Harvard Seismology: Karen Felzer

Karen Felzer

Karen Felzer graduated in June 2003 after five years in the seismology group. She is now a postdoc at UCLA with Professor Emily Brodsky. For her current, updated website please CLICK HERE. At Harvard Karen worked with Professor Göran Ekström in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and with Professor Jim Rice in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She did her undergraduate work in geophysics at Stanford University with Greg Beroza. Her research at Harvard concerned earthquake triggering and aftershocks, how small earthquakes play an important role in the triggering of larger ones, how nearly all earthquakes may be aftershocks, and whether aftershocks are triggered by static or dynamic stresses. She has also done work on fault discontinuities and the Mw 7.8 1994 Java earthquake.

Publications

Felzer, K. R., R. E. Abercrombie, and G. Ekström, Secondary aftershocks and their importance for aftershock prediction, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 93, 1433-1448, 2003
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Felzer, K. R., T. W. Becker, R. E. Abercrombie, G. Ekström, and J. R. Rice, Triggering of the 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake by aftershocks of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 2190, doi:10.1029/2001JB000911, 2002.
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Abercrombie, R. E., Antolik, M. A., Felzer, K. R., and G. Ekström, G., The 1994 Java earthquake: slip over a subducting seamount, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 6595-6608, 2001. abstract

Felzer, K. R., and G. C. Beroza, Deep Structure of a fault discontinuity, Geophysical Res. Letters, 26, 2121-2124, 1999. web link

In press

Felzer, K. R., R. E. Abercrombie, and G. Ekström, A common origin for aftershocks, foreshocks, and multiplets. Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 2003.
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Conference Abstracts

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Online Talks

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2002:
"A Common Origin for Aftershocks, Foreshocks, and Multiplets"

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Teaching Experience

Fall 2001 Head Teaching Fellow for Professor Göran Ekström for Science A43, Environmental Risks and Disasters .
Fall 2000 Teaching Fellow for Science A43
Fall 1999 Teaching Fellow for Science A43
Spring 1999 Teaching Fellow for Earth and Planetary Sciences 6: Introduction to Environmental Science: The Solid Earth, with Professor Göran Ekström