T12B:
Intraplate Seismicity in a Geodynamic and Tectonic Context: Do Unconventional Stresses Generate Unconventional Seismicity? I

Session ID#: 4954

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Salon 13-15 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  William Brower Levandowski, Tetra Tech, Chapel Hill, United States and William E Holt, Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, United States
Primary Convener:  William Brower Levandowski, Tetra Tech, Chapel Hill, United States
Co-conveners:  William E Holt, Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, United States and Attreyee Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Earth Sciences, Bangalore, India
OSPA Liaison:  William Brower Levandowski, Tetra Tech, Chapel Hill, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

7230 Seismicity and tectonics [SEISMOLOGY]
8110 Continental tectonics: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8123 Dynamics: seismotectonics [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8164 Stresses: crust and lithosphere [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

T12B-01
Critically Stressed Crust in Southern California: A Model of Crustal Stress from Plate Driving, Topography, and Fault Loading, with Geodetic and Seismic Constraints (Invited) (23165)
Karen M Luttrell, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Bridget R Smith-Konter, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Honolulu, United States and David T Sandwell, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
T12B-02
Topographic stresses and slip heterogeneity in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: Constraints on regional stress, fault friction, and pore pressure (Invited) (4247)
Eric A Hetland1, Richard H Styron1 and Lorena Medina Luna2, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
T12B-03
Seismicity in Eastern North America: What Is the Source of Intraplate Strain and Stress? (8431)
Attreyee Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Earth Sciences, Bangalore, India, William E Holt, Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, United States and Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, IL, United States
T12B-04
Intraplate Seismicity and Lithospheric Strength as Inferred from 3D Seismic Models (Invited) (14397)
Walter D Mooney, USGS Earthquake Science Center, Moffett Field, United States, Fred F Pollitz, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Seattle, United States and Jeroen Ritsema, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
T12B-05
2D Ball-and-Socket Tectonic Rotation in a Heterogeneous Strain Field: The 2013 Mw7.7 Balochistan, Pakistan Earthquake (8022)
William D Barnhart, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program, Golden, United States, Gavin P Hayes, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, Richard W Briggs, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States, Ryan D Gold, U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States and Roger Bilham, University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
T12B-06
Roaming Earthquakes in North China and Central-Eastern US: How and Why? (Invited) (4502)
Mian Liu, University of Missouri, Geological Sciences, Columbia, United States, Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, IL, United States and Hui Wang, China Earthquake Administration, Institute of Earthquake Sciences, Beijing, China
T12B-07
Recent Fault Activity in the 1886 Charleston, South Carolina Earthquake Epicentral Area and its Relation to Buried Structures (23259)
Thomas L Pratt1, Anjana K Shah2, J. Wright Horton Jr1, Martin C Chapman3 and Jacob Beale3, (1)USGS, Reston, VA, United States, (2)USGS, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO, United States, (3)Virginia Polytech Inst & St Un, Blacksburg, United States
T12B-08
Impact of glaciations and denudation on geodetic uplift and seismicity in the Alps: A rheological control ? (16257)
Jean Chery1, Manon Genti2, Philippe Vernant2 and Rodolphe Cattin3, (1)Géosciences, Montpellier University and CNRS, Montpellier, France, (2)Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, (3)University of Montpellier, Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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