Search Results - "Bilek, Susan L"

Invited review paper: Seismicity along the South American subduction zone: Review of large earthquakes, tsunamis, and subduction zone complexity by Bilek, Susan L.

“…Earthquakes along the shallow South American subduction zone exhibit heterogeneous rupture characteristics, going back several centuries of the earthquake…”
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Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004 by Lay, Thorne, Kanamori, Hiroo, Ammon, Charles J, Nettles, Meredith, Ward, Steven N, Aster, Richard C, Beck, Susan L, Bilek, Susan L, Brudzinski, Michael R, Butler, Rhett, DeShon, Heather R, Ekström, Göran, Satake, Kenji, Sipkin, Stuart

“…The two largest earthquakes of the past 40 years ruptured a 1600-kilometer-long portion of the fault boundary between the Indo-Australian and southeastern…”
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Low stress drop earthquakes in the rupture zone of the 1992 Nicaragua tsunami earthquake by Bilek, Susan L., Rotman, Holly M. M., Phillips, W. Scott

“…Tsunami earthquakes, events that generate larger than expected tsunami and are deficient in high‐frequency seismic radiation, are rare but hazardous to coastal…”
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Rupture characterization and aftershock relocations for the 1994 and 2006 tsunami earthquakes in the Java subduction zone by Bilek, Susan L., Engdahl, E. Robert

“…Two tsunami earthquakes occurred in the Java subduction zone within the last 12 years, providing multiple well‐recorded tsunami events for analysis. The June…”
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Subduction zone megathrust earthquakes by Bilek, Susan L, Lay, Thorne

“…Subduction zone megathrust faults host Earth's largest earthquakes, along with multitudes of smaller events that contribute to plate convergence. An…”
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Invited review paper: Fault creep caused by subduction of rough seafloor relief by Wang, Kelin, Bilek, Susan L.

“…Among the wide range of thermal, petrologic, hydrological, and structural factors that potentially affect subduction earthquakes, the roughness of the…”
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The 25 October 2010 Sumatra tsunami earthquake: Slip in a slow patch by Bilek, Susan L., Engdahl, E. Robert, DeShon, Heather R., El Hariri, Maya

“…Various models for the generation of tsunami earthquakes have been proposed, including shallow earthquake slip through low strength materials. Because these…”
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Spatial variations in earthquake source characteristics within the 2011 Mw = 9.0 Tohoku, Japan rupture zone by Bilek, Susan L., DeShon, Heather R., Engdahl, E. Robert

“…The great Mw = 9.0 2011 Tohoku earthquake appears to have complex rupture characteristics, with slower rupture velocity during the early portion of the rupture…”
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Poroelastic Response to Karst Conduit Pressurization: A Finite Element Modeling Exercise Toward the Use of Tiltmeters in Karst Aquifer Monitoring Applications by Gochenour, Jacob Alexander, Rinehart, Alex J., Luhmann, Andrew J., Grapenthin, Ronni, Bilek, Susan L.

“…Tiltmeters have the potential to resolve ground deformation due to changes in hydraulic head induced by conduit pressurization. Conduit pressure variations…”
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Differences in tsunami generation between the December 26, 2004 and March 28, 2005 Sumatra earthquakes by Geist, Eric L., Bilek, Susan L., Arcas, Diego, Titov, Vasily V.

“…Source parameters affecting tsunami generation and propagation for the M w > 9.0 December 26, 2004 and the M w = 8.6 March 28, 2005 earthquakes are examined to…”
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Effect of depth-dependent shear modulus on tsunami generation along subduction zones by Geist, Eric L., Bilek, Susan L.

“…Estimates of the initial size of tsunamis generated by subduction zone earthquakes are significantly affected by the choice of shear modulus at shallow depths…”
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The Role of Fault‐Zone Architectural Elements on Pore Pressure Propagation and Induced Seismicity by Ortiz, John P., Person, Mark A., Mozley, Peter S., Evans, James P., Bilek, Susan L.

“…We used hydrogeologic models to assess how fault‐zone properties promote or inhibit the downward propagation of fluid overpressures from a basal reservoir…”
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Slab pull, slab weakening, and their relation to deep intra-slab seismicity by Bilek, Susan L., Conrad, Clinton P., Lithgow-Bertelloni, Carolina

“…Subduction zone seismicity is highly variable. Great earthquakes occur at few subduction zones around the world, with significant variation in size and…”
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Ambient Seismic Noise Tomography Within the Floridan Aquifer System, Santa Fe River‐Sink Rise, Florida, US by Gochenour, Jacob Alexander, Bilek, Susan L., Woo, Han Byul, Luhmann, Andrew J., Grapenthin, Ronni, Martin, Jonathan B.

“…This study utilized ambient seismic noise tomography to investigate correlations of hydrogeological systems with heterogeneous porosity with the internal…”
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Cascadia Subduction Zone Fault Heterogeneities From Newly Detected Small Magnitude Earthquakes by Morton, Emily A., Bilek, Susan L., Rowe, Charlotte A.

“…The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) is known to host M9 megathrust ruptures; however, no such event has occurred in historical observation. The distribution and…”
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Stress changes and aftershock distribution of the 1994 and 2006 Java subduction zone earthquake sequences by El Hariri, Maya, Bilek, Susan L.

“…The Mw = 7.8 1994 and the Mw = 7.7 2006 interplate thrust mechanism earthquakes that occurred in the Java subduction zone produced dominantly normal‐faulting…”
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Relocation and characterization of the August 2009 microearthquake swarm above the Socorro magma body in the central Rio Grande Rift by Ruhl, Christine, Bilek, Susan L., Stankova-Pursley, Jana

“…Earthquake swarms, often attributed to magma or fluid movement in the uppermost crust, have differing statistics depending on tectonic setting, with volcanic…”
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Along-strike variability of rupture duration in subduction zone earthquakes by El Hariri, Maya, Bilek, Susan L., DeShon, Heather R., Engdahl, E. Robert, Bisrat, Shishay

“…Subduction zone earthquakes exhibit a wide spectrum of rupture times that reflect conditions on the megathrust fault. Tsunami earthquakes are examples of…”
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Response to Comment on "The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004" by Lay, Thorne, Kanamori, Hiroo, Ammon, Charles J., Nettles, Meredith, Ward, Steven N., Aster, Richard, Beck, Susan L., Bilek, Susan L., Brudzinski, Michael R., Butler, Rhett, DeShon, Heather R., Ekström, Göran, Satake, Kenji, Sipkin, Stuart

“…We support the revised estimate of tsunami source length (∼800 km) obtained by Neetu et al . Sea-level monitoring with a high sampling rate, good azimuthal…”
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Rigidity variations with depth along interplate megathrust faults in subduction zones by Bilek, Susan L, Lay, Thorne

“…The world's largest earthquakes occur along the contact between subducting and overriding tectonic plates in subduction zones. Rock and sediment properties…”
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