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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G12AC20038 | Thomas Jordan | General | SCEC-4 Southern Calfornia Earthquake Center support ($1,340,000; February 2012 through January 2017) | University of Southern California | Final Technical Report Due April 2017 | 2012 | |
| G12AC20039 | Thomas Jordan | Southern California | Prototype Implementation and Development of the new CISN ShakeAlert: Collaborative Research with California Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California, and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (EEW phase 3)($80,000; August 2012 through July 2013) | University of Southern California | Final Technical Report due October 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AC20211 | Edith Starbuck | Central and Eastern U.S. | Surficial Materials Mapping of the Chesterfield, House Springs, Manchester, Maxville and Weldon Spring 7.5 Minute Quadrangles, and Vs Profiles for the Western Portion of the St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project ($60,000; July 2012 through June 2013) | Missouri Department of Natural Resources | Final Technical Report Due September 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AC20342 | John Clinton | Northern California | Prototype Implementation and Development of the new CISN ShakeAlert: Collaborative Research with California Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California, and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (EEW phase 3)($64,000; August 2012 through July 2015) | Swiss Seismological Service (ETH Zurich) | Final Technical Report Due October 2015 | 2012 | |
| G12AC20343 | Thomas Heaton | Southern California | Prototype Implementation and Development of the new CISN ShakeAlert: Collaborative Research with California Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California, and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (EEW phase 3)($120,000; August 2012 through July 2015) | California Institution of Technology | Final Technical Report due October 2015 | 2012 | |
| G12AC20348 | Richard Allen | Northern California | Prototype Implementation and Development of the new CISN ShakeAlert: Collaborative Research with California Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, University of Southern California, and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (EEW phase 3)($120,000; August 2012 through July 2013) | University of California, Berkeley | Final Technical Report due October 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AC20416 | John Vidale & Paul Bodin | Pacific Northwest | Cascadia Earthquake Early Warning Ground Motion Simulations and Evaluations (EEW phase 3)($266,000; September 2012 through August 2015) | University of Washington | Final Technical Report Due November 2015 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20000 | Martitia Tuttle | Central and Eastern U.S. | Paleotsunami Record of Large Offshore Earthquakes North of Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands ($64,100; January 2012 through December 2012) | M. Tuttle & Associates | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20001 | Cliff Frohlich | Central and Eastern U.S. | Induced Earthquakes in Texas: Preliminary Comparison of Sites Where they Occur and Do Not Occur ($81,828; December 2011 through November 2012) | University of Texas Austin | Final Technical Report Due February 2013 | info | 2012 |
| G12AP20002 | Russell Green | Central and Eastern U.S. | Implications from Liquefaction Observations in New Zealand for Interpreting Paleoliquefaction Data in the CEUS ($76,150; December 2011 through August 2013) | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | Final Technical Report Due November 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20003 | Eric Thompson | National | Empirical Assessment of Site Amplification and Development of NEHRP Factors for CEUS: Collaborative Research with Pacific Engineeringand Tufts University ($14,996; December 2011 through December 2012) | Tufts University | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20004 | Walter Silva | National | Empirical Assessment of Site Amplification and Development of NEHRP Factors for CEUS: Collaborative Research with Pacific Engineeringand Tufts University ($19,508; December 2011 through December 2012) | Pacific Engineering and Analysis | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20006 | Nadia Lapusta | Earthquake Physics | Modeling Interaction of Slip Phenomena in Parkfield ($119,507; December 2011 through November 2012) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due February 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20007 | Douglas Dreger | Northern California | Continued Development and Implementation of Continuous Moment Tensor Scanning for