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Heidi Houston, Associate Professor-in-Residence of Geophysics |
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| Mailing Address: | Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 |
| Office: | Geology 4644 |
| Telephone: | (310) 206-3896 |
| Fax: | (310) 825-2779 |
| E-mail: | hhouston@ess.ucla.edu |
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Courses Taught |
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| | ESS 8
ESS 119
ESS 282 |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Observational global seismology including physics of the earthquake source from broadband waveforms: seismically-radiated energy and stress drop, relationship to fault mechanics, spatial and temporal details of the rupture process to assess variability and complexity, implications for earthquake hazard. Subduction processes including subduction zone seismicity, physical mechanism of deep earthquakes and relationship to tectonic processes, state of stress in deep subduction zones, effect of slab structure on waveforms. |
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Education |
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| | B.S., 1977, University of Washington
M.S., 1981, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ph.D., 1987, California Institute of Technology |
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Selected Publications |
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| | Green, H.W., and H. Houston, The mechanics of deep earthquakes,
Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science, 23, 169-213, 1995. |
| | Houston, H., and J.E. Vidale, The temporal distribution of seismic
radiation during deep earthquake rupture, Science, 265, 771-774, 1994. |
| | Houston, H., H.J. Anderson, S.L. Beck, J. Zhang, and S.Y. Schwartz,
The 1986 Kermadec earthquake and its relation to plate segmentation, Pure and
Applied Geophysics, 140, 331-364, 1993. | | | Vidale, J.E.,
and H. Houston, The depth-dependence of earthquake duration and implications for
rupture mechanisms, Nature, 365, 45-47, 1993. | | | Houston,
H., The non-double-couple component of deep earthquakes and the width of the seismogenic
zone, Geophysical Research Letters, 20, 1687-1690, 1993. | | | Houston,
H. and Q. Williams, Fast rise times and the physical mechanism of deep earthquakes,
Nature,352, 520-523, 1991. | | | Houston, H., and H. Kanamori,
Comparison of strong motion spectra with teleseismic spectra for three magnitude
8 subduction-zone earthquakes, Bull. Seismological Society of America, 80, 913-934,
1990. |
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