Earthquake recurrence on the south Hayward fault is most consistent with a time dependent, renewal process, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 36, doi:10.1029/2008GL035887
Monte Carlo method for determining earthquake
recurrence parameters from short paleoseismic catalogs: Example
calculations for California,Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 112,
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Forecast experiment: Do temporal and spatial b-
value variations along the Calaveras fault portend M>=4.0
earthquakes? Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 112, doi:
10.1029/2006JB004632.
Mikhailov, V. O., T. Parsons, R. W. Simpson, E. P. Timoshkina, and
C. Williams,
Why the Sacramento Delta Area Differs from Other
Parts of the Great Valley: Numerical Modeling of Thermal Structure and
Thermal Subsidence of Forearc Basins, Izvestiya, Physics of the
Solid Earth, v. 43, p. 75–90., DOI:
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M>=7.0 earthquake recurrence on the San Andreas
fault from a stress renewal model, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 111, doi:10.1029/2006JB004415, 2006. (1) U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 999 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A.
Earthquake and volcano clustering via stress transfer at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, GSA, Geology Volume: 34 Issue: 9 Pages: 785-788. doi: 10.1130/G22636.1, 2006. (1) U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 999 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A. (2) Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305. U.S.A. (3) Los Alamos Ntional Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 , USA
R. S. Stein1, S. Toda2, T. Parsons1 and E. Grunewald1,3
A new probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for greater Tokyo, in press, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, doi:10.1098/rsta.2006.1808, 2006. (1) U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 977 Menlo Park, CA 94025 U.S.A. (2) Active Fault Research Center, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan (3) Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, USA
T. Parsons, R. J. Blakely, T. M. Brocher, N. I. Christensen, M. A. Fisher,
E. Flueh, F. Kilbride, J. H. Luetgert, K. Miller, U. S. ten Brink, A. M. Trehu, and R. E. Wells
Crustal Structure of the Cascadia Fore Arc of Washington. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1661-D, 2006
Triggering of tsunamigenic aftershocks from large strike-slip earthquakes: analysis of the November 2000 New Ireland earthquake sequence, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (G3), v. 6, doi:10.1029/2005GC000935.
Significance of stress transfer in time-dependent earthquake probability calculations. Journal of Geophysical Research., Vol. 110, B05S02, doi:10.1029/2004JB003190, 2005
Structure and mechanics of the San Andreas–San Gregorio fault junction, San Francisco, California, G3 (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems), Volume 6, Number 1, ISSN: 1525-2027, Q01009, doi:10.1029/2004GC000838, 2005.
Recalculated probability of M≥7 earthquakes beneath the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 109, B05304, doi:10.1029/2003JB002667, 2004.
T. Parsons, R. Sliter, E. L. Geist, R. C. Jachens, B. E. Jaffe, A. Foxgrover, P. E. Hart, and J. McCarthy,
Structure and mechanics of the Hayward-Rodgers Creek fault stepover, San Francisco Bay, California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., Vol. 93, No. 5, pp. 2187–2200, October 2003.
Global observation of Omori-law decay in the rate of triggered earthquakes: Large aftershocks outside the classical aftershock zone, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 2199, doi:10.1029/2001JB000646, 2002.
A simple algorithm for sequentially incorporating gravity observations in seismic traveltime tomography, International Geology Review 43, pp. 1073-1086, 2001, and Geological Society of America Special Publication, in press, 2002.
Very different crustal response to extreme extension in the southern Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau transition, in, Erskine, M. C., Faulds, J. E., Bartley, J. M., and Rowley, P. D., editors, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Pacific Section Guidebook, GB 78, pp., 291-304, 2001.
T. M. Brocher, T. Parsons, R. E. Blakely, N. I. Christensen, M. A. Fisher and R. E. Wells,
Three-dimensional geometry of crustal faults, basins, and uplifts in Puget Lowland, Washington: Results from SHIPS, the 1998 Seismic Hazards Investigation in Puget Sound, J. Geophys. Res., 106, pp. 13541-13564, 2001.
T. Parsons, A. Barka, S. Toda, R. S. Stein and J. H. Dieterich,
Influence of the 17 August 1999 Izmit earthquake on seismic hazards in Istanbul, in A. Barka, O. Kozaci, S. Akyuz and E. Altunel (Eds.), The 1999 Izmit and Duzce Earthquakes: Preliminary results, pp. 295-310, 2000.
Static-stress impact of the 1992 Landers earthquake sequence on nucleation and slip at the site of the 1999 M=7.1 Hector Mine earthquake, southern California., Geophys. Res. Let., 27, pp. 1949-1952, 2000.
