Steven G. Wesnousky - Publications

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University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States 
Area:
Geology

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2020 Wesnousky SG. Great Pending Himalaya Earthquakes Seismological Research Letters. DOI: 10.1785/0220200200  0.595
2020 Wesnousky SG, Owen LA. Development of the Truckee River terraces on the northeastern flank of the Sierra Nevada Geomorphology. 370: 107399. DOI: 10.1016/J.Geomorph.2020.107399  0.344
2019 Anderson JG, Koehler RD, Abercrombie R, Ahdi SK, Angster S, Bormann J, Brune JN, Dee SM, dePolo C, Dickenson SE, Dunn M, Faulds JE, Hammond WC, Hatch R, Kell A, ... ... Wesnousky SG, et al. A Seismic Hazards Overview of the Urban Regions of Nevada: Recent Advancements and Research Directions Seismological Research Letters. 90: 1577-1583. DOI: 10.1785/0220180357  0.359
2019 Angster SJ, Wesnousky SG, Figueiredo PM, Owen LA, Hammer SJ. Late Quaternary slip rates for faults of the central Walker Lane (Nevada, USA): Spatiotemporal strain release in a strike-slip fault system Geosphere. 15: 1460-1478. DOI: 10.1130/Ges02088.1  0.598
2019 Wesnousky SG, Kumahara Y, Chamlagain D, Neupane PC. Large Himalayan Frontal Thrust paleoearthquake at Khayarmara in eastern Nepal Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 174: 346-351. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jseaes.2019.01.008  0.638
2018 Pérez OJ, Wesnousky SG, Rosa RDL, Márquez J, Uzcátegui R, Quintero C, Liberal L, Mora-Páez H, Szeliga W. On the interaction of the North Andes plate with the Caribbean and South American plates in northwestern South America from GPS geodesy and seismic data Geophysical Journal International. 214: 1986-2001. DOI: 10.1093/Gji/Ggy230  0.376
2018 Wesnousky SG, Kumahara Y, Nakata T, Chamlagain D, Neupane P. New Observations Disagree With Previous Interpretations of Surface Rupture Along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust During the Great 1934 Bihar‐Nepal Earthquake Geophysical Research Letters. 45: 2652-2658. DOI: 10.1002/2018Gl077035  0.475
2017 Li X, Huang W, Pierce IKD, Angster SJ, Wesnousky SG. Characterizing the Quaternary expression of active faulting along the Olinghouse, Carson, and Wabuska lineaments of the Walker Lane Geosphere. 13: 2119-2136. DOI: 10.1130/Ges01483.1  0.562
2017 Li X, Li C, Wesnousky SG, Zhang P, Zheng W, Pierce IKD, Wang X. Paleoseismology and slip rate of the western Tianjingshan fault of NE Tibet, China Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 146: 304-316. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jseaes.2017.04.031  0.665
2017 Pierce IK, Wesnousky SG, Owen LA. Terrestrial cosmogenic surface exposure dating of moraines at Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada of California and slip rate estimate for the West Tahoe Fault Geomorphology. 298: 63-71. DOI: 10.1016/J.Geomorph.2017.09.030  0.492
2017 Wesnousky SG, Kumahara Y, Chamlagain D, Pierce IK, Karki A, Gautam D. Geological observations on large earthquakes along the Himalayan frontal fault near Kathmandu, Nepal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 457: 366-375. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2016.10.006  0.621
2017 Wesnousky SG, Kumahara Y, Chamlagain D, Pierce IK, Reedy T, Angster SJ, Giri B. Large paleoearthquake timing and displacement near Damak in eastern Nepal on the Himalayan Frontal Thrust Geophysical Research Letters. 44: 8219-8226. DOI: 10.1002/2017Gl074270  0.599
2016 Wesnousky SG. The Biggest Little Contributions Seismological Research Letters. 87: 257-260. DOI: 10.1785/0220160003  0.553
