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Tom Parsons
Research Geophysicist, USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park
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Using Earthquake Rupture Forecasts as Input to Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis (PTHA)
INTERDISCIPLINARY TSUNAMI SCIENCE IV ORAL
natural hazards | 15 december 2023
Eric L. Geist, Tom Parsons
We develop a method to incorporate earthquake rupture forecasts (ERFs) into probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis (PTHA), providing a common source sp...
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The Weight of New York City: Possible Contributions to Subsidence From Anthropogenic Sources
EARTH'S FUTURE
08 may 2023
Tom Parsons, Pei-Chin Wu, Meng (Matt) Wei, Steven ...

New York City faces accelerating inundation risk from sea level rise, subsidence, and increasing storm intensity from natural and anthropogenic cau...

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Excess Cumulative Stress at the Tokai Section of the Nankai Megathrust from Combinatorial Optimization of Earthquake Distributions
MULTISCALE CRUSTAL DEFORMATION IN SUBDUCTION ZONES AND THE MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKE CYCLE: PROGRESS FROM OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS I ONLINE POSTER DISCUSSION
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
Eric L. Geist, Tom Parsons
A framework for determining the spatial distribution of earthquakes on a complex fault system has been updated and applied to the Nankai megathrust, u...
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On the Use of High‐Resolution and Deep‐Learning Seismic Catalogs for Short‐Term Earthquake Forecasts: Potential Benefits and Current Limitations
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
14 november 2022
Simone Mancini, Margarita Segou, Maximilian J. Wer...

Enhanced earthquake catalogs provide detailed images of evolving seismic sequences. Currently, these data sets take some time to be released but wi...

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Thank You to Our 2021 Peer Reviewers
AGU ADVANCES
13 april 2022
Susan Trumbore, Ana P. Barros, Thorsten W. Becker,...

The editorial board of AGU Advances thanks the individuals who reviewed for the journal in 2021.

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Conserving a Minimum Stress State on Faults: New Constraints for Combinatorial Rupture Forecasts
GEOPHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON CRUSTAL STRESS AND STRUCTURE IN THE AGE OF MACHINE LEARNING I ORAL
tectonophysics | 17 december 2021
Eric L. Geist, Tom Parsons
A critical component of seismic hazard analysis is estimating the magnitude-frequency distribution of earthquakes that occur on mapped faults (aka rup...
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The weight of cities: Urbanization effects on Earth’s subsurface
GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS OF THE EARTH’S ELASTIC RESPONSE TO SURFACE MASS VARIABILITY I ORAL
geodesy | 13 december 2021
Tom Parsons
A steady migration of Earths population from rural to urban centers is occurring in virtually every part of the World (Figure 1). Currently about 50% ...
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Confronting Racism to Advance Our Science
AGU ADVANCES
25 march 2021
Peter K. Zeitler, Ana P. Barros, Thorsten W. Becke...

As individuals serving on the AGU Advances editorial board, we condemn racism, affirm that Black Lives Matter, and recognize that inequality is bui...

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