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International

Shock tactics point to risk after quake
Article published at July 2008, in Nature News
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Earth's Crust Shows Long-Term Wiggle Room
Article published at April 2008, in Discovery News, by Larry O'Hanlon,
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Geophysicist Ross Stein
Article published at July 2007, in Geotimes, by Carolyn Gramling,
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Natural Hazards: Faster tsunami warnings with GPS
Article published at August 2006, in Geotimes, by Megan Sever,
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What it’s Like to be an Earthquake Scientist, Talking with USGS Geophysicist Ross Stein
Article published at April 2006, in People, Land & Water, by Tania Larson,
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The Chaos to Come
Article published at 15 December 2005, in Nature Vol 438, by Quirin Schiermeier,
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California

Eavesdropping on Faults to Anticipate Their Next Move
Article published at 17 December 2004, in Science Vol 306, by Richard A. Kerr,
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Turkey - US

A young scientist: Serkan Bozkurt
Article published at November, 2004 in TurkOfAmerica by Meltem Cetin,
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Turkey - US

Forces of Nature: A Scientific Antidote to The Day After Tomorrow
Article published at July 20, 2004 in EOS , by Peter Folger,
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Turkey - US

Giant screen film, Forces Of Nature (IMAX)
Article published at July 16, 2004 in Mercury News, by Glennda Chui
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Turkey - Greece - Aegean

Microplates under the Aegean
Article published in the February 2004 Geotimes, by Naomi Lubick
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California

San Simeon Earthquake
Article published in the December, 2003 Geotimes Web Extra by Naomi Lubick
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California

An Interview with Jian Lin
Article published in the November 2003 ISI Special Topics
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Japan - Izu Peninsula

Earthquake forecasts given a boost
Article published in the 6 September 2002 ABC Science Online, by Anna Salleh
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Middle East - Dead Sea

Scientists Find Dead Sea Is Sinking
Article published in the 14 January 2002 dailynews.yahoo.com, by A. Bridges

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Pacific North-West

Silent slip on the Cascadia Subduction Interface
Article published in the 2001 Science, by W. Thatcher
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California - Mojave Desert

Mantle in Motion
Article published in the November 2001 Geotimes, by J. Vendetti
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California - Mojave Desert

Ground movement is faster than thought during quakes
Article published in the 7 September 2001 San Francisco Chronicle, by D. Perlman
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California - Los Angeles

LA's ups and downs
Article published in the 23 August 2001 Pasadena Star News, by A. Bridges

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California - Los Angeles

Water thrown on earthquake prediction
Article published in the 23 August 2001 Nature, by T. Clarke
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California - Los Angeles

Aquifer Levels May Lift, Lower L.A. Land
Article published in the 23 August 2001 Los Angeles Times, by R. L. Hotz and K. Reich

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California - Los Angeles

L.A. moves with water table Changing water table moves L.A. City rises and falls with annual pumping from ground storage
Article published in the 23 August 2001 San Francisco Chronicle, by D. Perlman
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California - Los Angeles

More than a sinking feeling
Article published in the 23 August 2001 Orange County Register, by G. Robbins
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California - Los Angeles

Los Angeles "bouncing" due to water storage
Article published in the 22 August 2001 NewScientist.com, by J. Hecht
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California - Los Angeles

California Sinks, Fooling GPS and Ruining Earthquake Data
Article published in the 22 August 2001 Space.com, by R. R. Britt
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Turkey - Izmit

'Great Quakes' explores Turkey temblor
Article published in the 6 July 2001 Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, by K. Reich
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Check the TLC listing for the frequent re-runs of this show.
The show will air on the Discovery Channel in Turkey on 17 August 2001

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California

Triggered temblors: Researchers are trying to learn how one earthquake can set off others hundreds of miles away.
Article published in the 21 May 2001 San Francisco Chronicle, by D. Perlman
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Washington state - Seattle

Pop-up disaster
Article published in the 12 April 2001 Nature (News and Views), by W. Thatcher
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Turkey - Istanbul

Successful Perception of Risk and Opportunity at Swiss Re
Article published in the 14 February 2001 Lloyd's List | Insurance Day, by B. Poro
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Turkey - North Anatolian Fault

Random occurrence or predictable disaster? New models in earthquake probability assessment
Imagine your favourite newspaper one day supplementing the daily weather report with an earthquake forecast. Admittedly, this is still rather a far-fetched idea, but recent advancements in seismological research have helped to improve earthquake probability assessments by including the factors of time dependence and stress transfer from past events.

Article published in the 2000 SwissRe Publishing, by L. Hitz, S. Kriesch and E. Schmid
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California - San Francisco Bay

Applied Geoscience Forum: Display Innovation
A review of our USGS-PG&E website, http://www.sfbayquakes.org.

Article published in the July 2000 GEOworld, by A. K. Turner
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Turkey - North Anatolian Fault

As time passes the risk increases warns American Scientists
Article published in the 22 May 2000 Tempo (Turkish version of "Time Magazine"), by E. Sekendiz
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Turkey - North Anatolian Fault

Quakes large and small, burps big and old
Article published in the 28 January 2000 Science, by R. A. Kerr
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California - San Francisco Bay

The role of stress transfer in earthquake occurrence
Ross S. Stein of the US Geological Survey describes how the analysis of stress distributions along and perpendicular to fault lines and especially their changes can be used to predict at a given moment where and when most likely new earthquakes will happen.

