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International
Shock tactics point to risk after quake
Article published at July 2008, in Nature News
[Printable Article]
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Earth's Crust Shows Long-Term Wiggle Room
Article published at April 2008, in Discovery News, by Larry O'Hanlon,
[Online Article]
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Geophysicist Ross Stein
Article published at July 2007, in Geotimes, by Carolyn Gramling,
[Online Article]
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Natural Hazards: Faster tsunami warnings with GPS
Article published at August 2006, in Geotimes, by Megan Sever,
[Online Article]
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What it’s Like to be an Earthquake Scientist,
Talking with USGS Geophysicist Ross Stein
Article published at April 2006, in People, Land & Water, by Tania Larson,
[Printable Article]
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The Chaos to Come
Article published at 15 December 2005, in Nature Vol 438, by Quirin Schiermeier,
[Printable Article]
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California
Eavesdropping on Faults to Anticipate Their Next Move
Article published at 17 December 2004, in Science
Vol 306, by Richard A. Kerr,
[Printable Article]
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Turkey - US
A young scientist: Serkan Bozkurt
Article published at November, 2004 in TurkOfAmerica by
Meltem Cetin,
[Online Article]
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Turkey
- US
Forces of Nature: A Scientific Antidote to The Day After
Tomorrow
Article published at July 20, 2004 in EOS , by
Peter Folger,
[Printable
Article]
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Turkey - US
Giant screen film, Forces Of Nature (IMAX)
Article published at July 16, 2004 in Mercury News, by
Glennda Chui
[Online
Article]
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Turkey - Greece -
Aegean
Microplates under the Aegean
Article published in the February 2004 Geotimes, by
Naomi Lubick
[Online
Article]
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California
San Simeon Earthquake
Article published in the December, 2003 Geotimes Web Extra by
Naomi Lubick
[Online
Article]
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California
An Interview with Jian Lin
Article published in the November 2003 ISI Special Topics
[Online
Article]
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Japan - Izu Peninsula
Earthquake forecasts given a boost
Article published in the 6 September 2002 ABC Science Online,
by Anna Salleh
[Online
Article]
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Middle East -
Dead Sea
Scientists Find Dead Sea Is Sinking
Article published in the 14 January 2002 dailynews.yahoo.com,
by A. Bridges
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Pacific North-West
Silent slip on the Cascadia Subduction Interface
Article published in the 2001 Science, by W. Thatcher
[Online
Article] requires registration !
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California - Mojave Desert
Mantle in Motion
Article published in the November 2001 Geotimes, by
J. Vendetti
[Online
Article]
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California - Mojave Desert
Ground movement is faster than thought during quakes
Article published in the 7 September 2001 San Francisco
Chronicle, by D. Perlman
[Online
Article]
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California - Los Angeles
LA's ups and downs
Article published in the 23 August 2001 Pasadena Star News,
by A. Bridges
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California - Los Angeles
Water thrown on earthquake prediction
Article published in the 23 August 2001 Nature, by
T. Clarke
[Online
Article]
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California - Los Angeles
Aquifer Levels May Lift, Lower L.A. Land
Article published in the 23 August 2001 Los Angeles Times,
by R. L. Hotz and K. Reich
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California - Los Angeles
L.A. moves with water table Changing water table moves L.A.
City rises and falls with annual pumping from ground storage
Article published in the 23 August 2001 San Francisco Chronicle,
by D. Perlman
[Online
Article]
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California - Los Angeles
More than a sinking feeling
Article published in the 23 August 2001 Orange County Register,
by G. Robbins
[Online
Article]
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California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles "bouncing" due to water storage
Article published in the 22 August 2001 NewScientist.com,
by J. Hecht
[Online
Article]
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California - Los Angeles
California Sinks, Fooling GPS and Ruining Earthquake Data
Article published in the 22 August 2001 Space.com,
by R. R. Britt
[Online
Article]
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Turkey - Izmit
'Great Quakes' explores Turkey temblor
Article published in the 6 July 2001 Los Angeles Times,
Calendar Section, by K. Reich
[Online
Article]
Check the TLC listing for
the frequent re-runs of this show.
