Scientific Calendar Event



Description An ICTP meeting in person

This workshop will inform, motivate and provide its participants with the state of the art and current challenges in the mechanics of the earthquake cycle also highlighting the most important areas where significant progress has been achieved recently and the full range of observational, theoretical and technical capabilities now available to the scientific community.

The programme will involve a series of lectures, seminars, discussions, practical and computer exercises.

The workshop will combine analytical and numerical modeling with seismic, geodetic, geologic and laboratory observations, in order to better understand the mechanics of the earthquake cycle. The workshop will focus on both continental and subduction zone earthquake cycles in a viscoleatisc Earth and address the physics of slow and fast earthquake ruptures across multiple scales.

Lecturers:

J.-P. AMPUERO, Université Côte d'Azur, France
J. P. AVOUAC, CALTECH, USA
L. DAL ZILIO, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
A. GUALANDI, University of Cambridge, UK
R. HARRIS, USGS California, USA
J. HAWTHORNE, University of Oxford, UK
S. NIELSEN, Durham University, UK
A. RUBIN, University of Princeton, USA
B. E. SHAW, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA
K. WANG, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Canada

Call for Contributed Abstracts: All applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation and/or a contributed talk. Abstract templates are available below for download.

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to PhD students and early career scientists from developing countries and working on the mechanics of the earthquake cycle. There is no registration fee.
 
Go to day
  • Monday, 16 October 2023
    • 09:00 - 10:00
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - (Lower Level 1)
      • 09:00 Registration formalities 1h0'
        REGISTRATION: Upon arrival, Visitors not staying in the ICTP Guest Houses, are kindly requested to complete registration formalities at the Adriatico Guest House (Lower level). The Registration Desk will be open from 09.00 to 10.00.
    • 10:00 - 17:30
      • 10:00 Welcome and introduction 30'
        Speaker: Abdelkrim AOUDIA (ICTP, Italy)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Introduction to earthquake research: motivations, approaches, opportunities, examples 1h30'
        Speaker: Jean Paul AMPUERO (IRD/UCA Geoazur)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Earthquake cycle modeling: from spring-block model to continuum models 1h30'
        Speaker: Jean Paul AMPUERO (IRD/UCA Geoazur)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 QDYN: tutorial session 1 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Jean Paul AMPUERO (IRD/UCA Geoazur), Eyup SOPACI (Géoazur Laboratory, France)
        Material: Slides
  • Tuesday, 17 October 2023
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Complexity in earthquake cycles 1h30'
        Speaker: Jean Paul AMPUERO (IRD/UCA Geoazur)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Dynamics of large earthquakes. Segmentation and rupture potential 1h30'
        Speaker: Jean Paul AMPUERO (IRD/UCA Geoazur)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Fault strength. Rupture speed 1h30'
        Speaker: Jean Paul AMPUERO (IRD/UCA Geoazur)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 QDYN: tutorial session 2 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Jean Paul AMPUERO (IRD/UCA Geoazur), Eyup SOPACI (Géoazur Laboratory, France)
        Material: Slides
    • 18:30 - 20:00
      • 18:30 Welcome Reception 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
        All participants are cordially invited to a Welcome reception
  • Wednesday, 18 October 2023
    • 09:00 - 18:30
      • 09:00 Rock friction 1h30'
        Speaker: Allan M. RUBIN (University of Princeton, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Group photo 5'
      • 10:35 Coffee Break 25'
      • 11:00 Episodic slow slip and tremor in subduction zones: Some observations, some models 1h30'
        Speaker: Allan M. RUBIN (University of Princeton, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Participants talks 1h30'
        Wei FENG (University of Padua, Italy)
        Competing processes control the frictional healing
        
        Weiwei SHU (Strasbourg University, France)
        Modeling the collective behavior of asperities on an analog fault interface
        
        Jeena YUN (University of California, USA)
        The Effect of Stress and Friction Heterogeneity on Complexity of Seismic and Aseismic Slip on Strike-Slip Faults
        
        Jozef MÜLLER (Friedrich Schiller University, Germany) 
        Coseismic drop of seismic velocity caused by the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
        
        Esteban Josue CHAVES SIBAJA (Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica)
        Precursory seismic signals before two catastrophic landslides at Irazú Volcano, Costa Rica
        
