Jean-Philippe Avouac
Earle C. Anthony Professor of Geology and Mechanical and Civil Engineering; Associate Director, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies
M.E., Ecole Polytechnique, 1987; Ph.D., Institut de Physique du Globe, 1991; Habil., 1992. Professor, Caltech, 2003-11; Earle C. Anthony Professor, 2012-; Director, Tectonic Observatory, 2004-13; Associate Director, 2022-.
Research Overview
My research aims mainly at understanding better the relationship between crustal deformation, earthquakes, and landscape evolution. I am interested in developing new approaches combined from field observations, satellite imagery, and physically based models. I am particularly interested in orogenic context and am currently involved in research programs in the Himalaya, Taiwan, Tien Shan, and Sumatra.
Publications
- Kaveh, Hojjat;Avouac, Jean-Philippe et al. (2025) Spatiotemporal forecast of extreme events in a chaotic model of slow slip eventsGeophysical Journal International
- Sirorattanakul, Krittanon;Wilding, John D. et al. (2025) Bursts of Fast Propagating Swarms of Induced Earthquakes at the Groningen Gas FieldSeismological Research Letters
- Daudon, C.;Beyers, M. et al. (2024) Prediction of barchan dunes migration using climatic models and speed-up effect of dune topography on air flowEarth and Planetary Science Letters
- Tamama, Y.;Acosta, M. et al. (2024) Earthquake Growth Inhibited at Higher Coulomb Stress Change Rate at GroningenGeophysical Research Letters
- Geyman, Emily C.;Douglas, Madison M. et al. (2024) Permafrost slows Arctic riverbank erosionNature
- Im, Kyungjae;Avouac, Jean-Philippe (2024) Quake-DFN: A Software for Simulating Sequences of Induced Earthquakes in a Discrete Fault NetworkBulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Chen, Kejie;Wei, Guoguang et al. (2024) Super-shear ruptures steered by pre-stress heterogeneities during the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doubletNature Communications
- Liu‐Zeng, Jing;Liu, Zhijun et al. (2024) Fault Orientation Trumps Fault Maturity in Controlling Coseismic Rupture Characteristics of the 2021 Maduo EarthquakeAGU Advances
- Kaveh, Hojjat;Batlle, Pau et al. (2024) Induced Seismicity Forecasting with Uncertainty Quantification: Application to the Groningen Gas FieldSeismological Research Letters
- Heggy, Essam;Moghaddam, Mahta et al. (2024) Airborne Sounding Radar for Desert Subsurface Exploration of Aquifers: Desert-SEA: Mission concept study [Space Agencies]IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
Related Courses
2023-24
Ge 106 – Introduction to Structural Geology
Ge 177 – Active Tectonics
Ge 277 – Active Tectonics Seminar