Sunday, October 17, 2010

9:00 am – 5:00 pm      FIELD TRIP: Fault-Related Rocks in Eastern Massachusetts: How is Fault Movement Accommodated at Various Crustal Levels?  Yvette Kuiper and John Ebel

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm      ICE BREAKER RECEPTION: Heights Room, Corcoran Commons, Boston College

Technical Sessions (Printable Abstracts)

(All technical sessions will be held in the Heights Room

2^nd floor, Corcoran Commons, Boston College)

(The name of the presenting author is underlined. ** Indicates a student presentation.)

Oral presentations

Monday, October 18, 2010

Morning Schedule

9:00 – 9:10 am            WELCOMING REMARKS

Preparing for the US Array in the Eastern U.S.

Presiding: J. Ebel, M. Long

9:10 – 9:30 am            R. Busby, K. Hafner and R. Woodard: EARTHSCOPE TRANSPORTABLE ARRAY (TA) PLANS FOR EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

9:30 – 9:50 am            C. Langston: WAVE FIELD CONTINUATION AND DECOMPOSITION FOR PASSIVE SEISMIC IMAGING UNDER DEEP UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENTS

9:50 – 10:10 am          L. Ruff and F. Wagner: CRUST-MANTLE STRUCTURE ANOMOLIES IN THE MICHIGAN AND OHIO REGION

10:10 – 10:30 am        J. Ebel: RESOLVING LATERAL VARIATIONS IN UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR USARRAY

10:30 – 10:50 am        Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

10:50 – 11:10 am        C. Powell, G. Vlahovic, P. Arraoucau and M. Chapman: THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS: COMPLEX LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE WILSON CYCLES

11:10 – 11:30 am        A. Kafka: CELLULAR SEISMOLOGY AND SEISMIC SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN UNITED STATES

11:30 – 11:50 am        M. Long, M. Benoit, M. Chapman and D. King: CRUSTAL AND MANTLE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS BENEATH EASTERN NORTH AMERICA: ANTICIPATING THE ARRIVAL OF USARRAY

11:50 – 12:10 pm        Discussion – Led by J. Ebel and M. Long

12:10 – 1:10 pm          Lunch

1:10 – 1:30 pm            Poster Viewing

Monday, October 18, 2010

Afternoon Schedule

Seismic Hazards and Nuclear Power Plants

Presiding: D. Stevenson, Z. Wang

1:30 – 1:50 pm            P. Malhotra: UNCERTAINTY AND SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT

1:50 – 2:10 pm            Z. Wang: ISSUES IN SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT FOR THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN UNITED STATES

2:10 – 2:30 pm            C. Cramer and  D. Dangkua: THE NEW MADRID 1811-1812 MAINSHOCKS: M6S OR M7S

2:30 – 2:50 pm            G. Viegas and P. Abercrombie: EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS AND SCALING IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

2:50 – 3:10 pm            P. Williams and M. Tuttle: SEISMIC HAZARD EVALUATION OF THE NORTHERN PUERTO RICO FAULT ZONE:  A CASE STUDY

3:10 – 3:30 pm            Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

3:30 – 3:50 pm            M. Tuttle, K. Dyer-Williams, H. Schroeder and C. Herlihy: LATE QUATERNARY EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED LIQUEFACTION FEATURES IN GREATER TORONTO

3:50 – 4:10 pm            D. Stevenson and P. Talwani: RE–EVALUATION OF HISTORICAL SEISMICITY IN SOUTH CAROLINA, PART II: 1886-1900

4:10 – 4:30 pm            F. B. Zhan and Y. Zhu: GRAVITY MEASUREMENTS AND THEIR VARIATIONS BEFORE LARGE EARTHQUAKES IN CHINA: 1998-2005

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm      ESSSA Banquet, Museum of Science, Boston

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Morning Schedule

New Madrid

Presiding: C. Cramer, C. Powell

9:00 – 9:20 am            N. Moran: DID THE BELLS RING IN BOSTON? MYTH, HISTORY AND THE NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKES

9:20 – 9:40 am            C. Cramer and J. Wilkinson: THE NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKES BICENTENNIAL: A TEACHABLE MOMENT?

9:40 – 10:00 am          C. Powell and H. Deshon: NEW EARTHQUAKE RELOCATIONS FOR THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE

10:00 – 10:20 am        O. Al-Qadhi, H. Mahdi and H. Al-Shukri: DELINEATING PALEOSEISMOLOGICAL FEATURES USING GROUND PENETRATING RADAR AND CAPACITIVELY COUPLED RESISTIVITY

10:20 – 10:40 am        Discussion – Led by C. Cramer and C. Powell

10:40 – 11:00 am        Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

11:00 – 11:20 am        J. Martin and J. Ebel: GEOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF A POSSIBLE ACTIVE FAULT OUTSIDE THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE (NMSZ), WESTERN TENNESSEE, USA **

11:20 – 11:40 am        M. A. Kumar and M. W. Kumar: CODA Q (QC) ESTIMATES IN THE NORTH EAST (NE) INDIA USING LOCAL EARTHQUAKES **

