News and Announcements

A global review of earthquake rupture parameters reveals that deep earthquakes have larger fracture energies and may have different rupture mechanisms than shallower seismic events, according to work by ERL/EAPS Postdoc Dr. Piero Poli and Visiting Assistant Prof. Germán Prieto featured on earth and space science news website EOS.  Full article: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/probing-the-source-properties-of-deep-earthquakes read more…

ERL Research Scientist Dr Stephen Brown reflects on what he saw, and what he didn’t see, in his early experiences with rocks and nature in this essay written for 52 Things You Should Know About Rock Physics, published this year by Agile Libre.  The book also includes essays by ERL Deputy Director Dr. Michael Fehler,… read more…

If you are attending the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco 12/12-12/16, check out these presentations and posters with ERL-affiliated authors or co-authors: Monday, December 12 Douglas MillerGround Motion Analysis of Co-Located DAS and Seismometer Sensors(Poster, S11D-2480 08:00 – 12:20 Moscone South Poster Hall) Yusuke MukuhiraPropagation speed of pore pressure throughout permeable fracture during… read more…

On December 8, 2016, Lucas Bram Willemsen successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Problems with a Localized Nature in Exploration Seismology”.  He will be moving on to a research job at ExxonMobil.  He is shown here with his advisor, Prof. Alison Malcolm.  read more…

The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences is seeking a new faculty member in the area of geophysics who would become a member of ERL.  For more info or to apply, please visit Academic Jobs Online. read more…

MIT News recently featured exciting work on the use of seismic data to monitor the health of buildings by ERL/EAPS Researchers Prof. Nafi Toksoz, Prof. German Prieto, and Dr. Aurelien Mordret, in collaboration with our colleagues in MIT Civil and Environmental engineering.  Read the story here. read more…

We are very excited to have five new researchers joining ERL this fall: Ekaterina Boltskaya, Graduate Student working with Prof. Hager’s group Aarti Dwivedi, Graduate Student working with Prof. Herring’s group Elezhan Zhakiya, who recieved his undergaduate degree from MIT last year, staying on for a fifth-year Master’s with Prof. Hager’s group Dr. Niels Grobbe,… read more…

Earth and Space Science News recently featured work by ERL alum Dr. Alejandra Quintanilla-Termine and ERL Prof. Brian Evans on a new technique to track rock deformation on a mitrometric scale.  The article highlights a paper recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, research that Dr. Quintanilla-Termine began as her PhD thesis project with Prof. Evans as… read more…

Congratulations to our newest alumna, Dr. Chen Gu! Today she successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Ground Motions and Source Mechanisms of Earthquakes in Multiscales— Microseismicity to Macroseismicity”. She is shown here with he advisors, ERL founder Prof. Nafi Toksoz and Prof. Brian Evans, and her committee chair, Prof. German Prieto. read more…

MIT News featured fascinating work on fluid flow in porous rock by ERL Prof. Ruben Juanes, grad student Benzhong Zhao, an their collaborator Prof. Chris MacMinn at Oxford. http://news.mit.edu/2016/physics-how-fluids-flow-porous-media-carbon-fuel-cell-0822 read more…