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Member Since 1982
Susan Y. Schwartz
Retired, University of California Santa Cruz
Member, Seismology Fellows Committee
Professional Experience
University of California Santa Cruz
Retired
2023 - Present
University of California Santa Cruz
Professor
1994 - 2023
Education
Doctorate
1988
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2016
Citation
For fundamental work that places subduction zone earthquakes in tectonic context.
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Publications
Continuous Tremor Activity With Stable Polarization Direction Following the 2014 Large Slow Slip Eve...
Many types of slow earthquakes have been discovered at subduction zones around the world. However, the physical process of these slow earthquakes i...
February 17, 2022
Earthquakes and Tremor Linked to Seamount Subduction During ...
August 20, 2018
AGU Abstracts
Earthquakes on and Beneath the Megathrust in the Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM: CONVERGENT MARGIN PROCESSES TRENCH TO ARC (ALEUTIANS/ALASKA AND BEYOND) III POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Sarah Nolan, Geoffrey A. Abers, Grace Barcheck, St...
Earthquakes on subduction zone megathrust faults typically form a zone of seismicity that coincides with the top of the subducting slab. Between 2018 ...
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Seismicity During the 2019 Large Slow Slip Event in the Hikurangi Subduction Margin Offshore New Zealand is Strongly Affected by Subducted Seamounts
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: MULTISCALE RHEOLOGY OF PLATE BOUNDARY FAULTS III ORAL
seismology | 12 december 2024
Yuriko Iwasaki, Susan Y. Schwartz, Kimihiro Mochiz...
At the northern Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand, large slow slip events (SSEs) occur every 1824 months. During the 2019 large SSE, ocean bottom...
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Precursory seismic signals before catastrophic landslides in Costa Rica: From slow to fast slip
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, AND NUMERICAL MODELING IV POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Esteban J. Chaves, Susan Y. Schwartz, Javier F. Pa...
At Volcanoes, complex landslide instabilities triggered by nearby earthquakes, rainfall, local deformation, or a combination of all, may induce change...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2025
Member
Seismology Fellows Committee
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