Bio


My research focuses on the development and use of physics-based computational simulations to characterize and understand earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, and similar phenomena. My approach is to identify the fundamental mechanical processes governing a system of interest, develop numerical models incorporating these processes, validate them using geophysical observations, and then use the models to predict system behavior. Specific research areas include earthquake rupture dynamics and earthquake source processes, tsunami generation, volcano seismology and infrasound, ice stream stick-slip events and flexural-gravity waves in ice shelves, and numerical methods for wave propagation.

Administrative Appointments


  • Reginald A. Daly Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University (2005 - 2007)
  • Research Associate in Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University (2007 - 2009)
  • Lecturer on Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (2008 - 2009)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University (2009 - Present)
  • Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University (2011 - Present)

Honors & Awards


  • Jefferson Scholar, University of Virginia (1996-2000)
  • Member, Phi Beta Kappa (1999)
  • B.S. Physics with Highest Distinction, University of Virginia (2000)
  • Parsons Fellow in computational science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Physics (2000)
  • James W. Elkins Award, University of Virginia Physics (2000)
  • John Cardy Award, UCSB Physics (2001)
  • Graduate Fellow, National Defense Science and Engineering (2001-2005)
  • Outstanding Student Paper, American Geophysical Union (2002)
  • UCSB Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara (2004)
  • Outstanding Student Paper, American Geophysical Union (2004)
  • Student Presentation Award, Seismological Society of America (2004)
  • Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Geophysical Research Letters (2007)
  • Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (2008)
  • Terman Fellow, Stanford University (2009-2012)
  • Best Poster Award, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Geosciences (2011)
  • Fellow, Physics, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2012)
  • NSF CAREER award on Subduction Zone Hazards: Megathrust Rupture Dynamics and Tsunamis, National Science Foundation (2013-2017)
  • School of Earth Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, Stanford University (2014)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations


  • Invited speaker, Stanford Club of Marin (2015 - 2015)
  • Invited speaker for Stanford Admit Weekend, Academic Expo, Stanford University (2015 - 2015)
  • Faculty search committee, member, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University (2014 - 2015)
  • External Program review panel member, USGS-NEHRP (National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program) (2014 - 2014)
  • Invited speaker, Stanford Alumni Club of the Desert (2014 - 2014)
  • Invited speaker, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Grand Challenges in Faulting and Deformation Processes (2014 - 2014)
  • Invited speaker, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (two invited talks) (2014 - 2014)
  • Invited speaker, Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics Crustal Deformation Modeling Workshop (2014 - 2014)
  • Invited speaker, Penn State (2014 - 2014)
  • Invited speaker, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Annual Meeting (2014 - 2014)
  • Invited speaker, Caltech (2014 - 2014)
  • Invited speaker for Stanford Admit Weekend, Academic Expo, Stanford University (2014 - 2014)
  • Invited speaker, Annual meeting, Seismological Society of America (2014 - 2014)
  • Invited speaker, Rock and Fluid Physics: Academic and Industrial Perspectives Conference, Shell Technology Centre, Amsterdam (2014 - 2014)
  • Geophysics Admissions Committee, Stanford University (2013 - 2014)
  • School of Earth Sciences Teaching Task Force, Stanford University (2013 - 2014)
  • Co-organizer for annual meeting special session on Earthquake Source Physics, Seismological Society of America (2013 - 2013)
  • External Program review panel member, USGS-NEHRP (National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program) (2013 - 2013)
  • Invited speaker, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (2013 - 2013)
  • Invited speaker, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (2013 - 2013)
  • Invited speaker, University of British Columbia (2013 - 2013)
  • Invited speaker at New Student Orientation, Engaging with Faculty, Stanford University (2013 - 2013)
  • Invited speaker for Stanford Admit Weekend, Academic Expo, Stanford University (2013 - 2013)
  • Advisory Board, Computational Geosciences MS Program, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford Univeristy (2012 - Present)
  • Co-leader of Computational Science disciplinary group, member of Planning Committee, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) (2012 - Present)
  • Chair, 5th Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, Earthquake Mechanics and Forecasting, National Academy of Sciences, (2012 - 2012)
  • Co-organizer for annual meeting special session on Seismicity in Volcanic Environments, Seismological Society of America (2012 - 2012)
  • Invited speaker at New Student Orientation, Engaging with Faculty, Stanford University (2012 - 2012)
  • Invited speaker, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union (2012 - 2012)
  • Invited speaker, New Perspective on Great Earthquakes Along Subduction Zones, International Conference (2012 - 2012)
  • Stanford School of Earth Sciences Council, Stanford University (2011 - Present)
  • Geophysics Department Seminar Series Organizer, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
  • Co-organizer for Geosciences Minisymposium on Computational Challenges in Earthquake Simulation, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (2011 - 2011)
  • Invited speaker, University of California, Santa Cruz (2011 - 2011)
  • Invited speaker at New Student Orientation, Engaging with Faculty, Stanford University (2011 - 2011)
  • Invited speaker, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union (2011 - 2011)
  • Undergraduate Premajor Advisor, Stanford University (2010 - Present)
  • Co-convener for International Workshop on Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics, Stanford University (2010 - 2010)
  • Delegate, Panel on Earthquake Research, U.S.-Japan Natural Resources (UJNR) (2010 - 2010)
  • External Program review panel member, USGS-NEHRP (National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program) (2010 - 2010)
  • Invited speaker, University of California, Berkeley, Applied Mathematics (2010 - 2010)
  • Invited speaker, University of Oregon (2010 - 2010)
  • Invited speaker, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2010 - 2010)
  • Invited speaker, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (2010 - 2010)
  • Invited speaker, University of California, Berkeley, Seismological Laboratory (2010 - 2010)
  • Geophysics Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Stanford University (2009 - 2010)
  • Co-convener, Workshop on Dynamic Weakening Mechanisms, Southern California Earthquake Center (2009 - 2009)
  • Co-organizer for earthquake rupture code validation project, Southern California Earthquake Center (2007 - 2011)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth (2005 - 2008)

