COLLOQUIUM ANNOUNCEMENT

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH, PLANETARY, AND SPACE SCIENCES

 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

January 9, 2018

 John Vidale, Dean’s Professor of Earth Sciences at University of Southern California, and Director of Southern California Earthquake Center, will be our invited Colloquium Speaker on January 9, 2018.  Your attendance would be most welcome.   

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

 3:00 pm  –  Coffee and cookies at 3680 Geology (Commons Room)

 3:30 pm  –  Talk at 3656 Geology

 Title:                   Flavors of Pacific Northwest Earthquakes

Abstract:     Sudden mayhem. Tremendous impact. Unpredictable disruption. Is it any wonder earthquakes reserve a dark corner in our nightmares? The Pacific Northwest is vulnerable to several shades of shakes: giant coastal quakes, isolated, 50-km-deep pops, and crustal rips that could tear Seattle’s (or Tacoma’s, or Olympia’s, or Portland’s) downtown apart. The University of Washington’s M9 Project, is making the repercussions of PNW quakes clearer and both less and more frightening.