UNR Seismology Technical Papers On-Line

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John N. Louie, 2000 in press, Faster, better: shear-wave velocity to 100 meters depth from refraction microtremor arrays: Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., accepted 6 Nov.

R. E. Abbott, J. N. Louie, S. J. Caskey, and S. Pullammanappallil, 2000, Geophysical confirmation of low-angle normal slip on the historically active Dixie Valley fault, Nevada: in press in Jour. Geophys. Res., Nov. 2. (1.1 Mb PDF)

Z. Kanbur, J. N. Louie, S. Chavez-Perez, G. Plank, D. Morey, 2000, Seismic reflection study of Upheaval Dome, Canyonlands National Park, Utah: Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), 105, 9489-9505. (1 Mb PDF; or HTML abstract with links to PDF text and figures)

Gene Ichinose, A Report on the 30 October 1998 Incline Village, Nevada, Earthquake

Gene Ichinose, "The potential hazard from tsunami generated by future large earthquakes within the Lake Tahoe basin, California-Nevada"

Gene Ichinose, Source Parameters of the 15 November 1995 Border Town, Nevada, Earthquake Sequence

Gene Ichinose, Moment Tensor Solutions of the 1994 to 1996 Double Spring Flat, Nevada Earthquake Sequence and Implications for Local Tectonic Models

Gene Ichinose, Seismic Analysis of the 7 January 1998 Kean Canyon, Nevada, Explosion

Gene Ichinose, A Test For Static And Dynamic Stress Changes On Triggered Aftershocks Caused by The 1978 Diamond Valley, California and 1994 Double Spring Flat, Nevada Earthquakes.

Gene Ichinose, 1997 USGS National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program Annual Project Summary

Gene Ichinose, 1998 USGS National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program Annual Project Summary

Gene Ichinose, Modeling Aftershocks of the 17 May 1993 M_w 6 Eureka Valley, California Earthquake

Robert E. Abbott and John N. Louie, 2000, Depth to bedrock using gravimetry in the Reno and Carson City, Nevada basins: Geophysics, 65, 340-350. (848 kb screen-resolution PDF ; or 24 Mb high-resolution PDF)

Ken Mela and John Louie, 2000, Correlation length and fractal dimension interpretation from seismic data using semivariograms and power spectra: submitted to Geophysics, revised October. (HTML)

Craig M. dePolo, John G. Anderson, Diane M. dePolo, and Jonathan G. Price, Earthquake Occurrence in the Reno-Carson City Urban Corridor: Seismological Research Letters, Volume 68, May/June, 1997, pages 401-412. (HTML)

J. Louie, G. Shields, G. Ichinose, M. Hasting, G. Plank, and S. Bowman, 1998, Shallow geophysical constraints on displacement and segmentation of the Pahrump Valley fault zone, California-Nevada border: in W. R. Lund, Ed., Proceedings of the May 13-15 Basin and Range Province Seismic-Hazards Summit, Utah Geological Survey, Cedar City, Utah, p. 139-146. (HTML or PDF)

Sergio Chávez-Pérez and John N. Louie, 1998, Crustal imaging in southern California using earthquake sequences: Tectonophysics, 286 (March 15), 223-236. (HTML)

Gordon Shields, Kip Allander, Russell Brigham, Ryan Crosbie, Lorenzo Trimble, Michael Sleeman, Richard Tucker, Hongbin Zhan, and John N. Louie, 1998, Geophysical surveys of an active fault: results from southern Pahrump Valley, California-Nevada border: Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 88, 270-275. (HTML)

Pullammanappallil, Sathish K., and John N. Louie, 1997, A combined first-arrival travel time and reflection coherency optimization approach to velocity estimation: Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 511-514. (HTML)

Louie, John N., Sathish K. Pullammanappallil, and William Honjas, 1997, Velocity models for the highly-extended crust of Death Valley, California: Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 735-738. (HTML)

Chávez-Pérez, Sergio, John N. Louie, and Sathish K. Pullammanappallil, 1998, Seismic depth imaging of normal faulting in the southern Death Valley basin: Geophysics, 63, 223-230. (HTML)

Louie, J. N., A. Cetintas, V. Chekuri, W. D. Corchuelo, Y. Lei, L. Li, G. Mekala, S. Ozalaybey, J. Raskulinecz, and R. B. Morrison, 1999 in preparation, Geophysical constraints on the cessation of extension and thickness of basin fill in Tecopa Valley, California: for Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. (HTML)

Asad, A. M., S. K. Pullammanappallil, R. Anooshehpoor, and J. N. Louie, 1997, Inversion of travel-time data for earthquake locations and three-dimensional velocity structure in the Eureka Valley area, eastern California: Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 89, 796-810. (HTML)

Honjas, W., J. Louie, and S. Pullammanappallil, 1999 in preparation, Cenozoic Tectonic History of the Hosgri Fault Zone, Offshore California from Seismic Imaging and Stratigraphic Analysis: for Geophysics. (HTML)

Ozalaybey,S. and M. K. Savage,Double Layer Anisotropy Resolved From S Phases, Geophys. J. Int., 117, 653-664, 1994. (HTML)

