OS32A:
Marine Geohazards II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Katherine L Maier, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Uri S Ten Brink, US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Daniel S Brothers, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Jason D Chaytor, USGS, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Uri S Ten Brink, US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Katie Maier, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Daniel S Brothers, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Recurrence Periods of Earthquake-Induced Submarine Landslides
Rafael Rodríguez-Ochoa1 and Farrokh Nadim1,2, (1)University of Oslo, Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, (2)Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Landslides and Georisk, Oslo, Norway
10:35 AM
 
Characterising Active Fault Earthquake Sources Beneath the Coastal Environments of Christchurch and Wellington Cities, New Zealand, Using Seismic Reflection Profiles and Fault Displacement Analysis Techniques
Philip Barnes1, Scott Nodder1, Andrew R Gorman2, Susi Woelz1 and Alan R Orpin1, (1)National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (2)University of Otago, Department of Geology, Dunedin, New Zealand
10:50 AM
 
Geophysical Investigation of the Offshore Section of the Northern San Andreas Fault: Fault Zone Geometries, Shallow Deformation Patterns, and Holocene Sediment Distribution
Jeffrey W Beeson1, Chris Goldfinger1 and Samuel Y Johnson2, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States
11:05 AM
 
Meter Accuracy Seafloor Geodesy using Repeated Multibeam Surveys
John Boone DeSanto, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and David T Sandwell, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
11:20 AM
 
In what settings do turbidites provide a record of major earthquakes?
Esther Sumner1, Peter J Talling2 and Lisa Clare McNeill1, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)National Oceanography Centre,, Southampton, Hamps, United Kingdom
11:35 AM
 
History and mechanisms of the Fram Slide, Fram Strait
Judith Elger1,2, Christian Berndt1, Sebastian Krastel2 and David Piper3, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)Inst fuer Geowissenschaften, Kiel, Germany, (3)Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
11:50 AM
 
Shear-wave velocity of slope sediments near Hudson Canyon from analysis of ambient noise
Nathaniel C Miller1,2, Uri S Ten Brink1, John A Collins3, Jeffrey Joseph McGuire4 and Claudia H Flores1, (1)US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Ins, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States
12:05 PM
 
Development of Probabilistic Methods to Assess Meteotsunami Hazards
Uri S Ten Brink, US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Eric L Geist, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
 
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