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Leon Knopoff, Professor Emeritus of Physics and 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 1809 |
| Telephone: | (310) 825-1885 |
| Fax: | (310) 206-3051 |
| E-mail: | knopoff@physics.ucla.edu |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Earthquake Prediction, Earthquake Source Mechanics, Dynamical Systems, Fracture Mechanics, Self-Organizing Systems, Non-linear Dynamics, Elastic Wave Propagation, Systematic Musicology. |
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Education |
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| | B.S., 1944, California Institute of Technology
M.S., 1946, California Institute of Technology
Ph.D., 1949, California Institute of Technology |
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Selected Publications |
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| | T. Yamashita and L. Knopoff, Model for intermediate-term precursory
clustering of earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 19,873-19,879, 1992. |
| | L. Knopoff, J.A. Landoni and M.S. Abinante, Dynamical model
of an earthquake fault with localization, Phys. Rev. A., 46, 7445-7449,
1992. | | | L. Knopoff, Self-organization and the development
of pattern: Implications for earthquake prediction, Proc. Amer. Philosoph. Soc.,
137, 339-349, 1993. | | | H.-J. Xu and L. Knopoff,
Periodicity and chaos in a one-dimensional dynamical model of earthquakes Phys.
Rev. E, 50, 3577-3581, 1994. | | | L. Knopoff,
T. Levshina, V.I. Keilis-Borok and C. Mattoni, Increased long-range intermediate-
magnitude earthquake acti-prior to strong earthquakes in California, J. Geophys.
Res., 101, 5779-5796, 1996. | | | L. Knopoff, A
selective phenomenology of the seismicity of Southern California, Proc. National
Acad. Sciences, 93, 3756-3763, 1996. | | | L. Knopoff,
The organization of Seismicity on Fault Networks, Proc. National Acad. Sciences,
93, 3830-3837, 1996. |
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Graduate Students |
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| | Xiaoxi Ni
xni@cyclop.ess.ucla.edu |
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