Annual General Meeting & Speaker Event 04/18

Aloha Hawaii Stanford Ohana,

(Registration begins at 11:00AM, lunch served at 11:30AM)

Talk Title: Rogue Earthquakes and the Tsunami Threat

The instrumental record of earthquakes and tsunami is short relative to the time scales over which these events repeat. Recent studies of earthquakes and tsunamis indicate that the occasional “rogue” earthquake is exceptionally large, and accompanied by an exceptionally large tsunami.  Clues to this behavior were evident from the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, and points to a new understanding of the genesis of exceptionally large tsunami due to an effect that occurs when earthquake rupture reaches the ocean floor.   The talk will include evidence from a variety of sources that supports this idea. 

Greg Beroza is the Wayne Loel Professor of earth sciences in the department of geophysics. He received his BS degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1982, his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, and joined the Stanford Faculty in 1990. He is a seismologist who develops and applies techniques for analyzing seismograms--recordings of seismic waves--in order to understand how earthquakes work and the hazard they pose. His group is developing improved techniques for detecting, locating, and characterizing earthquakes, and for predicting the strength of shaking in large earthquakes.  They work to understand the physics of regular earthquakes, anomalous slow earthquakes, and earthquakes induced through fluid injection. 
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Please register sooner, rather than later, as we anticipate the event to be very popular.