Publications: Peer-reviewed journals
2024
50. Higueret, Q., Sheng, Y., Mordret, A., Brenguier, F., Boué, P., Fichtner, A., ... & Ben-Zion, Y. (2024). Body-waves from train noise correlations: Potential and limits for monitoring the San Jacinto Fault, CA. Geophysical Journal International, ggae409. <pdf>
49. Svennevig, K., Hicks, S. P., Forbriger, T., Lecocq, T., Widmer-Schnidrig, R., Mangeney, A., ... Mordret, A., ..., & Wirtz, B. (2024). A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days. Science, 385(6714), 1196-1205. DOI:10.1126/science.adm9247
48. Sheng, Y., Brenguier, F., Mordret, A., Higueret, Q., Aubert, C., Pinzon-Rincon, L., et al. (2024). In situ velocity-strain sensitivity near the San Jacinto Fault Zone analyzed through train tremors. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110113. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110113 .
47. Wu, S.-M., Sánchez-Pastor, P., Ágústsdóttir, T., Hersir, G. P., Mordret, A., Hjörleifsdóttir, V., & Obermann, A. (2024). Crustal characterization of the Hengill geothermal fields: Insights from isotropic and anisotropic seismic noise imaging using a 500-node array. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2024JB028915. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB028915
46. Cubuk-Sabuncu, Y., Jónsdóttir, K., Arnadottir, T., Mordret, A., Caudron, C., Lecocq, T., & De Plaen, R. (2024). Temporal Seismic Velocity Changes Associated with the Mw 6.1, May 2008 Olfus Doublet, South Iceland: a Joint Interpretation from dv/v and GPS. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, <draft pdf>, <draft pdf Supplement>
45. Sheng, Y., Mordret, A., Brenguier, F., Tomasetto, L., Higueret, Q., Aubert, C., Hollis, D., Vernon, F., & Ben‐Zion, Y. (2024). Tracking Seismic Velocity Perturbations at Ridgecrest Using Ballistic Correlation Functions. Seismological Research Letters; doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230348. <pdf>, <pdf_Supplement>
2023
44. Sheng, Y., Mordret, A., Brenguier, F., Boué, P., Vernon, F., Takeda, T., Y. Aoki, T. Taira, & Ben‐Zion, Y. (2023). Seeking Repeating Anthropogenic Seismic Sources: Implications for Seismic Velocity Monitoring at Fault Zones. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2022JB024725. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024725. <pdf>
43. Froment, Bérénice, Andrés Olivar‐Castaño, Matthias Ohrnberger, Loic Gisselbrecht, Katrin Hannemann, Edward Marc Cushing, Pierre Boué, Céline Gélis, Annabel Haendel, Marco Pilz, Laura Hillmann, Occitane Barbaux, Sophie Beauprêtre, Gilbert Bouzat, Emmanuel Chaljub, Fabrice Cotton, François Lavoué, Laurent Stehly, Chuanbin Zhu, Olivier Magnin, Laurent Métral, Aurélien Mordret, Yann Richet, Alexandre Tourette. (2023). Complementary Dense Datasets Acquired in a Low‐to‐Moderate Seismicity Area for Characterizing Site Effects: Application in the French Rhône Valley. Seismological Research Letters; 94 (1): 531–547. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220244.
2022
42. Yates, A., Caudron, C., Lesage, P., Mordret, A., Lecocq, T., & Soubestre, J. (2022). Assessing similarity in continuous seismic cross-correlation functions using hierarchical clustering: application to Ruapehu and Piton de la Fournaise volcanoes. Geophysical Journal International, 233(1), 472-489. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac469
41. Caudron, C., Aoki, Y., Lecocq, T., De Plaen, R., Soubestre, J., Mordret, A., ... & Terakawa, T. (2022). Hidden pressurized fluids prior to the 2014 phreatic eruption at Mt Ontake. Nature communications, 13(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32252-w. <pdf>
40. Sheng, Y., A. Mordret, K. Sager, F. Brenguier, P. Boué, B. Rousset, F. Vernon, Y. Ben-Zion, Q. Higueret. (2022). Monitoring seismic velocity changes across the San Jacinto fault using train-generated seismic tremors. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098509 . <pdf> <Suppl. Mat.>
39. De Plaen, R. S., Mordret, A., Arámbula-Mendoza, R., Vargas-Bracamontes, D., Márquez-Ramírez, V. H., Lecocq, T., Vázquez, CAR and Amezcua, M. G. (2022). The shallow three-dimensional structure of Volcán de Colima revealed by ambient seismic noise tomography. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 107578, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107578. <pdf>
38. Mikesell, Thomas Dylan, Mordret, Aurélien, Xu, Zongbo, Frank, William B. (2022). Crustal Structure across the West Antarctic Rift System from Multicomponent Ambient Noise Surface Wave Tomography. Seismological Research Letters; https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210026. <pdf>, Supp. Mat.