Professional Education


  • Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Physics (2005)
  • B.S., University of Virginia, Physics (2000)

Current Research and Scholarly Interests


Research
My research focuses on the development and use of physics-based computational simulations to characterize and understand earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, and similar phenomena. My approach is to identify the fundamental mechanical processes governing a system of interest, develop numerical models incorporating these processes, validate them using geophysical observations, and then use the models to predict system behavior. Specific research areas include earthquake rupture dynamics and earthquake source processes, tsunami generation, volcano seismology and infrasound, ice stream stick-slip events and flexural-gravity waves in ice shelves, and numerical methods for wave propagation.

Teaching
I teach courses on mechanics and modeling (GEOPHYS 120/220: Geophysical Mechanics and Dynamics), numerical methods (CME 108/MATH 114: Introduction to Scientific Computing), wave generation and propagation (GEOPHYS 238: Waves in Solids and Fluids), and earthquakes (GEOPHYS 229: Earthquake Rupture Dynamics).

Professional Awards
NSF CAREER award, 2013; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Physics, 2012

Projects


  • Collaborative Development of Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation, Stanford University and Uppsala University

    My group has partnered with Professor Ken Mattsson at Uppsala University, Sweden, to develop numerical methods for wave propagation problems. We simulate flexural-gravity waves in floating ice shelves offshore Antarctica, seismic waves and tsunamis from earthquakes, and acoustic waves from volcanic eruptions and explosions.

    Location

    Uppsala, Sweden

  • Villarica Volcano

    We use infrasound waves to help forecast eruptions at Villarica Volcano, Chile.

    Location

    Villarica, Chile

  • Antarctic Ice Shelves

    We study how ocean waves flex and bend ice shelves, potentially contributing to rifting, fracture growth, and ice shelf disintegration.

    Location

    Antarctica

  • Kilauea Volcano

    We use seismic data to image the shallow "plumbing system" of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii.

