Research Projects

December 20, 2022

Paper: A Real‐Time and Data‐Driven Ground‐Motion Prediction Framework for Earthquake Early Warning

This study improves ShakeAlert's earthquake early warning system by enhancing ground-motion predictions with site-specific adjustments and a Bayesian approach. These refinements enable faster, more accurate alerts, helping people take action within second
August 15, 2022

Trugman: Machine-enabled modeling of terminus ablation for Greenland's outlet glaciers

NSF funded award for a machine-learning exercise to develop equations for ice-ocean interaction
June 15, 2022

Trugman: Testing Collision Versus Frictional Stress-Drop Models of High-Frequency Earthquake Ground Motions

NSF award to understand the physical origin of high-frequency seismic energy
September 1, 2021

Trugman: Toward an integrated modeling framework for physics-based estimates of megathrust rupture potential

Multidisciplinary approach to develop numerical models to understand megathrust earthquakes
June 2, 2020

Louie: Vs(z) Archive

Geotechnical shear-wave velocity versus depth data from hundreds of sites in Nevada, California, and New Zealand
January 31, 2020

Smith, Kent: Western Great Basin Seismic Network

5 year continued support of the larger ANSS seismic network
November 15, 2019

Kent, Smith: Earthquake Early Warning in Eastern California, Phases 1-3

The Nevada Seismological Laboratory is working with California ShakeAlert partners to bring earthquake warnings to eastern California.
August 21, 2019

Kent, Smith: USGS Cooperative Agreement Supplement: Deferred Maintenance - Phase 2

Phase 2 upgrade of seismic instruments focussed primarily in southern Nevada.
July 9, 2019

Kent, Kell, (Arnulf, Harding): NSF-funded: AXIAL3D Expedition

A group of 13 scientists is using 3D Seismic Imaging technology to understand the complex magma body structure within the submarine Axial Volcano, using assets provided by the R/V Marcus Langseth.
July 1, 2019

Wesnousky: Paleoseismology of the M7.3 1915 Pleasant Valley Earthquake Ruptures