37. Naghizadeh, M., Smith, R. S., Rubingh, K., Sherlock, R., Ayer, J. A., Lafrance, B., Cheraghi, S., Snyder, D., Vergne, J., Hollis, D. & Mordret, A. (2022). Active and passive seismic imaging of the central Abitibi greenstone belt, Larder Lake, Ontario. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022334. <draft pdf>
2021
36. Sager, K., Tsai, V.C., Sheng, Y., Brenguier, F., Boué, P., Mordret, A., and Igel, H. (2021). Modeling P waves in seismic noise correlations: Advancing fault monitoring using train traffic sources. Geophysical Journal International. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab389 <draft_pdf>
35. Gradon, C., Brenguier, F., Stammeijer, J., Mordret, A., Hindriks, K., Campman X., Lynch, R., Boué, P. and Chmiel, M. (2021). Seismic velocity response to atmospheric pressure using time-lapse passive seismic interferometry. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120210069. <draft paper> <pdf>
34. Guerin, G., Mordret, A., Rivet, D., Lipovsky, B. P., and Minchew, B. M. (2021). Frictional origin of slip events of the Whillans Ice Stream, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092950. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092950 . <pdf> <draft paper> <Suppl. Mat. pdf>
33. Cubuk-Sabuncu, Y., Jónsdóttir, K., Caudron, C., Lecocq, T., Parks, M.M., Geirsson, H. and Mordret, A. (2021). Temporal Seismic Velocity Changes During the 2020 Rapid Inflation at Mt. Þorbjörn-Svartsengi, Iceland, Using Seismic Ambient Noise. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092265. <draft pdf>
32. Grobbe, N., Mordret, A., S. Barde-Cabusson, L. Ellison, M. Lach, Y.-H. Seo, T. Viti, L. Ward and H. Zhang (2021). A Multi‐Hydrogeophysical Study of a Watershed at Kaiwi Coast (Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi), using Seismic Ambient Noise Surface Wave Tomography and Self‐Potential Data. Water Resources Research, 57(4), e2020WR029057. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029057. <pdf> <Suppl. Material pdf> .
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2020
31. Pinzon-Rincon, L., Lavoué, F., Mordret, A., Boué, P., Brenguier, F., Dales, P., Ben-Zion, Y., Vernon, F., Bean, C. J. and Hollis, D. (2020). Humming trains in seismology: an opportunistic source for probing the shallow crust. Seismological Research Letter. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200248 <pdf>
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30. Cornou, C., Ampuero, J.,Aubert, C., Audin, L., Baize, S., Billant, J., ..., Mordret, A., … Weng, H. (2020, September 5). Rapid response to the Mw 4.9 earthquake of November 11, 2019 in Le Teil, Lower Rhône Valley, France. https://doi.org/10.5802/crgeos.30 <pdf>
29. Mordret, A., Brenguier, F., Causse, M., Boué, P., Voisin, C., Dumont, I., Vernon, F. and Ampuero, J-P. (2020). Seismic Stereometry reveals preparatory behavior and source kinematics of intermediate-size earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL088563. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088563. <pdf> <draft pdf> <Suppl. Mat. pdf>
28. Cheng, Yifang, Ben-Zion, Yehuda, Brenguier, Florent, Johnson, Christopher W., Li, Zefeng, Share, Pieter-Ewald, Mordret, Aurélien, Boué, Pierre and Vernon, Frank (2020). An automated method for developing a catalog of small earthquakes using data of a dense seismic array and nearby stations. Seismological Research Letter. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200134. <pdf>
27. Sergeant, A., Chmiel, M., Lindner, F., Walter, F., Roux, P., Chaput, J., Gimbert, F., and Mordret, A. (2020). On the Green's function emergence from interferometry of seismic wave fields generated in high-melt glaciers: implications for passive imaging and monitoring. The Cryosphere, 14, 1139–1171, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1139-2020. <pdf>
