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December 8, 2021

UTIG at AGU Fall Meeting 2021

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Catch up with your colleagues. Find out whose doing what at AGU Fall with our (nearly) comprehensive schedule of talks and posters from current (and recent) UTIG research staff and students. Continue Reading UTIG at AGU Fall Meeting 2021

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News Tagged With: AGU

December 6, 2021

Are Deep Fluids Behind the Largest Earthquakes? ‘Not So Fast!’ Says UT Graduate Student

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Sandwiched between tectonic plates are layers of material that show up as thin shadows on seismic tomography, a kind of CT scan of the Earth. For years, scientists assumed the anomalies were signs of highly pressurized water squeezed into densely packed rock and that the fluid acted as a kind of hair-trigger on earthquake faults.… Continue Reading Are Deep Fluids Behind the Largest Earthquakes? ‘Not So Fast!’ Says UT Graduate Student

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News Tagged With: Demian Saffer, earth hazards, earthquakes, Peter Miller, seismic anisotropy, seismicity, student research, subduction zones

November 16, 2021

Seismic Shockwave Pattern May Be Redirecting Earthquake Damage

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New research from The University of Texas at Austin could change the way scientists think about potential damage from earthquakes. The study examined data from one of the densest seismic arrays ever deployed and found that earthquakes emit their strongest seismic shockwaves in four opposing directions. The effect, which leaves a pattern resembling a four-leaf… Continue Reading Seismic Shockwave Pattern May Be Redirecting Earthquake Damage

Filed Under: homepage-news, Media Releases, News, Stories Tagged With: Daniel Trugman, double couple, earthquakes, fault roughness, faults, Oklahoma, radial pattern

November 15, 2021

Graduate Students at UTIG Awarded Presidential Scholarship

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UTIG graduate research assistants are among Jackson School students to have been awarded The University of Texas at Austin’s Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship. The award recognizes outstanding academic achievement. Each student will receive at least $2,500 in unrestricted funds. The 2021 UTIG recipients were: Abby Varona A 2nd year M.S. student studying deepwater stratigraphy. Catherine… Continue Reading Graduate Students at UTIG Awarded Presidential Scholarship

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: awards, graduate students, student awards, Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship

November 15, 2021

Xiaohua “Eric” Xu: Research Associate

NOVEMBER 1, 2021 By Constantino Panagopulos When Xiaohua Xu analyzed high- resolution satellite images of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes, he found that they had lit up clusters of previously unknown faults in the surrounding crust that seemed to move backward immediately after the earthquakes. The analysis, which was published in Science when he was a postdoctoral researcher… Continue Reading Xiaohua “Eric” Xu: Research Associate

Filed Under: Geophysics Blog, homepage-news, News, Stories Tagged With: earthquakes, Newsletter stories

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