    Location

    Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

  • 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

    We perform computer simulations of the magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

    Location

    Sendai, Japan

2023-24 Courses


Stanford Advisees


All Publications


  • Simulation of flexural-gravity wave propagation for elastic plates in shallow water using an energy-stable finite difference method with weakly enforced boundary and interface conditions JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS Tazhimbetov, N., Almquist, M., Werpers, J., Dunham, E. M. 2023; 493
  • Quantifying the probability of rupture arrest at restraining and releasing bends using earthquake sequence simulations EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Ozawa, S., Ando, R., Dunham, E. M. 2023; 617
  • Influence of port opening dynamics on the acoustic signature of pneumatic marine seismic sources GEOPHYSICS Lam, F. K., Dunham, E. M. 2023; 88 (3): P15-P36
  • Modeling and inversion in acoustic-elastic coupled media using energy-stable summation-by-parts operators GEOPHYSICS Bader, M., Almquist, M., Dunham, E. M. 2023; 88 (3): T137-T150
  • Influence of Creep Compaction and Dilatancy on Earthquake Sequences and Slow Slip JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Yang, Y., Dunham, E. M. 2023; 128 (4)
  • Incorporating Full Elastodynamic Effects and Dipping Fault Geometries in Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Lambert, V., Barbot, S. D., Abdelmeguid, M., Almquist, M., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Cattania, C., Chen, A., Dal Zilio, L., Deng, S., Dunham, E. M., Elbanna, A. E., Gabriel, A., Harvey, T. W., Huang, Y., Kaneko, Y., Kozdon, J. E., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liang, C., Liu, Y., Ozawa, S., Perez-Silva, A., Pranger, C., Segall, P., Sun, Y., Thakur, P., Uphoff, C., van Dinther, Y., Yang, Y. 2023; 113 (2): 499-523

    View details for DOI 10.1785/0120220066

    View details for Web of Science ID 000968430000001

  • Comparison of methods for coupled earthquake and tsunami modelling GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL Abrahams, L. S., Krenz, L., Dunham, E. M., Gabriel, A., Saito, T. 2023; 234 (1): 404-426
  • Hindcasting injection-induced aseismic slip and microseismicity at the Cooper Basin Enhanced Geothermal Systems Project. Scientific reports Wang, T. A., Dunham, E. M. 2022; 12 (1): 19481

    Abstract

    There is a growing recognition that subsurface fluid injection can produce not only earthquakes, but also aseismic slip on faults. A major challenge in understanding interactions between injection-related aseismic and seismic slip on faults is identifying aseismic slip on the field scale, given that most monitored fields are only equipped with seismic arrays. We present a modeling workflow for evaluating the possibility of aseismic slip, given observational constraints on the spatial-temporal distribution of microseismicity, injection rate, and wellhead pressure. Our numerical model simultaneously simulates discrete off-fault microseismic events and aseismic slip on a main fault during fluid injection. We apply the workflow to the 2012 Enhanced Geothermal System injection episode at Cooper Basin, Australia, which aimed to stimulate a water-saturated granitic reservoir containing a highly permeable ([Formula: see text] [Formula: see text]) fault zone. We find that aseismic slip likely contributed to half of the total moment release. In addition, fault weakening from pore pressure changes, not elastic stress transfer from aseismic slip, induces the majority of observed microseismic events, given the inferred stress state. We derive a theoretical model to better estimate the time-dependent spatial extent of seismicity triggered by increases in pore pressure. To our knowledge, this is the first time injection-induced aseismic slip in a granitic reservoir has been inferred, suggesting that aseismic slip could be widespread across a range of lithologies.

