Ground Motion Modeling

Friday, January 9, 2026 – “Outputs: What ground motion estimation in Cascadia needs to address“

Presentation slides – See links in agenda below for slide decks

9:00 – 11:00 am P.S.T., on zoom

• Albert Kottke (PG&E): “Importance of Spatially Varying Ground Motion Models and Implications for Cascadia” 
• Jeff Berman (UW): “Ground motion considerations for the built environment in Cascadia”
• Brett Maurer (UW): “Ground Motions and Ground Failure: Looking Mostly Forward and A Little Bit Backward”
• Morgan Moschetti (USGS): “Ground-motion modeling in Cascadia for the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model: Current modeling approaches and open questions” 
• Karen Sung (UC Berkeley): “Implementing Simulations in Ground Motion Models: Practical Needs and Challenges” 
• Q&A and Discussion

Thursday, January 29, 2026 – “Inputs and Methodologies”

Presentation slides – See links in agenda below for available slide decks

9:00 – 11:00 am P.S.T., on zoom

• Zoe Krauss (UW): “PNW Earthquake Catalogs and Waveform Data”
• Audrey Dunham (USGS):  “Large-Scale Simulations for Improved Seismic Hazard Characterization in Cascadia”
• Pieter Share (OSU): “Supplementing the shallow CRESCENT CVM: High-Resolution Sedimentary and Shallow Crustal Structure for Ground Motion Studies from Nodal Array Adjoint Tomography”
• alex grant (USGS): “Geologic constraints on Cascadia paleoearthquake shaking intensities”
• Grigorios Lavrentiadas (University at Buffalo): “A Non-Ergodic Ground Motion Model for the Groningen, Netherlands: Merging Physics-Based Simulations and Empirical Observations”
• Alice Gabriel (UCSD): “Near-Instantaneous physics-based reduced-order modeling for shake maps, seismograms, dynamic rupture and the seismic cycle”
• Q&A and Discussion