Offshore Seismicity and Tsunami Early Warning($74,776; December 2011 through December 2012) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20008 | Stephen Mahin & Yousef Bozorgnia | National | NGA-Subduction: Data and Metadata Collection of Recent Subduction Events and Comparison with Existing Subduction GMPES ($79,894; January 2012 through December 2012) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20009 | Sean Gulick | Pacific Northwest | Evaluating Active Faulting and Geohazards in the Yakutat Bay Region of Southeastern Alaska ($87,930; January 2012 through December 2012) | University of Texas Austin | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20010 | Egill Hauksson | Southern California | Analysis of Earthquake Data from the Greater Los Angeles Basin and Adjacent Offshore Area, Southern California ($69,000; January 2012 through December 2012) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20011 | Heather DeShon | Central and Eastern U.S. | Integrating US Array and Cooperative New Madrid Seismic Network Data to Establish Central US Catalog Location and Magnitude Sensitivies ($21,920; January 2012 through December 2012) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20012 | Shu-Chioung Chiu, Charles Langston, Jer-Ming Chiu & Mitch Withers | Central and Eastern U.S. | Imaging Shallow Crustal Structure in the Upper Mississippi Embayment using Local Earthquake Data ($44,149; January 2012 through December 2012) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20013 | Jason DeJong | Earthquake Effects | Liquefaction Potential Evaluation of Sands with Fines using Variable Penetration Rate Cone Testing ($96,354; January 2012 through December 2012) | University of California Davis | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20015 | Kim Olsen | Earthquake Effects | Statistical Modeling of Shallow Velocity Heterogeneities, with Validation Against Strong Ground Motion Data ($52,301; January 2012 through December 2012) | San Diego State University | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20018 | Chris Cramer & Heather DeShon | National | Improving Regional Ground Motion Attenuation Boundaries and Models Using Earthscope USArray Data for Use in the National Seismic Hazards Mapping Project ($105,000; January 2012 through December 2013) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due March 2014 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20019 | Michael Ritzwoller | National | Applying Ambient Noise Cross-Correlations to Improve Seismic Event Location Capabilities in the Western and Central US ($101,428; January 2012 through December 2013) | University of Colorado Boulder | Final Technical Report Due March 2014 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20020 | John Shaw | Southern California | 3D Structural Velocity Model of the Santa Maria Basin, CA, for Improved Strong Ground Motion Prediction ($66,280; January 2012 through December 2012) | Harvard University | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20021 | Robert McCaffrey | Pacific Northwest | Contemporary Strain Rates Across the Yakima Fold-Thrust Belt Estimated with GPS: Collaborative Research with Portland State University and MIT ($73,876; January 2012 through December 2013) | Portland State University | Final Technical Report Due March 2014 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20023 | Sandra Seale & Ralph Archuleta | Pacific Northwest | Liquefaction Hazard in Western Washington ($63,193; January 2012 through December 2012) | University of California Santa Barbara | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20024 | John Anderson | Earthquake Effects | Extension of Database on Exceptional Strong Motion Accelerograms ($27,490; January 2012 through December 2012) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | info | 2012 |
| G12AP20025 | Zhigang Peng | Earthquake Physics | Structure, Seismicity, and Stress Along the San Andreas Fault near SAFOD: Collaborative Research with UW-Madison and Georiga Tech ($50,656; January 2012 through December 2012) | Georgia Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20026 | Aasha Pancha & Satish Pullammanapppallil | Intermountain West | Determination of 3D-Velocity Structure Across the Deepest Portion of the Reno-Area Basin ($53,550; January 2012 through December 2012) | Optim Seismic Data Solutions | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20027 | Clifford Thurber | Earthquake Physics | Structure, Seismicity, and Stress Along the San Andreas Fault near SAFOD: Collaborative Research with UW-Madison and Georiga Tech ($53,337; January 2012 through December 2012) | University of Wisconsin Madison | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20030 | Paul Segall | Earthquake Physics | Three Dimensional Models of Episodic Tremor and Slip in Cascadia ($89,144; January 2012 through December 2012) | Stanford University | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20031 | Kevin Furlong | Central and Eastern U.S. | The Intraplate Earthquake Cycle:Strain and Displacement Behavior During the Canterbury, NZ Earthquake Sequence ($48,605; January 2012 through December 2012) | Pennsylvania State University | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20032 | Robert King | Pacific Northwest | Contemporary Strain Rates Across the Yakima Fold-Thrust Belt Estimated with GPS: Collaborative Research with Portland State University and MIT ($30,912; January 2012 through December 2013) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due March 2014 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20033 | Kenneth Creager & Gina Schmalzie | Pacific Northwest | Relationship Among Tremor Amplitude, Slow Slip and Megathrust Earthquakes ($65,310; January 2012 through December 2012) | University of Washington | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20034 | Jonathan Bray | Earthquake Effects | Liquefaction Impact on Critical Infrastructure in Christchurch ($85,000; December 2011 through December 2012) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20042 | Ronald Counts | Central and Eastern U.S. | Paleoseismic Investigation of the Meadow Bank Lineament in the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone: Collaborative Research between the University of Illinois and the University of Kentucky ($69,965; March 2012 through February 2013) | University of Kentucky | Final Technical Report Due May 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20045 | Timothy Larson, Andrew Phillips, Ahmed Ismail & Scott Elrick | Central and Eastern U.S. | Paleoseismic Investigation of the Meadow Bank Lineament in the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone: Collaborative Research between the University of Illinois and the University of Kentucky ($5,999; March 2012 through February 2013) | University of Illinois | Final Technical Report Due May 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20046 | Duncan Agnew | Southern California | Episodic and Steady Strain Changes along the Cholame Segment of the San Andreas Fault ($36,171; March 2012 through February 2013) | University of California San Diego | Final Technical Report Due May 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20047 | Craig dePolo | Intermountain West | Paleoearthquake History of the Kings Canyon Fault Zone, NV: Collaborative Research between the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and the USGS ($58,532; March 2012 through February 2013) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report Due May 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20056 | Lisa Grant Ludwig & Sinan Ackiz | Southern California | Paleoseismic Investigation of an Active Fault Scarp Subparallel to the Main Trace of the San Andreas Fault at the Bidart Fan Site in the Carrizo Plain ($73,081; April 2102 through April 2013) | University of California Irvine | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20059 | Judy Zachariasen | Intermountain West | Paleoseismic Investgation of Newly Discovered Splays of the Hubbell Spring Fault Systems, Southern Albuquerque, New Mexico ($78,560; April 2012 through April 2013) | URS Group, Inc. | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20060 | Ozgur Kozaci | Northern California | Constraining Holocene Earthquake History at the Crystal Springs South Paleoseismic Site on the Peninsula Segment of the San Andreas Fault, Woodside, CA: Collaborative Research with URS Corp and Fugro Consultants ($46,356; April 2012 through April 2013) | Fugro Consultants, Inc. | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20061 | Judith Zachariasen | Northern California | Constraining Holocene Earthquake History at the Crystal Springs South Paleoseismic Site on the Peninsula Segment of the San Andreas Fault, Woodside, CA: Collaborative Research with URS Corp and Fugro Consultants ($40,141; April 2012 through April 2013) | URS Group, Inc. | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20063 | Juliet Crider | Pacific Northwest | Testing models of thin-skinned vs. basement-involved faulting in the Yakima Fold and Thrust Belt, Washington ($58,329; March 2012 through March 2013) | University of Washington | Final Technical Report Due June 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20064 | Kim Olsen | Southern California | Expected Peak Ground Motion in the San Jacinto Valley from Dynamic Rupture Modesl with Constraints from Precariously Balanced Rocks: Collaborative Research with UC Riverside and SDSU ($12,899; April 2012 through March 2013 | San Diego State University | Final Technical Report Due June 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20065 | David Oglesby | Southern