2016 Biasi GP, Wesnousky SG. Steps and Gaps in Ground Ruptures: Empirical Bounds on Rupture Propagation Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 106: 1110-1124. DOI: 10.1785/0120150175  0.528
2016 Angster S, Wesnousky S, Huang W, Kent G, Nakata T, Goto H. Application of UAV Photography to Refining the Slip Rate on the Pyramid Lake Fault Zone, Nevada Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 106: 785-798. DOI: 10.1785/0120150144  0.64
2016 Pierce I, Wesnousky SG. On a flawed conclusion that the 1255 A.D. earthquake ruptured 800 km of the Himalayan Frontal Thrust east of Kathmandu Geophysical Research Letters. 43: 9026-9029. DOI: 10.1002/2016Gl070426  0.388
2015 Angster S, Fielding EJ, Wesnousky S, Pierce I, Chamlagain D, Gautam D, Upreti BN, Kumahara Y, Nakata T. Field Reconnaissance after the 25 April 2015 M 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake Seismological Research Letters. 86: 1506-1513. DOI: 10.1785/0220150135  0.659
2014 Dong S, Ucarkus G, Wesnousky SG, Maloney J, Kent G, Driscoll N, Baskin R. Strike-slip faulting along the wassuk range of the northern walker lane, nevada Geosphere. 10: 40-48. DOI: 10.1130/Ges00912.1  0.668
2013 Briggs RW, Wesnousky SG, Brune JN, Purvance MD, Mahan SA. Low footwall accelerations and variable surface rupture behavior on the fort sage mountains fault, Northeast California Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 103: 157-168. DOI: 10.1785/0120110313  0.66
2012 Bormann JM, Surpless BE, Caffee MW, Wesnousky SG. Holocene Earthquakes and Late Pleistocene Slip-Rate Estimates on the Wassuk Range Fault Zone, Nevada Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 102: 1884-1891. DOI: 10.1785/0120110287  0.667
2012 Wesnousky SG, Aranguren R, Rengifo M, Owen LA, Caffee MW, Murari MK, Pérez OJ. Toward quantifying geomorphic rates of crustal displacement, landscape development, and the age of glaciation in the Venezuelan Andes Geomorphology. 141: 99-113. DOI: 10.1016/J.Geomorph.2011.12.028  0.512
2012 Wesnousky SG, Bormann JM, Kreemer C, Hammond WC, Brune JN. Neotectonics, geodesy, and seismic hazard in the Northern Walker Lane of Western North America: Thirty kilometers of crustal shear and no strike-slip? Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 329: 133-140. DOI: 10.1016/J.Epsl.2012.02.018  0.627
2011 Jayangondaperumal R, Wesnousky SG, Choudhuri BK. Near-Surface Expression of Early to Late Holocene Displacement along the Northeastern Himalayan Frontal Thrust at Marbang Korong Creek, Arunachal Pradesh, India Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 101: 3060-3064. DOI: 10.1785/0120110051  0.569
2011 Wesnousky SG, Biasi GP. The Length to Which an Earthquake Will Go to Rupture Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 101: 1948-1950. DOI: 10.1785/0120110013  0.646
2011 Wesnousky SG, Caffee M. Range-Bounding Normal Fault of Smith Valley, Nevada: Limits on Age of Last Surface-Rupture Earthquake and Late Pleistocene Rate of Displacement Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 101: 1431-1437. DOI: 10.1785/0120100238  0.661
2011 Sarmiento AC, Wesnousky SG, Bormann JM. Paleoseismic Trenches across the Sierra Nevada and Carson Range Fronts in Antelope Valley, California, and Reno, Nevada Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 101: 2542-2549. DOI: 10.1785/0120100176  0.668
2011 Lozos JC, Oglesby DD, Duan B, Wesnousky SG. The effects of double fault bends on rupture propagation: A geometrical parameter study Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 101: 385-398. DOI: 10.1785/0120100029  0.582
2010 Wesnousky SG. Possibility of Biases in the Estimation of Earthquake Recurrence and Seismic Hazard from Geologic Data Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 100: 2287-2292. DOI: 10.1785/0120090370  0.663
