The links in the following agendas are to PDF files of participants that have granted permission to view their presentations at the INW workshop.
June 13-14, 2012
Officer's Club, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Wednesday June 13th
Introduction & Overview
- Review 2008 model and proposed changes (Petersen) 30 min
- Recent research leading to improvements in the maps (Crone)
- On-line resources (Powers)
- BRPEWG II summary (Lund)
Review of BRPEWG Geology Recommendations and Results
- Uncertainty in source dip
- Characterization of source maximum M
- Slip-rate uncertainty
- Modeling antithetic sources
Open Discussion & Recommendations from Participants
Recommendations from IMW States
- Chris Eisinger (Colorado Geological Survey)
- Mike Stickney (Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology)
- Seth Wittke (Wyoming Geological Survey)
- Phil Pearthree (Arizona Geological Survey)
- Craig dePolo (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology)
- Bill Lund (Utah Geological Survey)
Additional topics
- A proposed revision to the NSHM generalization of the Salt Lake City segment (Wasatch fault) surface trace (Pechmann)
- Working Group on Utah earthquake probabilities (Wong)
- Issues on implementing geodetic deformation estimate of fault slip rates and its application to the seismic hazard analysis (Zeng)
- Low footwall accelerations and variable surface rupture behavior on the Fort Sage Mountains fault, NE California (Briggs)
Thursday June 14th
Seismology
- Catalog declustering and non-tectonic seismicity
- Seismicity rates used in smoothed-gridded seismicity
- Alternative catalogs
- Issues in Considering Alternative Earthquake Catalogs for the NSHMP—Utah Catalog Example (Arabasz)
- Hawthorne earthquake (Anderson)
Review of BRPEWG seismology recommendations and results
(Moschetti, Petersen)
- Magnitude uncertainty in the seismicity catalogs used in the NSHMs
- Constraining maximum M for background seismicity
- Smoothing background seismicity
- Magnitude-frequency relations for individual fault sources
- Mismatch of modeled earthquake rate versus historical earthquakes
Open discussion & final recommendations from participants
Participant recommendations to the NSHMP
- Estimation of uncertainty (Shome)
- Comparison of GPS and geologic rates (Smith)
- Final thoughts (Anderson)
Summary of final recommendations to the NSHMP
(Petersen)
Attendees
- John Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno
- Stephen Angster, USGS
- Walter Arabasz, University of Utah
- James Bela, Oregon Earthquake Awareness
- Glenn Biassi, University of Nevada, Reno
- Steve Bowman, Utah Geological Survey
- Rich Briggs, USGS
- Tony Crone, USGS
- Craig dePolo, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
- Sarah Derouin, Bureau of Reclamation
- Chris DuRoss, Utah Geological Survey
- Chris Eisinger, Colorado Geological Survey
- Jamie Farrell, University of Utah
- Emily Gibson, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- Kathy Haller, USGS
- Jeff Kimball, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- Bill Lund, Utah Geological Survey
- Fredrick Massin, University of Utah
- Morgan Moschetti, USGS
- Dean Ostenaa, Fugro Consultants Inc.
- Phil Pearthree, Arizona Geological Survey
- Jim Pechmann, University of Utah
- Steve Personius, USGS
- Mark Petersen, USGS
- Lucy Piety, Bureau of Reclamation
- Peter Powers, USGS
- Richard Quittmeyer, Paul C. Rizzo Associates, Inc.
- Nilesh Shome, Risk Management Solutions
- Bob Smith, University of Utah
- Mike Stickney, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
- Paul Thenhaus, EQCAT
- Seth Wittke, Wyoming State Geological Survey
- Ivan Wong, URS
- Yuehua Zeng, USGS
The links in the following agendas are to PDF files of participants that have granted permission to view their presentations at the INW workshop.
June 13-14, 2012
Officer's Club, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Wednesday June 13th
Introduction & Overview
- Review 2008 model and proposed changes (Petersen) 30 min
- Recent research leading to improvements in the maps (Crone)
- On-line resources (Powers)
- BRPEWG II summary (Lund)
Review of BRPEWG Geology Recommendations and Results
- Uncertainty in source dip
- Characterization of source maximum M
- Slip-rate uncertainty
- Modeling antithetic sources
Open Discussion & Recommendations from Participants
Recommendations from IMW States
- Chris Eisinger (Colorado Geological Survey)
- Mike Stickney (Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology)
- Seth Wittke (Wyoming Geological Survey)
- Phil Pearthree (Arizona Geological Survey)
- Craig dePolo (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology)
- Bill Lund (Utah Geological Survey)
Additional topics
- A proposed revision to the NSHM generalization of the Salt Lake City segment (Wasatch fault) surface trace (Pechmann)
- Working Group on Utah earthquake probabilities (Wong)
- Issues on implementing geodetic deformation estimate of fault slip rates and its application to the seismic hazard analysis (Zeng)
- Low footwall accelerations and variable surface rupture behavior on the Fort Sage Mountains fault, NE California (Briggs)
Thursday June 14th
Seismology
- Catalog declustering and non-tectonic seismicity
- Seismicity rates used in smoothed-gridded seismicity
- Alternative catalogs
- Issues in Considering Alternative Earthquake Catalogs for the NSHMP—Utah Catalog Example (Arabasz)
- Hawthorne earthquake (Anderson)
Review of BRPEWG seismology recommendations and results
(Moschetti, Petersen)
- Magnitude uncertainty in the seismicity catalogs used in the NSHMs
- Constraining maximum M for background seismicity
- Smoothing background seismicity
- Magnitude-frequency relations for individual fault sources
- Mismatch of modeled earthquake rate versus historical earthquakes
Open discussion & final recommendations from participants
Participant recommendations to the NSHMP
- Estimation of uncertainty (Shome)
- Comparison of GPS and geologic rates (Smith)
- Final thoughts (Anderson)
Summary of final recommendations to the NSHMP
(Petersen)
Attendees
- John Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno
- Stephen Angster, USGS
- Walter Arabasz, University of Utah
- James Bela, Oregon Earthquake Awareness
- Glenn Biassi, University of Nevada, Reno
- Steve Bowman, Utah Geological Survey
- Rich Briggs, USGS
- Tony Crone, USGS
- Craig dePolo, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
- Sarah Derouin, Bureau of Reclamation
- Chris DuRoss, Utah Geological Survey
- Chris Eisinger, Colorado Geological Survey
- Jamie Farrell, University of Utah
- Emily Gibson, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- Kathy Haller, USGS
- Jeff Kimball, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- Bill Lund, Utah Geological Survey
- Fredrick Massin, University of Utah
- Morgan Moschetti, USGS
- Dean Ostenaa, Fugro Consultants Inc.
- Phil Pearthree, Arizona Geological Survey
- Jim Pechmann, University of Utah
- Steve Personius, USGS
- Mark Petersen, USGS
- Lucy Piety, Bureau of Reclamation
- Peter Powers, USGS
- Richard Quittmeyer, Paul C. Rizzo Associates, Inc.
- Nilesh Shome, Risk Management Solutions
- Bob Smith, University of Utah
- Mike Stickney, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
- Paul Thenhaus, EQCAT
- Seth Wittke, Wyoming State Geological Survey
- Ivan Wong, URS
- Yuehua Zeng, USGS