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Contents
Two-Page Overviews (5)
Earthquakes (19)
Monitoring Other Seismic Sources (21)
Signals and Systems (12)
Surface of the Earth: North America (26)
Surface of the Earth: Global Studies (29)
Upwelling and Downwelling (23)
Global Mantle Structure (17)
Core-Mantle Boundary (18)
Inner Core (16)
Education and Outreach (22)
Earthquake Seismology and IRIS
The Continental Lithosphere and Seismology
Subduction and Seismology
Investigating Earth's Dynamic Mantle and Core
IRIS Education and Outreach
Long-period global detection and location of earthquakes using the GSN
The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004
Rupture process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake
Imaging the rupture process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake using deconvolved surface wave source time functions
Ultra-long-period characteristics of the December 2004 Sumatra earthquake
IRIS data allowed rapid public information about Sumatra earthquake and tsunami
Multiple source analysis of the 2004 Sumatra earthquake
Global Seismographic Network Recording of the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake
Rapid Imaging of Large Earthquake Rupture Zones with P-waves: Application to the 28 March 2005 Sumatra Mw 8.7 Earthquake Suggests Bilateral Rupture
Regional monitoring of the aftershock sequence of the 2002 M7.9 Denali fault, Alaska, earthquake
The 2003 Mid-Indian Ocean earthquake: An unusual earthquake in oceanic lithosphere
Relocations and Focal Mechanisms Determined from Waveform Cross-Correlation of Seismic Data from the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Seismogenic Zone Processes at the Costa Rica Convergent Margin
Aftershock study of the subduction to strike-slip transition of the North American-Caribbean plate boundary in the Dominican Republic
Exploring Subduction Zone Earthquake Rupture
Observational Constraints on the Fracture Energy of Subduction Zone Earthquakes
Remote Triggering of Deep Earthquakes: Insight from the 2002 Tonga Sequences
Coupled seismic slip on adjacent oceanic transform faults
The Use of Waveform Shapes to Automatically Determine Earthquake Focal Depth
Broadband Recording of the First Historical Eruption of Anatahan Volcano, Mariana Islands
Use of multiple small aperture arrays to study deep subduction-related tremor in Cascadia
Evaluation of the Earth's incessant free oscillations by atmosphere-ocean-seafloor coupling
Kinematic modeling and complete moment tensor analysis of the Anomalous, Vertical CLVD Bardarbunga, Iceland, Event
Ambient Earth Noise: A survey of the Global Seismographic Network
A Real-time Seismic Noise Analysis System for Monitoring Data Quality and Station Performance
Four Anomalous Episodes in the Late 2003 Microseism Band Offshore Southern California
Ambient Seismic Noise Monitoring in North-Central Illinois
Strong Directivity of Ocean-Generated Seismic Noise
Glacial and Climate Controls on Tide-Water Glacier Calving Dynamics: A PASSCAL Seismic Experiment on the Columbia Glacier, South-east Alaska
Mid-Ocean-Bottom and Land-based Microseism Correlations
Ocean drilling at the Hawaii-2 Observatory (H2O)
Nanoearthquakes at H2O
The May 18, 1998 Indian Nuclear Test Seismograms at station NIL
Transfer Functions and Seismic Discrimination: a KNET Case Study
Lg-wave cross correlation and double-difference location
Strong LG attenuation in Tibet
Repeating seismic events in China
A Comprehensive Database for Mining Explosion Discrimination
Intermediate Period Surface Waves from Mining Explosions
Source Scaling of Single Fired Mining Explosions with Different Confinement and Explosive Size at a Copper Mine in Arizona
Quality Control of GSN Sensor Response Information
GSN station operator training
Data Requirements from Low--Frequency Seismology and the Dearth of STS-1 Sensors
Development of a new broadband optical seismometer
Earthquake and Ambient Vibration Monitoring of the 17-story steel frame UCLA Factor Building
Passive Crustal Refraction Experiments Using IRIS/PASSCAL Facilities: New Surveys Show Variable Crustal Thickness in the Western Great Basin
Signal restoration through deconvolution applied to deep mantle seismic probes
The mantle magnitude Mm and the slowness parameter Theta: Five years of real-time use in the context of tsunami warning.