2010 Kumar S, Wesnousky SG, Jayangondaperumal R, Nakata T, Kumahara Y, Singh V. Paleoseismological evidence of surface faulting along the northeastern Himalayan front, India: Timing, size, and spatial extent of great earthquakes Journal of Geophysical Research. 115. DOI: 10.1029/2009Jb006789  0.682
2010 Jayangondaperumal R, Dubey AK, Kumar BS, Wesnousky SG, Sangode SJ. Magnetic fabrics indicating Late Quaternary seismicity in the Himalayan foothills International Journal of Earth Sciences. 99: 265-278. DOI: 10.1007/S00531-009-0494-5  0.56
2008 Hillers G, Wesnousky SG. Scaling Relations of Strike-Slip Earthquakes with Different Slip-Rate-Dependent Properties at Depth Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 98: 1085-1101. DOI: 10.1785/0120070200  0.543
2008 Shaw BE, Wesnousky SG. Slip-Length Scaling in Large Earthquakes: The Role of Deep-Penetrating Slip below the Seismogenic Layer Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 98: 1633-1641. DOI: 10.1785/0120070191  0.488
2008 Wesnousky SG. Displacement and Geometrical Characteristics of Earthquake Surface Ruptures: Issues and Implications for Seismic-Hazard Analysis and the Process of Earthquake Rupture Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 98: 1609-1632. DOI: 10.1785/0120070111  0.664
2008 Turner R, Koehler RD, Briggs RW, Wesnousky SG. Paleoseismic and slip-rate observations along the Honey Lake fault zone, northeastern California, USA Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 98: 1730-1736. DOI: 10.1785/0120070090  0.667
2008 Kaneda H, Nakata T, Tsutsumi H, Kondo H, Sugito N, Awata Y, Akhtar SS, Majid A, Khattak W, Awan AA, Yeats RS, Hussain A, Ashraf M, Wesnousky SG, Kausar AB. Surface rupture of the 2005 Kashmir, Pakistan, earthquake and its active tectonic implications Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 98: 521-557. DOI: 10.1785/0120070073  0.648
2008 Kondo H, Nakata T, Akhtar SS, Wesnousky SG, Sugito N, Kaneda H, Tsutsumi H, Khan AM, Khattak W, Kausar AB. Long recurrence interval of faulting beyond the 2005 Kashmir earthquake around the northwestern margin of the Indo-Asian collision zone Geology. 36: 731-734. DOI: 10.1130/G25028A.1  0.675
2007 King GCP, Wesnousky SG. Scaling of Fault Parameters for Continental Strike-Slip Earthquakes Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 97: 1833-1840. DOI: 10.1785/0120070048  0.565
2007 Bills BG, Adams KD, Wesnousky SG. Viscosity structure of the crust and upper mantle in western Nevada from isostatic rebound patterns of the late Pleistocene Lake Lahontan high shoreline Journal of Geophysical Research. 112. DOI: 10.1029/2005Jb003941  0.363
2006 Wesnousky SG. Predicting the endpoints of earthquake ruptures. Nature. 444: 358-60. PMID 17108963 DOI: 10.1038/Nature05275  0.652
2006 Kumar S, Wesnousky SG, Rockwell TK, Briggs RW, Thakur VC, Jayangondaperumal R. Paleoseismic evidence of great surface rupture earthquakes along the Indian Himalaya Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 111. DOI: 10.1029/2004Jb003309  0.625
2005 Briggs RW, Wesnousky SG. Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoearthquake activity of the Olinghouse fault zone, Nevada Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 95: 1301-1313. DOI: 10.1785/0120040129  0.665
2005 Wesnousky SG. Active faulting in the Walker Lane Tectonics. 24. DOI: 10.1029/2004Tc001645  0.656
2005 Wesnousky SG, Barron AD, Briggs RW, Caskey SJ, Kumar S, Owen L. Paleoseismic transect across the northern Great Basin Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth. 110: 1-25. DOI: 10.1029/2004Jb003283  0.545
2005 Briggs RW, Wesnousky SG, Adams KD. Late Pleistocene and late Holocene lake highstands in the Pyramid Lake subbasin of Lake Lahontan, Nevada, USA Quaternary Research. 64: 257-263. DOI: 10.1016/J.Yqres.2005.02.011  0.362
