We are excited to announce the release of two new open resources developed through CRESCENT: the Earthquake Catalog Repository and Viewer and the Cascadia Ground Failure Viewer. These platforms provide curated datasets and interactive visualization tools for exploring seismicity and ground-failure processes in Cascadia, supporting research, education, and hazard assessment.
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We are delighted to announce the formation of a new CRESCENT Special Interest Group – the Tsunami Sources for Hazard Assessment SIG (TSHA SIG).
See the TSHA webpage for more information and opportunities to contribute and follow the work of this SIG.
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CRESCENT is pleased to share a new set of open-source tools for building realistic 3D fault surfaces directly in QGIS (a free, cross-platform GIS application). These tools are designed to help researchers create non-planar, data-constrained fault geometries from standard geologic and geophysical inputs, including geologic maps, balanced cross-sections, seismic images, and earthquake hypocenters.
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We’re thrilled to share that a team led by Stefan Henneking and Omar Ghattas at UT Austin has been awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their work on real-time tsunami forecasting in Cascadia. The author team also includes CRESCENT senior personnel Alice-Agnes Gabriel, from UC San Diego, who leads our Dynamic Rupture, Earthquake Cycles, and Tsunamis (DET) working group and showcased this work at our annual meeting in Seattle last month.
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In an effort to coordinate future offshore science in Cascadia, we are designing the Offshore Observations workshop to bring together geoscientists across a variety of disciplines that use offshore datasets to study subduction zones. The workshop will comprise a series of short talk sessions followed by breakout groups. Session topics include fluid pathways and hydrology of subduction zones, constraints on megathrust locking state and shallow slow slip, accretionary wedge deformation, structure of the incoming plate, and future plans for ocean drilling, fiber-optic sensing, and cabled infrastructure.
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This interdisciplinary workshop aims to integrate experimental, imaging, and modeling studies on shallow faulting and deformation and tsunamigenesis for the Cascadia Subduction Zone. We welcome participants interested in frictional fault properties, aseismic slip, fluid pressure, splay faulting, off-fault deformation, acoustic laboratory studies, seafloor geodesy and remote sensing, and offshore DAS. The workshop will generate a community white paper focusing on how to better account for the complexity of shallow deformation to assess tsunami hazard for Cascadia.
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Fluids are ubiquitous in subduction zones and play a fundamental role in modulating many observed processes along the megathrust and other related faults, including slip behaviors and deformation mode. This cross-disciplinary workshop brings together geophysicists, geologists, geochemists, and modelers to discuss the role of fluids in Cascadia.
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CRESCENT Annual Meeting – Jan 10, 2025
CRESCENT will hold a 1-day meeting adjacent to the USGS Subduction Zone Science Meeting at the UW campus in Seattle.
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This cross-disciplinary workshop will review state-of-the-art of tsunami risk assessments, scientific gaps, and technical advancements to be implemented in the future. Designed to be of interest to participants from different scientific and engineering fields, the workshop will address four core themes.
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