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1/12/17 Lecture: Earthquakes & Earthquake Response in the 21st Century. Ballroom E
Department / Organization: Museum
Dr. Gavin Hayes, Research Geophysicist, NEIC. Friends of the CSM Geology Museum lecture series 1/12/17, Ballroom E; Socializing at 6:30 PM and lecture at 7:00. Admission is free and all are welcome.
ABSTRACT: Earthquakes are a natural part of the world we live in – a result of relative tectonic plate motions. We cannot prevent quakes, and in a world in which populations are increasing, we must learn to better mitigate their impact.
At the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) a major component of risk reduction and mitigation is earthquake response. The more quickly we can obtain and distribute accurate information related to an earthquake’s location, size, likely impact, and other key characteristics, the more informed first responders, government and aid agencies, the media, and the public themselves can be, and the better they become at dealing with an earthquake’s effects. In this talk Gavin will provide an overview of some of the NEIC’s recent advances in near-real-time earthquake modeling and impact assessment.
SPEAKER BIO: Gavin Hayes (Ph.D., Penn State, 2007) is a research geophysicist at the NEIC in Golden, CO. His work is focused on issues relating tectonics, earthquake seismogenesis, and earthquake hazards. Since joining the NEIC, Gavin has developed approaches to constrain the three-dimensional geometry of subducting plates from their shallowest definition at oceanic trenches, to their deepest seismic extent in the mid-mantle.
Gavin has been a faculty member of the Geophysics department at CSM since 2010, where he teaches in an introductory course and advises several graduate student research projects.