2005 Wesnousky SG. The San Andreas and Walker Lane fault systems, western North America: transpression, transtension, cumulative slip and the structural evolution of a major transform plate boundary Journal of Structural Geology. 27: 1505-1512. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jsg.2005.01.015  0.636
2004 Caskey SJ, Bell JW, Ramelli AR, Wesnousky SG. Historic surface faulting and paleoseismicity in the area of the 1954 Rainbow Mountain-stillwater earthquake sequence, central Nevada Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 94: 1255-1275. DOI: 10.1785/012003012  0.681
2004 Briggs RW, Wesnousky SG. Late Pleistocene fault slip rate, earthquake recurrence, and recency of slip along the Pyramid Lake fault zone, northern Walker Lane, United States Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth. 109: B08402 1-16. DOI: 10.1029/2003Jb002717  0.672
2003 Wesnousky SG, Willoughby CH. Neotectonic Note: The Ruby–East Humboldt Range, Northeastern Nevada Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 93: 1345-1354. DOI: 10.1785/0120020032  0.652
2002 Stirling MW, Anooshehpoor A, Brune JN, Biasi GP, Wesnousky SG. Assessment of the Site Conditions of Precariously Balanced Rocks in the Mojave Desert, Southern California Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 92: 2139-2144. DOI: 10.1785/0120010221  0.436
2002 Oswald JA, Wesnousky SG. Neotectonics and Quaternary geology of the Hunter Mountain fault zone and Saline Valley region, southeastern California Geomorphology. 42: 255-278. DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(01)00089-7  0.662
2001 Kumar S, Wesnousky SG, Rockwell TK, Ragona D, Thakur VC, Seitz GG. Earthquake recurrence and rupture dynamics of Himalayan Frontal Thrust, India. Science. 294: 2328-2331. PMID 11729266 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1066195  0.607
2001 Wesnousky SG, Seeber L, Rockwell TK, Thakur V, Briggs R, Kumar S, Ragona D. Eight Days in Bhuj: Field Report Bearing on Surface Rupture and Genesis of the 26 January 2001 Earthquake in India Seismological Research Letters. 72: 514-524. DOI: 10.1785/Gssrl.72.5.514  0.667
1999 Adams KD, Wesnousky SG, Bills BG. Isostatic rebound, active faulting, and potential geomorphic effects in the Lake Lahontan basin, Nevada and California Geological Society of America Bulletin. 111: 1739-1756. DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1739:Irafap>2.3.Co;2  0.579
1999 Wesnousky SG, Kumar S, Mohindra R, Thakur VC. Uplift and convergence along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust of India Tectonics. 18: 967-976. DOI: 10.1029/1999Tc900026  0.62
1999 Adams KD, Wesnousky SG. The Lake Lahontan highstand: age, surficial characteristics, soil development, and regional shoreline correlation Geomorphology. 30: 357-392. DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(99)00031-8  0.351
1998 Adams KD, Wesnousky SG. Shoreline Processes And The Age Of The Lake Lahontan Highstand In The Jessup Embayment, Nevada Geological Society of America Bulletin. 110: 1318-1332. DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1318:Spatao>2.3.Co;2  0.363
1998 Berryman K, Beanland S, Wesnousky S. Paleoseismicity of the Rotoitipakau Fault Zone, a complex normal fault in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 41: 449-465. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1998.9514822  0.662
1998 Stirling MW, Wesnousky SG, Berryman KR. Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of New Zealand New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 41: 355-375. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1998.9514816  0.628
