Research
Publications:
updated version at publications page
Modern Digital Seismology - Instrumentation,
and Small Amplitude Studies for the Engineering world
- Thesis, California Institute of Technology(defended, 27 April 2004)
The current state of seismic monitoring in Puerto Rico
- SRL submitted Feb 2006
Automtically generated moment tensor solutions for southern California: robustness of the Mw magnitude scale and style of faulting
- BSSA submitted Nov 2006
The Observed Wander of the Natural Frequencies in a Structure
- BSSA published Feb 2006
Results of Millikan Library Forced Vibration Testing
- [Second Author] EERL Technical Report : CaltechEERL:EERL-2004-03
VSE-355G2 Report
- report submitted to IRIS June 2002
VSE-355G2/3
Report - Update Following Manufacturer Modifications
Potential Advantages of a Strong Motion Velocity Sensor
- SRL published May/June 2002
Posters:
updated version at publications page
The real-time SCSN moment tensor solution: robustness of Mw, and style of faulting.
[April 2006 SSA]
[.pdf (3.1meg, letter size)]
[abstract]
An Automated Moment Tensor Solution for the Southern California Seismic Network (SCSN) -
[December 2004 AGU]
[.pdf (4meg, letter size)]
[abstract]
Instrument Performance in M8.3 Tokachi-Oki Earthquake -
[April 2004 IRIS BroadBand Conference]
[.pdf (2meg, letter size)]
Is There a Linear Building Transfer Function for Small Excitation? -
[December 2003 AGU]
[abstract]
The Observed Drifting of the Natural Frequencies in a Structure -
[September 2003 SCEC Annual Conference]
[.pdf (6meg, letter size)]
[abstract]
Potential Advantages of a Strong Motion Velocity Meter as Opposed to a Strong Motion Accelerometer -
[April 2001 SSA Meeting]
[abstract]
Links to summaries of my recent work:
Movies of Millikan Library: - 3-D Shaking during real Earthquakes,
- Hysteresis Loops for real earthquake motion, forced vibrations
Millikan Shake Test (28Aug2002) Results
Forced Vibration analysis for
- Frequency sweeps to identify all natural frequencies
- Modeshape testing using dense USGS array for all natural frequencies
Comparison of performance of 16-bit Digitexx and 19-bit Mt. Whitney Systems on Millikan Library
Transfer Functions - GSA --> MIK
VSE-355G3 test results
- data from tests on : 12 Nov '02, 27 Nov '02, 11 March '03, 26 March '03, 16 Sept '03
Source Time Functions
Some older work...
Strong Ground Motion Analysis from Chi-Chi, Kocaeli events
John Clinton
Last modified: Wed Jun 7 04:13:19 PDT 2006