The show will air on the Discovery Channel in Turkey on 17 August
2001
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California
Triggered temblors: Researchers are trying to learn how one
earthquake can set off others hundreds of miles away.
Article published in the 21 May 2001 San Francisco Chronicle,
by D. Perlman
[Online
Article]
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Washington state - Seattle
Pop-up disaster
Article published in the 12 April 2001 Nature (News and
Views), by W. Thatcher
[Online
Article]
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Turkey
- Istanbul
Successful Perception of Risk and Opportunity at Swiss Re
Article published in the 14 February 2001 Lloyd's List
| Insurance Day, by B. Poro
[Online
Article]
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Turkey - North
Anatolian Fault
Random occurrence or predictable disaster? New models in earthquake
probability assessment
Imagine your favourite newspaper one day supplementing the
daily weather report with an earthquake forecast. Admittedly, this
is still rather a far-fetched idea, but recent advancements in
seismological research have helped to improve earthquake probability
assessments by including the factors of time dependence and stress
transfer from past events.
Article published in the 2000 SwissRe Publishing, by L.
Hitz, S. Kriesch and E. Schmid
[Printable
Article]
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California
- San Francisco Bay
Applied Geoscience Forum: Display Innovation
A review of our USGS-PG&E website, http://www.sfbayquakes.org.
Article published in the July 2000 GEOworld, by A. K.
Turner
[Online
Article]
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Turkey - North
Anatolian Fault
As time passes the risk increases warns American Scientists
Article published in the 22 May 2000 Tempo (Turkish version
of "Time Magazine"), by E. Sekendiz
[ Printable
version in Turkish - (1.01Mb)]
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Turkey
- North Anatolian Fault
Quakes large and small, burps big and old
Article published in the 28 January 2000 Science, by
R. A. Kerr
[Online
Article]
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California
- San Francisco Bay
The role of stress transfer in earthquake occurrence
Ross S. Stein of the US Geological Survey describes how the
analysis of stress distributions along and perpendicular to fault
lines and especially their changes can be used to predict at a
given moment where and when most likely new earthquakes will happen.
Article published in the 1999 Complexity Digest, 1999:beta7
[Online
Article]
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Turkey
- North Anatolian Fault and California - San Andreas Fault
Stress test: the tragedy in Turkey may aid earthquake forecasting
A cascade of earthquakes since 1939 on the North Anatolian
Fault shows evidence for triggered seisms. This article draws the
parallel with the situation on the San Andreas Fault in California.
Article published in the December 1999 Scientific American,
by S. Levay
[Online
Article]
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California
Did one California jolt bring on another?
Article published in the 22 October 1999 Science, by
R. A. Kerr
[Online Article]
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California
- San Francisco Bay
Hollister's Loma Prieta memories: Earthquake experts assessing
the potential for major faults to trigger -- or relax -- others.
In just 60 seconds of shaking, the 1906 San Francisco quake
relieved so much stress over such a wide territory that the region's
earthquake-making machine pretty much shut off, giving us decades
of relative calm. "It's been a seismic sedative'' said Ross Stein,
a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park.
Article published in the 12 October 1999 San Jose Mercury
News, by G. Chui
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Turkey
- Izmit
The 17 August 1999 Izmit Earthquake
Article published in the 17 September 1999 www.sciencemag.org,
by A. Barka
[Online
Article]
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Turkey
- Istanbul
Is Istanbul next?
As the appalling death toll of last Tuesday's earthquake in
Turkey continues to rise, geologists are warning that things could
be even worse next time. They say the quake leaves Istanbul vulnerable
to a direct hit. As the world's first quake beneath a city of more
than 10 million people, it could kill several times more people
than the 40 000 estimated to have died in last week's disaster.