California | Expected Peak Ground Motion in the San Jacinto Valley from Dynamic Rupture Modesl with Constraints from Precariously Balanced Rocks: Collaborative Research with UC Riverside and SDSU ($73,149; April 2012 through March 2013) | University of California Riverside | Final Technical Report Due June 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20066 | Craig Nicholson | Southern California | Mapping the 3D Geometry of Active Faults in Southern California ($54,263; April 2012 through March 2013) | University of California Santa Barbara | Final Technical Report Due June 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20067 | Yehuda Ben-Zion | Earthquake Physics | Episodc Tremor and Slip on a Frictional Interface with Critical Depinning ($70,024; April 2012 through March 2013) | University of Southern California | Final Technical Report Due June 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20068 | Martitia Tuttle | Central and Eastern U.S. | Filling the Gap in the Paleoearthquake Record between the New Madrid and Wabash Valley Seismic Zones ($75,000; September 2012 through August 2013) | M. Tuttle & Associates | Final Technical Report Due November 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20069 | Christopher Sorlien | Southern California | Plio-Quaternary Reactivation of Miocene Faults by the Newport-Inglewood-Rose Canyon-San Mateo-Carlsbad-Descanso-Coronado Bank Fault System: Newport Beach to San Diego, CA ($56,267; May 2012 through April 2013) | University of California Santa Barbara | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20070 | Thomas Rockwell | Southern California | Development of a Holocene Earthquake Record for the Norterhn Agua Tibia-Earthquake Valley Fault Zone from a New Paleoseismic Site at Warner Basin: Collaborative Research with UCI and SDSU ($20,448; May 2012 through April 2013) | San Diego State University | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20071 | Sinan Akciz | Southern California | Development of Holocene Earthquake Record of the Northern Agus Tibia-Earthquake Valley Fault Zone from a New Paleoseismic Site at Warner Basin: Collaborative Research with UCI and SDSU ($61,687; May 2012 through April 2013) | University of California Irvine | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20072 | Donald Helmberger | Southern California | Validation and Refinement of Velocity Models and Source Estimation: Collaborative Research with California Institute of Technology and the USGS ($74,119; April 2012 through March 2013) | California Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due June 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20073 | Jay Berger | National | Understanding Concrete Building Vulnerability: Developing a Database of Critical Deficiencies ($80,000; April 2012 through March 2013) | Earthquake Engineering Research Institute | Final Techical Report Due June 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20074 | Steven Bartlett | Intermountain West | Lateral Spread Ground Failure Maps for Weber County, Utah ($33,507; April 2012 through April 2013) | University of Utah | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20076 | Christopher DuRoss | Intermountain West | Paleoseismic Investigation to Determine the Mid-Holocene Chronology of Surface-Faulting Earthquakes on the Nephi Segment of the Wasatch Fault Zone, Utah and Juab ($48,764; May 2012 through April 2013) | Utah Geological Survey | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20077 | Peter Shearer | Southern California | Analysis of Southern California Seismicity Using Improved Locations, Focal Mechanisms and Stress Drops ($77,850; May 2012 through April 2013) | University of California San Diego | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20078 | Lee Liberty | Pacific Northwest | Retrieval, Processing, Interpretation and Cataloging of Legacy Seismic Reflection Data, Gulf of Alaska ($49,929; May 2012 through May 2013) | Boise State University | Final Technical Report Due August 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20079 | Chris Cramer, Gary Patterson, Roy Van Arsdale & Ryan Csontos | Central and Eastern U.S. | Updating and Expanding Urban Seismic Hazard Maps and Public Outreach for Memphis and Shelby County, TN ($88,066; May 2012 through April 2013) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20081 | Paul Somerville, Hong Kie Thio & Jeff Bayless | Pacific Northwest | Ground Motion and Tsunamis from Large Cascadia Subduction Earthquakes ($59,940; May 2012 through April 2013) | URS Group, Inc | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20082 | Paul Somerville & Sidao Ni | Central and Eastern U.S. | Estimating Site Response by Constraining Shallow Velocity Structure with Local P Waves in the Central and Eastern US ($58,104; May 2012 through April 2013) | URS