Plot of Amplitudes of Motion from Earthquakes with recording limits of typical instruments (click on fig. for more)

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:
Millikan Shake Test (28Aug2002) Results

Forced Vibration analysis for
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