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Member Since 1987
Roland Burgmann
Professional Experience
University of California Berkeley
Professor
Education
Stanford University
Doctorate
1993
Honors & Awards
William Bowie Lecture
Received December 2024
Francis Birch Lecture
Received December 2013
Union Fellow
Received December 2013
Citation
For elucidating the role of the micromechanical properties of the ductile lithosphere to understand the earthquake deformation cycle.
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Publications
The Elusive Role of Aseismic Slip Along a Seaward Dipping Normal Fault in the Indirect Triggering of...

Although blind normal faults are common in subduction environments, their rheology, kinematics and interaction with the upper crust are poorly cons...

August 10, 2024
AGU Abstracts
A weak subducting slab at intermediate depths below northeast Japan
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Brent Delbridge, Heidi Houston, Roland Burgmann, S...
In this study, we analyzed first-motion focal mechanisms determined by the NIED using Hi-net stations at depths of 60-200 km with magnitudes as low as...
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The 2022-2023 M6-7 Siberut earthquake sequence in the Sumatran subduction zone: Cascading coseismic slip and afterslip on the edge of a seismic gap
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS I POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Lujia Feng, Shengji Wei, Susilo Susilo, Iwan Herma...
Much of the Sumatran megathrust has broken in the recent series of large and great earthquakes, starting with the devastating 2004 Mw 9.2 Sumatra-Anda...
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Unraveling Complex Subduction Rupture Segmentation: Insights from Dynamic Rupture and Tsunami Modeling for the 1938 and 2021 Eastern Aleutian-Alaska Earthquakes
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS IV ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Duo Li, Bo LI, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Thomas Ulrich,...
The eastern Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone has experienced several M8.0+ earthquakes that have caused serious tsunamis across the Pacific Ocean. The ...
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Volunteer Experience
2015 - 2016
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
2014 - 2014
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
2000 - 2001
Secretary
Geodesy Executive Committee
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