SAC avaiability for the IRIS community
ISC On-line Bulletin and IRIS DMC Waveform Retrieval
Web services at the IRIS DMC
The Uniform Product Distribution System
The North American Upper Mantle: Density, Composition, and Evolution
Tomography of the North American upper mantle using global and regional datasets
High resolution 3D anisotropic structure of the North American upper mantle from inversion of body and surface waveform data
High-Resolution Surface Wave Tomography From Ambient Seismic Noise
Imaging the Fine Structure of the San Andreas Fault at seismogenic depths using an archived PASSCAL dataset
A multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary, multi-facility experiment in Garner Valley, CA
Brittle-Ductile Interactions in California
Steep-Dip Seismic Imaging of the Shallow San Andreas Fault Near Parkfield
Foundering Lithosphere Imaged Beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Using Marine Seismic Data to Investigate Active Plate Boundary Deformation: The California Continental Borderland and the Marmara Sea
CANOE: A Broadband Array in Northwestern Canada
A Refraction/Reflection/Teleseismic Survey of the Northwestern Basin and Range Transition Zone
Passive Shallow Seismic Experiments Using IRIS/PASSCAL Facilities: Shear-Velocity Assessments at Over 300 Urban Sites
Lithospheric Structure of the Rio Grande Rift
A simple approach for the joint tomographic inversion of seismic body and surface waves
Upper-Crustal Structure in SE Arizona from P and Rg Phases Generated by Explosions
Probing the Structure and Evolution of the Rocky Mountains
Modern basalt extraction structures in the Southern Rocky Mountains: Multi-band images from the Jemez Lineament
Crustal Structure of the Basin and Range, Colorado Plateau, Rocky Mountains and Great Plains
Investigating crust and Earth structure with the Florida-to-Edmonton broadband array
Numerical Analysis of Overpressure Development in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Imaging the earth with dense arrays of broadband seismometers
Imaging upper mantle structure beneath the Illinois Basin
A surface-wave analysis of seismic anisotropy beneath eastern North America
Scattered Wave Imaging of a Sharp Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary Beneath Eastern North America
Subduction potential at the eastern margin of North America
BOLIVAR and GEODINOS: The SE Caribbean continental dynamics project
The Reflections Under the Scottish Highlands (RUSH) experiment: Mapping fine-scale heterogeneities within the continental mantle lithosphere beneath Scotland, combining active-and passive-source seismology
(quasi)-Love found in Tuscany: US-European seismic array in Italy catches the Big Wave
PASSCAL Experiments in Central Europe Target Lithospheric Structure
Origin and Tectonic Evolution of Active Continental Lithospheric Delamination in the Vrancea Zone, Romania: Project DRACULA
The Eastern Turkey Seismic Experiment: The Study of a Young Continent-Continent Collision
Systematic high-resolution imaging of the Karadere-Duzce branch of the north Anatolian fault
Tectonic Structure and Surface Wave Dispersion in Eurasia and North Africa
Upper mantle Q and thermal structure beneath Tanzania, East Africa from teleseismic P wave spectra
Structure and evolution of the main Ethiopian Rift
The upper mantle P wave structure beneath Ethiopia and Kenya
Crustal Structure Beneath Ethiopia and Kenya: Implications for Rift Development in Eastern Africa
Small-Scale Variations in Seismic Anisotropy Near Kimberley, South Africa
Xenolith constraints on seismic velocities in the upper mantle beneath southern Africa
S-wave velocity structure beneath the KAAPVAAL craton
Kyrgyz Seismic Network KNET: Application of KNET data in scientific researches
Characterizing crustal deformation in the North Tien Shan using geodetic and KNET seismic data
High resolution surface wave slowness tomography in central Asia
Seismic imaging of the Himalayan collision zone
Receiver Function Imaging of the Eastern Syntaxis of Tibet
Shear-wave splitting beneath the Eastern Syntaxis Tibetan experiment
Structure and deformation of the Tibetan lithosphere
Lithospheric Deformation within a Continental Strike-Slip Fault Zone: Marlborough Fault System, South Island, New Zealand
Seismically imaging the East Antarctica/West Antarctica Boundary with TAMSEIS
Upper Mantle Velocity Structure Beneath the TAMSEIS Network, Antarctica
Cooling history of the Pacific lithosphere: Evidence for thermal boundary layer instabilities and dislocation creep
Advances in Active-Source Seismic Imaging Using Traveltime and Waveform Tomography
High Resolution Waveform Tomography at a Ground Water Contamination Site
Hunting for Ocean Island Moho: The Snipe Bites Back
Seismic Hazards Investigations in Puget Sound (SHIPS) I
Seismic Hazards Investigations in Puget Sound (SHIPS) II
Subduction-zone anisotropy beneath Corvallis, Oregon: A serpentinite skidmark of trench-parallel terrane migration?
Imaging subduction beneath Alaska: Results from BEAAR
The TUCAN Broadband Seismic Experiment: Imaging the Central America Subduction Factory
Receiver Function Analysis of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure in the Flat Slab Region of Central Chile and Argentina
Imaging shallow subduction zones with surface waves
Detailed Structure and Sharpness of Upper Mantle Discontinuities in The Tonga Subduction Zone
Evidence of mid-mantle deformation from shear-wave splitting
Seismic Anisotropy in the Izu-Bonin Subduction System
Finite difference synthetic test for Kirchhoff migration of receiver function on subducting slab
Observations of shear wave birefringence in subduction zones - a guide to mantle flow?
