Seismicity, integrated regional/urban real-time seismic monitoring, and earthquake hazard analysis in Utah and adjacent regions; coal-mining-induced seismicity; statistical patterns of earthquake occurrence; national and state public policy making for U.S. network seismology and earthquake hazard mitigation.
Arabasz, W. J., Nava, S. J., McCarter, M. K., Pankow, K. L., Pechmann, J. C., Ake, J., and McGarr, A., 2005, Coal-mining seismicity and ground-shaking hazard—A case study in the Trail Mountain Area, Emery County, Utah, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 95, no. 1, p.18–30.
Pechmann, J. C., and Arabasz, W. J., 2005, Comment on “Dependence of Possible Characteristic Earthquakes on Spatial Sampling: Illustration for the Wasatch Seismic Zone, Utah,” Seismological Research Letters [submitted].
Pankow, K. L., Arabasz, W. J., Pechmann, J. C., and Nava, S. J., 2004, Triggered seismicity in Utah from the November 3, 2002, Denali Fault earthquake, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 94, no. 6B, p. S332–S347.
Youngs, R. R., Arabasz, W. J. [and multiple authors], 2003, Probabilistic fault displacement hazard analysis (PFDHA): Earthquake Spectra, v. 19, p. 191-219.
Arabasz, W. J., M. K. McCarter, A. McGarr, and J. Ake, 2005. Mining-induced seismicity and surface ground-shaking hazard in the Manti-La Sal National Forest [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts With Programs [in press].
Arabasz, W. J., T. M. Dye, D.L. Drobeck, K. L. Pankow, J. C. Pechmann, R. Burlacu, and A. Moeinvaziri, 2005. Utah’s ANSS urban strong-motion network, 2000–2005: Status, lessons, and applications [abs.]: Seismological Research Letters, v. 76, no. 2, p. 229.
Filson, J. R., W. J. Arabasz, H. M. Benz, R. Buland, L. S. Gee, S. D. Malone, and D. Oppenheimer, 2005. The origins of the Advanced National Seismic System [abs.]: Seismological Research Letters, v. 76, no. 2, p. 211.
McGarr, A., J. Fletcher, and W. J. Arabasz, 2004. Seismic hazard to the Joes Valley Dam, central Utah, due to nearby coal-mining-induced earthquakes [abs.]: Seismological Research Letters, v. 75, no. 3, p. 444.
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