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List of works by Richard W. Briggs

88 Hours: The U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center Response to the 11 March 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake

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A paleoseismic transect across the northwestern Basin and Range Province, northwestern Nevada and northeastern California, USA

scientific article published in 2017

Ball-and-socket tectonic rotation during the 2013 Mw 7.7 Balochistan earthquake

scholarly article by William D. Barnhart et al published October 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Beach ridges as paleoseismic indicators of abrupt coastal subsidence during subduction zone earthquakes, and implications for Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone paleoseismology, southeast coast of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

scholarly article by Harvey M. Kelsey et al published April 2015 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Changing impacts of Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone tsunamis in California under future sea-level rise

scientific article published in 2021

Climatic influence on the expression of strike-slip faulting

scientific article published on 4 November 2022

Complex rupture during the 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake

scholarly article by G. P. Hayes et al published 10 October 2010 in Nature Geoscience

Concealed Quaternary strike-slip fault resolved with airborne lidar and seismic reflection: The Grizzly Valley fault system, northern Walker Lane, California

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Coral 13 C/ 12 C records of vertical seafloor displacement during megathrust earthquakes west of Sumatra

scholarly article by Michael K. Gagan et al published December 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Coral evidence for earthquake recurrence and an A.D. 1390–1455 cluster at the south end of the 2004 Aceh–Andaman rupture

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Coseismic Sackungen in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, USA

scholarly article by J. E. Delano et al published 3 December 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Coseismic slip and early afterslip of the 2015 Illapel, Chile, earthquake: Implications for frictional heterogeneity and coastal uplift

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Deformation and slip along the Sunda megathrust in the great 2005 Nias-Simeulue earthquake

scientific article published in March 2006

Evidence for slip partitioning and bimodal slip behavior on a single fault: Surface slip characteristics of the 2013 Mw7.7 Balochistan, Pakistan earthquake

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Four major Holocene earthquakes on the Reelfoot fault recorded by sackungen in the New Madrid seismic zone, USA

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Gravitational body forces focus North American intraplate earthquakes

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

High tsunami frequency as a result of combined strike-slip faulting and coastal landslides

scholarly article by Matthew J. Hornbach et al published 10 October 2010 in Nature Geoscience

High‐Resolution Trench Photomosaics from Image‐Based Modeling: Workflow and Error Analysis

Holocene earthquakes and right-lateral slip on the left-lateral Darrington–Devils Mountain fault zone, northern Puget Sound, Washington

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Integrate Urban‐Scale Seismic Hazard Analyses with the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model

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Introduction to the special issue on the 25 April 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake

scholarly article by Gavin P. Hayes & Richard W. Briggs published September 2017 in Tectonophysics

Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene lake-level fluctuations in the Lahontan Basin, Nevada: Implications for the distribution of archaeological sites

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoearthquake Activity of the Olinghouse Fault Zone, Nevada

Late Pleistocene and Late Holocene Lake Highstands in the Pyramid Lake Subbasin of Lake Lahontan, Nevada, USA

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Late Pleistocene fault slip rate, earthquake recurrence, and recency of slip along the Pyramid Lake fault zone, northern Walker Lane, United States

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Late Quaternary Slip‐Rate Variations along the Warm Springs Valley Fault System, Northern Walker Lane, California–Nevada Border

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Latest Quaternary paleoseismology and evidence of distributed dextral shear along the Mohawk Valley fault zone, northern Walker Lane, California

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Little late Holocene strain accumulation and release on the Aleutian megathrust below the Shumagin Islands, Alaska

scholarly article by Robert C. Witter et al published 9 April 2014 in Geophysical Research Letters

Low Footwall Accelerations and Variable Surface Rupture Behavior on the Fort Sage Mountains Fault, Northeast California

On- and off-fault deformation associated with the September 2013 Mw 7.7 Balochistan earthquake: Implications for geologic slip rate measurements

scholarly article by Ryan D. Gold et al published October 2015 in Tectonophysics

Paleoseismic Results from the Alpine Site, Wasatch Fault Zone: Timing and Displacement Data for Six Holocene Earthquakes at the Salt Lake City–Provo Segment Boundary

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Paleoseismic and Slip-Rate Observations along the Honey Lake Fault Zone, Northeastern California, USA

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Paleoseismic evidence of great surface rupture earthquakes along the Indian Himalaya

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Paleoseismic transect across the northern Great Basin

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Persistent elastic behavior above a megathrust rupture patch: Nias island, West Sumatra

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Persistent termini of 2004- and 2005-like ruptures of the Sunda megathrust

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Rapid Characterization of the 2015Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake Sequence and Its Seismotectonic Context

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Reactivated faulting near Cushing, Oklahoma: Increased potential for a triggered earthquake in an area of United States strategic infrastructure

scholarly article by D. E. McNamara et al published 23 October 2015 in Geophysical Research Letters

Refining fault slip rates using multiple displaced terrace risers—An example from the Honey Lake fault, NE California, USA

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Revised Earthquake Geology Inputs for the Central and Eastern United States and Southeast Canada for the 2023 National Seismic Hazard Model

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Rupture Kinematics of the 2005 Mw 8.6 Nias-Simeulue Earthquake from the Joint Inversion of Seismic and Geodetic Data

scholarly article by A. O. Konca et al published 1 January 2007 in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Rupture across arc segment and plate boundaries in the 1 April 2007 Solomons earthquake

scholarly article by Frederick W. Taylor et al published 30 March 2008 in Nature Geoscience

Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Low‐Angle Panamint Normal Fault System, Eastern California

scientific article published in November 2020

Seismic hazard of the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault in Haiti inferred from palaeoseismology

scholarly article by Carol S. Prentice et al published 24 October 2010 in Nature Geoscience

Seismic reflection imaging of the low-angle Panamint Valley normal fault system, eastern California, USA

Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2012 Sumatra and vicinity

scientific article published in 2013

Superficial simplicity of the 2010 El Mayor–Cucapah earthquake of Baja California in Mexico

scholarly article by Shengji Wei et al published 31 July 2011 in Nature Geoscience

Tectonic summaries of magnitude 7 and greater earthquakes from 2000 to 2015

scholarly article by Gavin P. Hayes et al published 2017 in Open-File Report

Terrestrial cosmogenic surface exposure dating of glacial and associated landforms in the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range of central Nevada and along the northeastern flank of the Sierra Nevada

Time-varying interseismic strain rates and similar seismic ruptures on the Nias–Simeulue patch of the Sunda megathrust

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Tsunami recurrence in the eastern Alaska-Aleutian arc: A Holocene stratigraphic record from Chirikof Island, Alaska

scholarly article by Alan R. Nelson et al published 1 July 2015 in Geosphere

Unusually large tsunamis frequent a currently creeping part of the Aleutian megathrust

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Updating the USGS seismic hazard maps for Alaska

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Uplift and subsidence reveal a nonpersistent megathrust rupture boundary (Sitkinak Island, Alaska)

scholarly article by Richard W. Briggs et al published 14 April 2014 in Geophysical Research Letters

Variable normal-fault rupture behavior, northern Lost River fault zone, Idaho, USA

scientific article published on 8 November 2019