Tsunami Generation and Probability
Geist, E. L., and T. Parsons, 2008, Distribution of tsunami inter-event times, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 35, L02612, doi:101029/102007GL032690. [Download PDF (506 K)]
Geist, E.L., Titov, V.V., Arcas, D., Pollitz, F.F., and Bilek, S.L., 2007, Implications of the 26 December Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on tsunami forecast and assessment models for great subduction-zone earthquakes: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 97, p. S249-S270. [Download PDF (1785 K)]
Geist, E.L., and Parsons, T., 2006, Probabilistic analysis of tsunami hazards: Natural Hazards, v. 37, p. 277-314. [Download PDF (972 K)]
ten Brink, U.S., Geist, E.L., and Andrews, B.D., 2006, Size distribution of submarine landslides and its implication to tsunami hazard in Puerto Rico: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 33, L11307 [Download PDF (1786 K)]
Geist, E.L., Titov, V.V., and Synolakis, C.E., 2006, Tsunami: wave of change: Scientific American, v. 294, p. 56-63.
Geist, E.L., Bilek, S.L., Arcas, D., and Titov, V.V., 2006, Differences in tsunami generation between the December 26, 2004 and March 28, 2005 Sumatra earthquakes: Earth Planets Space, v. 58, p. 185-193. [Download PDF (5123 K)]
Geist, E.L., 2005, Local Tsunami Hazards in the Pacific Northwest from Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes, USGS Professional Paper 1661B, 17 p.
Geist, E.L., and Parsons, T., 2005, Triggering of Tsunamigenic Aftershocks from Large Strike-Slip Earthquakes: Analysis of the November 2000 New Ireland Earthquake Sequence: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 6, Q10005. [Download PDF (6595 K)]
Parsons, T., Sliter, R., Geist, E. L., Jachens, R. C., Jaffe, B. E., Foxgrover, A., Hart, P. E., and McCarthy, J., 2003, Structure and mechanics of the Hayward-Rodgers Creek fault step-over, San Francsico Bay, California: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 93, p. 2187-2200. [Download PDF (3741 K)]
Hirata, K., Geist, E.L., Satake, K., Tanioka, Y., and Yamaki, S., 2003, Slip distribution of the 1952 Tokachi-Oki earthquake (M 8.1) along the Kuril Trench deduced from tsunami waveform inversion: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 108, no. B4, p. ESE 6-1 - ESE 6-15.
Hirata, K., Takahashi, H., Geist, E., Satake, K., Tanioka, Y., Sugioka, H., and Mikada, H., 2003, Source depth dependence of micro-tsunamis recorded with ocean-bottom pressure gauges; the January 28, 2000 Mw 6.8 earthquake off Nemuro Peninsula, Japan: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 208, no. 3-4, p. 305-318.
Geist, E.L., 2002, Complex earthquake rupture and local tsunamis: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 107, p. ESE 2-1 - ESE 2-16. [Download PDF (399 K)]
Geist, E.L., and Zoback, M.L., 2002, Examination of the tsunami generated by the 1906 San Francisco Mw = 7.8 earthquake, using new interpretations of the offshore San Andreas Fault, in Parsons, T., ed., Crustal Structure of the Coastal and Marine San Francisco Bay Region, California: USGS Professional Paper 1658, p. 29-42.
Geist, E.L., and Bilek, S.L., 2001, Effect of depth-dependent shear modulus on tsunami generation along subduction zones: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 28, no. 7, p. 1315-1318.
Geist, E.L., 2000, Origin of the 17 July 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami: Earthquake or landslide?: Seismological Research Letters, v. 71, no. 3, p. 344-351.
Geist, E.L., and Dmowska, R., 1999, Local tsunamis and distributed slip at the source: Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 154, p. 485-512. [Download PDF (1465 K)]
Geist, E.L., 1999, Local tsunamis and earthquake source parameters: Advances in Geophysics, v. 39, p. 117-209.
Tectonic Modeling
Geist, E.L., and Andrews, D.J., 2000, Slip rates on San Francisco Bay area faults from anelastic deformation of the continental lithosphere: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 105, no. B11, p. 25,543-25,552. [Download PDF (704 K)]
Geist, E.L., 1996, Relationship between the present-day stress field and plate boundary forces in the Pacific Northwest: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 23, no. 23, p. 3381-3384. [Download PDF (317 K)]
Geist, E.L., and Scholl, D.W., 1994, Large-scale deformation related to the collision of the Aleutian Arc with Kamchatka: Tectonics, v. 13, no. 2, p. 538-560. [Download PDF (1578 K)]
Geist, E.L., Fisher, M.A., and Scholl, D.W., 1993, Large-scale deformation associated with ridge subduction: Geophysical Journal International, v. 115, p. 344-366. [Download PDF (2095 K)]
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