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The 2018 update of the US National Seismic Hazard Model; overview of model and implications by Petersen, Mark D, Shumway, Allison M, Powers, Peter M, Mueller, Charles S, Moschetti, Morgan P, Frankel, Arthur D, Rezaeian, Sanaz, McNamara, Daniel E, Luco, Nico, Boyd, Oliver S, Rukstales, Kenneth S, Jaiswal, Kishor S, Thompson, Eric M, Hoover, Susan M, Clayton, Brandon S, Field, Edward H, Zeng, Yuehua

“…During 2017-2018, the National Seismic Hazard Model for the conterminous United States was updated as follows: (1) an updated seismicity catalog was…”
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The 2014 United States National Seismic Hazard Model by Petersen, Mark D, Moschetti, Morgan P, Powers, Peter M, Mueller, Charles S, Haller, Kathleen M, Frankel, Arthur D, Zeng, Vuehua, Rezaeian, Sanaz, Harmsen, Stephen C, Boyd, Oliver S

“…New seismic hazard maps have been developed for the conterminous United States using the latest data, models, and methods available for assessing earthquake…”
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Stress before and after the 2002 Denali fault earthquake by Wesson, Robert L., Boyd, Oliver S.

“…Spatially averaged, absolute deviatoric stress tensors along the faults ruptured during the 2002 Denali fault earthquake, both before and after the event, are…”
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Dense lower crust elevates long‐term earthquake rates in the New Madrid seismic zone by Levandowski, Will, Boyd, Oliver S., Ramirez‐Guzmán, Leonardo

“…Knowledge of the local state of stress is critical in appraising intraplate seismic hazard. Inverting earthquake moment tensors, we demonstrate that principal…”
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Empirical ground-motion basin response in the California Great Valley, Reno, Nevada, and Portland, Oregon by Ahdi, Sean K, Aagaard, Brad T, Moschetti, Morgan P, Parker, Grace A, Boyd, Oliver S, Stephenson, William J

“…We assess how well the Next-Generation Attenuation-West 2 (NGA-West2) ground-motion models (GMMs), which are used in the US Geological Survey’s (USGS) National…”
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Illuminating the plate interface structure beneath Cook Strait, New Zealand, with receiver functions by Boyd, Oliver S., Savage, Martha K., Sheehan, Anne F., Jones, Craig H.

“…Using teleseismic receiver functions derived from broadband seismic arrays on the north end of the South Island and south end of the North Island of New…”
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Sediment thickness map of United States Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Strata, and their influence on earthquake ground motions by Boyd, Oliver S, Churchwell, David, Moschetti, Morgan P, Thompson, Eric M, Chapman, Martin C, Ilhan, Okan, Pratt, Thomas L, Ahdi, Sean K, Rezaeian, Sanaz

“…With the recent successful accounting of basin depth ground-motion adjustments in seismic hazard analyses for select areas of the western United States, we…”
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The 2023 US National Seismic Hazard Model: Ground-motion characterization for the conterminous United States by Moschetti, Morgan P, Aagaard, Brad T, Ahdi, Sean K, Altekruse, Jason, Boyd, Oliver S, Frankel, Arthur D, Herrick, Julie, Petersen, Mark D, Powers, Peter M, Rezaeian, Sanaz, Shumway, Allison M, Smith, James A, Stephenson, William J, Thompson, Eric M, Withers, Kyle B

“…We update the ground-motion characterization for the 2023 National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) for the conterminous United States. The update includes the use…”
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The 2018 update of the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model; ground motion models in the Western U.S by Powers, Peter M, Rezaeian, Sanaz, Shumway, Allison M, Petersen, Mark D, Luco, Nicolas, Boyd, Oliver S, Moschetti, Morgan P, Frankel, Arthur D, Thompson, Eric M