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-23812-7

    View details for PubMedID 36376409

  • Models of Injection-Induced Aseismic Slip on Height-Bounded Faults in the Delaware Basin Constrain Fault-Zone Pore Pressure Changes and Permeability GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Dvory, N. Z., Yang, Y., Dunham, E. M. 2022; 49 (11)
  • Ultra and Very Long Period Seismic Signatures of Unsteady Eruptions Predicted From Conduit Flow Models JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Coppess, K. R., Dunham, E. M., Almquist, M. 2022; 127 (6)
  • Physics-Based Model Reconciles Caldera Collapse Induced Static and Dynamic Ground Motion: Application to Kilauea 2018 GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Wang, T. A., Coppess, K. R., Segall, P., Dunham, E. M., Ellsworth, W. 2022; 49 (8)
  • Community-Driven Code Comparisons for Three-Dimensional Dynamic Modeling of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Jiang, J., Erickson, B. A., Lambert, V. R., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Zilio, L., Duan, B., Dunham, E. M., Gabriel, A., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liu, D., Liu, Y., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., van Dinther, Y. 2022; 127 (3)
  • Infrasound Radiation From Impulsive Volcanic Eruptions: Nonlinear Aeroacoustic 2D Simulations JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Watson, L. M., Dunham, E. M., Mohaddes, D., Labahn, J., Jaravel, T., Ihme, M. 2021; 126 (9)
  • Effect of Porosity and Permeability Evolution on Injection-Induced Aseismic Slip JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Yang, Y., Dunham, E. M. 2021; 126 (7)
  • Influence of Shear Heating and Thermomechanical Coupling on Earthquake Sequences and the Brittle-Ductile Transition JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Allison, K. L., Dunham, E. M. 2021; 126 (6)
  • Elastic wave propagation in anisotropic solids using energy-stable finite differences with weakly enforced boundary and interface conditions JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS Almquist, M., Dunham, E. M. 2021; 424
  • Earthquake Sequence Dynamics at the Interface Between an Elastic Layer and Underlying Half-Space in Antiplane Shear JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Abrahams, L. S., Allison, K. L., Dunham, E. M. 2020; 125 (12)
  • Fault valving and pore pressure evolution in simulations of earthquake sequences and aseismic slip. Nature communications Zhu, W., Allison, K. L., Dunham, E. M., Yang, Y. 2020; 11 (1): 4833

    Abstract

    Fault-zone fluids control effective normal stress and fault strength. While most earthquake models assume a fixed pore fluid pressure distribution, geologists have documented fault valving behavior, that is, cyclic changes in pressure and unsteady fluid migration along faults. Here we quantify fault valving through 2-D antiplane shear simulations of earthquake sequences on a strike-slip fault with rate-and-state friction, upward Darcy flow along a permeable fault zone, and permeability evolution. Fluid overpressure develops during the interseismic period, when healing/sealing reduces fault permeability, and is released after earthquakes enhance permeability. Coupling between fluid flow, permeability and pressure evolution, and slip produces fluid-driven aseismic slip near the base of the seismogenic zone and earthquake swarms within the seismogenic zone, as ascending fluids pressurize and weaken the fault. This model might explain observations of late interseismic fault unlocking, slow slip and creep transients, swarm seismicity, and rapid pressure/stress transmission in induced seismicity sequences.

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41467-020-18598-z

    View details for PubMedID 32973184

  • Role of Fluid Injection on Earthquake Size in Dynamic Rupture Simulations on Rough Faults GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Maurer, J., Dunham, E. M., Segall, P. 2020; 47 (13)
  • Non-stiff boundary and interface penalties for narrow-stencil finite difference approximations of the Laplacian on curvilinear multiblock grids JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS Almquist, M., Dunham, E. M. 2020; 408
  • Lava lake sloshing modes during the 2018 Kilauea Volcano eruption probe magma reservoir storativity EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Liang, C., Dunham, E. M. 2020; 536
  • Influence of fault roughness on surface displacement: from numerical simulations to coseismic slip distributions GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL Bruhat, L., Klinger, Y., Vallage, A., Dunham, E. M. 2020; 220 (3): 1857–77

    View details for DOI 10.1093/gji/ggz545

    View details for Web of Science ID 000525944600029

  • The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Barall, M., Lapusta, N., Dunham, E. M., Harris, R., Abrahams, L. S., Allison, K. L., Ampuero, J., Barbot, S., Cattania, C., Elbanna, A., Fialko, Y., Idini, B., Kozdon, J. E., Lambert, V., Liu, Y., Luo, Y., Ma, X., McKay, M., Segall, P., Shi, P., van den Ende, M., Wei, M. 2020; 91 (2): 874–90

