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News and Announcements
Emeritus Professor Dave Jackson Departmental Memorial - 28 June, Faculty Center
On June 28 at 6:00 PM the EPSS department will hold a memorial for Dave …
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EPSS Professor Jean-Luc Margot Featured on ABC Radio National's The Science Show
In the segment broadcast May 26th, 2023, Margot talked about the UCLA SETI group’s citizen …
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Growing My Own Roots - EPSS PhD Student Megan Li's Story
Over 50 years ago, EPSS PhD student Megan Li’s grandfather immigrated from Taiwan to pursue …
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Geophysics and Tectonics Seminar
Wednesday Jun 7
12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m.
Presented By:
Chen ji - UCSB
It has been long recognized that the source parameters of earthquakes, such as rupture area, fault length, the corner frequency of source spectra, etc., scale with earthquake magnitudes, often exhibiting self-similarities but also considerable between-event deviations (e.g., Aki, 1967; Kanamori and Anderson, 1975). In this study, we introduce a double-corner-frequency …