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Member Since 1998
Nadia Lapusta
Professor, California Institute of Technology
President-Elect, Tectonophysics Executive Committee; Section President-Elect, Council; Chair, Tectonophysics Fellows Committee; Member, Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service Committee
Professional Experience
California Institute of Technology
Professor
2002 - Present
Education
Harvard University
Doctorate
2001
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2020
Citation
For pioneering advances in physics-based numerical modeling of the earthquake cycle
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Publications
Dynamic Emergence of Plate Motions and Great Megathrust Earthquakes Across Length and Time Scales
The slow motion of tectonic plates over thousands of kilometers is intermittently interrupted by great earthquakes with sudden slips localized near...
November 23, 2024
A Spectral Boundary‐Integral Method for Faults and Fractures...
August 31, 2022
Resolving Simulated Sequences of Earthquakes and Fault Inter...
October 25, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Dynamic Emergence of Plate Motions and Great Megathrust Earthquakes Across Length and Time Scales
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM: CONVERGENT MARGIN PROCESSES TRENCH TO ARC (ALEUTIANS/ALASKA AND BEYOND) III POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Jiaqi Fang, Michael Gurnis, Nadia Lapusta
The slow motion of tectonic plates over thousands of kilometers is intermittently interrupted by great earthquakes with sudden slips localized near co...
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Bayesian Inversion of Rate-and-State Parameters from Frictional Sliding Experiments on Quartz Gouge
CRUSTAL DEFORMATION AND HETEROGENEITY FROM LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS TO LARGE EARTHQUAKE CYCLES III ORAL
mineral and rock physics | 12 december 2024
Taeho Kim, Nadia Lapusta, Dan Faulkner, John D. Be...
Despite the ubiquity of fine granular gouge in fault cores, small grain sizes are often avoided in experiments due to their propensity for unstable fr...
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Scaling of Episodic Slow-Slip Events Simulated on Rate-and-State Faults: Effects of data processing and physical parameters
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: MULTISCALE RHEOLOGY OF PLATE BOUNDARY FAULTS IV ORAL
seismology | 12 december 2024
Auden Reid-McLaughlin, Nadia Lapusta, Luca Dal Zil...
Slow-slip events (SSEs) release significant tectonic strain through aseismic slip and are observed at nearly every subduction zone across the globe. T...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2029
Member
Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service Committee
2025 - 2027
Chair
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
2025 - 2026
President-Elect
Tectonophysics Executive Committee
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