2021 May Public Lecture Flyer

Where Earthquakes Hide in the Desert: What we've learned from recent fault ruptures in the western U.S.

By Austin J. Elliott, USGS Research Geologist

• Three large earthquakes since 2019 have ruptured incompletely mapped faults in the western U.S.
• Both satellite and field measurements give extremely detailed maps of how the ground deformed.
• Imaging these earthquakes and studying the previously unrecognized connectivity among the causative faults offers a rare window into the types of earthquakes that can occur, including how large and how often.

May 27th, 2021 at 7:00PM (PDT) 

Resource Links:

• Austin Elliott Biography 
• Digital datasets from the 2020 M6.5 Monte Cristo Range earthquake, Nevada
• M6.5 Monte Cristo Range Earthquake
• The 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence