Scientific Calendar Event



Description
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, will organize an
Advanced Workshop on Megathrust Earthquakes and Tsunami from 12 to 25 October 2014. It will be directed by R. Madariaga (Ecole Normale Superieure, France) and A. Aoudia (ESP, ICTP, Italy).

Seismicity at subduction megathrusts is responsible for most of the seismic energy globally released during the last century. Studies of recent giant megathrust earthquakes suggest new outstanding issues and unexpected processes and characteristics regarding the genesis of these events and of the related tsunami waves. These events have re-opened the discussion about which kind of subduction zones are prone to have very large and tsunamigenic events. These subduction zones have been classified in the past following criteria that have been put into question by several recent events. A new view of seismic hazard in subduction zones is emerging that could be of interest to many earthquake scientists in both developing and developed countries.

We propose an advanced workshop and school where the above listed issues and related subjects will be discussed from a fundamental point of view and also with applications in specific subduction zones worldwide.

TOPICS:
The programme will involve a series of lectures, semmars, discussions and practical exercises in the following topics:
 
- Seismology of megathrust earthquakes
- Geodesy and remote sensing of megathrust earthquakes
- Paleoseismology of megathrust subduction zones
- Tsunami physics and geology
- Petrological and geological models of megathrust subduction zones
- Mechanical models of megathrust subduction zones
- Rapid detection and characterization of megathrut earthquakes
Go to day
  • Monday, 13 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 17:30
      • 08:30 Registration and Administrative Formalities 1h30' ( 16 Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1) )
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Opening and Introductory Remarks 30'
        Speaker: A. Aoudia (ESP, ICTP)
      • 11:00 Overview talk on recent great earthquakes - Results to motivate basic theory classes 1h0'
        Speaker: T. Lay (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
        Material: Video notes
      • 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Basic Elasticity/Elastodynamics 1h30'
        Speaker: T. Lay (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
        Material: notes
      • 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Seismic Waves 1h30'
        Speaker: T. Lay (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
        Material: notes
  • Tuesday, 14 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 22:00
      • 08:30 Focal Mechanism 1h30'
        Speaker: T. Lay (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
        Material: notes
      • 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Source Processes/Complex Ruptures 1h30'
        Speaker: T. Lay (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
      • 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Megathrust Faults 1h30'
        Speaker: T. Lay (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
        Material: notes
      • 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Solomon Islands/Vanuatu examples 1h30'
        Speaker: T. Lay (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 19:00 Official GET-TOGETHER 3h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
  • Wednesday, 15 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 17:30
      • 08:30 Megathrust Gaps/Asperities 1h30'
        Speaker: T. Lay (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
        Material: Video notes
      • 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Megathrust Slow Slip/ETS 1h30'
        Speaker: T. Lay (Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
        Material: Video notes
      • 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Overview of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake - Source 1h30'
        Speaker: A. Kato (Nagoya Univ. Japan)
        Material: notes
      • 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Slow Slip and Large Earthquakes 1h30'
        Speaker: A. Kato (Nagoya Univ. Japan)
  • Thursday, 16 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 17:30
      • 08:30 Seismicity (Computer exercises) 1h30' ( 14 Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1) )
        Speaker: A. Kato, S. Nakagawa (Nagoya Univ. Japan)
        Material: notes
      • 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Strong Motion Seismology 1h30'
        Speaker: H. Miyake (University of Tokyo, Japan)
        Material: notes
      • 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Seismic Hazard Assessment 1h30'
        Speaker: H. Miyake (University of Tokyo, Japan)
        Material: notes
      • 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Strong Motion Seismology: Computer Exercise 1h30' ( 14 Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1) )
        Speaker: H. Miyake (University of Tokyo, Japan)
        Material: notes
  • Friday, 17 October 2014
    • 08:00 - 17:30
      • 08:00 The German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) and the Integrated Plate boundary Observatory Chile (IPOC) - Two megathrust observing networks 2h0'
        Speaker: B. Schurr (German Res. Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany)
        Material: notes
