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72 Earthquake prediction: An overview

scholarly article published 2003

A great earthquake doublet and seismic stress transfer cycle in the central Kuril islands

scientific article published in Nature

A moment magnitude scale

scientific article

A new observation of dynamically triggered regional seismicity: Earthquakes in Greece following the August 1999 Izmit, Turkey earthquake

scientific article

A seismically constrained mass discharge rate for the initiation of the May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption

article by Emily E. Brodsky et al published 10 December 1999 in Journal of Geophysical Research

A strong-motion hot spot of the 2016 Meinong, Taiwan, earthquake (Mw = 6.4)

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori et al published 2017 in TAO: Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

A threshold-based earthquake early warning using dense accelerometer networks

scholarly article by Aldo Zollo et al published 28 September 2010 in Geophysical Journal International

Abnormal tsunamis caused by the June 13, 1984, Torishima, Japan, earthquake

scholarly article by Kenji Satake & Hiroo Kanamori published 10 November 1991 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Active Pacific North America Plate boundary tectonics as evidenced by seismicity in the oceanic lithosphere offshore Baja California, Mexico

An earthquake doublet in Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico

scholarly article by Luciana Astiz & Hiroo Kanamori published April 1984 in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Anomalously low aftershock productivity of the 2019 M 8.0 energetic intermediate-depth faulting beneath Peru

scholarly article

Anomalously steep dips of earthquakes in the 2011 Tohoku-Oki source region and possible explanations

scholarly article

Are earthquakes a major cause of the Chandler wobble?

journal article; published in Nature on 1976-7

Assessment of teleseismically-determined source parameters for the April 25, 2015 M W 7.9 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake and the May 12, 2015 M W 7.2 aftershock

scholarly article by Thorne Lay et al published September 2017 in Tectonophysics

Back-arc opening and the mode of subduction

scientific article

Bradford Sturtevant, 1933–2000

scholarly article

Broadband study of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori & Kenji Satake published July 1990 in Geophysical Research Letters

Comparison of Iterative Back-Projection Inversion and Generalized Inversion Without Blocks: Case Studies In Attenuation Tomography

scientific article

Comparison of average stress drop measures for ruptures with heterogeneous stress change and implications for earthquake physics

scientific article

Comparison of strong-motion spectra with teleseismic spectra for three magnitude 8 subduction-zone earthquakes

scientific article published in 1990

Constraining the Dip of Shallow, Shallowly Dipping Thrust Events Using Long‐Period Love Wave Radiation Patterns: Applications to the 25 October 2010 Mentawai, Indonesia, and 4 May 2018 Hawaii Island Earthquakes

scholarly article by Thorne Lay et al published 7 October 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Correction to “Seismically and geodetically determined nondouble-couple source mechanisms from the 2000 Miyakejima volcanic earthquake swarm”

scholarly article

Corrigendum to “The 16 April 2016, M W 7.8 ( M S 7.5) Ecuador earthquake: A quasi-repeat of the 1942 M S 7.5 earthquake and partial re-rupture of the 1906 M S 8.6 Colombia–Ecuador earthquake” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 454 (2016) 248–258]

scholarly article by Lingling Ye et al published January 2017 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Deep structure of Japan subduction zone as derived from local, regional, and teleseismic events

scientific article

Depth of seismicity in the Imperial Valley Region (1977–1983) and its relationship to heat flow, crustal structure and the October 15, 1979, earthquake

scientific article published in 1986

Depth-varying rupture properties of subduction zone megathrust faults

scholarly article

Determination of earthquake early warning parameters, τc and Pd, for southern California

scholarly article by Yih-Min Wu et al published August 2007 in Geophysical Journal International

Development of an Earthquake Early Warning System Using Real-Time Strong Motion Signals

scientific article published on 09 January 2008

Dissipative Intraplate Faulting During the 2016 Mw 6.2 Tottori, Japan Earthquake

scholarly article

Diverse rupture processes in the 2015 Peru deep earthquake doublet

scientific article

Downtown Los Angeles 52-Story High-Rise and Free-Field Response to an Oil Refinery Explosion

Early magnitude and potential damage zone estimates for the great Mw 9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

article

Earth's free oscillations excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake

scientific article

Earthquake Repeat Time and Average Stress Drop

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

Earthquake doublets in the Solomon Islands

scholarly article

Earthquake dynamics. Supershear rupture in a M(w) 6.7 aftershock of the 2013 Sea of Okhotsk earthquake

scientific article published in July 2014

Earthquake early warning: Concepts, methods and physical grounds

scholarly article by Claudio Satriano et al published February 2011 in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Earthquake hazards: Putting seismic research to most effective use.

