External Research Support
Funded Research - Grants & Cooperative Agreements
The Earthquake Hazards Program funds research in order to provide earth science data and information essential to mitigate earthquake losses.
For reports from awards made prior to 2000, use the advanced search of the USGS Library Catalog.
| Award No. | Principal Investigator(s) | Region | Project Title | Institution | Final Report | Journal Publication(s) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08HQAG0058 | Robert Freitag | General | Support of 2008 National Earthquake Conference | Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup | 2008 | ||
| 08HQAG0115 | Jack Baker | National and Intermountain West | Ground Motion Target Spectra for Structures Sensitive to Multiple Periods of Excitation | Stanford University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQAG0116 | Keith Knudsen | Northern California | Building Resiliency to Limit the Disaster: The Hayward Fault Earthquake Initiative | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | 2008 | ||
| 08HQAG0119 | Keith Knudsen | Northern California | Liquefaction Susceptibility Mapping of the San Francisco Bay Area | URS Group, Inc. | 2008 | ||
| 08HQAG0120 | David Rogers | Central and Eastern U.S. | Modeling Uncertainties in Lithology and Sensitivity Analyses of Seismic Site Response for the Pilot Quadrangles in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, Missouri and Illinois | Missouri University of Science & Technology | 2008 | ||
| 08HQAG0129 | David Overhoff | Central and Eastern U.S. | Detailed Surficial Geologic Maps for the Elsah, Grafton, and Alton 7.5' Quadrangles as a Portion of the St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazard Mapping Project | Missouri Department of Natural Resources | 2008 | ||
| 08HQAG0140 | Ian Madin | Pacific Northwest | Portland, Oregon integrated map and database | Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries | 2008 | ||
| 08HQAG0166 | Keith Knudsen | General | Building Resiliency to Limit the Disaster: The Hayward Fault Earthquake Initiative | EERI | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0008 | Randel Tom Cox | Central and Eastern U.S. | Investigation of Seismically-Induced Liquefaction in Northeast Louisiana. | University of Memphis | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0009 | Martitia Tuttle | Central and Eastern U.S. | Paleoseismological Constraints on Long-Term Deformation along the Reelfoot Rift: Collaborative Research, M. Tuttle & Associates and Central Region Geologic Hazards Team, USGS | M. Tuttle & Associates | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0010 | David Pollard | Earthquake Physics | Laboratory Investigation of Damage by Tensile Fracture during Dynamic Shear Rupture Propagation. | Stanford University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0011 | Nicholas Jones | Earthquake Effects | A Decision Support Tool for Open Risk Assessment Software: Collaborative Research with John Hopkins University and USGS. | John Hopkins University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0012 | Matthew Pritchard | Pacific Northwest | Developing InSAR Capabilities for Monitoring Episodic Subduction Zone Slip and Crustal Deformation in Western Washington State. | Cornell University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0013 | Gregory Beroza | Southern California | "Dynamic Simulation of a Mw 7.0 Earthquake on the Sierra Madre Fault System and its Implication for Strong Ground Motion in Greater Los Angeles" | Stanford University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0014 | Paul Segall | Earthquake Physics | Slow or Fast Fault Slip: The role of thermal pressurization, friction, and dilatancy. | Stanford University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0015 | John Louie | National and Intermountain West | Workshop on Nevada 3-D Seismic Community Velocity Models. | University of Nevada | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0016 | Chris Cramer | Central and Eastern U.S. | A Proposal in Support of the St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project: Suite of CEUS-Specific Hard-Rock Time-Histories and Seismic Hazard Model Updates. | University of Memphis | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0017 | Andrew Whittaker | Earthquake Effects | Establishing Maximum Spectral Demand for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering: Collaborative Research with the University at Buffalo and the USGS. | University of Buffalo | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0018 | Jacobo Bielak | Earthquake Effects | Hybrid Three-Dimensional Modeling of Earthquake Ground Motion in Basins, including Nonlinear Wave Propagation in soils. | Carnegie Mellon University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0019 | Keith Knudsen & Charles Real | Northern California | Application of New Liquefaction Hazard Mapping Techniques to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Area. | California Geological Survey | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0020 | Gail Atkinson | National and Intermountain West | Ground-motion Prediction Equations for Hawaii. | Gail Atkinson | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0022 | Arthur Rodgers | Northern California | Quantifying Uncertainties in Ground Motion Simulations for Scenario Earthquakes on the Hayward-Rodgers Creek Fault System Using the