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SSA 2016 Detailed Program Schedule • Meeting Program, 416 Program for 2016 SSA Annual Meeting Presenting author is indicated in bold. Wednesday, 20 April—Oral Sessions Time Tuscany 1/2 Tuscany 3/4 Tuscany 5/6 Tuscany 7/8 Tuscany A Advances in Seismotectonics Past and Multidisciplinary Induced Seismicity Noninvasive Beyond the Plate Future Seismic Studies of Session Chairs: Approaches to Boundary Moment Release: Earthquakes—Slow, Thomas Braun, Ivan Characterizing Session Chairs: Contributions Fast, and In Between: G. Wong, Justin Seismic Site Conveners: Will from Statistics and A Broad Range of Rubinstein, Thomas Conditions Levandowski, Geodesy Fault Behavior in Goebel, David Eaton, Session Chairs: Alan Christine Powell, and Session Chairs: Corné Space and Time Gail Atkinson, and Yong, Sheri Molnar, Oliver Boyd (see page Kreemer and Ilya Session Chair: Abhijit Honn Kao (see page and Aysegul Askan 449) Zaliapin (see page Ghosh (see page 462) 466) (see page 449) 458) 8:30 Site Response Damaged Crust and Invited: Assessing Invited: Universality Invited: am Implications Concentrations of the Sensitivity of of Slow Earthquakes Observations of Associated with North American Statistical Tests in the Very Low Numerous Hydraulic Common Methods Intraplate Seismic on Earthquake Frequency Band: Fracturing Induced used to Account for Vs Zones. Thomas, W. A., Catalogs. Daub, E. Summary of Regional Earthquake Profile Uncertainty. Powell, C. A. G., Trugman, D. T., Studies. Ide, S. Sequences in Cox, B. R., Teague, Johnson, P. A. Harrison County D. P. Ohio since 2013. Friberg, P. A., Brudzinski, M. R., Skoumal, R. J., Currie, B. S. 8:45 Blind-Test Case Roaming Invited: Earthquake Very Low Frequency Invited: Linking am Studies to Validate Midcontinental Forecasts based Earthquakes (VLFEs) Fossil Reefs with Non-Invasive Shear- Earthquakes: on Seismological, in Cascadia NOT Earthquakes: Wave Velocity Occurrence, Causes, Geological, and Coincident with Geologic Insight Profiling in Diverse and Hazards. Liu, M., Geodetic Information. Strong Tremor. to Where Induced Geologic Settings in Stein, S. Jackson, D. D. Ghosh, A., Seismicity occurs in Canada and Chile. Hutchison, A. Alberta. Schultz, Molnar, S., Ventura, R., Corlett, H., C. E., Boroschek, R., Haug, K., Kocon, K., Crow, H. MacCormack, K., Stern, V., Shipman, T. 416 Seismological Research Letters Volume 87, Number 2B March/April 2016 Wednesday, 20 April (continued) Time Tuscany 1/2 Tuscany 3/4 Tuscany 5/6 Tuscany 7/8 Tuscany A Noninvasive Seismotectonics Past and Future Slow, Fast, and In Induced Seismicity Approaches… Beyond the Plate Seismic Moment Between… Boundary Release… 9:00 Student: Bayesian North America’s On the Uncertainty Slow Active Intra- Natural Versus am Trans-Dimensional Midcontinent Rift: of the Seismic to plate Faults: the Anthropic Trigger Inversion of Surface- when Rift met LIP. Geodetic Moment Paleoseismology of of the Emilia 2012 Wave Dispersion Stein, S., Stein, C., Rate Ratio. Kreemer, the Rurrand Fault, Earthquakes. Pezzo, for Earthquake Site Kley, J., Keller, G. R., C., Zaliapin, I. Germany. Reicherter, G., Chiarabba, C., Response Estimation Wiens, D., Wysession, K. R., Grützner, C., De