        Apsara SHARMA DHAKAL (University of Padua, Italy)
        Seismic source mapping by surface wave time reversal: application to the great 2004 Sumatra earthquake
      • 15:30 Open Discussion 30'
      • 16:00 Coffee Break and Poster session 2h30'
  • Thursday, 19 October 2023
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Dynamic complexity, 1D burridge knopoff model and higher dimensional models 1h30'
        Speaker: Bruce E. SHAW (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Theoretical concepts and models about the earthquake energy budget 1h30'
        Speaker: Stefan NIELSEN (Durham University, Uk)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Fault systems, the interaction of dynamic, quenched and geometrical heterogeneities 1h30'
        Speaker: Bruce E. SHAW (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Theoretical concepts and models about the earthquake energy budget: Practicals 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Stefan NIELSEN (Durham University, Uk)
        Material: Slides
  • Friday, 20 October 2023
    • 09:00 - 18:30
      • 09:00 Scaling relations, robust statistics 1h30'
        Speaker: Bruce E. SHAW (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Experimental and observational aspects of dissipative processes 1h30'
        Speaker: Stefan NIELSEN (Durham University, Uk)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Seismic hazard and earthquake physics 1h30'
        Speaker: Bruce E. SHAW (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Experimental and observational aspects of dissipative processes: Practicals 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Stefan NIELSEN (Durham University, Uk)
        Material: Slides
      • 17:30 Panel Discussion 1h0'
  • Monday, 23 October 2023
    • 09:00 - 18:30
      • 09:00 The Strength of the subduction megathrust (part 1) 1h30'
        Speaker: Kelin WANG (Pacific Geoscience Centre, Canada)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Notions of poromechanics in earthquake and faulting phenomena 1h30'
        Speaker: Luca DAL ZILIO (ETH Zurich)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Testing models of slow earthquakes 1h30'
        Speaker: Jessica HAWTHORNE (University of Oxford, UK)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Physical processes behind geodetic deformation 1h30'
        Speaker: Adriano GUALANDI (University of Cambridge, UK)
        Material: Slides
      • 17:30 Signal extraction from GNSS position times series (Computer tutorial) 1h0'
        Speaker: Adriano GUALANDI (University of Cambridge, UK)
        Material: Slides
  • Tuesday, 24 October 2023
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 The Strength of the subduction megathrust (part 2) 1h30'
        Speaker: Kelin WANG (Pacific Geoscience Centre, Canada)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Viscoelasticity and earthquake cycles (part 1) 1h30'
        Speaker: Kelin WANG (Pacific Geoscience Centre, Canada)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Exploring the properties of tremor ruptures 1h30'
        Speaker: Jessica HAWTHORNE (University of Oxford, UK)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Signal extraction from GNSS position times series (Computer tutorial) 1h30'
        Speaker: Adriano GUALANDI (University of Cambridge, UK)
        Material: Slides
  • Wednesday, 25 October 2023
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Earthquakes phenomenology and scaling properties 1h30'
        Speaker: Jean-Philippe AVOUAC (CALTECH, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Group photo 5'
      • 10:35 Coffee Break 25'
      • 11:00 Seismic cycle- Conceptual and Kinematics models 1h30'
        Speaker: Jean-Philippe AVOUAC (CALTECH, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Viscoelasticity and earthquake cycles (part 2) 1h30'
        Speaker: Kelin WANG (Pacific Geoscience Centre, Canada)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Hydro-mechanical modeling of the earthquake cycle 1h30'
        Speaker: Luca DAL ZILIO (ETH Zurich)
        Material: Slides
    • 19:00 - 21:00
      • 19:00 Pizza Dinner 2h0'
        All participants are cordially invited to a Pizza Dinner.
  • Thursday, 26 October 2023
    • 09:00 - 19:00
      • 09:00 Seismic Cycle dynamics and the case example of the Himalaya 1h30'
        Speaker: Jean-Philippe AVOUAC (CALTECH, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Toward stress-based earthquake forecasting 1h30'
        Speaker: Jean-Philippe AVOUAC (CALTECH, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Participants talks 1h30'
        Mayukh TALUKDAR (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
        Viscoplastic deformation of damage zone rocks and its implications for interseismic shear stress accumulation
        
        Huiwen SUN (The University of Texas, USA)
        Numerical Study of Fault Interactions through Seismic Cycles Using the Boundary Element Approach
        
        Jose Nicolas CASTRO PERDOMO (Indiana University, USA)
        Slip Deficit Rate Inversions Incorporating Earthquake Cycle Effects
        
        Farhan JAVED (National Center for Physics, Pakistan)
        Present-day land subsidence and re-activation of local thrust fault in Northwestern Pakistan using Sentinel-1 InSAR data
        
        Hari Ram THAPA (ICTP, Italy)
        The Main Himalayan Thrust Beneath Nepal and Southern Tibet Illuminated by Seismic Ambient Noise and Teleseismic P Wave Coda Autocorrelation
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Creeping Faults and Large Earthquakes 1h30'
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        Speaker: Ruth HARRIS (U.S. Geological Survey)
        Material: Slides
      • 17:30 Poster session 1h30'
  • Friday, 27 October 2023
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 The role of fluids in tectonic and earthquake processes 1h30'
        Speaker: Luca DAL ZILIO (ETH Zurich)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:00 Building the Himalaya from tectonic to earthquake scales 1h30'
        Speaker: Luca DAL ZILIO (ETH Zurich)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
      • 14:00 Tsunamigenic seafloor deformation 1h30'
        Speaker: Kelin WANG (Pacific Geoscience Centre, Canada)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:00 Participants Talks 1h0'
        Simon ORREGO (University of Bristol COMET, UK)
        Coseismic and postseismic activity during the shallow-crustal 2020 Humahuaca earthquake, Argentina, inferred from InSAR observations
        
        Riccardo NUCCI (University of Bologna, Italy)
        Geodetic Strain rates and Seismicity rates along the Apennines (Italy)
        
        Dimas SIANIPAR (Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG), Indonesia)
        Seismicity analysis around the Mentawai Megathrust Seismic Gap in Sumatra (Indonesia) and Implications to Understanding of Seismic Cycle
        
        Mingqi LIU (University of Southern California, USA)
        Thermo-mechanical models of seismic swarms at oceanic transform faults
      • 17:00 Open Discussion and closure 30'