I study the size, location, and surface expression of past earthquakes in order to assess the hazards of future ones, by investigating their geomorphic record in the landscape using high resolution topographic surveys. I use airborne and space-borne photogrammetry–in addition to ground-based and airborne lidar mapping–to generate detailed topographic maps and analyze fault behavior from the scale of individual earthquake ruptures to millennial averaged slip rates.
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Elliott, A. J., Oskin, M. E., Liu-Zeng, J., and Shao, Y., (2015) Rupture termination at restraining bends: The last great earthquake on the Altyn Tagh Fault. Geophysical Research Letters 42, 2164-2170, doi:10.1002/2015GL063107.
Elliott, A. J., Dolan, J. F., Oglesby, D. D. (2009) Evidence from coseismic slip gradients for dynamic control on rupture propagation and arrest through stepovers. Journal of Geophysical Research 104, doi: 10.1029/2008JB005969
Hough, S. E. and Elliot, A. (2004) Revisiting the 28 February 1892 Laguna Salada Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 94, no. 4, 1571-1578
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Elliott, J. R., Elliott, A. J., Hooper, A., Larsen, Y., Marinkovic, L., Wright, T. J., (2015) Earthquake monitoring gets boost from a new satellite, Eos, 2015 doi:10.1029/2015EO023967
Gold, P. O., Oskin, M. E., Elliott, A. J., Hinojosa-Corona, A., Taylor, M. H., Kreylos, O., and Cowgill, E., (2013) Coseismic slip variation assessed from terrestrial lidar scans of the El Mayor-Cucapah surface rupture, Earth and Planetary Science Letters366, p. 151-162, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.01.040
Kreylos, O., Oskin, M., Cowgill, E., Gold, P., Elliott, A., Kellogg, L. (2013) Point-based computing on scanned terrain with LidarViewer, Geosphere 9(2), doi:10.1130/GES00705.1
Cowgill, E., Bernardin, T. S., Oskin, M. E., Bowles, C., Yikilmaz, M. B., Kreylos, O., Elliott, A. J., Bishop, S., Gold, R. D., Morelan, A., Bawden, G. W., Hamann, B., Kellogg, L. H. (2012) Interactive terrain visualization enables virtual field work during rapid scientific response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Geosphere 8(4), doi:10.1130/GES00687.1
Oskin, M. E., Arrowsmith, J. R., Hinojosa-Corona, A., Elliott, A. J., Fletcher, J. M., Fielding, E. J., Gold, P. O., Gonzalez-Garcia, J. J., Hudnut, K. W., Liu-Zeng, J., Teran, O. J. (2012) Near-field deformation from the El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake revealed by differential LiDAR, Science 335, 702-705, doi: 10.1126/science.1213778