scientific article published on 7 March 2012

Earthquake physics and real-time seismology.

scientific article

Effect of directivity on estimates of radiated seismic energy

scientific article published in 2004

Elastohydrodynamic lubrication of faults

scientific article published in 2001

Energy partitioning during an earthquake

scientific article published in 2006

Energy release of the 2013 M(w) 8.3 Sea of Okhotsk earthquake and deep slab stress heterogeneity

scientific article

Estimate of differential stress in the upper crust from variations in topography and strike along the San Andreas fault

article

Estimating the effect of Earth elasticity and variable water density on tsunami speeds

article

Estimation of radiated energy using the KiK-net downhole records—old method for modern data

Evidence for fault lubrication during the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake (Mw7.6)

article

Evidence for non-self-similarity of microearthquakes recorded at a Taiwan borehole seismometer array

Experimental evidence that thrust earthquake ruptures might open faults

scientific article

Explaining extreme ground motion in Osaka basin during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

scholarly article by Victor C. Tsai et al published 28 July 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Exploring the feasibility of on-site earthquake early warning using close-in records of the 2007 Noto Hanto earthquake

scholarly article by Yih-Min Wu & Hiroo Kanamori published February 2008 in Earth, Planets and Space

Fault parameters and tsunami excitation of the May 23, 1989, MacQuarie Ridge Earthquake

scholarly article by Kenji Satake & Hiroo Kanamori published June 1990 in Geophysical Research Letters

Focal process of the great Chilean earthquake May 22, 1960

article

Forward and inverse three-dimensionalPwave velocity models of the southern California crust

scholarly article

Global variations of large megathrust earthquake rupture characteristics.

scientific article

Historical seismograms for unravelling a mysterious earthquake: The 1907 Sumatra Earthquake

article

Impact-Seismic Investigations of the InSight Mission

article by Ingrid J. Daubar et al published December 2018 in Space Science Reviews

Improved technique for fetal heart examination in developmental toxicity studies in rats

scientific article published in March 2005

Initial investigation of the Landers, California, Earthquake of 28 June 1992 using TERRAscope

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori et al published 20 November 1992 in Geophysical Research Letters

Initiation of the great Mw 9.0 Tohoku–Oki earthquake

scholarly article

Intraplate and interplate faulting interactions during the August 31, 2012, Philippine Trench earthquake (Mw 7.6) sequence

scholarly article by Lingling Ye et al published 28 December 2012 in Geophysical Research Letters

Introduction

Joint Inversion of High-Rate GPS and Teleseismic Observations for Rupture Process of the 23 June 2014 (Mw7.9) Rat Islands Archipelago, Alaska, Intermediate Depth Earthquake

scholarly article by Lingling Ye et al published 18 October 2016 in Geophysical Monograph

Laboratory earthquakes along inhomogeneous faults: directionality and supershear

scientific article published in April 2005

Laboratory earthquakes: the sub-Rayleigh-to-supershear rupture transition

scientific article published in Science

Landslide basal friction as measured by seismic waves

scientific article

Large earthquake rupture process variations on the Middle America megathrust

scholarly article

Lessons from the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake

scientific article published on August 2006

Long-period surface waves

scientific article published in 1982

Macrofracturing of Oceanic Lithosphere in Complex Large Earthquake Sequences

scientific article

Magnitude scale and quantification of earthquakes

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori published April 1983 in Tectonophysics

Mechanism of the 1975 Kalapana, Hawaii, earthquake inferred from tsunami data

scholarly article

Mechanism of tsunami earthquakes

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori published January 1972 in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Missing roots and mantle “drips”: RegionalPnand teleseismic arrival times in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California

scholarly article

Model Space Exploration for Determining Landslide Source History from Long-Period Seismic Data

article

Modeling 3-D wave propagation and finite slip for the 1998 Balleny Islands earthquake

scholarly article

Moment Tensors of Ring‐Faulting at Active Volcanoes: Insights Into Vertical‐CLVD Earthquakes at the Sierra Negra Caldera, Galápagos Islands

scientific article

Near-Field Investigations of the Landers Earthquake Sequence, April to July 1992

scientific article

Observational constraints on the fracture energy of subduction zone earthquakes

scholarly article by Anupama Venkataraman published in May 2004

Outer trench-slope faulting and the 2011 M w 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

scholarly article by Thorne Lay et al published July 2011 in Earth, Planets and Space