    View details for DOI 10.1785/0220190248

    View details for Web of Science ID 000518383600030

  • The State of Stress on the Fault Before, During, and After a Major Earthquake ANNUAL REVIEW OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES, VOL 48, 2020 Brodsky, E. E., Mori, J. J., Anderson, L., Chester, F. M., Conin, M., Dunham, E. M., Eguchi, N., Fulton, P. M., Hino, R., Hirose, T., Ikari, M. J., Ishikawa, T., Jeppson, T., Kano, Y., Kirkpatrick, J., Kodaira, S., Lin, W., Nakamura, Y., Rabinowitz, H. S., Regalla, C., Remitti, F., Rowe, C., Saffer, D. M., Saito, S., Sample, J., Sanada, Y., Savage, H. M., Sun, T., Toczko, S., Ujiie, K., Wolfson-Schwehr, M., Yang, T., Jeanloz, R., Freeman, K. H. 2020; 48: 49–74
  • Magma Oscillations in a Conduit-Reservoir System, Application to Very Long Period (VLP) Seismicity at Basaltic Volcanoes: 2. Data Inversion and Interpretation at Klauea Volcano JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Liang, C., Crozier, J., Karlstrom, L., Dunham, E. M. 2020; 125 (1)
  • Magma Oscillations in a Conduit-Reservoir System, Application to Very Long Period (VLP) Seismicity at Basaltic Volcanoes: 1. Theory JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Liang, C., Karlstrom, L., Dunham, E. M. 2020; 125 (1)
  • Dynamic rupture and earthquake sequence simulations using the wave equation in second-order form GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL Duru, K., Allison, K. L., Rivet, M., Dunham, E. M. 2019; 219 (2): 796–815

    View details for DOI 10.1093/gji/ggz319

    View details for Web of Science ID 000491050200005

  • Fully Coupled Simulations of Megathrust Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Japan Trench, Nankai Trough, and Cascadia Subduction Zone PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS Lotto, G. C., Jeppson, T. N., Dunham, E. M. 2019; 176 (9): 4009–41
  • Poroelastic effects destabilize mildly rate-strengthening friction to generate stable slow slip pulses JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS Heimisson, E. R., Dunham, E. M., Almquist, M. 2019; 130: 262–79
  • Simulation and inversion of harmonic infrasound from open-vent volcanoes using an efficient quasi-1D crater model JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH Watson, L. M., Dunham, E. M., Johnson, J. B. 2019; 380: 64–79
  • Combining Dynamic Rupture Simulations with Ground-Motion Data to Characterize Seismic Hazard from M-w 3 to 5.8 Earthquakes in Oklahoma and Kansas BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Bydlon, S. A., Withers, K. B., Dunham, E. M. 2019; 109 (2): 652–71

    View details for DOI 10.1785/0120180042

    View details for Web of Science ID 000462138500012

  • What controls the initial peak of an air-gun source signature? GEOPHYSICS Watson, L. M., Werpers, J., Dunham, E. M. 2019; 84 (2): P27–P45
  • Tsunami Wavefield Reconstruction and Forecasting Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Yang, Y., Dunham, E. M., Barnier, G., Almquist, M. 2019; 46 (2): 853–60
  • Simulation of acoustic and flexural-gravity waves in ice-covered oceans JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS Mattsson, K., Dunham, E. M., Werpers, J. 2018; 373: 230–52
  • A finite difference method for earthquake sequences in poroelastic solids COMPUTATIONAL GEOSCIENCES Torberntsson, K., Stiernstrom, V., Mattsson, K., Dunham, E. M. 2018; 22 (5): 1351–70
  • Mach wave properties in the presence of source and medium heterogeneity GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL Vyas, J. C., Mai, P. M., Galis, M., Dunham, E. M., Imperatori, W. 2018; 214 (3): 2035–52

