David A. Rhoades

TL;DR: A team of earthquake geologists, seismologists, and engineering seis-mologists has collectively produced an update of the national probabilistic seismic hazard (PSH) model for New Zealand (National Seismic Hazard Model, or NSHM).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a database of approximately 200,000 modified Mercalli intensity (MMI) observations of California earthquakes collected from USGS "Did You Feel It?" (DYFI) reports, along with a comparable number of peak ground-motion amplitudes from California seismic networks, to develop probabilistic relationships between MMI and peak ground velocity (PGV), peak ground acceleration (PGA), and 0.0% pseudospectral acceleration (PSA).

TL;DR: The Regional Earthquake Likelihood Models (RELM) project aims to produce and evaluate alternate models of earthquake potential (probability per unit volume, magnitude, and time) for California as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an expanded and updated version of the earthquake dataset of Wells and Coppersmith (1994) to fit regression relations of moment magnitude on surface rupture length and rupture area and average surface displacement on surface length.

TL;DR: The 2016 M w ǫ 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake continued a notable decade of damaging earthquake impacts in New Zealand as mentioned in this paper, including two fatalities, tsunami, tens of thousands of landslides, the collapse of one residential building, and damage to numerous structures and infrastructure.