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Heidi Houston Professor Office : ATG-204 (ESS snail mail address) Phone : 206-616-7092 Fax : 206-543-0489 (shared) email : heidi.houston* * = @ gmail . com web-page : longer cv |
| Areas of Interest : Seismology; Earthquakes, subduction zones. |
| Research Groups : Seismology and Tectonics |
| Education : Ph.D. : Caltech, 1987 M.S. : Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981 B.S. : University of Washington, 1977 |
| Background : As an undergrad at the University of Washington, I majored in math and music. I then gained my PhD in seismology at Caltech. After some years at UC Santa Cruz and a decade on the faculty at UCLA, I've returned to the town where I grew up, and am happy to be in the midst of the interesting tectonics we enjoy in the Pacific Northwest, and the broad range of activity at the UW. Current Research : Observational global seismology including physics of the earthquake source from broadband waveforms: seismically-radiated energy, relationship to fault mechanics, spatial and temporal details of the rupture process to assess variability and complexity, implications for earthquake hazard. Subduction processes including subduction zone seismicity, physical mechanisms of deep earthquakes and relationship to tectonic processes. |
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| Selected Publications : Houston H, 2007. Deep Earthquakes, Chapter in Treatise on Seismology, Elsevier, Ed. H Kanamori, G Schubert, in press. Kagan YY, Houston H, 2005. Relation between mainshock rupture process and Omori's law for aftershock moment release rate, Geophys J Int, 163 (3): 1039-1048. Ishii M, Shearer PM, Houston H, et al., 2005. Extent, duration and speed of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake imaged by the Hi-Net array, Nature 435 (7044): 933-936 JUN 16. Persh SE, Houston H, 2004. Strongly depth-dependent aftershock production in deep earthquakes, Bull Seismo Soc Am, 94 (5): 1808-1816. Persh SE, Houston H, 2004. Deep earthquake rupture histories determined by global stacking of broadband P waveforms, J Geophys Res, 109 (B4): Art. No. B04311 Provost AS, Houston H, 2003. Stress orientations in northern and central California: Evidence for the evolution of frictional strength along the San Andreas plate boundary system, J Geophys Res, 108 (B3): 2175. Provost AS, Houston H, 2001. Orientation of the stress field surrounding the creeping section of the San Andreas Fault: Evidence for a narrow mechanically weak fault zone, J Geophys Res, 106, 11373-11386. Houston H, 2001. Influence of depth, focal mechanism, and tectonic setting on the shape and duration of earthquake source time functions, J Geophys Res, 106, 11137-11150. Full CV Link : Heidi Houston CV |
Last Modified : 02/03/2007