Ozalaybey,S. and M. K. Savage, Shear Wave Splitting Beneath Western United States in Relation to Plate Tectonics, J. Geophys. Res., 1995.(HTML)

Louie, J. N. and Qin, J., 1991, Subsurface imaging of the Garlock fault, Cantil Valley, California: J. Geophys. Res., 96, 14,461-14,479. (Compressed PostScript, no figures)

Louie, J. N., Clayton, R. W., and Le Bras, R. J., 1988, Three-dimensional imaging of steeply dipping structure near the San Andreas fault, Parkfield, California: Geophysics, 53, 176-185. (HTML)

Abbott, Robert E., ``Geophysical constraints on seismic hazard and tectonics in the western Basin and Range,'' Ph.D., August 2001 (directory of document files and Acrobat PDF figures)

Shields, Gordon, ``Source Parameter Investigation of the 1993 Rock Valley Earthquake Sequence'', M.S., May 1999 (1.8 Mbyte Acrobat PDF with figures)

Asad, Abu M., ``Linearized and nonlinear travel time tomography for upper crustal velocity structure of the western Great Basin'', Ph.D., May 1998 (HTML with links to Acrobat PDF figures)

Mela, Kenneth, ``Interpretation of Stochastic Hydrogeologic Properties from Seismic Data'', M.S., December 1997 (HTML with links to figures)

Chávez-Pérez, Sergio, ``Enhanced Imaging of Fault Zones in Southern California From Seismic Reflection Studies'', Ph.D., Dec. 1997 (Acrobat PDF files with figures, by chapter)

Pullammanappallil, Sathish K., ``Nonlinear Optimization to Estimate Velocities and Image Reflectors From Multi-Offset Seismic Data'', Ph.D., Dec. 1994:

• pullammanappallil.pdf (2.3 Mb Acrobat PDF, with figures)
• pullammanappallil.ps.Z (3 Mb Compressed PostScript, 10 Mb uncompressed, with figures)
• pullammanappallil.tex (LaTeX, no figures, will use many style files kept in this texinputs folder)

John N. Louie, ``Obtaining Surface-Wave Velocity Spectra from Seismic Refraction Recording Equipment,'' Stanford Exploration Project, Stanford University, 12 May 2000. (HTML)

John N. Louie, ``Geophysical Surveys of Basin Properties and Geometry: Examples of Seismic Hazard Evaluation From Nevada and New Zealand Basins,'' School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 23 April 1999. (HTML)

John N. Louie, ``Seismic Imaging of Faults in California and Nevada,'' Geophysics Section of Science Wellington, New Zealand, 17 Sept. 1998. (HTML)

John N. Louie, ``Geophysical Constraints on Extension East of Death Valley, California,'' UNR Seismology Colloquium, 17 Feb. 1998. (HTML)

John N. Louie, ``Geophysical Surveys of the Upheaval Dome Impact Structure, Canyonlands National Park, Utah,'' UNR Seismology Colloquium, 10 Feb. 1998. (HTML)

John N. Louie, ``Monte-Carlo Alternatives to Linearized Inversions for Earth Imaging,'' UNR Mathematics Colloquium, 9 Nov. 1995. (HTML)

James N Brune, Distribution of Precarious Rocks Away from the San Andreas Fault: Data for Constraining Strong Motion Attenuation Relationships for Great Earthquakes

Ichinose G A; J G Anderson and K D Smith, Static Stress Changes Caused by the 1978 Diamond Valley, California and 1994 Double Spring Flat, Nevada Earthquakes

M. L. Johnson ; L. Yarema ; J. N. Brune ; S. G. Wesnousky; Structural Features in a Brittle-Ductile wax Model of Continental Shear and Extension

J N Louie, Z Kanbur, S Chavez-Perez, and G Plank, Seismic Reflection Imaging of Impact-Induced Faulting and Deformation at Upheaval Dome, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Gordon Shields, James Brune, Ken Smith, Small earthquake scaling from very shallow, repeating events in southern Nevada

Smith, K.D., D. von Seggern UNR, K. Meyeda, W.R. Walter LLNL, Seismic observations from the August 28, 1997, ML=2.6, suspected underground cavity collapse at the Nevada Test Site

Feng Su, John G. Anderson, Shean Der Ni and Yuehua Zeng, Site Amplification and Basin Response on Strong Motion in Las Vegas

D. H. von Seggern, Earthquake Location With Grids -- Not Just for 3-D Velocity Models

Yuehua Zeng, Feng Su and John G. Anderson, Site Effects at Tarzana Implied from the Northridge Earthquakes

S. Chavez-Perez and J. N. Louie, 1997, Isotropic scattering and seismic imaging of crustal fault zones using earthquakes: submitted to Expanded Abstracts, Soc. of Explor. Geophys. 67th Annual Internat. Meeting, Nov. 2-7, Dallas, Texas. (HTML) (or PDF version)

