NSHM23 Release & Inversion Paper published
A large group of scientists at the USGS and supporting institututions have collaborated to build the 2023 update to the National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM23...
Work
Kevin works for the U.S. Geological Survey, and previously worked for the Southern California Earthquake Center at the University of Southern California (USC). He earned PhD in Geological Sciences (emphasis in Geophysics) at USC, as well as a BS in Computer Sciences. His primary research interest is probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA). He is the lead developer of OpenSHA, an open-source PSHA platform, and is a key contributor to the National Seismic Hazard Model.
See Curriculum Vitae here, or see selected publications, conference presentations, and other news below (most recent first).
Multifault Rupture Plausibility paper published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Our paper entitled “Enumerating Plausible Multifault Ruptures in Complex Fault Systems with Physical Constraints” was just published in Bulletin of the Seism...
Temblor article on physics-based PSHA paper
Temblor recently interviewed me for a feature on their website about the recent paper. Give it a read!
TACC Research Spotlight: Simulating 800,000 Years of California Earthquake History to Pinpoint Risks
The Texas Advanced Computing Center recently published an article highlighting my recent paper. The article gives a nice accessible summary of the paper, giv...
Physics-Based PSHA paper published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Our paper entitled “Toward Physics‐Based Nonergodic PSHA: A Prototype Fully Deterministic Seismic Hazard Model for Southern California” was just published in...
Temblor Article on Ridgecrest Forecasts and Paper
Temblor just posted this interesting article about the forecasts that I ran during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Give it a read here, or check out...
Ridgecrest Operational Earthquake Forecasting paper published in Seismological Research Letters
Our paper on “Operational Earthquake Forecasting during the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence with the UCERF3‐ETAS Model” was just published i...
UCERF3-ETAS Ridgecrest Simulations poster for 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting
My 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting poster focuses on experiences during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence with the UCERF3-ETAS short term forecasting model. Y...
Earthquake Simulators paper published in Science Advances
Bruce Shaw, myself, and the rest of the Collaboratory for Interseismic Simulation and Modeling (CISM) just published a new paper in Science Advances, which d...
Seismoloical Society of America ‘At Work’ Column
I was recently featured in the monthly ‘At Work’ column of the Seismological Society of America. Give it a read here!
MPJTaskCalculator v1.1 Released
MPJTaskCalculator is a framework for executing predefined sets of independent parallel tasks in Java with MPJ (without having to write any MPI commands). Che...