Preface

Preliminary Report on the 1995 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence in Eastern California

scientific article published in 1995

Quantification of Earthquakes

scientific article published in Nature

Radiated Energy from the 16 October 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake: Regional and Teleseismic Estimates

scientific article published in 2002

Rapidly Estimated Seismic Source Parameters for the 16 September 2015 Illapel, Chile M w 8.3 Earthquake

article

Real-time W phase inversion during the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

scholarly article by Zacharie Duputel et al published July 2011 in Earth, Planets and Space

Real-time forecasting of the April 11, 2012 Sumatra tsunami

scholarly article by Dailin Wang et al published 2 October 2012 in Geophysical Research Letters

Real-time seismology and earthquake hazard mitigation

scientific article published in Nature

Recurring large deep earthquakes in Hindu Kush driven by a sinking slab

scientific article published on 16 July 2016

Relationships between Peak Ground Acceleration, Peak Ground Velocity, and Modified Mercalli Intensity in California

Reviving mB

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori & Zachary Ross published 30 November 2018 in Geophysical Journal International

Rupture Along 400 km of the Bering Fracture Zone in the Komandorsky Islands Earthquake (M W 7.8) of 17 July 2017

scholarly article by Thorne Lay et al published 23 December 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Rupture Directivity of the 2021 MW 6.0 Yangbi, Yunnan Earthquake

scholarly article

Rupture characteristics of major and great (Mw   ≥ 7.0) megathrust earthquakes from 1990 to 2015: 1. Source parameter scaling relationships

scholarly article

Rupture characteristics of major and great (Mw  ≥ 7.0) megathrust earthquakes from 1990 to 2015: 2. Depth dependence

scholarly article

Rupture complexity of the 1994 Bolivia and 2013 Sea of Okhotsk deep earthquakes

scholarly article by Zhongwen Zhan et al published January 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Rupture process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake

scientific article

Rupture-Depth-Varying Seismicity Patterns for Major and Great (M w ≥ 7.0) Megathrust Earthquakes

scholarly article

Seismic coupling and uncoupling at subduction zones

scientific article published in December 1983

Seismic excitation by the space shuttle Columbia

scientific article published in Nature

Seismic triggering by rectified diffusion in geothermal systems

scholarly article

Seismically and geodetically determined nondouble-couple source mechanisms from the 2000 Miyakejima volcanic earthquake swarm

scholarly article

Seismicity and the subduction process

scientific article

Seismological analyses of the 2010 March 11, Pichilemu, Chile Mw 7.0 and Mw 6.9 coastal intraplate earthquakes

article

Seismological aspects of the Guatemala Earthquake of February 4, 1976

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori & Gordon S. Stewart published 10 July 1978 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Seismological evidence for a lithospheric normal faulting — the Sanriku earthquake of 1933

article

Seismology: energy radiation from the Sumatra earthquake

scientific article

Similarities and Differences in the Rupture Processes of the 1952 and 2003 Tokachi‐Oki Earthquakes

Simultaneous inversion of local and teleseismic data for the crust and mantle structure of southern California

scientific article published in February 1996

Slip-Weakening Models of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake and Constraints on Stress Drop and Fracture Energy

scholarly article by Yihe Huang et al published 13 October 2013 in Pure and Applied Geophysics

Source Properties of Earthquakes near the Salton Sea Triggered by the 16 October 1999 M 7.1 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake

scholarly article

Source complexity of the 1988 Armenian Earthquake: Evidence for a slow after-slip event

article

Source mechanism of February 4, 1965, Rat Island earthquake

scholarly article

Southern California Seismic Network: Caltech/USGS Element of TriNet 1997-2001

scientific article published in November 2001

Spatial heterogeneity of tectonic stress and friction in the crust: new evidence from earthquake focal mechanisms in Taiwan

scholarly article by Ya-Ju Hsu et al published May 2010 in Geophysical Journal International

Structural heterogeneity in the megathrust zone and mechanism of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake (Mw 9.0)

scholarly article by Dapeng Zhao et al published September 2011 in Geophysical Research Letters

Systematic deficiency of aftershocks in areas of high coseismic slip for large subduction zone earthquakes

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Teleseismic analysis of the 1980 Mammoth Lakes earthquake sequence

scientific article published in 1982

Temporal variation of large intraplate earthquakes in coupled subduction zones

scholarly article by Thorne Lay et al published April 1989 in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

