai, KF Cheung… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On 8 September 2017, a great (M w 8.2) normal faulting earthquake ruptured within
the subducting Cocos Plate~ 70 km landward from the Middle American Trench beneath the …