PUBLICATIONS

Papers (selection)

Kyriakopoulos C., and Oglesby, D.D.,  (2024). Direct Dynamic Triggering Scenarios of the Southern San Andreas Fault by Moderate Magnitude Cross Fault Earthquakes in the Brawley Seismic Zone, CA. Seismological Research Letters, SRL-D-23-00326R2 (accepted).

Wu, B., Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., & Ryan, K. J. (2023). Variation of proportionality between stress drop and slip, with implications for megathrust earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL100568. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100568

Tarnowski J.M., Kyriakopoulos C., Oglesby D.D., Cooke M.L., Stern A.; The effects of pre-stress assumptions on dynamic rupture with complex fault geometry in the San Gorgonio Pass, California, region. Geosphere 2022; 18 (6): 1710–1725. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02511.1

Kyriakopoulos, C., Wu, B., & Oglesby, D. D. (2021). Asymmetric topography causes normal stress perturbations at the rupture front: The case of the Cajon Pass. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL095397. https://doi. org/10.1029/2021GL095397

Cortez, J. T., Oglesby, D. D., Kyriakopoulos, C., Wu, B., Chaudhuri, K., Ghosh, A., & Douilly, R. (2021). On the rupture propagation of the 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley, California, earthquake, and the lack of immediate triggering of the M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL090659. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090659

Kyriakopoulos, C., (2019), 3D Printing: A Remedy to Common Misconceptions about Earthquakes. Seismological Research Letters doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190121 [link].

Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Rockwell, T. K., Meltzner, A. J., Barall, M., Fletcher, J. M., & Tulanowski, D. ( 2019). Dynamic rupture scenarios in the Brawley Seismic Zone, Salton Trough, southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016795  [link].

Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Funning, G. J., & Ryan, K. J. (2017). Dynamic rupture modeling of the M7.2 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake: Comparison with a geodetic model. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014294. [link]

Hobbs, T. E., C. Kyriakopoulos, A. V. Newman, M. Protti, and D. Yao (2017), Large and primarily updip afterslip following the 2012 Mw 7.6 Nicoya, Costa Rica, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi:10.1002/2017JB014035. [link]

Kyriakopoulos C. and A.V Newman et al., (2016). Structural Asperity focusing locking and earthquake slip along the Nicoya megathrust, Costa Rica. J.Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, 5461–5476, doi:10.1002/2016JB012886. [link]

Kyriakopoulos, C., A. V. Newman, A. M. Thomas, M. Moore-Driskell, and G. T. Farmer (2015), A new seismically constrained subduction interface model for Central America, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JB011859. [link]

Kyriakopoulos, C., T. Masterlark, S. Stramondo, M. Chini, and C. Bignami (2013), Coseismic slip distribution for the Mw 9 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake derived from 3-D FE modeling, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 118, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50265. [link]

Kyriakopoulos C., M. Chini, C. Bignami, S. Stramondo, A. Ganas, M. Kolligri and A. Moshou (2013) Monthly migration of a tectonic seismic swarm detected by DInSAR: southwest Peloponnese, Greece. Geophys. J. Int., Wiley, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt196. [link]

E.Trasatti, C. Kyriakopoulos and M.Chini, Finite Element inversion of DInSAR data from the Mw 6.3 L'Aquila Earthquake (2011), 2009 (Italy), Geophys. Res. Letters, VOL. 38, L08306, doi:10.1029/2011GL046714. [link]

Conference Presentations

2018

Kyriakopoulos C, David Douglas Oglesby, Baoning Wu and Gareth Funning, What is the effect of asymmetric topography on rupture propagation across the Cajon pass? AGU2018 Fall Meeting, S41D-1457

Kyriakopoulos C and Gareth Funning, University of California, Riverside, Department of Earth Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, A 3D printed perspective on basic concepts behind earthquake faults and plate tectonics, ED23F-2099 (poster presentation with 3D printed displays)