Article published in the 1999 Complexity Digest, 1999:beta7
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Turkey - North Anatolian Fault and California - San Andreas Fault

Stress test: the tragedy in Turkey may aid earthquake forecasting
A cascade of earthquakes since 1939 on the North Anatolian Fault shows evidence for triggered seisms. This article draws the parallel with the situation on the San Andreas Fault in California.

Article published in the December 1999 Scientific American, by S. Levay
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California

Did one California jolt bring on another?
Article published in the 22 October 1999 Science, by R. A. Kerr
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California - San Francisco Bay

Hollister's Loma Prieta memories: Earthquake experts assessing the potential for major faults to trigger -- or relax -- others.
In just 60 seconds of shaking, the 1906 San Francisco quake relieved so much stress over such a wide territory that the region's earthquake-making machine pretty much shut off, giving us decades of relative calm. "It's been a seismic sedative'' said Ross Stein, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park.

Article published in the 12 October 1999 San Jose Mercury News, by G. Chui

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Turkey - Izmit

The 17 August 1999 Izmit Earthquake
Article published in the 17 September 1999 www.sciencemag.org, by A. Barka
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Turkey - Istanbul

Is Istanbul next?
As the appalling death toll of last Tuesday's earthquake in Turkey continues to rise, geologists are warning that things could be even worse next time. They say the quake leaves Istanbul vulnerable to a direct hit. As the world's first quake beneath a city of more than 10 million people, it could kill several times more people than the 40 000 estimated to have died in last week's disaster.

Article published in the 28 August 1999 New Scientist, by F. Pierce
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Turkey - North Anatolian Fault

Turkish earthquake: a wobbly domino falls
The 1999 Izmit earthquake (Turkey) is the most recent rupture of a sequence of large damaging seisms along the North Anatolian Fault. The stress-triggering hypothesis (cascading domino effect) is conforted by this observation. USGS scientists can see a parallel with the seismic situation of San Andreas Fault in the San Francisco Bay area.

Article published in the 28 August 1999 Science News Online, by R. Monastersky
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Turkey - North Anatolian Fault

In Turkey, havoc from falling-domino fault
Article published in the 27 August 1999 Science, by T. Appenzeller
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California - Eastern region

Birth of a fault
"It's quite a mental achievement that three seismologists have detected an earthquake fault in southern California in the process of being born."

Article published in the July 1999 The Geology Newsletter of about.com, by A. Alden
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Basin and Range - Yellowstone

Subterranean Belches of Yellowstone
Satellites have mapped erratic bulging and sinking within an ancient volcanic crater in Yellowstone National Park. The surprisingly rapid changes, reported in today's Science, offer new hints about the plumbing of hot fluids that ooze far beneath the park and drive its famed geysers and hot springs.

Article published in the 16 October 1998 Science's Daily InScight, by R. Irion
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California - Southern region

A deficit vanished
The controversy over the existence of a deficit of earthquakes in Southern California is analysed by Steven Ward from the USGS. It appears that the assessment of that seismic deficit may be due to an artifact of the method used to assess the expected amount of earthquake in an area.

Article published in the 27 August 1998 Nature, by S. Ward
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California - Southern region

A quieter forecast for Southern California
Article published in the 10 July 1998 Science, by R. E. Kerr
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California - Southern region

California's quake deficit fades
Article published in the 21 March 1998 Science News Online, by R. Monastersky
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California

Shaking down deep
Article published in the 23 October 1989 Time Magazine, by M. J. Nash
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California - Algeria - Armenia

Hidden Earthquakes
Article published in the 1989 Sci. Am., by R. Stein and R. S. Yeats
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Basin and Range - Borah Peak

Quake replay in the Great Basin
Article published in the June 1986 Natural History, by R. S. Stein and R. C. Bucknam
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Asia Earthquake Threat Hangs Over World Markets Morning Edition audio Dec 27, 2006 Two years ago, an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra triggered a tsunami that killed a quarter-of-a-million people. Scientists say Asia is at risk for at least two more massive quakes. One near the source of the 2004 tsunami, the other threatens Tokyo. When they come, the quakes could impact world financial markets.

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer June 2, 2004 Predicting Quakes - Earthquakes can cause death and destruction in a matter of seconds with little more than a minute's notice. Betty Anne Bowser explores some cutting-edge technology in seismology. Here is a 11-minute segment that appeared on the NPR broadcast on Wednesday, June 2, focusing on earthquake prediction.

Third World Poised for Quake Catastrophe Morning Edition audio June 2, 2004 NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. Stein says that poor construction and large population growth may lead to catastrophic earthquakes in the developing world.

Here is a 4-minute segment that appeared on the KPIX news broadcast on Saturday, February 15, focusing on earthquake stress triggering, the subject of Ross Stein's January 2003 Scientic American article, 'Earthquake conversations'. The segment is presented by Lawrence Karnow, KPIX meterologist.