T. Parsons, R. E. Wells, E. Flueh, U. S. T. Brink and M. A. Fisher,
Three-dimensional velocity structure of Siletzia and other accreted terranes in the Cascadia fore arc of Washington, J. Geophys. Res., 104, pp. 18,015-18,039, 1999.
T. Parsons, R. S. Stein, R. W. Simpson and P. A. Reasenberg,
Stress sensitivity of fault seismicity: A comparison between limited-offset oblique and major strike-slip faults, J. Geophys. Res., 104, pp. 20,183-20,202, 1999.
M. A. Fisher, E. R. Flueh, D. W. Scholl, T. Parsons, R. E. Wells, A. Trehu, U. tenBrink and C. S. Weaver,
Geologic processes of accretion: Cascadia subduction zone west of Washington State, Journal of Geodynamics, 27, pp. 277-288, 1999.
M. A. Fisher, T. M. Brocher, R. D. Hyndman, A. M. Trehu, C. S. Weaver, K. C. Creager, R. S. Crosson, T. Parsons, A. K. Cooper, D. Mosher, G. Spence, B. C. Zelt, P. T. Hammer, U. t. Brink, T. L. Preatt, K. C. Miller, J. R. Childs, G. R. Cochrane, S. Chopra and R. Wailia,
Seismic survey probes urban earthquake hazards in Pacific Northwest, EOS, Transactions AGU, 104, pp. 13-17, 1999.
T. M. Brocher, T. Parsons, K. C. Creager, R. S. Crosson, N. P. Symmons, G. D. Spence, B. C. Zelt, P. T. C. Hammer, R. D. Hyndman, D. C. Mosher, A. M. Trehu, K. C. Miller, U. S. t. Brink, M. A. Fisher, T. L. Pratt, M. G. Alvarez, B. C. Beaudoin, K. E. Louden and C. S. Weaver,
Wide-angle seismic recordings from the 1998 seismic hazards investigation of Puget Sound (SHIPS), western Washington and British Columbia, USGS Open File Report, 99-314, pp. 1-110, 1999.
T. Parsons,
Seismic-reflection evidence that the Hayward fault extends into the lower crust of the San Francisco Bay area, California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 88, pp. 1,212-1,223, 1998.
T. Parsons, G. A. Thompson and R. P. Smith,
More than one way to stretch: a tectonic model for extension along the plume track of Yellowstone hotspot and adjacent Basin and Range Province, Tectonics, 17, pp. 221-234, 1998.
T. Parsons, A. M. Trehu, J. H. Luetgert, K. Miller, F. Killbride, R. E. Wells, M. A. Fisher, E. Flueh, U. S. t. Brink and N. I. Christensen,
A new view into the Cascadia subduction zone and volcanic arc: Implications for earthquake hazards along the Washington margin, Geology, 26, pp. 199-201, 1998.
T. Parsons, J. McCarthy, W. M. Kohler, C. J. Ammon, H. M. Benz, J. A. Hole and E. E. Criley,
The crustal structure of the Colorado Plateau, Arizona: Application of new long-offset seismic data analysis techniques, J. Geophys. Res., 101, pp. 11,173-11,194, 1996.
J. McCarthy, P. E. Hart, R. Anima, D. Oppenheimer and T. Parsons,
Seismic evidence for faulting in the western Sacramento Delta region, Pittsburgh, California, USGS Open File Report, 96-267, pp. 134-143, 1996.
T. Parsons,
The Basin and Range Province, in K. Olsen ed., Continental Rifts: evolution, structure and tectonics, Amsterdam, Elsevier, pp. 277-324, 1995.
T. Parsons, N. I. Christensen and H. G. Wilshire,
Velocities of southern Basin and Range xenoliths: Insights on the nature of lower crustal reflectivity and composition, Geology, 23, pp. 129-132, 1995.
Insights into the kinematic Cenozoic evolution of the Basin and Range-Colorado Plateau transition from coincident seismic refraction and reflection data, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 106, pp. 747-759, 1994.
Host rock rheology controls on the emplacement of tabular intrusions: Implications for underplating of continental crust, Tectonics, 11, pp. 1348-1356, 1992.
T. Parsons, J. M. Howie and G. A. Thompson,
Seismic constraints on the nature of lower crustal reflectors beneath the extending southern transition zone of the Colorado Plateau, Arizona, J. Geophys. Res., 97, pp. 12391-12407, 1992.
T. Parsons and G. A. Thompson,
The role of magma overpressure in suppressing earthquakes and topography: Worldwide examples, Science, 253, pp. 1399-1402, 1991.