USGS 3D Seismic Velocity Model and Realistic Pseudodynamics Ruptures. | University of California | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0023 | Richard Bennett | Southern California | Addressing the Geology-Geodesy Rate Debate for the Southernmost San Adreas Fault Zone, Southern California. | University of Arizona | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0024 | Ellen Rathje | Earthquake Effects | "Application of Probabilistic Methods for Mapping Earthquake-Induced Landslide Potential" | University of Texas at Austin | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0025 | John Shaw | Southern California | 3D Structural Velocity (Vp) Model of the Ventura & Santa Barbara Basins, CA, for Improved Strong Ground Motion Prediction | Harvard University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0026 | Diane Doser | Pacific Northwest | A Study of Historical Seimicity of the Fairbanks, AK Region | University of Texas El Paso | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0027 | Corne Kreemer, William Hammond | National and Intermountain West | Geodetic Constraints on the Slip Rate of the Mohawk Valley Fault Zone, CA | University of Nevada Reno | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0028 | Andrew Newman | National and Intermountain West | "Rapid Estimation of Large Earthquake Duration, Radiated Energy and Tsunami Earthquake Potential." | Georgia Tech Research Foundation | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0029 | Youssef Hashash | Earthquake Effects | Nonlinear soil behavior from downhole array measurements and site response modeling. | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0030 | Egill Hauksson | Southern California | Analysis of Earthquake Data from the Greater Los Angeles Basin and Adjacent Offshore Area, Southern California. | California Institute of Technology | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0031 | Lorraine W. Wolf and Ming-Kuo Lee | Earthquake Physics | 3-D Numerical Modeling of Coupled Crustal Deformation and Fluid Pressure Interactions | Auburn University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0032 | Clifford Thurber | Northern California | Development of a California-Wide Three Dimensional Seismic Wavespeed Model: Collaborative Research with UW-Madison, LDEO/Columbia University., U.C. San Diego, and Caltech. | University of Wisconsin Madison | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0033 | John Vidale and Ken Creager | Pacific Northwest | Refined Seismic Amplification Forecasting by Improved Basin-Structure imaging with noise correlation methods. | University of Washingon | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0034 | Ken Creager and John Vidale | Pacific Northwest | Improved Monitoring of Tremor, Earthquakes, & Volcanoes by the PNSN with Methods to Search continuous Waveforms. | University of Washington | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0035 | Richard Ray | Central and Eastern U.S. | Testing and Analysis of Deep Sediments in Charleston, SC. | University of South Carolina | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0036 | Ivan Wong | National and Intermountain West | Analysis of Strong Motion Data of the 2006 M 6.7 Kiholo Bay and M6.0 Mahukona Earthquakes & Ground Motion Prediction Models for Hawaii. | URS Group, Inc. | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0037 | Scott Brandenberg | Earthquake Effects | Evaluation of Nonlinear Site Responses of Soft Clay Using Centrifuge Models | University of California Los Angeles | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0038 | Zheng-Kang Shen | National and Intermountain West | Southwestern United States Crustal Motion Map and Deformation Modeling | University of California Los Angeles | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0039 | Egill Hauksson | Southern California | Development of a California-Wide Three Dimensional Seismic Wavespeed Model: Collaborative Research with UW-Madision, LDEO/Columbia Univ., U.C. San Diego and Caltech. | California Institute of Technology | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0040 | Christine Powell | Central and Eastern U.S. | Seismotectonics of the New Madrid Seismic Zone: Improved Velocity Models and Fault Characterization. | University of Memphis | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0041 | Michele Cooke | Southern California | Analog & Numerical Simulation of Fault Complexity of the San Gorgonio Knot | University of Massachusetts | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0042 | Felix Waldhauser | Northern California | Development of a California-Wide Three Dimensional Seismic Wavespeed Model: Collaborative Research with UW-Madison, LDEO/Columbia University., Scripps/UC San Diego, and Caltech. | Columbia University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0043 | Felix Waldhauser | Northern California | Updating & Maintaining a Double-Difference Earthquake Catalog for Northern CA. | Columbia University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0044 | Jeffrey Babcock | Southern California | Integrated Earthquake Potential Along the San Diego Trough Fault: A Marine Paleoseismic Investigation. | University of California San Diego | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0045 | Peter Shearer | Southern California | Development of a California-Wide Three Dimensional Seismic Wavespeed Model: Collaborative Research with