26. Mordret, A., Courbis, R., Brenguier, F., Chmiel, M., Garambois, S., Mao, S., Boué, P., Campman, X., Lecocq, T., Van der Veen, W., Postif, S. and Hollis, D. (2020). Noise-based Ballistic Wave Passive Seismic Monitoring – Part 2: Surface-waves. Geophysical Journal International. Volume 221, Issue 1, April 2020, Pages 692–705, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa016. <pdf>
2019
25. Mao, S., Mordret, A., Campillo, M., Fang, H. and van der Hilst, R.D. (2019). On the measurement of seismic traveltime changes in the time-frequency domain with wavelet cross-spectrum analysis. Geophysical Journal International. Volume 221, Issue 1, April 2020, Pages 550–568, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz495. <pdf>
24. Guerin, G., Rivet, D., Deschamps, A., Larroque, C., Mordret, A., Dessa, J.X. and Martin, X. (2019). High resolution ambient noise tomography of the Southwestern Alps and the Ligurian margin. Geophysical Journal International, 220(2), 806-820. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz477. <pdf>
23. Brenguier, F., Courbis, R., Mordret, A., Campman, X., Boué, P., Chmiel, M., Takano, T., Lecocq, T., Van der Veen, W., Postif, S. and Hollis, D. (2019). Noise-based Ballistic Wave Passive Seismic Monitoring – Part 1: Body-waves. Geophysical Journal International. Volume 221, Issue 1, April 2020, Pages 683–691, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz440. <pdf>
22. Brenguier, F., Boué, P., Ben‐Zion, Y., Vernon, F., Johnson, C. W., Mordret, A., Coutant, O., Share, P.-E., Beaucé, E., Hollis, D. and Lecocq, T. (2019). Train traffic as a powerful noise source for monitoring active faults with seismic interferometry. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083438. <pdf>
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21. Xu, Z., Mikesell, T. D., Gribler, G., and Mordret, A. (2019). Rayleigh-wave multicomponent cross-correlation-based source strength distribution inversion. Part 1: Theory and numerical examples. Geophysical Journal International, 218(3), 1761-1780. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz261. <pdf>
20. Chmiel, M., Mordret, A., Boué, P., Brenguier, F., Lecocq, T., Courbis, R., Hollis, D, Campman, X., Romijn, R. and Van der Veen, W. (2019). Ambient noise multimode Rayleigh and Love wave tomography to determine the shear velocity structure above the Groningen gas field, Geophys. J. Int. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz237. <pdf>
2018
19. Mordret, A., P. Roux, P. Boué and Y. Ben-Zion (2018). Shallow 3-D structure of the San Jacinto Fault zone revealed from ambient noise imaging with a dense seismic array, Geophys. J. Int., ggy464, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy464. <pdf>
18. Gu, C., Prieto, G. A., Al-Enezi, A., Al-Jeri, F., Al-Qazweeni, J., Kamal, H., Kuleli, S., Mordret, A., Büyüköztürk, O. & Toksöz, M. N. (2018). Ground Motion in Kuwait from Regional and Local Earthquakes: Potential Effects on Tall Buildings. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-018-1943-5. <pdf>
17. Mordret, A. (2018). Uncovering the Iceland hot spot track beneath Greenland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(6), 4922-4941. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JB015104. <pdf> <draft paper>
16. Tomar, G., Stutzmann, E., Mordret, A., Montagner, J-P., Singh, S.C. & Shapiro, N.M. (2018). Joint inversion of first overtone and fundamental mode for deep imaging at the Valhall oil field using ambient noise. Geophysical Journal International, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy122. <pdf> <draft pdf>
2017
15. Giannopoulos, D., Rivet, D., Sokos, E., Deschamps, A., Mordret, A., Lyon-Caen, H., Bernard, P., Paraskevopoulos, P. & Tselentis, G. A. (2017). Ambient noise tomography of the western Corinth Rift, Greece. Geophysical Journal International, 211(1), 284-299. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx298. <pdf>
14. Mordret, A., H. Sun, G.A. Prieto, N. Toksöz, O. Büyüköztürk (2017). Continuous monitoring of high-rise buildings using seismic interferometry, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120160282. <pdf>