Gori, P., Lucente, in Northern British M., Aleqabi, G., Fischer, P. F. P. Columbia, Canada. Shen, W., Merino, Gosselin, J. M., M., Fredricksen, A., Cassidy, J. F., Dosso, S. Darbyshire, F., Jurdy, E., Brillon, C. D., Waite, G., Rose, W., Rooney, T., Moucha, R., Brown E. 9:15 Vs IMASW and Invited: Moho Invited: Complete Student: Cascadia Wastewater Disposal, am Vp-Depth Profiling, Temperature and Seismic Release of Seismogenic Zone Hydraulic Fracturing, NEHRP Site Compositional Tectonic Strain Earthquake Detection and Seismicity in Classifications, and Controls on and Earthquake and Location. Southern Kansas. Linear Shallow Lithospheric Bending Recurrence in the Morton, E. A., Bilek, Rubinstein, J. L., Amplification Strength in the Apennines (Italy). S. L., Rowe, C. A. Ellsworth, W. L. Functions: Western United States. D’Agostino, N. Geophysical Site Schutt, D. L., Lowry, Characterization of A. R., Buehler, J. S. Bay Area Seismic Monitoring Stations Following the M6.0 South Napa Earthquake. Turner, J. P., Brossy, C. C., O’Connell, D. R. H., Roughley, C. 9:30 Invited: Invited: Joint A Discussion of Fortnightly Tidal Stress Variations am Applications Inversion of Rayleigh the Earthquake Triggering of Low- Across Oklahoma of Refraction Wave Ellipticity and Risk at The Geysers frequency Earthquakes and Kansas, Natural Microtremor Done Phase Velocity across Geothermal Area, Constrains the Stress Earthquakes, Induced Right, and Pitfalls USArray. Lin, F., California, Based Budget of the Deep Seismicity, and of Microtremor Schmandt, B. on Strain Rates and San Andreas Fault. Their Links with Arrays Done Wrong. Seismic Moment van der Elst, N. J., Crustal and Upper Louie, J. N., Rates. Turcotte, Delorey, A. A., Shelly, Mantle Structure. Pullammanappallil, S. D. L., Hawkins, D. R., Johnson, P. A. Levandowski, W., A., Yikilmaz, M. McNamara, D. E. B., Kellogg, L. H., Rundle, J. B. 9:45– 10:45 Break am Seismological Research Letters Volume 87, Number 2B March/April 2016 417 Wednesday, 20 April (continued) Time Tuscany 1/2 Tuscany 3/4 Tuscany 5/6 Tuscany 7/8 Tuscany A Noninvasive Seismotectonics Past and Future Slow, Fast, and In Induced Seismicity Approaches… Beyond the Plate Seismic Moment Between… Boundary Release… 10:45 Inversion of Velocity Invited: GPS Comparison of Invited: Prospecting Wastewater Disposal am Structures Based Imaging of the Geodetic and for Stress Changes and Earthquake on the Empirical North American Geological/ Driven by SSEs Swarm Activity Relationship of Intracontinental Seismological Moment with the HOBITSS at the Southern Earthquake and Strain Rate Field. Rates for the Wasatch Ocean-bottom End of the Central Microtremor Kreemer, C., Front Region, Utah. Array, Offshore New Valley, California. Horizontal-to- Hammond, W. C., Pechmann, J. C., Zealand. Fry, B., Goebel, T. H. W., Vertical Ratios. Blewitt, G. Zeng, Y., Thomas, P. Henrys, S., Wallace, Hosseini, S. M., Mori, Y., Kawase, A., Petersen, M. D. L., Mochizuki, K., Cappa, F., Hauksson, H., Matsushima, S., Lebedev, S., Sheehan, E., Ampuero, J. P., Nagashima, F. A., Schwartz, S., Aminzadeh, F., Webb, S. Saleeby, J. B. 11:00 Directional Crustal Model of the Long-Term and Student: Student: am Dependent H/V St. Lawrence