Baoning Wu, David Douglas Oglesby, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Ailin Zhang and Lingsen Meng, A dynamic rupture model of the 2016 Kaikoura, New Zealand Earthquake: geometrical complexity, step-overs, and slow rupture propagation, S43C-3358 

Ailin Zhang, Lingsen Meng, Baoning Wu, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, David Douglas Oglesby and Natalia A Ruppert, Rupture Complexity in Conjugate Fault Systems: Case Studies of the Mw7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake and the Mw 7.9 Kodiak earthquake, S42A-02

Kyriakopoulos, C., & Oglesby, D. D. (2018, 08). Combining 3D printing and virtual reality goggles in outreach and communication events. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. 

Oglesby, D. D., Kyriakopoulos, C., Rockwell, T. K., Meltzner, A. J., Barall, M., & Fletcher, J. (2018, 08). Dynamic rupture and cross-fault activation: the effect of high pre-stress contrast. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting.

2017

Kyriakopoulos C, Michele Potter and Keith B Richards-Dinger, “Handling” seismic hazard: 3D printing of California Faults, AGU2017, ED014 (poster and display)

Kyriakopoulos C, David Douglas Oglesby, Thomas K Rockwell, Aron J Meltzner and Michael Barall, Multi-Fault Rupture Scenarios in the Brawley Seismic Zone, AGU2017, S017 (oral presentation)

Kyriakopoulos C, David D. Oglesby, Aron J. Meltzner, Thomas K. Rockwell, & Michael Barall, Can the Southern San Andreas Fault be Triggered by Cross-Fault Earthquakes (2017), SCEC Contribution 7795, SCEC Annual Meeting 2017, Poster 177

Newman Andrew, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Tiegan Hobbs, Completing the Seismic Cycle: Approaching 100% slip recovery along the subduction megathrust beneath Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica (2017), IASPEI 2017, J06-2-01, Kobe, Japan.

2016

Kyriakopoulos Christodoulos, David Oglesby, Aron Meltzner, Thomas Rockwell. Evaluating the Possibility of a joint San Andreas-Imperial Fault Rupture in the Salton Trough Region, AGU2016, T21B-2808 Moscone South-Poster Hall.

Richards-Dinger Keith B, C Kyriakopoulos, James H Dieterich. The effect of material heterogeneities in long term multiscale seismic cycle simulations, AGU2016, S53A-2789, Moscone South-Poster Hall. 

Hobbs Tiegan E, C Kyriakopoulos, Andrew V Newman, Dongdong Yao, Timothy H Dixon, Marino Protti. Recovering the Full Afterslip Following the 2012 Mw 7.6 Nicoya, Costa Rica Earthquake, AGU2016, G51B-1097, Moscone West-2002.

Jennifer M Tarnowski, C Kyriakopoulos, David D Oglesby. The Effects of Pre-stress Assumptions on Dynamic Rupture with Complex Fault Geometry in the San Gorgonio Pass, CA Region, AGU2016, S21B-2731, Moscone South - Poster Hall.

Andrew Vern Newman, Dongdong Yao, C Kyriakopoulos, Melissa M Moore-Driskell, Tiegan E Hobbs. The Possible Decapitation of a Megathrust Indenter: Evidence from Imaging of Time-dependent Microseismic Structures before and after the 2012 Mw 7.6 Nicoya, Costa Rica, AGU2016, T53A-01, Moscone South – 309.

Kenny J Ryan, Eric L Geist, David D Oglesby, C Kyriakopoulos. Modeling Earthquake Rupture and Corresponding Tsunamis Along a Segment of the Alaskan-Aleutian Megathrust, AGU2016, S21B-2728, Moscone South - Poster Hall.

Kyriakopoulos C, Keith B. Richards-Dinger and James H. Dieterich, Exploring the sensitivity of multiscale seismic cycle simulations to material heterogeneities. SCEC Contribution 6996, 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting Poster 322.