UW-Madision, LDEO/Columbia Univ., U.C. San Diego and Caltech. | University of California San Diego | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0046 | John Louie & Iieana Tibuleac | National and Intermountain West | Basin Model Improvements and Verfication for Reno Area 3-D Scenario Modeling | University of Nevada Reno | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0047 | Allan Rubin | Pacific Northwest | Implications of Rate and State Friction Models for Episodic Slow Slip Events | Princeton University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0048 | Benchum Duan | Earthquake Physics | Spontaneous Dynamic Rupture Propagation with Off-Fault Plastic Yielding, Tensile Crack Generation, and Damage Rheology and the Effects on Ground Motion | Texas A&M University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0055 | Jeffrey R. Unruh & Christopher Hitchcock | Northern California | Characterization of Potential Seismic Sources in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, CA | William Lettis & Associates | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0056 | Janet Sowers & Jeff Hoeft | Northern California | Mapping, Assessment, and Digital Compilation of the Southern Maacama Fault, Sonoma County, for the Northern CA Quarternary Fault Map Database: Collaborative Research with William Lettis & Associates, Inc., and the USGS. | William Lettis & Associates, Inc. | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0057 | Nadia Lapusta | Earthquake Physics | Numerical Studies of Small Repeating Earthquakes and Their Source Parameters | California Institute of Technology | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0063 | Thomas Rockwell, Gordon Seitz, Jeri Young, Tim Dawson | Southern California | Confirming and Extending the Holocene Event History at Hog Lake, San Jacinto Fault: Testing San Andreas - San Jacinto Fault interactions | San Diego State University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0064 | Douglas Dreger | Northern California | Validation of 3D Velocity Structure in the San Francisco Bay Area Phase II: Collaborative Research with the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota, Duluth | University of California Berkeley | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0065 | Samuel Panno | Central and Eastern U.S. | Major Earthquakes Recorded by the Initiation and/or Regrowth of Speleothems in Mid-Western US Caves | University of Illinois | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0066 | David Dolenc | Northern California | Validation of 3D Velocity Structure in the San Francisco Bay Area Phase II: Collaborative Research with the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota, Duluth | University of Minnesota Duluth | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0067 | Terry Tullis, David Goldsby, Brian deMartin | Earthquake Physics | Experiments to Understand Dynamic Friction During Earthquakes | Brown University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0068 | Daniel O'Connell | Earthquake Effects | Influence of 2D Soil Nonlinearity on Basin and Site Responses | William Lettis & Associates | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0069 | Jarmila Polet | National and Intermountain West | Collaborative Research with University of California, Santa Barbara and URS Corporation: Rapid Estimates of Rupture Extent for Large Earthquakes Using Aftershocks | California State Polytechnic University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0070 | Hong Kie Thio | National and Intermountain West | Collaborative Research with University of California Santa Barbara and URS Corp: Rapid Estimates of Rupture Extent for Large Earthquakes Using Aftershocks | URS Group, Inc. | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0071 | Ashley Streig | Northern California | Paleoseismic Record of Earthquakes on the Santa Cruz Mountains Segment of the San Andreas Fault - Testing the Influence of the northern transition zone using earthquake chronologies and implications for seismic hazards on the San Andreas Fault: Collabora | William Lettis & Associates, Inc. | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0072 | Timothy Dawson | Northern California | Paleoseismic Record of Earthquakes on the Santa Cruz Mountains Segment of the San Andreas Fault - Testing the Influence of the northern transition zone using earthquake chronologies and implications for seismic hazards on the San Andreas Fault: Collabora | California Geological Survey | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0076 | Robert Witter | Pacific Northwest | Mapping the Inland Extent of Prehistoric Tsunami Deposits in the Nestucca River Estuary, Pacific City, Oregon | Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0077 | Timothy Dawson & Judith Zachariasen | Southern California | Earthquake Chronology on the Big Bend segment of the San Andreas Fault: Filling a gap towards better-constrained rupture scenarios | URS Corporation | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0082 | Christopher DuRoss & Greg McDonal | National and Intermountain West | Paleoseismic Investigation of the Most Recent Earthquake on the Brigham City Segment of the Wasatch Fault Zone, Utah | Utah Geological Survey | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0083 | Peter Shearer | Southern California | Comprehensive Analysis of P and S Spectra from Southern California Earthquakes | University of