S. Chavez-Perez and J. N. Louie, 1997, Seismic reflection views of the 1994 Northridge earthquake hypocentral region using aftershock data and imaging techniques: to be presented at the Northridge Earthquake Research Conference, Calif. Univ. for Res. in Earthquake Engin., Aug. 20-22, Los Angeles. (HTML or PDF)

Ken Mela, 1997, Viability of using seismic data to predict hydrogeological parameters: submitted to Proceedings of 10th Annual Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems (SAGEEP '97), March 23-26, Reno/Sparks, Nevada. (HTML)

R. E. Karlin, R.J. Watters, M.J. Grass, C.F. Prunier, and M. Holmes, Seismic landslides in Puget Sound (SLIPS) II: Quaternary faulting and submarine mass-wasting (text)

J. Louie, G. Ichinose, G. Shields, M. Hasting, G. Plank, and S. Bowman, Shallow geophysical characterization of the Pahrump Valley fault zone, California-Nevada border (HTML)

C.F. Prunier, R.E. Karlin, M. Holmes, and T. Pratt, Seismic landslides in Puget Sound (SLIPS) IV: Holocene neotectonics and mass wasting in Lake Sammamish related to the Seattle Fault (text)

R.J. Watters, R.E. Karlin, M.J. Grass, C.F. Prunier, and M. Holmes, Seismic landslides in Puget Sound (SLIPS) III: Controls on stability (text)

John Louie, Gordon Shields, Gene Ichinose, Michael Hasting, Gabriel Plank, and Steve Bowman, 1997, Shallow geophysical constraints on displacement and segmentation of the Pahrump Valley fault zone: accepted for the proceedings volume of Nov. 14-16 1996 Seismic Hazards in the Las Vegas Region conference, 22 January. (HTML with 282 kb of images, or 2.1 Mb Adobe Acrobat PDF)

John G. Anderson and James N. Brune, Methodology for using precarious rocks in Nevada to test seismic hazard models (text)

James N. Brune and John G. Anderson, Precarious rocks and seismic risk in the Las Vegas region (text)

Feng Su and John G. Anderson, Basin effects on strong motion in Las Vegas (text)

Sergio Chávez-Pérez and John N. Louie, University of Nevada, Reno & Sathish K. Pullammanappallil, Rice University, Seismic depth imaging of normal faulting in the southern Death Valley basin (HTML)

Sergio Chávez-Pérez and John Louie, Reflectivity Structure Beneath SanFernando Valley, California, Using Seismicity Data and Exploration Seismology Techniques (HTML)

A M Asad and J N Louie, Pg Velocity Structure of the Western Great Basin by a Simple Tomography Scheme (LaTeX source also available)

G. P. Biasi, R. C. Witter, and R. J. Weldon, II , Approaches to Paleoseismic Date Refinement in the PNW Coastal Context

James N Brune, John W Bell, Rasool Anooshehpoor, Tanzhuo Liu, and Matek Zreda, Precarious Rocks and Earthquake Hazard in Southern California

Sergio Chavez-Perez and John N. Louie, Seismic Reflection Views of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake Hypocentral Region Using Aftershock Data (HTML)

G A Ichinose, S M Day, H Magistrale, T Prush, F Vernon and A Edelman, Moho Topography Beneath Peninsular Ranges, Southern California From Teleseismic Receiver Functions

Steven C. Jaume, S. J. Caskey and S. G. Wesnousky, Stress Transfer During the 1915-1954 Central Nevada Earthquake Sequence (LaTeX source also available)

L Li, J N Louie, J N Brune, and S Louis, Nonlinear Global Optimization of Seismic Refraction Data For 2-D Velocity Structure Using Genetic Algorithms (LaTeX source also available)

J N Louie, S Chavez-Perez, and G Plank, Impact Deformation at Upheaval Dome, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, Revealed by Seismic Profiles (HTML poster; HTML abstract and LaTeX abstract source also available)

M K Savage, A F Sheehan, and J E Bartsch, Seismic Anisotropy Across the Colorado Plateau and Surrounding Regions (LaTeX source also available)

Gordon Shields, Ken Smith, and Jim Brune, Source Parameters of a Sequence of Very Shallow Earthquakes in the Rock Valley Fault Zone, Southern Nevada Test Site (LaTeX source also available)

Asad, Louie and Pullammanappallil, Combination of Linear Inversion and Nonlinear Optimization for Hypocenter and Velocity Estimation (HTML)

Louie and Chavez-Perez, Reflectivity Structure Below San Fernando Valley, California, from Northridge Aftershock Recordings (HTML)

Pullammanappallil and Louie, Regional Velocity Estimation by Simultaneous Optimization of Earthquake and Refraction Travel Time Data (HTML)

Ozalaybey,S., A. F. Sheehan, and M. K. Savage, Shear Wave Velocity Structure in the Basin and Range Province From Combined Analysis of Surface Waves and Receiver Functions, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 75,484,1994.(HTML)

Shields et al., Magnetic and Conductivity Signature of an Active Fault: Results From Geophysical Surveys in Southern Pahrump Valley, CA-NV Border (HTML)

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