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John Vidale Professor, Director of PNSN Office : ATG-208A (ESS snail mail address) Phone : 206-543-6790 Cell : 310-210-2131 Fax : 206-543-0489 (shared) email : john.vidale* * = @ gmail . com web-page : http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/vidale PNSN web-page : http://www.pnsn.org |
| Areas of Interest : Seismology; Earthquakes, volcanoes, earth structure, hazard mitigation. |
| Research Groups : Seismology and Tectonics Pacific Northwest Seismic Network |
| Education : Ph.D. : Caltech, 1987 Undergrad : Yale University, double major in physics and geology, 1981 |
| Background : After 25 years in California for grad school, working at UC Santa Cruz, the USGS in Menlo Park, and UCLA, I finally escaped to the verdant Northwest last summer. Current Research : I have conducted extensive research on earthquakes and Earth structure. My recent work includes measuring the damage to faults during earthquakes, striving to understand why earthquake swarms strike, measuring the rotation of the inner core, and showing there is a correlation, albeit very weak, between the occurrence of earthquakes and the ocean tides. |
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| Selected Publications : Cochran, ES, JE Vidale, and S. Tanaka, 2004. Earth tides can trigger shallow thrust fault earthquakes, Science, 306, 1164-1166. Vidale, JE, and Y.-G. Li, 2003. Damage to the shallow Landers fault from the nearby Hector Mine earthquake. Nature, 421, 524-526. Vidale, JE, DA Dodge, DA, and PS Earle, 2000. Slow differential rotation of the Earth's inner core indicated by temporal changes in scattering. Nature, 405, 445-448. Vidale, JE, and PS Earle, 2000. Fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth's inner core. Nature, 404, 273-275. Vidale JE, and MAH Hedlin, 1998. Evidence for partial melt at the core-mantle boundary north of Tonga from the strong scattering of seismic waves, Nature, 391, 682-685. Vidale JE, and HM Benz, 1992. Upper mantle seismic discontinuities and the thermal structure of subduction zones, Nature, 356, 678-683. Full CV Link : http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/vidale/vidale-cv.pdf |
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