    View details for DOI 10.1093/gji/ggy219

    View details for Web of Science ID 000439648000033

  • Earthquake cycle simulations with rate-and-state friction and power-law viscoelasticity TECTONOPHYSICS Allison, K. L., Dunham, E. M. 2018; 733: 232–56
  • A Suite of Exercises for Verifying Dynamic Earthquake Rupture Codes SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Harris, R. A., Barall, M., Aagaard, B., Ma, S., Roten, D., Olsen, K., Duan, B., Liu, D., Luo, B., Bai, K., Ampuero, J., Kaneko, Y., Gabriel, A., Duru, K., Ulrich, T., Wollherr, S., Shi, Z., Dunham, E., Bydlon, S., Zhang, Z., Chen, X., Somala, S., Pelties, C., Tago, J., Manuel Cruz-Atienza, V., Kozdon, J., Daub, E., Aslam, K., Kase, Y., Withers, K., Dalguer, L. 2018; 89 (3): 1146–62

    View details for DOI 10.1785/0220170222

    View details for Web of Science ID 000440583400021

  • Forecasting the Eruption of an Open-Vent Volcano Using Resonant Infrasound Tones GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Johnson, J. B., Watson, L. M., Palma, J. L., Dunham, E. M., Anderson, J. F. 2018; 45 (5): 2213–20
  • Accounting for Fault Roughness in Pseudo-Dynamic Ground-Motion Simulations PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS Mai, P., Galis, M., Thingbaijam, K. S., Vyas, J. C., Dunham, E. M. 2017; 174 (9): 3419–50
  • Treatment of the polar coordinate singularity in axisymmetric wave propagation using high-order summation-by-parts operators on a staggered grid COMPUTERS & FLUIDS Prochnow, B., O'Reilly, O., Dunham, E. M., Petersson, N. A. 2017; 149: 138-149
  • Slow-slip events on the Whillans Ice Plain, Antarctica, described using rate-and-state friction as an ice stream sliding law JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE Lipovsky, B. P., Dunham, E. M. 2017; 122 (4): 973-1003
  • The effect of compliant prisms on subduction zone earthquakes and tsunamis EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Lotto, G. C., Dunham, E. M., Jeppson, T. N., Tobin, H. J. 2017; 458: 213-222
  • Excitation and resonance of acoustic-gravity waves in a column of stratified, bubbly magma JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS Karlstrom, L., Dunham, E. M. 2016; 797: 431-470
  • Dynamic earthquake rupture simulations on nonplanar faults embedded in 3D geometrically complex, heterogeneous elastic solids JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS Duru, K., Dunham, E. M. 2016; 305: 185-207
  • Rupture complexity and the supershear transition on rough faults JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Bruhat, L., Fang, Z., Dunham, E. M. 2016; 121 (1): 210-224
  • Tremor during ice-stream stick slip CRYOSPHERE Lipovsky, B. P., Dunham, E. M. 2016; 10 (1): 385-399
  • Nucleation and dynamic rupture on weakly stressed faults sustained by thermal pressurization JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Schmitt, S. V., Segall, P., Dunham, E. M. 2015; 120 (11): 7606-7640
  • High-order finite difference modeling of tsunami generation in a compressible ocean from offshore earthquakes COMPUTATIONAL GEOSCIENCES Lotto, G. C., Dunham, E. M. 2015; 19 (2): 327-340
  • Rupture dynamics and ground motions from earthquakes in 2-D heterogeneous media GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Bydlon, S. A., Dunham, E. M. 2015; 42 (6): 1701-1709
  • Vibrationalmodes of hydraulic fractures: Inference of fracture geometry fromresonant frequencies and attenuation JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Lipovsky, B. P., Dunham, E. M. 2015; 120 (2): 1080-1107
  • Simulation of Earthquake Rupture Dynamics in Complex Geometries Using Coupled Finite Difference and Finite Volume Methods COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS O'Reilly, O., Nordstrom, J., Kozdon, J. E., Dunham, E. M. 2015; 17 (2): 337-370
  • Constraining shallow slip and tsunami excitation in megathrust ruptures using seismic and ocean acoustic waves recorded on ocean-bottom sensor networks EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS Kozdon, J. E., Dunham, E. M. 2014; 396: 56-65
  • An efficient numerical method for earthquake cycles in heterogeneous media: Alternating subbasin and surface-rupturing events on faults crossing a sedimentary basin JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Erickson, B. A., Dunham, E. M. 2014; 119 (4): 3290-3316
  • A 2D Pseudodynamic Rupture Model Generator for Earthquakes on Geometrically Complex Faults BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Trugman, D. T., Dunham, E. M. 2014; 104 (1): 95-112