California, San Diego | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0084 | Paul Somerville | National and Intermountain West | Depth of Faulting in Large Strike-Slip Earthquakes | URS Group, Ic. | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0085 | Ronald Andrus | Central and Eastern U.S. | Liquefaction Potential of Soil Deposits in the Greater Charleston, South Carolina, Area | Clemson University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0086 | Adrian Rodriquez-Marek | Earthquake Effects | Uniform hazard spectra for site-specific applications including uncertainties in site-response | Washington State University | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0088 | H. Kao, H. Dragert, G.C. Rogers, J. Cassidy, and K. Wang | Pacific Northwest | Comprehensive Analysis of Episodic Tremor and Slip Events in Cascadia | Pacific Geoscience Centre | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0089 | Maria Beatrice Magnani | Central and Eastern U.S. | Toward an understanding of the long-term deformation in the Mississippi Embayment: Collaborative research between the University of Memphis and the University of Texas | University of Memphis | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0090 | Kirk McIntosh | Central and Eastern U.S. | Toward an Understanding of the Long-Term Deformation in the Mississippi Embayment: Collaborative Research between the University of Memphis and the University of Texas | University of Texas at Austin | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0092 | Charles Real | Northern California | Collaborative Research with URS Corporation, CGS: Application of new liquefaction hazard mapping techniques to the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta area | California Geological Survey | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0093 | Keith Knudsen | Northern California | Collaborative Research with URS Corporation and the CGS: Application of new liquefaction hazard mapping techniques to the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta area | URS Corporation | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0094 | Edward Woolery | Central and Eastern U.S. | Towards Construction of the Central United States Seismic Observatory and Calibration Site: Defining the Geologic Site Model | University of Kentucky | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0095 | Roland Burgmann | Northern California | Deformation and Earthquake Potential of the Eastern Coast Ranges from PS-InSAR Measurements | University of California - Berkeley | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0096 | Jerome Treiman | Southern California | Utility of Combined Aerial Photography and Digital Imagery for Fault Trace Mapping in Diverse Terrain and Vegetation Regimes | California Geological Survey | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0097 | David Dinter & James Pechmann | National and Intermountain West | Paleoseismology of Faults Submerged Beneath Utah Lake | University of Utah | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0100 | Robert Nadeau | Earthquake Physics | Locating nonvolcanic tremors and imaging their source region structure beneath the San Andreas fault, central California: Collaborative Research with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)& University of California, Berkeley | University of California Berkeley | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0101 | M. Nafi Toksoz | Earthquake Physics | Locating nonvolcanic tremors and imaging their source region structure beneath the San Andreas fault, central California: Collaborative Research with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology & University of California, Berkeley | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0102 | Robin Spence | National and Intermountain West | Estimating Shaking-Induced Casualities and Building Damage for Global Earthquakes Events | Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd. | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0103 | Christopher Sorlien | Southern California | Geometry, Kinematics, and Activity of Young Mainland-Dipping Fold and Thrust Belt: Newport Beach to San Clemente, California | University of California Santa Barbara | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0120 | Jim Wilkinson | Central and Eastern U.S. | Funding to support CUSEC State Geologists Needs Assessment Workshop. | Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0136 | Hong Kie Thio | National and Intermountain West | Near Real-Time Determination of Focal Mechanisms and Depths of Large Worldwide Earthquakes | URS Group, Inc. | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0137 | Jarmila Polet | National and Intermountain West | Collaborative Research with University of California, Santa Barbara and URS Corporation; Near Real-Time Determination of Focal Mechanisms and Depths of Large Worldwide Earthquakes | University of California, Santa Barbara | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0140 | Mitchell Craig | General | Third Conference on Earthquake Hazards in the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area: Science, Hazard, Engineering, and Risk | California State University East Bay | 2008 | ||
| 08HQGR0144 | Ronald Eguchi | General | 6th International Workshop on Remote Sensing for the Disaster Management Applications | ImageCat, Inc | 2008 |
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