Folder of scenario modeling results for the May 22, 2015 M5.3 Caliente event, with a few slides in PPT and PDF format.
Folder of scenario modeling results for a full rupture of the Fish Lake Valley - Furnace Creek - Central Death Valley fault systems, with directivity both toward and away from Las Vegas.
``Simulation of Seismic-Wave Propagation Through the Lake Tahoe Basin, Calif.-Nevada: A Scenario Approach to Probabilistic Shaking Hazard'' presentation by Gretchen C. Schmauder, John N. Louie, Satish Pullammanappallil, Kyle Gray, Kevin McBean, Alexa McBean, & Graham M. Kent at the New Zealand Geosciences Conference, Christchurch, 26 Nov. 2013. (13.3 Mb PDF and 10.9 Mb PPTX; 18.9 Mb PDF poster)
``The Clark County Parcel Map and Effects on Earthquake Ground Motions in Las Vegas Valley'' presentation by J. Louie at the Victoria Univ. School of Geography, Environment, and Earth Sciences, 27 Sept. 2013. (74.8 Mb PDF; 69 Mb PPTX)
New basin and geotechnical maps for South Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, by Gretchen Schmauder, with a resulting scenario animation for a West Tahoe fault, south segment M6.5 rupture as 2.7 Mb iPod MPEG-4 or 26 Mb QuickTime .mov.
``The Clark County Parcel Map and Effects on Earthquake Ground Motions in Las Vegas Valley'' presentation by J. Louie at the Caltech Seismo Lab, 12 Oct. 2012. (61 Mb PDF; 24 Mb smaller PDF)
``Role of Geotechnical Velocity Models in Shake Zone Scenarios of South Lake Tahoe Basin'' presentation by SCEC-SURE/NSL 2012 Summer Intern Kelley Hall (from Whitman) at the 2012 SCEC Workshop, Sept. 9-12, 2012. (6.0 Mb PDF; 2.3 Mb PNG)
B. A. Flinchum, Savran, W. H., Smith, K. D., Louie, J. N., Pullammanappallil, S. K., And Pancha, A. (2012). Validation of Las Vegas basin response to the 1992 Little Skull Mtn. earthquake as predicted by physics-based Nevada ShakeZoning computations, presented at Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, April 17. (20 Mb PPTX)
J. N. Louie, S. K. Pullammanappallil, A. Pancha, and W. K. Hellmer, 2012, Earthquake hazard class mapping by parcel in Las Vegas Valley: poster presented at the ASCE GeoCongress 2012, March 25-29, Oakland, Calif. (2.7 Mb PNG; 14.1 Mb PDF)
Louie's 2011 AGU Poster PA51A-1800 ``Next-Level ShakeZoning for Earthquake Hazard Definition in Nevada'' 1.9 Mb image or 4.7 Mb PDF
Louie's 2011 SCEC Poster A-033 ``The Clark Co. Parcel Map and Effects on Ground Motions in Las Vegas Valley'' 1.2 Mb image or 25 Mb PDF
``Earthquake Hazard Class Mapping by Parcel in Las Vegas Valley, and Impacts on Shaking Predictions'' presentation by J. Louie at GNS Science, New Zealand, 24 Nov. 2011. 49 Mb Powerpoint Package
``Next-Level ShakeZoning for Earthquake Hazard Definition in the Intermountain West'' presentation to the 2011 CTBTO Science and Technology Conference, Vienna, June 8-11 by John Louie. (PDF version)
``Earthquake Hazard Class Mapping by Parcel in Las Vegas Valley'' presentation to the 2011 Structures Congress in Las Vegas by John Louie and co-authors S. Pullammanappallil, A. Pancha, T. West, and W. Hellmer, Apr. 14, 2011.
