Welcome,
the Harvard Seismology Group carries out a broad range of projects with topics including mapping the interior of the earth, characterizing the seismic source and global seismicity, and understanding problems in theoretical mechanics – stressing, deformation, fracture and flow as they arise in seismology and the
science of earthquakes. The seismology group includes faculty, research associates, and students from the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences as
well as the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences.
Because of the multidisciplinary nature of the study of Earth's interior there are several research groups at Harvard that overlap in seismological pursuits. These seismology research groups are led by Associate Professor Miaki Ishii, Professor James R. Rice and Professor Emeritus Adam Dziewonski. For more information about the projects each of these groups is involved with, please see their individual pages, as well as our research page.
News
August 11, 2011
Ahmet Okeler joins the seismology group.
June 28, 2011
Insights into the mechanism of intermediate-depth earthquakes from source properties as imaged by back projection of multiple seismic phases has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
June 13, 2011
Sara Kowalke, an IRIS summer intern, joins the seismology group.
June 4-5, 2011
Advances in Seismology and Implications for Interdisciplinary Research: Adam M. Dziewonski Symposium is held at the Northwest Building at Harvard University to honour Adam Dziewonski's retirement and his 75th birthday. The symposium page can be found here.
April 12, 2011
The 2010 Mw 8.8 Chile earthquake: Triggering on multiple segments and frequency-dependent rupture behavior has been published in the Geophysical Research Letters.
March 31, 2011
Eric Kiser receives AGU Student Paper Award from the Geodesy Section of the American Geophysical Union for his presentation, The Frequency Dependent Characteristics of the 2010 Chile Earthquake, at the 2010 Fall AGU Meeting.
March 12, 2011
Preliminary results of the Tohoku-Chiho Taiheiyo-Oki Earthquake in Japan. Find them on our research page here.
February 15, 2011
Petros Mpogiatzis joins the seismology group.
March 11, 2010
Preliminary back-projection results of the Mw 8.8 Chilean earthquake is available.
December, 2009
Peter J. Huybers, Miaki Ishii, and Benjamin P. Weiss were awarded the 2009 James B. Macelwane Medal at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 16 December 2009 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for "significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by a young scientist of outstanding ability". More...
March, 2009
The Seismological Society of America has presented Miaki Ishii with the Richter Early Career Award at the 2009 annual meeting in Monterey, CA. In her young career, Ishii, an assistant professor of earth and planetary science at Harvard University, has made two groundbreaking discoveries in geophysics that have fostered intense debate and subsequent research that has changed the understanding of deep Earth seismology. More...