Group, Inc. | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20083 | Ellen Rathje | Earthquake Effects | Probabilistic Seismic Landslide Maps: Implementation Project ($76,808; June 2012 through May 2013) | University of Texas at Austin | Final Technical Report Due August 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20084 | Ian Shennan and Natasha Barlow | Pacific Northwest | Late Holocene Earthquakes in Kodiak Island, AK and Implications for Plate Segmentation ($74,971; September 2012 through August 2013) | University of Durham | Final Technical Report Due November 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20086 | Glenn Biasi & John Anderson | Southern California | Empirical Hazard Curve Assessment Using the Precarious Rock Archive ($46,681; May 2012 through April 2013) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report Due July 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20088 | James Dieterich | Earthquake Effects | Earthquake Rupture Dynamics: Factors Controlling Initial Conditions and Variability of Rupture Processes ($58,780; May 2012 through May 2013) | University of California Riverside | Final Technical Report Due August 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20090 | Zhigang Peng | Earthquake Physics | Testing Static vs. Dynamic Triggering Based on Systematic Detection of Missing Triggered Events in Central California ($62,903; June 2012 through July 2013) | Georgia Institute of Technology | Final Technical Report Due August 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20093 | Haydar Al-Shukri & Hanan Mahdi | Central and Eastern U.S. | Geophysical and Paleoseismic Investigations of Large Sand Blows along a Northwest-Oriented Lineament near Marianna, Arkansas ($91,399; June 2012 through May 2013) | University of Arkansas Little Rock | Final Technical Report Due August 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20094 | Ray Weldon | Northern California | Refining Earthquake Recurrence and Slip Over the Past 4-5 events on the Southern Santa Cruz Moutains Segment of the San Andreas Fault($45,643; June 2012 through May 2013) | University of Oregon | Final Technical Report due August 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20096 | Ingrid Johanson, Roland Burgmann and Taka'aki Taira | Northern California | Transient slip on the Hayward fault from SBAS-InSAR, GPS and seismicity data($64,487; June 2012 through May 2013) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due August 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20097 | Douglas Dreger & Ingrid Johanson | Northern California | Rapid finite-fault earthquakes and afterslip information from seismic and real-time GPS observations ($67,594; June 2012 through May 2013) | University of California Berkeley | Final Technical Report Due August 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20098 | Scott Brandenberg | Earthquake Effects | Influence of Liquefaction on Earthquake Ground Motions ($80,395; July 2012 through June 2013) | University of California Los Angeles | Final Technical Report Due September 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20099 | Randel Tom Cox | Central and Eastern U.S. | Investigation of the Magnitude and Timing of Paleo-Earthquakes in Southeast Arkansas ($48,053; July 2012 through July 2013) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report due October 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20101 | Stephen Horton | Central and Eastern U.S. | Seismic Hazard from Induced Earthquakes in Arkansas($58,000; June 2012 through May 2014) | University of Memphis | Final Technical Report Due August 2014 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20105 | Danielle Hutchings | Northern California | A Sub-Regional Review of Earthquake-Related Hazards in the San Francisco Area ($80,000; September 2012 through August 2013) | Association of Bay Area Governments | Final Technical Report Due November 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20110 | Graham Kent | Intermountain West | Fault Distribution, Slip-Rate Determination and a Focused Seismicity Study of the Pyramid Lake Basin ($26,000; June 2012 through June 2013) | University of Nevada Reno | Final Technical Report Due September 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12AP20113 | Robert McCaffrey | National | Fault Slip and Strain Near Western US population centers from inversion of geologic, seismologic and geodetic data ($20,000; July 2012 through July 2013) | Portland State University | Final Technical Report due October 2013 | 2012 | |
| G12PX00007 | Jay Berger | General | Special Issues (2) of Earthquake Spectra on the Haiti and Chile Earthquakes($10,000; December 2011 through December 2012) | EERI | Final Technical Report Due March 2013 | 2012 |
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