Ken Smith, Nevada Seismological Laboratory

Ken Smith
Nevada Seismological Lab MS 174
University of Nevada Reno
Reno, Nevada 89557
Research Assistant Professor
775-784-4218
ken@seismo.unr.edu

Research Areas

Seismicity and Seismotectonics of the Great Basin
Reno-Carson City-Lake Tahoe Area Seismicity and Tectonics
Earthquake Source Processes
Yucca Mountain Area Seismicity and Tectonics
K-12 Science Education

Interests

K-12 Science Education; Nevada K-12 Seismic Network
Seismic Networks; Real-Time Data Management Systems


		*Select Publications:*
	Brune, J.N., Smith, K.D., Zeng, Y, (2004) Precarious Rock Evidence for seismic shaking during and before the 1992 M 5.6 Little Skull Mountain, Nevada, Earthquake, accepted for publication to Earthquake Spectra.
	Schweickert, R.A, M. M. Lahren, K. D. Smith, and J. F. Howle. (2004) Transtensional defomation in the Lake Tahoe region, CA and NV, in press Tectonophysics.
	Smith, K.D., Brune, J.N., Savage, M., dePolo, D.M., and Sheehan, A. (2001). The 1992 Little Skull Mountain earthquake sequence, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 91, 1595-1606.
	Smith, K.D. and K.F. Priestley (2000) Faulting in the 1986 Chalfant, California, Sequence; Local Tectonics and Earthquake Source Parameters, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 90, 813-831.
	Smith, K.D. and Biasi, G.P., Is the Eastern Sierra Nevada Overriding a Volcanic Source at Long Valley? A Tectonic Model for the West-Central Basin and Range, (poster presentation) EOS, Americal Geophysical Union, annual meeting 2002.

contact: (ken@seismo.unr.edu)