T41G
Scientific Advances from Subduction Zone Observatories I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
306 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Joan S Gomberg, USGS Western Regional Offices Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners:  Douglas Wiens, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, Katherine A Kelley, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States and Anne Meltzer, Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Chairs:  Helen A Janiszewski, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Katherine A Kelley, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Gavin P Hayes, USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States
08:00
Foreshock (and slow slip?) triggering of the 1 April 2014 Mw 8.2 Iquique, Chile earthquake (65709)
Matthew W Herman1, Kevin P Furlong1, Gavin P Hayes2 and Harley Benz2, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States
08:15
Subduction Zone Science – Examples of Seismic Images of the Central Andes and Subducting Nazca Slab (Invited) (73858)
Susan L Beck1, George Zandt2, Alissa C Scire1, Kevin M Ward1, Daniel Evan Portner1, Brandon Bishop1, James C Ryan3, Lara S Wagner4 and Maureen D Long5, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Retired, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
08:30
Shear Wave Splitting Intensity of the Maule, Chile Rupture Zone: Results from Teleseismic and Local Aftershock Datasets (76376)
Megan E Torpey1, Raymond M Russo1 and Sebastien Chevrot2, (1)Univ of FL-Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)Observatoire Midi Pyrenees, Toulouse, France
08:45
15 Years Of Ecuadorian-French Research Along The Ecuadorian Subduction Zone (71637)
Philippe Charvis, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis - IRD - CNRS, Geoazur, Nice, France and Scientific team of the joint Ecuador-France laboratory "S
09:00
Existing Instrumentation and Scientific Drivers for a Subduction Zone Observatory in Latin America (62711)
Andrew Frassetto, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States
09:15
Recovering Total Megathrust Slip Across the Seismic Cycle: Results from Two Decades of Study at the Nicoya Seismic Cycle Observatory (NSCO) (78709)
Andrew Vern Newman, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
09:30
The intermediate-depth Tonga double-seismic zone and relationship to slab thermal structure (76978)
Songqiao Shawn Wei1, Douglas Wiens1, Aubreya Nicole Adams2 and Chen Cai1, (1)Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)Colgate University, Department of Geology, Hamilton, NY, United States
09:45
Slab2 – Providing updated subduction zone geometries and modeling tools to the community (73898)
Gavin P Hayes, USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States
 
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