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Member Since 1983
David J. Wald
Supervisory Research Geophysicist, USGS Central Region Offices Denver
Professional Experience
USGS Central Region Offices Denver
Supervisory Research Geophysicist
1988 - Present
Education
Doctorate
1993
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2021
Citation
For fundamental contributions to the understanding of earthquake hazards and the application to earthquake risk reduction worldwide
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Current Roles
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Seismology Fellows Committee
Publications
Alerting the Globe of Consequential Earthquakes
The primary ingredients on the hazard side of the equation include the rapid characterization of the earthquake source and quantifying the spatial ...
July 24, 2023
Value at Induced Risk: Injection‐Induced Seismic Risk From L...
January 23, 2020
A Global Empirical Model for Near-Real-Time Assessment of Se...
August 16, 2018
Slab1.0: A three-dimensional model of global subduction zone...
January 04, 2012
AGU Abstracts
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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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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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2024
Member
Seismology Fellows Committee
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