There's an exciting new EOS research spotlight article covering Elizabeth Sherrill's research on predicting the risk of earthquake activity.
It is based on Elizabeth's paper with Kaj Johnson from December in JGR Solid Earth titled "New insights into the slip budget at Nankai: an iterative approach to estimate coseismic slip and afterslip". They fit an inverse model to geodetic data of movements along a subduction zone beneath Japan associated with big earthquakes in 1944 and 1946, and then used it to produce a forward model that predicts the likelihood of future movements along fault lines (earthquakes) based on how much movement there has been in recent years. The same approach can be applied to tectonically active areas around the world to improve risk assessment and policy.
Congratulations Elizabeth!
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