Oglesby D. David, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Aron J. Meltzner, & Thomas K. Rockwell, A possible joint San Andreas-Imperial fault rupture in the Salton Trough region (2016), SCEC Contribution 6984, SCEC Annual Meeting 2016, Poster 056 

Newman Andrew, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Timothy Dixon, Susan Schwartz, Rocco Malservisi, Marino Protti, Unlocking Controls on Earthquake Behavior Along the Subduction Megathrust: Findings from the Nicoya Seismic Cycle Observatory (2016), IASPEI 2016, O104, San Jose, Costa Rica.

Kyriakopoulos Christodoulos, Aron Meltzer, Thomas Rockwell, David Oglesby. Sensitivity of Rupture Propagation to Nucleation Location and Slip Partitioning on the Imperial and Southern San Andreas Faults. 16-621, SSA2016 Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada (oral pres.).

Funning Gareth and Kyriakopoulos Christos, Effect of topography on earthquake source inversions using geodetic data: application to the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake, ESA living planet 2016, Paper 1314.

Kyriakopoulos Christodoulos and Gareth Funning. Should topography be taken into account in elastostatic modelling of geodetic data? UNAVCO2016 Science Meeting, Boulder, Colorado.

2015

Kyriakopoulos C, Gareth J Funning, David Oglesby, John M. Fletcher and Kenny J. Ryan. The M7.2 2010 El-Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake: How much of the Complexity Can We Explain With Our Models? AGU2015, Session T51H-02 (Invited oral presentation).

Newman and Kyriakopoulos. Recovering Total Megathrust Slip Across the Seismic Cycle: Results from Two Decades of Study at the Nicoya Seismic Cycle Observatory (NSCO), AGU2015, Session T41G-06.

Funning GJ and C Kyriakopoulos. Effect of topography on slip inversions using geodetic data: application to the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake. AGU2015, Session S41D-06.

Jennifer Tarnowski, David Oglesby, Michele Cooke and Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos. How Fault Geometry Affects Dynamic Rupture Models of Earthquakes in San Gorgonio Pass, CA, AGU2015, Session T23C-2970

Kyriakopoulos C, Gareth J. Funning, David D. Oglesby, John M. Fletcher, and Kenny J. Ryan. Dealing With the Complexity of the M7.2 2010 El-Mayor Cucapah Earthquake, SCEC2015

Drew Tulanowski, Kyriakopoulos C, Aron Meltzner, Thomas Rockwell, and David Oglesby. The Brawley Seismic Zone: Geologic, Seismic, and Dynamic Constraints on Possible Through-going Rupture Scenarios, SCEC2015

Kyriakopoulos, C, Oglesby David, Funning Gareth. Effect of varying dip angle on the dynamic rupture of the Mw 7.2 El-Mayor Cucapah Earthquake, April 4, 2010, SSA2015

Newman, A.V, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Luja Feng, Tiegan Hobbs, Timothy Dixon, Rocco Malservisi, Marino Protti. The Continuum of Slip along the Subduction Megathrust: Observations and Understanding Gained from the Nicoya Seismic Cycle, SSA2015

2014

Kyriakopoulos C. and A. V. Newman, Topographic Regulators of the Seismic Cycle along the Subduction Megathrust, AGU2014, Session T025

Newman A, Marino Protti, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Lujia Feng, Timothy H. Dixon, Rocco Malservisi, Jacob I. Walter, Zhigang Peng, Susan Y. Swartz, and Jeffrey Marshal. Completing the cycle? Near-field observations of interseismic coupling, Megathrust rupture, postseismic response, and recovery of interface coupling along the Nicoya peninsula of Costa Rica. GSA2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Kyriakopoulos Christodoulos, Andrew V. Newman, Rocco Malservisi, Timothy H. Dixon, Jacob I. Walter, J. Marino Protti, Victor Gonzalaz, and Amy Williamson. Piecing Together the

Seismogenic Zone Puzzle of Nicoya, Costa Rica: Insights from the Seismic Cycle. UNAVCO 2014 Science Workshop, Boulder, CO

Andrew V. Newman, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Lujia Feng, Rocco Malservisi, Timothy H. Dixon, Susan Y. Schwartz, J. Marino Protti, and Victor Gonzalez. Patterns of late-interseismic and coseismic locking and release along the subduction megathrust: the case of the 2012 MW 7.6 Nicoya earthquake in Costa Rica. EGU2014-8979.

Rocco Malservisi, Timothy H. Dixon, Yan Jiang, Nicholas Voss, Andrew V. Newman, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Jacob I. Walter, Marino Protti, and Victor Gonzales. Spatial and temporal evolution of fault slip and deformation associated with the MW 7.6 September 5th 2012 Nicoya Megathrust Earthquake. EGU2014-8585.

2013

Kyriakopoulos C, Andrew V. Newman, Rocco Malservisi, Timothy H. Dixon, Jacob I. Walter, Marino Protti, Victor Gonzalez. Geodetic and structural constraints on locking and failure around the 5 September 2012 Nicoya (Mw7.6), Costa Rica Earthquake, G31C-04, AGU2013 (oral presentation).

Kyriakopoulos C,  C. Bignami,  M. Chini,  S. Stramondo,  A. Ganas,  M. Kolligri and A. Moshou,  Detection and modelling of the 2011 Ichalia (Southwest Peloponnese, Greece) seismic swarm through DInSAR analysis, TH1.T12.2,  IGARSS 2013.

2012

Kyriakopoulos C, Andrew V. Newman, Lujia Feng, Julia R. Withers, Exploring Geometric Complexities of Locking Along the Megathrust Beneath Nicoya, Costa Rica T13F-2684, AGU2012.

Kyriakopoulos C, T. Masterlark, M. Chini, C. Bignami, and S. Stramondo, Post-seismic deformation of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Japan. EGU2012-12071.

Bignami C, C. A. Brunori, M. Chini, C. Kyriakopoulos, D. Melini, M. Moro, M. Picchiani, M. Saroli, and S. Stramondo, DInSAR techniques for studying the October 23, 2011, Van earthquake (Turkey), and its relationship with neighboring structures. EGU2012-11428.

Bignami C, M. Chini, C. Kyriakopoulos, and S. Stramondo, Seismic swarm detection by satellite DInSAR technique in the south-west Peloponnese, Greece, EGU2012-11308.

2011

Kyriakopoulos C, S. Salvatore, M. Chini, C. Bignami, T. Masterlark, S. Borgstrom, F. Guglielmino, G. Puglisi, V. Siniscalchi, The 11 March 2011 Tohoku-Oki (Japan) Megathrust Event: FEM models of Coseismic and Postseismic deformation captured by DInSAR and GPS Data, AGU2011. 

Stramondo S., C. Kyriakopoulos, Bignami C., Chini M., Melini D., Moro M., Picchiani M., Saroli M., Boschi E., Cause and effects relationship between the Mw7.1 Darfield, 2010 earthquake and the Mw6.3 Christchurch, 2011. Did the Darfield event promoted the Christchurch earthquake? AGU2011. 

Timothy Masterlark, Stephan Grilli, Jeff Harris, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, and Wei Tao, Coseismic deformation of the 2011 M9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake inverted from geodetic data using finite element models: Tsunami genesis and poroelastic stress-coupling, AGU2011. 

Grilli, S., J. Harris, T. Tajalibakhsh, J. Kirby, F. Shi, T. Masterlark, and C. Kyriakopoulos, Numerical simulations of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami generation, propagation and coastal impact : comparison to field observations, with sensitivity analysis to co-seismic source parameters, and model type and resolution, AGU2011, NH11A, San Francisco, CA.

