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Thorne Lay
Professor of Earth Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
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The 2021 MW 8.1 Kermadec Earthquake Sequence: Great Earthquake Rupture Along the Mantle/Slab Contact
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
02 april 2025
Lingling Ye, Yangming Hu, Tao Xia, Thorne Lay, Yin...
Most great earthquakes on subduction zone plate boundaries have large coseismic slip concentrated along the contact between the subducting slab and...
Tsunami Variability for the 2021 Megathrust and 2023 Outer Rise MW 7.7 Earthquakes Southeast of the Loyalty Islands
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: OCEANS
26 february 2025
William Robert, Yoshiki Yamazaki, Kwok Fai Cheung,...
The 2021 shallow plate‐boundary thrust‐faulting and 2023 outer rise normal‐faulting MW 7.7 earthquakes southeast of the Loyalty I...
Limited Shallow Slip in the 1938 MS 8.3 Alaska Peninsula Earthquake Rupture
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
12 february 2025
Yefei Bai, Honghuan Zhi, Thorne Lay, Chengli LIU, ...
The 1938 MS 8.3 and 2021 MW 8.2 earthquakes both ruptured within the Semidi segment of the Aleutian‐Alaska subduction zone. The large‐s...
Intermediate-depth Seismicity in the Peruvian Flat Slab: Narrow Seismogenic Band Related to Flexural Strain in Dry Slab
FROM THE SURFACE TO THE MANTLE: INTEGRATING GEOPHYSICAL, SEISMOLOGICAL, AND TECTONICS PERSPECTIVES ALONG THE SOUTH AMERICAN MARGIN I POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Lingci Zeng, Lingling Ye, Huajian Yao, Wei Liu, Da...
The distribution and rupture properties of intermediate-depth earthquakes (~70-300 km) provide insights into the interior stress state of the subducti...
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The 2022 MW 7.3 Southern Sumatra Tsunami Earthquake: Rupture Up‐Dip of the 2007 MW 8.4 Bengkulu Event
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
09 december 2024
Tao Xia, Lingling Ye, Yefei Bai, Thorne Lay, Shiqi...
On 18 November 2022, a large earthquake struck offshore southern Sumatra, generating a tsunami with 25 cm peak amplitude recorded at tide gaug...
Unraveling New Mysteries of the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Eruption: Seismological Insights into Subaerial and Submarine Venting
SEISMIC AND ACOUSTIC SIGNALS OF VOLCANIC UNREST AND ERUPTION: FROM SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION TO MONITORING APPLICATIONS IV ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 11 december 2023
Ricardo GarzaGiron, Thorne Lay, Luis A. Rivera, Fr...
The 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcanic eruption stands out as one of the most significant natural explosive events in the past century. While exte...
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Complex multi-fault rupture and triggering during the February 6, 2023, earthquake doublet in southeastern Türkiye
6 FEBRUARY 2023 EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE IN TÜRKIYE II POSTER
seismology | 11 december 2023
Chengli LIU, Thorne Lay, Rongjiang Wang, TUNCAY TA...
Two major crustal earthquakes (MW 7.8 and MW 7.7) ruptured left-lateral strike-slip faults of the East Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) on February 6, 2023...
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Seismological Indicators of Geologically Inferred Fault Maturity
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
30 september 2023
Huiyun Guo, Thorne Lay, Emily E. Brodsky
Variations in fault zone maturity have intermittently been invoked to explain variations in some seismological observations for large earthquakes. ...