“…The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) is the scientific foundation of seismic design regulations in the United States and is…”
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The 2018 update of the US National Seismic Hazard Model; where, why, and how much probabilistic ground motion maps changed by Petersen, Mark D, Shumway, Allison M, Powers, Peter M, Mueller, Charles S, Moschetti, Morgan P, Frankel, Arthur D, Rezaeian, Sanaz, McNamara, Daniel E, Luco, Nicolas, Boyd, Oliver S, Rukstales, Kenneth S, Jaiswal, Kishor S, Thompson, Eric M, Hoover, Susan M, Clayton, Brandon S, Field, Edward H, Zeng, Yuehua

“…The 2018 US Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) incorporates new data and updated science to improve the underlying earthquake and ground…”
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Seismic Source Characterization for the 2014 Update of the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model by Moschetti, Morgan P, Powers, Peter M, Petersen, Mark D, Boyd, Oliver S, Chen, Rui, Field, Edward H, Frankel, Arthur D, Haller, Kathleen M, Harmsen, Stephen C, Mueller, Charles S, Wheeler, Russell L, Zeng, Yuehua

“…We present the updated seismic source characterization (SSC) for the 2014 update of the National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) for the conterminous United…”
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Seismic Hazard in the Eastern United States by Mueller, Charles S, Boyd, Oliver S, Petersen, Mark D, Moschetti, Morgan P, Rezaeian, Sanaz, Shumway, Allison M

“…The U.S. Geological Survey seismic hazard maps for the central and eastern United States were updated in 2014. We analyze results and changes for the eastern…”
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Preliminary Observations of the 5 April 2024 Mw 4.8 New Jersey Earthquake by Boyd, Oliver S., Barnhart, William D., Bourke, James, Chapman, Martin, Earle, Paul S., Huang, Guo-chin Dino, Thompson Jobe, Jessica A., Kim, Won-Young, Link, Frederik, Litherland, Mairi, Lloyd, Andrew, Long, Maureen D., McBride, Sara, Michael, Andrew J., Mooney, Walter D., Mountain, Gregory S., Nikolaou, Sissy, Savvaidis, Alexandros, Waldhauser, Felix, Wolfe, Cecily J., Yoon, Clara

“…Abstract On 5 April 2024, 10:23 a.m. local time, a moment magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Tewksbury Township, New Jersey, about 65 km west of New York City…”
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Crustal deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone and the role of postseismic processes by Boyd, Oliver S., Smalley Jr, Robert, Zeng, Yuehua

“…Global Navigation Satellite System data across the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ) in the central United States over the period from 2000 through 2014 are…”
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Foundering Lithosphere Imaged beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA by Boyd, Oliver S., Jones, Craig H., Sheehan, Anne F.

“…Seismic tomography reveals garnet-rich crust and mantle lithosphere descending into the upper mantle beneath the southeastern Sierra Nevada. The descending…”
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An efficient Matlab script to calculate heterogeneous anisotropically elastic wave propagation in three dimensions by Boyd, Oliver S.

“…We have created a second-order finite-difference solution to the anisotropic elastic wave equation in three dimensions and implemented the solution as an…”
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Regional seismic velocity model for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains based on measured shear wave velocity, sediment thickness, and surface geology by Gann-Phillips, Cassie, Cabas, Ashly, Ji, Chunyang, Cramer, Chris, Kaklamanos, James, Boyd, Oliver

“…The Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains (CPs) are characterized by widespread accumulations of low-velocity sediments and sedimentary rock that overlay…”
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Seismic Hazard in the Nation's Breadbasket by Boyd, Oliver, Haller, Kathleen, Luco, Nico, Moschetti, Morgan, Mueller, Charles, Petersen, Mark, Rezaeian, Sanaz, Rubinstein, Justin

“…The USGS National Seismic Hazard Maps were updated in 2014 and included several important changes for the central United States (CUS). Background seismicity…”
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The heterogeneous upper mantle: Insights from seismology by Boyd, Oliver S

“…Insights into the composition and thermal structure of the upper mantle beneath multiple regions are made possible by various seismological techniques and…”
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The heterogeneous upper mantle: Insights from seismology by Boyd, Oliver S

“…Insights into the composition and thermal structure of the upper mantle beneath multiple regions are made possible by various seismological techniques and…”
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