      • 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 The Chilean subduction megathrust - Case studies of the 2007 M7.7 Tocopilla, 2010 M8.8 Maule, and 2014 M8.2 Iquique earthquakes 1h30'
        Speaker: B. Schurr (German Res. Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany)
        Material: notes
      • 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Medieval forewarning of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami 1h30'
        Speaker: K. Jankaew (Chulalongkom Univ. Bankok, Thailand)
        Material: notes
      • 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS BY PARTICIPANTS 1h30' ( 21 Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1) )
  • Saturday, 18 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 12:00
      • 08:30 PARTICIPANTS PRESENTATION 3h30'
  • Monday, 20 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 17:30
      • 08:30 Tsunami Simulations: Principles and Products 1h30'
        Speaker: E. Okal (Northwestern Univ. Evanston, USA)
        Material: Video notes
      • 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Tsunami Warning: Ideas and Challenges 1h30'
        Speaker: E. Okal (Northwestern Univ. Evanston, USA)
        Material: Video notes
      • 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Eleven Tsunamis 2004 - 2013: Are we getting wiser 1h30'
        Speaker: E. Okal (Northwestern Univ. Evanston, USA)
        Material: Video notes
      • 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Tsunamis as normal modes of the Earth and Contributors to Extracurricular Geophysics 1h30'
        Speaker: E. Okal (Northwestern Univ. Evanston, USA)
        Material: Video notes
  • Tuesday, 21 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 17:30
      • 08:30 Monitoring the megathrust seismic cycle using spatial geodesy: Case study of the Chilean subduction zone 1h30'
        Speaker: M. Métois (Ist. Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy)
        Material: notes
      • 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Monitoring the megathrust seismic cycle using spatial geodesy: Case study of the Chilean subduction zone contd. 1h30'
        Speaker: M. Métois (Ist. Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy)
        Material: notes
      • 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Monitoring the megathrust seismic cycle using spatial geodesy: Computer Exercises 1h30' ( Lab: AGH InFolab )
        Speaker: M. Métois (Ist. Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy)
        Material: notes
      • 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Monitoring the megathrust seismic cycle using spatial geodesy: Computer Exercises contd. 1h30' ( Lab: AGH InFolab )
        Speaker: M. Métois (Ist. Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy)
        Material: notes
  • Wednesday, 22 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 17:30
      • 08:30 Slow slip events and strain accumulation in the Guerrero seismic gap (Mexico) 1h30'
        Speaker: M. Radiguet (Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
        Material: notes
      • 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Slow slip events and strain accumulation in the Guerrero seismic gap (Mexico) 1h30'
        Speaker: M. Radiguet (Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
      • 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Computer Exercises 1h30' ( 14 Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1) )
        Speaker: M. Rodiguet, M. Métois, A. Aoudia, F. Javed
      • 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Computer Exercises 1h30' ( 14 Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1) )
        Speaker: M. Rodiguet, M. Métois, A. Aoudia, F. Javed
  • Thursday, 23 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 17:30
      • 08:30 The study of great earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone 1h30'
        Speaker: K. Wang (Pacific Geoscience Centre, British Colombia, Canada)
        Material: Video notes
      • 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 The study of great earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone contd. 1h30'
        Speaker: K. Wang (Pacific Geoscience Centre, British Colombia, Canada)
      • 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Stress and strain in subduction zone earthquake cycles 1h30'
        Speaker: K. Wang (Pacific Geoscience Centre, British Colombia, Canada)
      • 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Stress and strain in subduction zone earthquake cycles contd. 1h30'
        Speaker: K. Wang (Pacific Geoscience Centre, British Colombia, Canada)
        Material: Video notes
  • Friday, 24 October 2014
    • 08:30 - 17:30
      • 08:30 Deformation cycles of great subduction earthquakes in a viscoelastic Earth 1h30'
        Speaker: K. Wang (Pacific Geoscience Centre, British Colombia, Canada)
      • 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Deformation cycles of great subduction earthquakes in a viscoelastic Earth contd. 1h30'
        Speaker: K. Wang (Pacific Geoscience Centre, British Colombia, Canada)
        Material: Video notes
      • 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2h0' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Computer Exercises 1h30' ( 14 Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1) )
        Speaker: K. Wang, A. Aoudia, F. Javed
      • 15:30 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( 18 Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Closing Remarks and Distribution of Certificates 1h30'