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Thorne Lay
Professor of Earth Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
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Intermediate-depth Seismicity in the Peruvian Flat Slab: Narrow Seismogenic Band Related to Flexural Strain in Dry Slab
AGU 2024
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Lingci Zeng, Lingling Ye, Huajian Yao, Wei Liu, Da...
The distribution and rupture properties of intermediate-depth earthquakes (~70-300 km) provide insights into the interior stress state of the subducti...
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Unraveling New Mysteries of the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Eruption: Seismological Insights into Subaerial and Submarine Venting
SEISMIC AND ACOUSTIC SIGNALS OF VOLCANIC UNREST AND ERUPTION: FROM SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION TO MONITORING APPLICATIONS IV ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 11 december 2023
Ricardo GarzaGiron, Thorne Lay, Luis A. Rivera, Fr...
The 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcanic eruption stands out as one of the most significant natural explosive events in the past century. While exte...
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Complex multi-fault rupture and triggering during the February 6, 2023, earthquake doublet in southeastern Türkiye
6 FEBRUARY 2023 EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE IN TÜRKIYE II POSTER
seismology | 11 december 2023
Chengli LIU, Thorne Lay, Rongjiang Wang, TUNCAY TA...
Two major crustal earthquakes (MW 7.8 and MW 7.7) ruptured left-lateral strike-slip faults of the East Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) on February 6, 2023...
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Seismological Indicators of Geologically Inferred Fault Maturity
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
30 september 2023
Huiyun Guo, Thorne Lay, Emily E. Brodsky
Variations in fault zone maturity have intermittently been invoked to explain variations in some seismological observations for large earthquakes. ...
Seismological Indicators of Geologically Inferred Fault Maturity
WHAT IS THE INFLUENCE OF FAULT MATURITY IN EARTHQUAKES AND FAULT SYSTEMS OVER COSEISMIC TO GEOLOGIC TIMESCALES
tectonophysics | 16 december 2022
Huiyun Guo, Thorne Lay, Emily E. Brodsky
Earthquake generating fault systems span a wide range of fault maturity, from evolving segmented fracture systems with minor offsets to strongly local...
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Detecting and locating aftershocks for the 2020 MW 6.5 Stanley, Idaho earthquake using convolutional neural networks
MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED EARTHQUAKE MONITORING AND SEISMIC ANALYSIS III POSTER
seismology | 15 december 2022
Bingxu Luo, Hejun Zhu, Jidong Yang, Thorne Lay, Li...
Our study is to build an aftershock catalog with a low magnitude of completeness for the 2020 MW 6.5 Stanley, Idaho earthquake. This is challenging be...
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Volume Fraction of Subducted Basaltic Crust Above the Core-Mantle Boundary Revealed by PKPdf and PKPbc Waves
HETEROGENEITY IN THE EARTH'S MANTLE: PERSPECTIVES FROM IMAGING, MODELING, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND EXPERIMENTS IV ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 13 december 2022
Yingcai Zheng, Hao Hu, Jiaxuan Li, Jin Zhang, Vern...
Global seismic tomography models have established that the lowermost ~200 km of the mantle is particularly heterogenous in seismic wave speeds relativ...
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Tsunami Size Variability with Rupture Depth and Implications for Near-field Warning Guidance
INTERDISCIPLINARY TSUNAMI SCIENCE IV ORAL
natural hazards | 13 december 2022
Kwok Fai Cheung, Thorne Lay
Earthquake magnitude Mw alone is inadequate to gauge tsunami size, especially in the near field. The issue is evident in the observed maximum water he...
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