James H. Dieterich Explained

James H. Dieterich
Birth Place:Seattle, Washington
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Organization:National Academy of Sciences[2]
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      James H. Dieterich (born 1942) is an American geophysics professor emeritus at University of California, Riverside (UCR).

      Early life and education

      Born in Seattle, Washington, Dieterich studied geology at the University of Washington before going on to graduate work at Yale University. He earned his Ph.D in 1968.[1] His doctoral thesis discussed the "Sequence and mechanics of folding in the area of New Haven, Westport, and Naugatuck, Connecticut."[3] He then went to work for the USGS.[1] [4]

      Career

      Dieterich spent most of his career at USGS/Menlo Park.[5] In October 1983 Dieterich made a trip to Costa Rica to evaluate recent University of California, Santa Cruz earthquake prediction models.[6] His research, published in both his 1994 paper A constitutive law for rate of earthquake production and its application to earthquake clustering and his 1996 paper with Brian D. Kilgore entitled Implications of fault constitutive properties for earthquake prediction, theorized that the magnitude of a given earthquake and the rate of follow-on aftershocks occurred in inverse proportion, meaning that stronger earthquakes have fewer aftershocks.[7] A study published in 2002 by Shinji Toda et al., addressing an earthquake swarm at the Izu Islands in 2000, confirms Dieterich's hypothesis.[8] [9] [10] [11] In 2003 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[5] In 2011, Dieterich's Department of Earth Sciences at UCR was awarded a five-year, grant by the National Science Foundation to study earthquake fault system dynamics. Dieterich was named the principal investigator for the grant. The study design included the use of computer simulations to better model seismic activity at the San Andreas fault.[2] [12] [13] [14]

      Publications

      Notes and References

      1. Web site: James H. Dieterich. American Geophysical Union. Rice. James R..
      2. Web site: Geophysicists to Develop Computer Simulations of Earthquake Fault Systems. Iqbal. Pittalwala. September 19, 2011.
      3. Guidebook for Fieldtrips in Connecticut: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference. Yale University. October 27, 1968. Philip M.. Orville.
      4. Where Have All the Earthquakes Gone? Scientists Wonder Why Part of Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Has Gone Quiet. Science News. July 24, 1993. Monastersky. Richard.
      5. Web site: Mary Lou Zoback and James Dieterich: Survey scientists in the National Academy. GeoTimes. June 2003. American Geophysical Institute.
      6. Activity Profiles and Chronologies of the Non-Relief Projects of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance 1979-1988. Booz Allen & Hamilton. Booz Allen & Hamilton. LabatAnderson, Inc.. LabatAnderson, Inc.. April 24, 1989. USAID. 89.
      7. Book: Lee . William H.K. . International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology, Part 2 . Kanamori . Hiroo . Jennings . Paul . Kisslinger . Carl . . 2003 . 9780080489230 . 81 . 1222–1223 . William H. K. Lee.
      8. Nature. Stressed to quaking point. Chris. Marone. 32. 419. 6902. September 5, 2002. 10.1038/419032a. 12214222. 4303624.
      9. Web site: ABC Online. Earthquake forecasts given a boost. September 6, 2002. Anna. Salleh.
      10. Web site: GeoTimes. Many quakes, one theory. Greg. Peterson. November 2002.
      11. New Evidence For Why Earthquake Swarms Occur Offers Hope For Better Earthquake Forecasting. September 5, 2002. Science Daily. United States Geological Survey. United States Geological Survey. .
      12. Web site: $4.6 Million for Earthquake Research at UC Riverside. Craig. Fiegener. October 13, 2011. KNBC.
      13. Web site: NSF Frontiers in Earth-System Dynamics Awards Explore Links Among Earth Processes and Systems. National Science Foundation. September 30, 2011. Cheryl. Dybas.
      14. Web site: September 26, 2011. NSF Awards $4.6M for Earthquake Study. San Diego State University.

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