BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Earthquakes triggered by seismic waves - Professor Emily Brodsky (
 University of California Santa Cruz)
DTSTART:20150126T170000Z
DTEND:20150126T180000Z
UID:TALK54366@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Jack Wright
DESCRIPTION:Seismic waves can trigger earthquakes. The phenomenon of dynam
 ic triggering was first established by observing long-range earthquake int
 eractions nearly 20 years ago. Today we have evidence that dynamic trigger
 ing plays an important role in determining earthquake timing even for comm
 on aftershocks. This ubiquity allows us to use triggering to quantitativel
 y measure the conditions necessary for failure of natural faults. For inst
 ance\, we have established an empirical relationship between seismicity ra
 te changes and the peak dynamic strain in the triggering wave. This relati
 onship contains information of the distribution of faults stresses.  It al
 so presents a form of earthquake rates prediction based on a physical obse
 rvable\, i.e.\, the amplitude of seismic waves.\n\nEmily Brodsky is a prof
 essor and earthquake physicist at the University of California\, Santa Cru
 z. Her research primarily focuses on identifying the processes that trigge
 r earthquakes and constraining the forces and processes that occur inside 
 a fault zone during slip.  These studies require tools from a number of fi
 elds including seismology\, rheology\, hydrogeology and structural geology
 .  Prof. Brodsky earned her A.B. from Harvard  in 1995\, Ph.D. from Caltec
 h in 2001 and was a 2001 Miller Fellow at the University of California\, B
 erkeley. She is the recipient of the inaugural 2005 Charles Richter Early 
 Career award from the Seismological Society of America\, the 2008 James Ma
 celwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and is an AGU Fell
 ow. She was selected as a Distinguished Lecturer for the NSF Earthscope pr
 ogram\, the Geo-Prisms program and the National Science Board. She has ser
 ved on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Earthquake Center
  (SCEC) and Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS).  She h
 as published over 80 peer-reviewed articles and presented over 75 invited 
 lectures or keynote talks. Her work was been featured in major press outle
 ts such as the BBC\, NPR\, Time Magazine\, NY Times\, Nature\, Reuters\, L
 A Times and The Wall Street Journal.
LOCATION:Harker Room 1\, Department of Earth Sciences
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR