Turning seismic noise into large virtual earthquakes
Dr Marine Denolle, from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, gave the 2019 S.N. Jepson Lecture in Seismology.
Titled 'Turning seismic noise into large virtual earthquakes with dense instrumentation,' this lecture took place on Thursday 14 March. Dr Denolle described how to turn seismometers into virtual earthquakes and how she is using this approach to predict the shaking intensity expected in major cities during the next big earthquakes in southern California, Japan, and elsewhere.
Watch the lecture here:
Dr Marine Denolle is a seismologist whose research is intended to elucidate the dynamics of earthquakes and predict their ground motions. She joined the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University in 2016.
The S.N. Jepson Lectureship in Seismology was established in 2017 by a bequest to promote scholarship in seismology via an annual lecture and the support of student research.