SCEC/USGS Workshop: Earthquake Stress Triggers, Stress Shadows, and their Impact on Seismic Hazard

DATE: 21-22 March 1997

LOCATION: USGS, Menlo Park, CA

The Southern California Earthquake Center and the United States Geological Survey will host a workshop on March 21-22 (Fri-Sat), 1997 at the USGS in Menlo Park, CA. The workshop is convened by Ross Stein, Ruth Harris, and Lynn Sykes.

The focus of this meeting is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of stress-based analyses of earthquake sequences, earthquake interactions, and probabilistic earthquake hazard assessment. Earthquake interactions over both short (seconds) and long (decades) time scales; and static, dynamic and secular stresses, are pertinent.

Confirmed invited speakers include Renata Dmowska and Jim Rice (Harvard), Lynn Sykes and Bruce Shaw (Lamont), Juliet Crider (Stanford), Dave Jackson and John Vidale (UCLA), Andy Freed (Univ. Arizona/WHOI), Susanna Gross (Univ. Colorado), Jeanne Hardebeck (Caltech), John Anderson (Univ. Nevada), Gene Humphreys (Univ. Oregon), Yehuda Ben-Zion and Charlie Sammis (USC), Steve Ward (UCSC), Ross Stein, Ruth Harris, Bob Simpson, and Lucy Jones (USGS).