    View details for DOI 10.1785/0120130138

    View details for Web of Science ID 000330579800006

  • Predicting fault damage zones by modeling dynamic rupture propagation and comparison with field observations JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Johri, M., Dunham, E. M., Zoback, M. D., Fang, Z. 2014; 119 (2): 1251-1272
  • Strong Ground Motion Prediction Using Virtual Earthquakes SCIENCE Denolle, M. A., Dunham, E. M., Prieto, G. A., Beroza, G. C. 2014; 343 (6169): 399-403

    Abstract

    Sedimentary basins increase the damaging effects of earthquakes by trapping and amplifying seismic waves. Simulations of seismic wave propagation in sedimentary basins capture this effect; however, there exists no method to validate these results for earthquakes that have not yet occurred. We present a new approach for ground motion prediction that uses the ambient seismic field. We apply our method to a suite of magnitude 7 scenario earthquakes on the southern San Andreas fault and compare our ground motion predictions with simulations. Both methods find strong amplification and coupling of source and structure effects, but they predict substantially different shaking patterns across the Los Angeles Basin. The virtual earthquake approach provides a new approach for predicting long-period strong ground motion.

    View details for DOI 10.1126/science.1245678

    View details for Web of Science ID 000330039300043

    View details for PubMedID 24458636

  • Frictional-faulting model for harmonic tremor before Redoubt Volcano eruptions NATURE GEOSCIENCE Dmitrieva, K., Hotovec-Ellis, A. J., Prejean, S., Dunham, E. M. 2013; 6 (8): 652-656

    View details for DOI 10.1038/NGEO1879

    View details for Web of Science ID 000322441900018

  • Additional shear resistance from fault roughness and stress levels on geometrically complex faults JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Fang, Z., Dunham, E. M. 2013; 118 (7): 3642-3654

    View details for DOI 10.1002/jgrb.50262

    View details for Web of Science ID 000324952300025

  • Rupture to the Trench: Dynamic Rupture Simulations of the 11 March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Kozdon, J. E., Dunham, E. M. 2013; 103 (2B): 1275-1289

    View details for DOI 10.1785/0120120136

    View details for Web of Science ID 000318277200008

  • Ground motion prediction of realistic earthquake sources using the ambient seismic field JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Denolle, M. A., Dunham, E. M., Prieto, G. A., Beroza, G. C. 2013; 118 (5): 2102-2118
  • Simulation of Dynamic Earthquake Ruptures in Complex Geometries Using High-Order Finite Difference Methods JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING Kozdon, J. E., Dunham, E. M., Nordstrom, J. 2013; 55 (1): 92-124
  • Solving the Surface-Wave Eigenproblem with Chebyshev Spectral Collocation BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Denolle, M. A., Dunham, E. M., Beroza, G. C. 2012; 102 (3): 1214-1223

    View details for DOI 10.1785/0120110183

    View details for Web of Science ID 000304870500021

  • Special Issue Honoring Professor James R. Rice JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME Lapusta, N., Dunham, E., Gao, H. 2012; 79 (3)

    View details for DOI 10.1115/1.4005965

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  • Guided Waves Along Fluid-Filled Cracks in Elastic Solids and Instability at High Flow Rates JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME Dunham, E. M., Ogden, D. E. 2012; 79 (3)

