Announcements


  • MIT ERL at AGU

    MIT ERL at AGU

    About 30 ERL members will be giving talks, presenting posters, or convening sessions at this year’s American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco in December. Date Presenter / Convener Type Title / Link 12/11/2023 Hilary Chang Poster Quantifying the structural and site effects on microearthquake source parameter variability in a sedimentary basin across a…

  • Congratulations to Dr. Lluís Saló Salgado

    Congratulations to Dr. Lluís Saló Salgado

    On September 8, 2023, Lluís successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Numerical Modeling of Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage in Faulted Siliciclastic Settings”. His advisor was Prof. Ruben Juanes of ERL, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences.

  • Towards the Usage of Quarry Blasts as an Active Seismic Source for Subsurface Characterization and Imaging

    Towards the Usage of Quarry Blasts as an Active Seismic Source for Subsurface Characterization and Imaging

    New paper in Geophysical Journal International from ERL/EAPS Principal Research Scientist Nori Nakata, former ERL/EAPS postdoc Hongrui Qiu, and collaborators: Towards the Usage of Quarry Blasts as an Active Seismic Source for Subsurface Characterization and Imaging https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gji/ggad391/7289239 “Active or man-made seismic sources are often used to delineate subsurface geologic structures via seismic imaging techniques. Although…

  • Searching for partial ruptures in Parkfield

    Searching for partial ruptures in Parkfield

    New paper on EOS Archive from ERL/EAPS Prof. Camilla Cattania and collaborators: Searching for partial ruptures in Parkfield “Repeating earthquakes repeatedly rupture the same fault asperities, which are likely loaded to failure by surrounding aseismic slip. However, repeaters occur less often than would be expected if these earthquakes accommodate all of the long-term slip on…