Bignami C., Chini M., Kyriakopoulos C., Melini D., Moro M., Picchiani M., Saroli M., Stramondo S., The September 2010, Darfield earthquake, and the February 2011, Christchurch “aftershock”: is there a cause and effect? FRINGE 2011. 

2010

Kyriakopoulos C., E. Trasatti, S. Atzori, M. Chini, C. Bignami, S. Stramondo, C. Tolomei, FEM models of coseismic deformation measured by DInSAR: Wenchuan (China) 2008 and L’ Aquila (Italy) 2009 earthquakes, AGU2010.

Elisa Trasatti, Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Simone Atzori, Marco Chini and Stefano Salvi, FEM inversion of DInSAR data of the 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake (Italy), Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia- Roma, EGU2010.

Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, Elisa Trasatti, Simone Atzori, Christian Bignami, Marco Chini, Salvatore Stramondo and Christiano Tolomei, The Mw 7.9 Wenchuan (China) Earthquake: exploring the role of crustal heterogeneities from finite element analysis of DInSAR coseismic deformation, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – Roma, EGU2010.

S. Atzori, C. Bignami, M. Chini, C. Kyriakopoulos, M. Moro, S. Salvi, M. Saroli1, S. Stramondo, C. Tolomei, E. Trasatti, The 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake from Space: SAR and optical images to investigate surface effects, ESC2010

Antonioli, S. Atzori, C. Bignami, M. Chini, I. Hunstad, C. Kyriakopoulos, R. Lanari, A. Pepe, S. Salvi, S. Stramondo, C. Tolomei, E. Trasatti, The April 6 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake: a comprehensive investigation of pre-, co- and post-seismic deformation using a multi-satellite DInSAR dataset, and constraints for an improved source model, GNGTS2010

2009

E. Trasatti, C. Kyriakopoulos, S. Atzori, M. Chini, S. Salvi, FEM inversion of geodetic data of the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake (Italy),  Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, National Earthquake Center, 00143 Roma, AGU2009.

S. Atzori, C. Bignami, M. Chini, C. Kyriakopoulos, S. Stramondo, C. Tolomei, E. Trasatti and S. Salvi, The April 6th 2009, L’Aquila (Italy) earthquake: DInSAR analysis and seismic source model inversion, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, via di Vigna Murata 605, 143, Italy, FRINGE2009.

A. Antonioli, S. Atzori, C. Bignami, M. Chini, I. Hunstad, C. Kyriakopoulos, R.  Lanari,A.  Pepe, S.  Salvi, S. Stramondo, C. Tolomei,E. Trasatti, The April 6th 2009, L’Aquila earthquake: a comprehensive investigation of pre-, co- and post-seismic deformation using a multi-satellite DInSAR  dataset, and constraints for a source model, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – Roma, GNGTS2009,Trieste, 16 - 19 novembre, 2009.

2008

E. Trasatti, C. Bignami, S. Atzori, M. Chini, C. Kyriakopoulos, S. Stramondo, C. Tolomei, The 12 May 2008 Sichuan (China) earthquake: numerical and analytical fault models constrained by alos-palsar interferometry, IEEE/IGARSS 2009, Cape Town (South Africa), 13 – 18 July, 2009.

M. Chini, C. Bignami, C. Brunori, S. Atzori, C. Tolomei, E. Trasatti, C. Kyriakopoulos, S. Salvi, S. Stramondo, S. Zoffoli, The SIGRIS project: a remote sensing system for seismic risk management. Proc. IEEE/IGARSS 2008, Boston (Massachusetts, USA), July 6-11, 2008.

S. Salvi, S. Stramondo, M. Chini, C. Bignami, S. Atzori, C. Tolomei, C.A. Brunori, E. Trasatti, C. Kyriakopoulos e S. Zoffoli, The Sichuan earthquake revealed by Cosmo-Skymed satellite: measured coseismic deformation and strong damage to infrastructures, IGARSS-IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Boston, USA, 06-11/07/2008.