11:40 – 12:00 pm        Poster Viewing

12:00 – 1:00 pm          Lunch

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Afternoon Schedule

Attenuation Relations in Eastern North America: The Next Generation

Presiding: M. Chapman, L. Liu

1:00 – 1:20 pm            C. Cramer, J. Kutliroff and D. Dankua: GROUND MOTION PREDICTION TRENDS FOR EASTERN NORTH AMERICA BASED ON THE NEXT GENERATION ATTENUATION EAST GROUND MOTION DATABASE

1:20 – 1:40 pm            M. Chapman: FINITE-FAULT MODEL SIMULATIONS FOR INSIGHT INTO NEAR-SOURCE GROUND MOTIONS IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

1:40 – 2:00 pm            E. Thompson, A. Yong and L. Baise: ON THE ACCURACY OF MAPPING SITE RESPONSE WITH REMOTELY SENSED DATA IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

2:00 – 2:20 pm            S. Dineva, R. Mereu and G. Atkinson: THE APPLICATION OF VELOCITY SPECTRAL STACKING METHODS TO DETERMINE THE SOURCE SPECTRA AND SCALING RELATIONS FOR SMALL TO MODERATE EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO/WESTERN QUEBEC

2:20 – 2:40 pm            L. Liu, E. White, F. Urin and E. Rohrbach: MICROTREMOR SURVEYS CROSSING THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY

2:40 – 3:00 pm            J. Ebel and M. Dupuy: ASSESSING THE MAGNITUDE OF THE OCTOBER 20, 1870 CHARLEVOIX, QUEBEC EARTHQUAKE

3:00 – 3:20 pm            M. Lamontagne: DEVELOPING A POST-EARTHQUAKE COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY FOR SEISMOLOGISTS

Poster Sessions

(Posters will be available for viewing all day)

Monday, October 18th

L. Dougherty and J. Ebel: DETERMINING FOCAL DEPTHS OF EARTHQUAKES **

S. Hayek, S. Halchuk, J. Drysdale, L. Lin, V. Peci, J. Adams, F. Proulx, A. Bent and I. Asudeh:  THE JUNE 23, 2010 MW 5.0 VAL-DES-BOIS, QUEBEC EARTHQUAKE

A. Moulis, A. Kafka, L. Cambell, J. Ebel, M. Bibeau and M. Barnett: THE BOSTON COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL SEISMOLOGY PROJECT: INVITING STUDENTS INTO THE WORLD OF SCIENCE RESEARCH

R. Martin, P. Boyd, A. Stroujkova, M. Leidig, J. Lewkowicz and J. Bonner: CORRELATING NEAR-SOURCE ROCK DAMAGE FROM SINGLE-HOLE EXPLOSIONS TO SEISMIC WAVES

A. Paschall, E. Woolery, Z. Wang, J. Schaefer, R. Street: LINEAR SITE-EFFECT VARIATION FOR HIGHER-FREQUENCY (> 2HZ) GROUND MOTIONS IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA, CENTRAL UNITED STATES **

F. Revetta and P. Valenti: SEISMOLOGY AT SUNY POTSDAM, NY

F. Upegui-Botero, C. Huerta-Lopez, J. Caro-Cortes and J. Cruzado: SITE CHARACTERIZATION USING SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION METHOD IN LINEAR AND TRIANGULAR ARRAYS BY MEANS OF AMBIENT VIBRATION MEASUREMENTS **

A. Zandieh and S. Preshk: GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS FOR EASTERN NORTH AMERICA FROM A HYBRID EMPIRICAL METHOD **

Tuesday, October 19^th

S. Amirnezhad Mozhdehi and M. Zare:  EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR IRAN **

J. Drysdale, A. Bent, S. Halchuk, J. Adams, H. Greene, F. Proulx, D. McCormack, I. Al-Khoubbi, C. Andrews, I. Asudeh, D. Belizaire and H. Dorfruille:  REAL-TIME SEISMIC MONITORING OF AFTERSHOCKS OF THE 2010 HAITI EARTHQUAKE

J. Ebel and M. Dupuy: A DATABASE OF HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES OF THE NORTHEASTERN U.S. AND SOUTHEASTERN CANADA

J. Hertzog and J. Ebel: SEISMIC REFRACTION ANALYSIS OF THE UPPER MANTLE PN WAVE THROUGH NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA **

R. Steffen, D. Eaton, P. Wu: MOMENT TENSORS AND STATE OF STRESS IN HUDSON BAY

J. Starr and J. Ebel:  A RELATIVE EARTHQUAKE LOCATION ANALYSIS IN CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE: DETERMINING THE POSSIBLE AFTERSHOCK ZONE OF THE M6.5 1638 NEW ENGLAND **

A. Urzua: AN INTERNET APPLICATION FOR FREQUENCY DOMAIN LEVEL GROUND AMPLIFICATION STUDIES

K. Vasudevan, D. Eaton and J. Davidsen: INTRAPLATE  SEISMICITY IN CANADA: A GRAPH THEORETIC APPROACH TO DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION