Andrea Perez Silva
Posdoctoral Fellow
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Otago in New Zealand. I am interested in understanding the mechanisms that govern fault slip behavior using physics-based computer models..
Research interests
Computational geophysics
Slow slip
Earthquake source physics
Coupling between fluid flow and fault slip
Education
Ph.D. Geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, Dec. 2019 - Sept. 2023
Supervisors: Yoshihiro Kaneko, Martha Savage
M.S. Geophysics, Ludwig-Maximilliams-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Aug. 2019
Supervisors: Alice Gabriel, Duo Li
B.S. Geology, National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 2016
Publications
Perez-Silva, A., Kaneko, Y., Savage, M., Wallace, L., & Warren-Smith, E. (2023). Characteristics of slow slip events explained by rate-strengthening faults subject to periodic pore fluid pressure changes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB026332. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022JB026332
Perez-Silva, Andrea, Kaneko, Y., Savage, M., Wallace, L., Li, D., & Williams, C. (2022). Segmentation of shallow slow slip events at the Hikurangi subduction zone explained by along- strike changes in fault geometry and plate convergence rates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(1), e2021JB022913. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022913
Perez-Silva, Andrea, Li, D., Gabriel, A.-A., & Kaneko, Y. (2021). 3D Modeling of long-term slow slip events along the flat-slab segment in the Guerrero Seismic Gap, Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(13), e2021GL092968. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092968
Research highlights
Invited talk to 2022 Seismic Cycles Webinar Series organized by CIG (Computer Infrastructure for Geodynamics)
Movie showing slip rate evolution for modeled slow slip events that occur along the shallow portion of the Hikurangi margin (Perez-Silva et al. JGR, 2022). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wNiblFs0uWinY30_Nb6MqovQBNEprloz/view?usp=sharing
MovieS1(1).mp4MovieS1.movMovie showing slip rate evolution for modeled slow slip events in the Guerrero Seismic Gap (Perez-Silva et al. GRL, 2021). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zu6VTFzAfxVzmKiC3Fln5URmA6Go-Bfo/view?usp=sharing