13. Bezuidenhout, L. J., Doucouré, M., Wagener, V., de Wit, M., Mordret, A., Lecocq, T., & Brenguier, F. (2017). Rayleigh group velocity extraction from ambient seismic noise to map the south Eastern Cape Karoo region, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology , 120(3), 341-350. https://doi.org/10.25131/gssajg.120.3.341. <pdf>
12. Sun, H., Mordret, A., Prieto, G. A., Toksöz, M. N., & Büyüköztürk, O. (2017). Bayesian characterization of buildings using seismic interferometry on ambient vibrations. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 85, 468-486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2016.08.038 <pdf>
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2016
11. Tomar, G., Shapiro, N. M., Mordret, A., Singh, S. C., & Montagner, J. P. (2016). Radial anisotropy in Valhall: ambient noise-based studies of Scholte and Love waves. Geophysical Journal International, 208(3), 1524-1539. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw480. <pdf>
10. Mordret, A., T. D. Mikesell, C. Harig, B. P. Lipovsky, G. A. Prieto (2016). Monitoring southwest Greenland’s ice sheet melt with ambient seismic noise. Science Advances. 2, e1501538. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501538. <pdf> <Supplementary Materials>.
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9. Obermann, A., Lupi, M., Mordret, A., Jakobsdóttir, S. S., & Miller, S. A. (2016). 3D-ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography of Snæfellsjökull volcano, Iceland. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 317, 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.02.013 .<pdf>
2015
8. Mordret, A., D. Rivet, M. Landès, and N. M. Shapiro (2015). Three‐dimensional shear velocity anisotropic model of Piton de la Fournaise Volcano (La Réunion Island) from ambient seismic noise. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(1), 406-427., https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JB011654. <pdf>
2014
7. Jaxybulatov, K., Shapiro, N. M., Koulakov, I., Mordret, A., Landès, M., & Sens-Schönfelder, C. (2014). A large magmatic sill complex beneath the Toba caldera. science, 346(6209), 617-619., https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1258582. <pdf> <Supplementary Materials>
6. Mordret, A., N. M. Shapiro and S. Singh, 2014. Seismic-noise-based time lapse monitoring of the Valhall overburden, Geophysical Research Letter, 41, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL060602. <draft pdf> <pdf> <Supplementary Materials 1> <Supplementary Materials 2-3>
5. Mordret, A., M. Landès, N. M. Shapiro, S. Singh and P. Roux, 2014. Ambient noise surface-wave tomography to determine the shallow shear velocity structure at Valhall: depth inversion with a Neighbourhood Algorithm, Geophysical Journal International, 198 (3): 1514-1525, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu217. <pdf>
2013
4. Mordret, A., N. M. Shapiro, S. Singh, P. Roux, J.P. Montagner and O. I. Barkved, 2013. Azimuthal anisotropy at Valhall: the Helmholtz equation approach, Geophysical Research Letter, 40(11), 2636-2641, https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50447. <pdf>
3. Mordret, A., N. M. Shapiro, S. Singh, P. Roux, and O. I. Barkved, 2013. Helmholtz Tomography of ambient noise surface wave data to estimate Scholte wave phase velocity at Valhall Life of the Field, Geophysics, 78(2), WA99–WA109. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2012-0303.1. <pdf>
2. Mordret, A., Landès, M., Shapiro, N. M., Singh, S. C., Roux, P., & Barkved, O. I. (2013). Near-surface study at the Valhall oil field from ambient noise surface wave tomography. Geophysical Journal International, 193(3), 1627-1643. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggt061. <pdf>
2010
1. Mordret A., Jolly A.D., Duputel Z. and Fournier N., (2010). Monitoring of phreatic eruptions using Interferometry on Retrieved Cross–Correlation Function from Ambient Seismic Noise: Results from Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 191, 46-59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.01.010. <pdf>