Earthquake Monitoring and Research

Recent Earthquake Related Research

Staff Directory

Selected Reports and Publications

  • Arabasz, W. J., and K. L. Pankow, with contributions from R. Burlacu, J. C. Pechmann, and J. Rusho (2008).  Progress report—USGS cooperative agreement for seismic network operations (February 1, 2008 – December 1, 2008):  U.S. Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement No. 07HQAG0022, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 21 pp. including tables, figures, and appendices.
  • Arabasz, W. J., and K. L. Pankow, with contributions from R. Burlacu, J. C. Pechmann, and J. Rusho (2007).  Progress report—USGS cooperative agreement for seismic network operations (February 1, 2007 – November 30, 2007):  U.S. Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement No. 07HQAG0022, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 53 pp. including tables, figures, and appendices.
  • Arabasz, W. J. (2007). A Suggested Framework for Advancing Seismic Monitoring in the Wasatch Plateau-Book Cliffs Coalfields. Report Prepared for the Technical Advisory Committee to the Utah Mine Safety Commision, Salt lake City, Utah, December 18, 2007, 9pp.
  • Pankow, K., D. Bausch, and B. Carey (2007). Linking ShakeMap and emergency managers in the Utah region (abstract), Eos., Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 88 (52). Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S51A-0223, 2007.
  • Arabasz, W. J., R. B. Smith, J. C. Pechmann, K. L. Pankow, and R. Burlacu (2006). Integrated Regional and Urban Seismic Monitoring - Wasatch Front Area, Utah, and Adjacent Intermountain Seismic Belt, Final Technical Report (January 1, 2004-December 1, 2006), U. S. Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement No. 04HQAG0014, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 137 pp., including tables, figures, and appendices.
  • Arabasz, W. J., D. L. Drobeck, R. Burlacu, K. L. Pankow, and J. C. Pechmann (2006). Station CCUT--Cooperative Broadband Seismograph Station Near Cedar City, Utah (ANSS/USArray National Backbone Network), IRIS Subaward Agreement No. 383, under NSF Cooperative Agreement No. EAR-0004370, 52 pp., including tables, figures, and appendix.
  • Arabasz, W. J., R. B. Smith, J. C. Pechmann, K. L. Pankow, and R. Burlacu (2006). Integrated Regional and Urban Seismic Monitoring - Wasatch Front Area, Utah, and Adjacent Intermountain Seismic Belt, Annual Technical Report (February 1, 2005-January 31, 2006), U. S. Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement No. 04HQAG0014, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 111 pp., including tables, figures, and appendices.
  • Arabasz, W. J., R. B. Smith, J. C. Pechmann, K. L. Pankow, and R. Burlacu (2005a). Integrated Regional and Urban Seismic Monitoring - Wasatch Front Area, Utah, and Adjacent Intermountain Seismic Belt, Annual Technical Report (January 1, 2004-January 31, 2005), U. S. Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement No. 04HQAG0014, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 45 pp., including tables, figures, and appendices.
  • Arabasz, W. J., R. B. Smith, J. C. Pechmann, K. L. Pankow, and R. Burlacu (2005b). Integrated Regional and Urban Seismic Monitoring - Wasatch Front Area, Utah, and Adjacent Intermountain Seismic Belt, Annual Project Summary (October 1, 2004-September 30, 2005), U. S. Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement No. 04HQAG0014, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 8 pp., including figures.
  • Pankow, K.L., and J.C. Pechmann (2005). Determination of low-strain site amplification factors in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah, using ANSS data, in Proceedings Volume, Basin and Range Province Seismic Hazards Summit II, W.L. Lund (Editor), Utah Geol.Survey, Misc. Publ. 05-2, CD, 15 pp.
  • Arabasz, W. J., R. B. Smith, S. J. Nava, J. C. Pechmann, and K. L. Pankow (2004a). Urban and regional seismic monitoring - Wasatch Front Area, Utah, and adjacent Intermountain Seismic Belt, Annual Technical Report (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2003), U.S. Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement No. 01HQAG0014, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 95 pp., including tables, figures, and appendices.
  • Arabasz, W. J., R. B. Smith, J. C. Pechmann, K. L. Pankow, and R. Burlacu (2004b). Integrated Regional and Urban Seismic Monitoring - Wasatch Front Area, Utah, and Adjacent Intermountain Seismic Belt, Annual Project Summary (October 1, 2003-September 30, 2004), U. S. Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement No. 04HQAG0014, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 8 pp., including figures.
  • Pankow, K.L., W.J. Arabasz, J.C. Pechmann, and S.J. Nava (2004). Triggered seismicity in Utah from the 3 November, 2002, Denali fault earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 94, S332-S347.
  • Pankow, K.L., and J.C. Pechmann (2004). The SEA99 ground motion predictive relations for extensional tectonic regimes: Revisions and a new peak ground velocity relation, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 94, 341-348.
  • Arabasz, W. J., R. B. Smith, S. J. Nava, J. C. Pechmann, and K. L. Pankow (2003a). Urban and regional seismic monitoring - Wasatch Front Area, Utah, and adjacent Intermountain Seismic Belt, Annual Technical Report (Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2002), U.S. Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement No. 01HQAG0014, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 57 pp., including tables, figures, and appendices.
  • Arabasz, W. J., R. B. Smith, S. J. Nava, J. C. Pechmann, and K. L. Pankow (2003b). Urban and regional seismic monitoring - Wasatch Front Area, Utah, and adjacent Intermountain Seismic Belt, Annual Project Summary (October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2003), U. S. Geological Survey Cooperative Agreement No. 01HQAG0014, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 8 pp., including figures.
  • Arabasz, W. J., S. J. Nava, M. K. McCarter, and K. L Pankow (2002a). Ground-motion recording and analysis of mining-induced seismicity in the Trail Mountain Area, Emery County, Utah, Technical Report, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 168 pp., including tables, figures, and appendices.
  • Arabasz, W. J., J. Ake, M. K. McCarter, and A. McGarr (2002b). Mining Induced seismicity near Joes Valley Dam: Summary of ground-motion studies and assessment of probable maximum magnitude, Technical Report, University of Utah Seismograph Stations, Salt Lake City, Utah, 39 pp., including tables and figures.
  • Arabasz, W. J. and J. C. Pechmann (2001). Seismic characterization of coal-mining seismicity in Utah for CTBT monitoring, Technical Report UCRL-CR-143772, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, LLNL Resaerch Agreement No. B344836, 122 pp., including tables and figures.
  • Pechmann, J.C., and W.J. Arabasz (1995). The problem of the random earthquake in seismic hazard analysis: Wasatch Front region, Utah, in Environmental and Engineering Geology of the Wasatch Front Region: 1995 Symposium and Field Conference, W.R.Lund (Editor), Utah Geological Association Publication 24, 77-93.