Corridor Short-Term Understanding the Mechanism Spectral Ratio of from Charlevoix to Seismicity Rates in Size and Impact of Intraplate Microtremors at Montreal. Bent, A. L., Cascadia: Gutenberg- of Non-Volcanic Earthquakes and Onahama, Japan. Kao, H. Richter instead Tremors in Parkfield: Anthropogenic Matsushima, of Characteristic. Deriving Tremor Causes in USA. S., Kosaka, H., Brocher, T. M. Energy Magnitudes Hagen, M. H. Kobayashi, T., Kawase, and Exploring H. their Statistics. Staudenmaier, N., Edwards, B., Tormann, T., Wiemer, S. 11:15 Source and Stability A Map of Faults and Earthquakes in the UAVSAR Observation Seismic Hazard am of Ambient Noise Lineaments of the Clockwork Earth. of Multi-Temporal Assessment for Gas in the Mississippi St. Lawrence Rift Rundle, J. B., Multi-Fault Behavior Extraction Induced Embayment, Central System. Lamontagne, Donnellan, A., Grant Associated with the Seismicity in the United States. M., Nadeau, L., Ludwig, L., Turcotte, 2010 M7.2 El Mayor— Context of Building Langston, C. A., Brouillette, P., Bédard, D. L. Cucapah Earthquake. Codes. Kraaijpoel, Shahjouei, A. M. P. Donnellan, A., D. A., Steenbergen, Parker, J. W. R. D. J. M. 11:30 Invited: Shallow Location of CEUS Student: Supercycles Student: A Ground Motion am 3D Velocity Imaging vs. Gulf Coast Q and Synchronization Detailed Spatio- Prediction Equation based on Seismic Boundary from Signatures in Synthetic Temporal Evolution for Induced Noise. Pilz, M. USArray Data. Seismic Sequences. of Aftershocks Earthquakes in Cramer, C. H., Al Milner, K. R., Jordan, and Repeating Oklahoma. Yenier, Noman, M. N. T. H. Earthquakes E., Atkinson, G. M., Following the 2012 Sumy, D. F. Mw7.6 Nicoya Earthquake. Yao, D., Meng, X., Peng, Z., Newman, A. V., Walter, J. I., Schwartz, S. Y., Protti, M. 418 Seismological Research Letters Volume 87, Number 2B March/April 2016 Wednesday, 20 April (continued) Time Tuscany 1/2 Tuscany 3/4 Tuscany 5/6 Tuscany 7/8 Tuscany A Noninvasive Seismotectonics Past and Future Slow, Fast, and In Induced Seismicity Approaches… Beyond the Plate Seismic Moment Between… Boundary Release… 11:45 Non-Linear Seismic An Issue with the Student: How Student: Detection Invited: am Site Characterization National Seismic Detailed Should and Location of Geomechanical Using Noninvasive Hazard Maps: Where Earthquake Hazard Earthquakes Along Analysis of Fluid Geophysics and Is the Boundary That Maps Be: Comparing the West Coast of Injection and Seismic Strong-Motion Separates the Use the Performance Chile: Examining Fault Slip for the Recordings. Wang, Z., of the Western U.S. of Japan’s Maps Seismicity in the 2010 M4.8 Timpson, Woolery, E. W., Rong, and CEUS Ground to Uniform, M 8.8 Maule Rupture Texas, Earthquake. M. Motion Prediction Randomized, and Zone. Diniakos, R. Fan, Z., Eichhubl, P., Models? Wong, I. G. Smoothed Maps. S., Bilek, S. L., Rowe, Gale, J. F. W. Brooks, E. M., Stein, C., Dragonov, D. S., Spencer, B. D., Liu, M. 12:00 –2:15 Annual Luncheon pm Earthquake Ground Motion Theoretical and Near Field and Induced Seismicity Early Warning: Spatial Variability: Methodological Directivity (continued) Network Design, Models, Methods and Innovations for
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