1997 Wesnousky SG. Presidential Address: Seismic Hazard Analysis, Earthquake Prediction, and the SSA Seismological Research Letters. 68: 763-765. DOI: 10.1785/Gssrl.68.5.763  0.486
1996 Stirling MW, Wesnousky SG, Shimazaki K. Fault Trace Complexity, Cumulative Slip, And The Shape Of The Magnitude-Frequency Distribution For Strike-Slip Faults : A Global Survey Geophysical Journal International. 124: 833-868. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-246X.1996.Tb05641.X  0.654
1994 Wesnousky SG, Jones CH. Oblique slip, slip partitioning, spatial and temporal changes in the regional stress field, and the relative strength of active faults in the Basin and Range, western United States Geology. 22: 1031-1034. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<1031:Osspsa>2.3.Co;2  0.602
1993 Yu G, Wesnousky SG, Ekström G. Slip Partitioning along Major Convergent Plate Boundaries Pure and Applied Geophysics. 140: 183-210. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-5846-5_2  0.556
1992 Jones CH, Wesnousky SG. Variations in strength and slip rate along the san andreas fault system. Science. 256: 83-86. PMID 17802597 DOI: 10.1126/Science.256.5053.83  0.648
1992 Wesnousky SG, Leffler LM. On the Search for Paleoliquefaction in the New Madrid Seismic Zone Seismological Research Letters. 63: 343-348. DOI: 10.1785/Gssrl.63.3.343  0.53
1991 Wesnousky SG, Prentice CS, Sieh KE. An offset Holocene stream channel and the rate of slip along the northern reach of the San Jacinto fault zone, San Bernardino Valley, California Geological Society of America Bulletin. 103: 700-709. DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1991)103<0700:Aohsca>2.3.Co;2  0.65
1990 Dziak RP, Wesnousky SG. Body-waveforms and source parameters of some moderate-sized earthquakes near North Island, New Zealand Tectonophysics. 180: 273-286. DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(90)90313-W  0.507
1989 Wesnousky SG, Schweig ES, Pezzopane SK. Extent and character of soil liquefaction during the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 558: 208-216. DOI: 10.1111/J.1749-6632.1989.Tb22570.X  0.306
1989 Pezzopane SK, Wesnousky SG. Large Earthquakes and Crustal Deformation Near Taiwan Journal of Geophysical Research. 94: 7250-7264. DOI: 10.1029/Jb094Ib06P07250  0.575
1988 Wesnousky SG. Seismological and structural evolution of strike-slip faults Nature. 335: 340-343. DOI: 10.1038/335340A0  0.637
1986 Wesnousky SG. Earthquakes, quaternary faults, and seismic hazard in California Journal of Geophysical Research. 91: 12587-12631. DOI: 10.1029/Jb091Ib12P12587  0.674
1986 Wesnousky SG, Astiz L, Kanamori H. Earthquake multiplets in the southeastern Solomon Islands Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 44: 304-318. DOI: 10.1016/0031-9201(86)90058-0  0.463
1985 Webb TH, Wesnousky SG, Helmberger DV. A body-wave analysis of the 1966 Gisborne, New Zealand, earthquake Tectonophysics. 113: 271-282. DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(85)90200-8  0.383
1983 Wesnousky SG, Scholz CH, Shimazaki K, Matsuda T. Earthquake frequency distribution and the mechanics of faulting Journal of Geophysical Research. 88: 9331-9340. DOI: 10.1029/Jb088Ib11P09331  0.649
1982 Wesnousky SG, Scholz CH, Shimazaki K. Deformation of an island arc: Rates of moment release and crustal shortening in intraplate Japan determined from seismicity and Quaternary fault data Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 87: 6829-6852. DOI: 10.1029/Jb087Ib08P06829  0.661
1980 Wesnousky SG, Scholz CH. The craton: Its effect on the distribution of seismicity and stress in North America Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 48: 348-355. DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(80)90198-3  0.381
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