Gavin P Hayes
I am a seismologist and program coordinator with the USGS, based in in Golden, CO. I oversee the activities of the Earthquake Hazards, Geomagnetism, and Global Seismographic Network (GSN) Programs within the Natural Hazards Mission Area.
Gavin Hayes is the Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake and Geologic Hazards at USGS. In this position, he oversees the Earthquake Hazards, Geomagnetism, and Global Seismographic Network (GSN) Programs. Hayes joined the USGS in 2007, after receiving a doctoral degree in geosciences from Pennsylvania State University, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Leeds in England. He was a post-doctoral scholar with the USGS National Earthquake Information Center before being hired permanently in 2012, and was a Research Geophysicist with that group from 2012-2020.
As part of the NEIC, Hayes helped to lead the USGS real time response to domestic and global earthquakes, rapidly characterizing the source properties of earthquakes, and interpreting events within their regional tectonic context. Hayes has over 80 publications in the areas of seismology, tectonics, geodesy and natural hazards, and in the applications of these subjects to earthquake safety, hazard and risk mitigation.
Education and Certifications
Gavin Hayes (Ph.D., Penn State, 2007)
Science and Products
Constraints on the long-period moment-dip tradeoff for the Tohoku earthquake
88 hours: The U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center response to the March 11, 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake
Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2007, Nazca Plate and South America
Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2007, Japan and Vicinity
Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2007, Kuril-Kamchatka Arc and Vicinity
Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2010, Aleutian arc and vicinity
Seismicity of the Earth 1900–2010: Caribbean plate and vicinity
Extensive diversity of tectonic regimes characterizes the perimeter of the Caribbean plate, involving no fewer than four major adjacent plates (North America, South America, Nazca, and Cocos). Inclined zones of deep earthquakes (Wadati-Benioff zones), deep ocean trenches, and arcs of volcanoes clearly indicate subduction of oceanic lithosphere along the Central American and Atlantic Ocean margins
The GSN and large earthquakes
Science and Products
Constraints on the long-period moment-dip tradeoff for the Tohoku earthquake
88 hours: The U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center response to the March 11, 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake
Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2007, Nazca Plate and South America
Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2007, Japan and Vicinity
Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2007, Kuril-Kamchatka Arc and Vicinity
Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2010, Aleutian arc and vicinity
Seismicity of the Earth 1900–2010: Caribbean plate and vicinity
Extensive diversity of tectonic regimes characterizes the perimeter of the Caribbean plate, involving no fewer than four major adjacent plates (North America, South America, Nazca, and Cocos). Inclined zones of deep earthquakes (Wadati-Benioff zones), deep ocean trenches, and arcs of volcanoes clearly indicate subduction of oceanic lithosphere along the Central American and Atlantic Ocean margins