Article published in the 28 August 1999 New Scientist,
by F. Pierce
[Online
Article]
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Turkey
- North Anatolian Fault
Turkish earthquake: a wobbly domino falls
The 1999 Izmit earthquake (Turkey) is the most recent rupture
of a sequence of large damaging seisms along the North Anatolian
Fault. The stress-triggering hypothesis (cascading domino effect)
is conforted by this observation. USGS scientists can see a parallel
with the seismic situation of San Andreas Fault in the San Francisco
Bay area.
Article published in the 28 August 1999 Science News Online,
by R. Monastersky
[Online
Article]
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Turkey - North Anatolian Fault
In Turkey, havoc from falling-domino fault
Article published in the 27 August 1999 Science, by
T. Appenzeller
[Online Article]
requires registration !
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California
- Eastern region
Birth of a fault
"It's quite a mental achievement that three seismologists have detected
an earthquake fault in southern California in the process of being born."
Article published in the July 1999 The Geology Newsletter
of about.com, by A. Alden
[Online
Article]
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Basin
and Range - Yellowstone
Subterranean Belches of Yellowstone
Satellites have mapped erratic bulging and sinking within an
ancient volcanic crater in Yellowstone National Park. The surprisingly
rapid changes, reported in today's Science, offer new hints about
the plumbing of hot fluids that ooze far beneath the park and drive
its famed geysers and hot springs.
Article published in the 16 October 1998 Science's Daily InScight,
by R. Irion
[Online
Article]
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California - Southern region
A deficit vanished
The controversy over the existence of a deficit of earthquakes
in Southern California is analysed by Steven Ward from the USGS.
It appears that the assessment of that seismic deficit may be due
to an artifact of the method used to assess the expected amount
of earthquake in an area.
Article published in the 27 August 1998 Nature, by S.
Ward
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version - (227kb)]
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California
- Southern region
A quieter forecast for Southern California
Article published in the 10 July 1998 Science, by R.
E. Kerr
[Online
Article]
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California
- Southern region
California's quake deficit fades
Article published in the 21 March 1998 Science News Online,
by R. Monastersky
[Online
Article]
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California
Shaking down deep
Article published in the 23 October 1989 Time Magazine,
by M. J. Nash
[Online
Article]
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California - Algeria - Armenia
Hidden Earthquakes
Article published in the 1989 Sci. Am., by R. Stein
and R. S. Yeats
[Online
Article][Cover of Scientific
American][Reviewed in Time
Magazine]
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Basin and Range - Borah Peak
Quake replay in the Great Basin
Article published in the June 1986 Natural History,
by R. S. Stein and R. C. Bucknam
[Online
Article]
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Recent reviews of our work in the TV & Radio
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Asia Earthquake Threat Hangs Over World Markets
Morning
Edition audio Dec 27, 2006
Two years ago, an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra triggered a
tsunami that killed a quarter-of-a-million people. Scientists say Asia
is at risk for at least two more massive quakes. One near the source of
the 2004 tsunami, the other threatens Tokyo. When they come, the quakes
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NewsHour with Jim Lehrer June
2, 2004
Predicting
Quakes - Earthquakes can cause death and destruction
in a matter of seconds with little more than a minute's notice.
Betty Anne Bowser explores some cutting-edge technology in
seismology.
Here is a 11-minute segment that appeared on the NPR broadcast
on Wednesday, June 2, focusing on earthquake prediction.
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Third World Poised for Quake Catastrophe
Morning
Edition audio June 2, 2004
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ross Stein, a geophysicist with
the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. Stein says
that poor construction and large population growth may lead
to catastrophic earthquakes in the developing world. |
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Here is a 4-minute segment that appeared on the
KPIX news broadcast on Saturday, February 15, focusing on earthquake
stress triggering, the subject of Ross Stein's January 2003
Scientic American article, 'Earthquake conversations'. The
segment is presented by Lawrence Karnow, KPIX meterologist.
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