(ASCE Proceedings paper link doi:10.1061/41171(401)156; wave animation of 0.5-Hz Black Hills Fault M6.5 scenario as a YouTube video, 3.0 Mb iPod video, 19 Mb AVI movie, 1.4 Mb MPEG-4 movie, 24 Mb Quicktime movie; wave animation of 0.5-Hz 2-segment Frenchman Mtn Fault M6.7 scenario as a YouTube video, 4.4 Mb iPod video, 27 Mb Quicktime movie)
``Comparing Phsyics-Based Next-Level ShakeZoning Computations with USGS ShakeMap Statistics for So. Nevada Earthquake Scenarios'' presentation to the Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering (EGGE) in Las Vegas by William Savran and others, Mar. 25, 2011. (4.1 Mb PDF paper from the symposium volume)
``Next-Level ShakeZoning for Earthquake Hazard Definition in the Intermountain West'' presentation to the Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering (EGGE) in Las Vegas by John Louie and others, Mar. 25, 2011. (2.9 Mb PDF paper from the symposium volume)
``Predicting Earthquake Shaking and Hazard'' presentation to the Nevada Math and Science Leadership Cadre by John Louie, Mar. 3, 2011 (80.7 Mb ZIP archive of PowerPoint package, including animations in Quicktime format; folder with additional versions)
``Next-Level ShakeZoning simulations of two earthquake scenarios in downtown Reno, Nevada''presentation to the Nevada Earthquake Safety Council by Janice Kukuk, Feb. 9, 2011 (wave animation of 0.1-Hz run as a 4.3 Mb Quicktime movie; wave animation of 1.0-Hz run as a YouTube video, 2.0 Mb iPod video, 8.5 Mb AVI movie, 16 Mb Quicktime movie)
``Next-Level ShakeZoning for earthquake hazard definition in Nevada'' presentation to the Nevada Earthquake Safety Council by J. Louie, Feb. 9, 2011 (wave animation of 0.5-Hz Black Hills Fault M6.5 scenario as a YouTube video, 3.0 Mb iPod video, 19 Mb AVI movie, 1.4 Mb MPEG-4 movie, 24 Mb Quicktime movie; wave animation of 0.5-Hz 2-segment Frenchman Mtn Fault M6.7 scenario as a YouTube video, 4.4 Mb iPod video, 27 Mb Quicktime movie)
``Predicting earthquake shaking in complex 3d geology'' seminar by J. Louie for UNR Mathematics and Statistics Dept., Feb. 20 2009. ( 190 Mb Powerpoint movie; 36 Mb iPod movie)
Narrated Death Valley - Las Vegas shaking movie.
Annotated MA-CME animations of scenario modeling for the 2/21/08 M6.0 Wells, NV earthquake and the 4/25/08 M5.0 West Reno-Mogul earthquake.
See the materials from the old Sound of Seismic Podcast
Louie presentation at the Nevada Petroleum Society, Reno, 10/2/08 "The Nevada Community Seismic Velocity Model and earthquake scenario modeling"
Louie slides on MA-CME modeling of the M6.0 Wells and M5.0 West Reno-Mogul earthquakes
Louie presentation at a Brown University Geophysics lunch bunch, 3/11/08
The Wells M6.0 Earthquake, the Nevada CVM, & Scenario Shaking for Nevada Cities
Louie presentation at the Great Basin Assoc. of Engineering Geologists, Reno, 2/21/08
Louie and Gvirtzman 2007 Fall AGU presentation
Seminar, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand talk by J. Louie, July 3, 2007. (View movies here)
Poster at April 2007 Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists International Meeting, Long Beach, CA:
Panel 1; Panel 2; Panel 3; Panel 4; Panel 5.
``Seismic Shaking in Nevada's Urban Areas: Computing Simple Scenarios'' Tectonics Brown Bag talk by J. Louie, Feb. 7, 2007.
AGU 2006 Fall Meeting poster 2.7 Mb JPEG or 13.3 Mb PDF) demonstrating MA-CME.
So. Calif. Earthquake Center 2006 Annual Meeting poster (712 kb JPEG) demonstrating MA-CME.
ESG 2006 paper (476 kb PDF) on benchmark modeling of the Grenoble basin.
Poster (706 kb JPEG) presented at SSA 2005.
Folder with example grid-portal submission to run the previous version of ModelAssembler and LLNL's E3D modeler on the
The version 3.9 distribution (9.3 Mb gzipped tar archive) includes: Jachens et al., USGS basin depth and geology files for the Great Basin; Langenheim et al., USGS detailed Las Vegas basin model; Abbott & Louie, UNR detailed Reno basin model; Louie, Scott, Luke, Thelen et al., UNR & UNLV geotechnical Vs30 measurements for Reno, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.
Reno-area shaking movie (8.8 Mb QuickTime)
Creating wave-propagation movies (with more movies)
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