Deep plumes in the Earth's mantle
Plume heat flux estimates
Detection of upper mantle flow associated with the African superplume
Structural features and velocity structures of the "African anomaly"
Seismic evidence for hotspot-induced buoyant flow beneath the Reykjanes Ridge
Imaging seismic velocity structure beneath the Iceland hotspot: A finite frequency approach
Crustal and uppermost mantle structure beneath Iceland from local earthquake tomography
The origin of hotspot volcanism in the Pacific Northwest
Shear Wave Splitting in the Great Basin Solves the Elevation Problem: It Was a Simple Plume-like Upwelling All Along
Collaborative Research: Geodynamics of the Yellowstone Hotspot Constrained by Seismic and GPS Imaging
A Three-Dimensional Radially Anisotropic Model of Shear Velocity in the Whole Mantle
Global anisotropy and the thickness of continents
Imaging the anisotropic shear-wave velocity structure of the Earth's mantle
Global analysis of upper mantle anisotropy using automated SKS splitting measurements
Investigating attenuation and velocity structure from surface-wave amplitudes
Global tomographic model of Q in the upper mantle obtained using long-period waveform data
Compressional-Wave Studies on the Frequency Dependence of and Lateral Variations in Mantle Attenuation
Using IRIS Digital Data to Determine the Radial Attenuation Structure of the Lower Mantle
Whole-Mantle 3D Seismic Attenuation: Evidence for Global Mass Flux
New Measurements of Radial Mode Eigenfrequencies
The Global Short-Period Wavefield Modeled with a Monte Carlo Seismic Phonon Method
Discovery of Strong Upper Mantle Reflectors From Back-Scattering of Near-Podal PKPPKP Waves Using Data Acquired From IRIS
SH velocity and compositional models near the 660-km discontinuity beneath South America
Seismic evidence for accumulated oceanic crust above the 660-km discontinuity beneath southern Africa
Seismic investigation of upper and lower mantle boundary layering
Study of Earth's Layered Structure on a Global Scale Using Broadband Seismic Datasets
Probing the Earth's interior by stacking stacked short-period seismic array data
Finite-frequency tomography of D" shear velocity heterogeneity beneath the Caribbean
A seismological determination of the temperature gradient in D" beneath the western Pacific
Sharp Lateral Boundaries in the D" Region
D"shear velocity heterogeneity, anisotropy, and discontinuity structure beneath the Caribbean
Using array methods to investigate possible causes for PKP deviations
Lateral variation of the D" discontinuity beneath the Pacific
Lateral variation of the D" discontinuity beneath the Cocos plate
Migration of lowermost mantle structure under the Cocos
Lateral variation of P and S wave velocity discontinuities in the lower mantle beneath the Cocos Plate
Observation of P-wave velocity discontinuities in D" beneath Southeast Asia using migration techniques
A step in the D" discontinuity imaged by Kirchoff migration through 3D tomographic models
Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the Central Pacific
D" anisotropy from lamellae and transverse isotropy
Azimuthal anisotropy in the D" layer beneath the Caribbean
Isotropy or weak vertical transverse isotropy in the D" under the Atlantic
A strong lateral shear velocity gradient and anisotropy heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle beneath the southern Pacific
Detection of an ultralow velocity zone at the CMB using diffracted PKKPab waves
Examining the base of the mantle using IRIS FLED PASSCAL data
An Observation of PKJKP: Inferences on Inner Core Shear Properties
Constraints on Density and Shear Velocity Contrasts at the Inner Core Boundary
Waveform search for the innermost inner core
Near-Podal Observations of PKPPKP Waves and Implications for Central Inner Core Structure
Non-linear waveform and delay time analysis of triplicated core phases: A new method to extract differential travel times from interfering data
Velocity and attenuation in the Earth's inner core
Anisotropy of the inner core
Slowness Anomalies of PKP Phases Recorded in Alaska: Implications for Inner Core Anisotropy
Transition from isotropic upper inner core to anisotropic lower inner core: The importance of anisotropic ray tracing
Inner core anisotropy from PKP travel times at near antipodal distances
Hemisphericity and regional seismic anisotropy in the top 80 km of the Earth's inner core
Uppermost inner core attenuation from PKP data observed at some South American seismological stations
Hemispherical Transition of Seismic Attenuation at the Top of the Earth's Inner Core
Differential inner core superrotation from earthquakes in Alaska recorded at South Pole station
Support for Inner Core Super-Rotation from High-Quality Waveform Doublets
The Earth's Free Oscillations and the Differential Rotation of the Inner Core
The U.S. Educational Seismology Network
IRIS and Geological Society of America
Global seismicity monitor as an interactive museum display
IRIS/USGS Seismology Displays at the American Museum of Natural History, New York
Experiences with the IRIS E&O Lecture
A real-time interactive educational seismology exhibit
A Suite of Educational Computer Programs for Seismology
Educational Seismograph Teaching Modules
The Global Earthquake Explorer: A Versatile Tool for Science Education
The use of IRIS instrumentation in undergraduate education
Seismic Reflection Processing Workshop
IRIS and PASSCAL Intern
Seismology Education Programs at the University of Portland
Influence of IRIS on the Construction of a College-Level Seismology Course
Collaborative Teacher Workshops at the Visualization Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (San Diego)
Project SLAM: A Flexible Field Seismology and Earthquake Studies Teaching Module
The Boston College educational seismology project: Inviting students into the world of science research
Seismographs in Schools
Earth and Space Science Professoional Development Project
The IRIS Education Program in support of the National Earth Science Teachers Association
Impact of a School Seismograph on a Rural Illinois Middle School: Bringing Real Time Recordings Into the Classroom
Seismographs in schools: Shaking things up in the 5th grade