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David J. Wald
Supervisory Research Geophysicist, USGS Central Region Offices Denver
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Improved Rapid Estimation of Near-Source Shaking Using Large Seismic Array Observations
EARTHQUAKE MONITORING: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES IN NETWORK SEISMOLOGY AND GEODESY III ORAL
seismology | 15 december 2023
Dun Wang, Wenkai Chen, David J. Wald
Accurate and rapid determination of finite source models and seismic intensity maps for damaging earthquakes are paramount for effective earthquake di...
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Walking an ethical tightrope: The ethical tensions and communication challenges of publicly available global aftershock forecasting from science agencies
STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY EXPANDED: OBSERVATION, MODELING, TESTING, AND FORECASTING II POSTER
seismology | 13 december 2023
Sara K McBride, Max Schneider, Andrew J. Michael,...
Aftershock forecasting is an important tool that helps decision makers and various publics to understand what the future could look like in an earthqu...
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Alerting the Globe of Consequential Earthquakes
PERSPECTIVES OF EARTH AND SPACE SCIENTISTS
24 july 2023
David J. Wald
The primary ingredients on the hazard side of the equation include the rapid characterization of the earthquake source and quantifying the spatial ...
Deep Causal Bayesian Network for Modeling Spatial Seismic Building Damage from Remote Sensing Observations
NOVEL DATA- AND MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN APPROACHES TO SEISMOGENESIS AND ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGY
innovations | 15 december 2022
Susu Xu, Xuechun Li, Haeyoung Noh, David J. Wald
Large-scale disasters, such as earthquakes, often induce multiple cascading hazards, together with ground shaking, leading to consequent building dama...
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Development of a Companion Questionnaire for ‘Did You Feel It?’: Assessing Response in Earthquakes to include Earthquake Early Warning
COMMUNITY AND CITIZEN SCIENCE III ORAL
science and society | 14 december 2022
James D. Goltz, David J. Wald, Sara K McBride, Ro...
Earthquake early warning (EEW) systems are relatively new technologies having first emerged as regional systems within nations in the 1990s. Japan was...
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A Continuing, Holistic Earthquake Scenario Development and Delivery Strategy at the U.S. Geological Survey
EARTHQUAKE SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT, DEPLOYMENT, AND USES II POSTER
natural hazards | 12 december 2022
Eric Thompson, Brad Aagaard, Rob Chase, Davis Engl...
Earthquake scenarios are a frequently requested and heavily used earthquake hazard product from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Based on user feedb...
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An Automated Procedure for Producing USGS ShakeMap Parametric Input from Non-Traditional Seismic Networks with Application to the Community Seismic Network
SEISMOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS: GENERAL III POSTERS
seismology | 14 december 2020
Monica D. Kohler, David J. Wald, Eric Thompson, C....
Regional seismic networks, such as the Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN), process earthquake waveform data to generate ShakeMap input paramet...
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Quantitative Near-real-time Estimates of Earthquake-triggered Ground Failure Hazards and Impacts
THE LANDSLIDE LIFE CYCLE: FROM HAZARD ANALYSIS TO RISK ASSESSMENTS II
natural hazards | 14 december 2020
Kate Allstadt, Eric Thompson, Randall Jibson, Davi...
Since 2018, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Ground Failure (GF) earthquake product has provided near-real-time spatial estimates of earthquake-trigg...
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