    View details for DOI 10.1115/1.4005961

    View details for Web of Science ID 000303261700021

  • Observation of far-field Mach waves generated by the 2001 Kokoxili supershear earthquake GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Vallee, M., Dunham, E. M. 2012; 39
  • Interaction of Waves with Frictional Interfaces Using Summation-by-Parts Difference Operators: Weak Enforcement of Nonlinear Boundary Conditions JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING Kozdon, J. E., Dunham, E. M., Nordstrom, J. 2012; 50 (2): 341-367
  • Earthquake Ruptures with Strongly Rate-Weakening Friction and Off-Fault Plasticity, Part 2: Nonplanar Faults BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Dunham, E. M., Belanger, D., Cong, L., Kozdon, J. E. 2011; 101 (5): 2308-2322

    View details for DOI 10.1785/0120100076

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  • Earthquake Ruptures with Strongly Rate-Weakening Friction and Off-Fault Plasticity, Part 1: Planar Faults BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Dunham, E. M., Belanger, D., Cong, L., Kozdon, J. E. 2011; 101 (5): 2296-2307

    View details for DOI 10.1785/0120100075

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  • Verifying a Computational Method for Predicting Extreme Ground Motion SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Harris, R. A., Barall, M., Andrews, D. J., Duan, B., Ma, S., Dunham, E. M., Gabriel, A., Kaneko, Y., Kase, Y., Aagaard, B. T., Oglesby, D. D., Ampuero, J., HANKS, T. C., Abrahamson, N. 2011; 82 (5): 638-644
  • EARTHQUAKE RUPTURES ON ROUGH FAULTS International Workshop on Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics Dunham, E. M., Kozdon, J. E., Belanger, D., Cong, L. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. 2011: 145–148
  • Coherence of Mach fronts during heterogeneous supershear earthquake rupture propagation: Simulations and comparison with observations JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Bizzarri, A., Dunham, E. M., SPUDICH, P. 2010; 115
  • Earthquake ruptures with thermal weakening and the operation of major faults at low overall stress levels JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Noda, H., Dunham, E. M., Rice, J. R. 2009; 114
  • The SCEC/USGS Dynamic Earthquake Rupture Code Verification Exercise SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Harris, R. A., Barall, M., Archuleta, R., Dunham, E., Aagaard, B., Ampuero, J. P., Bhat, H., Cruz-Atienza, V., Dalguer, L., Dawson, P., Day, S., Duan, B., Ely, G., Kaneko, Y., Kase, Y., Lapusta, N., Liu, Y., Ma, S., Oglesby, D., OLSEN, K., Pitarka, A., Song, S., Templeton, E. 2009; 80 (1): 119-126
  • Earthquake slip between dissimilar poroelastic materials JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Dunham, E. M., Rice, J. R. 2008; 113 (B9)
  • Attenuation of radiated ground motion and stresses from three-dimensional supershear ruptures JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Dunham, E. M., Bhat, H. S. 2008; 113 (B8)
  • Conditions governing the occurrence of supershear ruptures under slip-weakening friction JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Dunham, E. M. 2007; 112 (B7)
  • Distinguishing barriers and asperities in near-source ground motion JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH Page, M. T., Dunham, E. M., Carlson, J. M. 2005; 110 (B11)
  • Near-source ground motion from steady state dynamic rupture pulses GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS Dunham, E. M., ARCHULETA, R. J. 2005; 32 (3)
  • Dissipative interface waves and the transient response of a three-dimensional sliding interface with Coulomb friction JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS Dunham, E. M. 2005; 53 (2): 327-357
  • Evidence for a supershear transient during the 2002 Denali fault earthquake BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Dunham, E. M., ARCHULETA, R. J. 2004; 94 (6): S256-S268
  • A supershear transition mechanism for cracks SCIENCE Dunham, E. M., Favreau, P., Carlson, J. M. 2003; 299 (5612): 1557-1559

    Abstract

    Seismic data indicate that fault ruptures follow complicated paths with variable velocity because of inhomogeneities in initial stress or fracture energy. We report a phenomenon unique to three-dimensional cracks: Locally stronger fault sections, rather than slowing ruptures, drive them forward at velocities exceeding the shear wave speed. This supershear mechanism differentiates barrier and asperity models of fault heterogeneity, which previously have been regarded as indistinguishable. High strength barriers concentrate energy, producing potentially destructive pulses of strong ground motion.

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