The 16 April 2016, M W 7.8 ( M S 7.5) Ecuador earthquake: A quasi-repeat of the 1942 M S 7.5 earthquake and partial re-rupture of the 1906 M S 8.6 Colombia–Ecuador earthquake

scholarly article by Lingling Ye et al published November 2016 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

The 17 July 2006 Java tsunami earthquake

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2006)

The 1909 Taipei earthquake-implication for seismic hazard in Taipei

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori et al published 15 August 2012 in Geophysical Journal International

The 1957 great Aleutian earthquake

scholarly article by Jean M. Johnson et al published 1994 in Pure and Applied Geophysics

The 1992 Nicaragua earthquake: a slow tsunami earthquake associated with subducted sediments

scientific article published in Nature

The 1994 Northridge Earthquake: 3-D crustal structure in the rupture zone and its relation to the aftershock locations and mechanisms

scholarly article by Dapeng Zhao & Hiroo Kanamori published 1 April 1995 in Geophysical Research Letters

The 2006-2007 Kuril Islands great earthquake sequence

scientific article

The 2009 Samoa–Tonga great earthquake triggered doublet

scientific article published on August 19, 2010

The 2010 M w 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake Sequence, Baja California, Mexico and Southernmost California, USA: Active Seismotectonics along the Mexican Pacific Margin

scholarly article by Egill Hauksson et al published 16 November 2010 in Pure and Applied Geophysics

The 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: mosaicking the megathrust from seconds to centuries

scientific article

The 2012 Sumatra great earthquake sequence

scholarly article by Zacharie Duputel et al published October 2012 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

The 2017 M w 8.2 Chiapas, Mexico, Earthquake: Energetic Slab Detachment

scholarly article by Lingling Ye et al published 11 December 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

The 2018 M W 7.9 Gulf of Alaska Earthquake: Multiple Fault Rupture in the Pacific Plate

scholarly article by Thorne Lay et al published 22 September 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

The 22 December 2018 tsunami from flank collapse of Anak Krakatau volcano during eruption

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

The 23 June 2014 Mw 7.9 Rat Islands archipelago, Alaska, intermediate depth earthquake

scholarly article by Lingling Ye et al published 26 September 2014 in Geophysical Research Letters

The December 7, 2012 Japan Trench intraplate doublet (Mw 7.2, 7.1) and interactions between near-trench intraplate thrust and normal faulting

scholarly article by Thorne Lay et al published July 2013 in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

The February 6, 2013 Mw 8.0 Santa Cruz Islands earthquake and tsunami

scholarly article by Thorne Lay et al published November 2013 in Tectonophysics

The October 1980 earthquake sequence near the New Hebrides

scholarly article by John E. Vidale & Hiroo Kanamori published December 1983 in Geophysical Research Letters

The October 28, 2012 Mw 7.8 Haida Gwaii underthrusting earthquake and tsunami: Slip partitioning along the Queen Charlotte Fault transpressional plate boundary

scholarly article

The Physics of Earthquakes

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori & Emily E. Brodsky published June 2001 in Physics Today

The Sanriku-Oki low-seismicity region on the northern margin of the great 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake rupture

scientific article

The energy release in great earthquakes

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori published 10 July 1977 in Journal of Geophysical Research

The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004

scientific article

The isolated ∼680 km deep 30 May 2015 MW 7.9 Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands earthquake

scholarly article

The morning glory wave of southern California

scientific article

The origin of harmonic tremor at Old Faithful geyser

scientific article published in Nature

The origin of the tsunami excited by the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake -Faulting or slumping?

scholarly article by Kuo-Fong Ma et al published April 1991 in Geophysical Research Letters

The physics of earthquakes

scholarly article by Hiroo Kanamori & Emily E. Brodsky published 13 July 2004 in Reports on Progress in Physics

The potential for earthquake early warning in southern California

scientific article

The wake of a legendary earthquake

scientific article published in Nature

Uncertainty estimations for seismic source inversions

Using centroid time-delays to characterize source durations and identify earthquakes with unique characteristics

scholarly article

W phase source inversion for moderate to large earthquakes (1990-2010)

scholarly article by Zacharie Duputel et al published 27 March 2012 in Geophysical Journal International

Water flow to the mantle transition zone inferred from a receiver function image of the Pacific slab

Waveform modeling of the slab beneath Japan

scholarly article