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Member Since 1978
Thorne Lay
Professor of Earth Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz
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Large earthquake complexity along the Mexico Subduction Zone: Repeating and variable rupture patterns
KINEMATIC, DYNAMIC, AND ANALYTICAL EARTHQUAKE SOURCE MODELING I POSTER
seismology | 16 december 2025
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
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
Limited Shallow Slip in the 1938 MS 8.3 Alaska Peninsula Earthquake Rupture
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
12 february 2025
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
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
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
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
Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2023
Member
Seismology Gutenberg Lecture Committee
2004 - 2006
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Smith Award Committee
2002 - 2003
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Union Fellows Committee
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Outstanding Reviewer Award - JGR: Solid Earth
Received 2022
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Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received 2017
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Inge Lehmann Medal
Received 2014
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