OUTREACH

Outreach Material

Animations & Graphics

Slow slip events and tremors beneath Cascadia	The earthquake cycle in the Los Angeles basin	The earthquake cycle in the Himalaya:	Earthquakes and tsunami on the Sumatra megathrust:
Mountain building	Fault zone

Collaboration

Involvement in K12 eduction
My collborators and myself regularly give tour to K12 students or visit classrooms. For an extensive description or outreach activities  of the Tectonics Observatory (tour of the TO for kids, presentation in classrooms,…) involving students, postdocs or staff from my group or myself: http://www.tectonics.caltech.edu/news/

Interviews

Media interviews posted on the web:

• Meeting Plate Tectonics - Jean-Philippe Avouac
• BBC interviews Caltech's Jean-Philippe Avouac, Lucy Jones, USGS' Elizabeth Cochran, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on the status of earthquake risk in Los Angeles and surrounding regions. They discuss the tectonic forces that have shaped the Los Angeles area, advanced seismic modeling, early warning implementation, and the City's resiliency plan to survive the next "big one."
• Devastating quakes are priming the Himalaya for a mega-disaster
• Earthquake faults crisscross LA. Is it safe to tunnel here?
• Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation News (2016): Beyong the Lab: Jean-Philippe Avouac. https://www.moore.org/article-detail?newsUrlName=beyond-the-lab-jean-philippe-avouac-ph.d
• Nature News&Views (2012): Human induced shaking. http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v5/n11/full/ngeo1609.html
• Nature News&Views (2011): The Lesson of Tohoku Oki: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7356/full/nature10265.html
• Science Watch interview (2012): http://archive.sciencewatch.com/ana/st/earthquakes2/10juleqAvou/
• Meeting with the wide public at ‘Café des Sciences’ (Los Angeles, 2010) http://frenchmorning.com/la/2010/10/20/cafe-des-sciences-seismes-avec-jean-philippe-avouac/
• featured in ‘Earth: Measuring its Changes’ by Barbara Linde, Science book for K12 kids, 2011: http://books.google.com/books?id=o9iLrh8IZwYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
• EarthSky readio interview; Jean-Philippe Avouac talks about using satellite imagery to study earthquakes: http://earthsky.org/earth/jean-phillippe-avouac-on-earthquakes
• PBS learming media: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/9d07dadc-c8e4-4d24-9e63-72b1e2a634be/9d07dadc-c8e4-4d24-9e63-72b1e2a634be/
• Earthquakes and Mountains - in International Innovation (2010)
• Watson lecture, Caltech Pubic event (2010): http://www.caltech.edu/content/jean-philippe-avouac-rising-mountains-and-sinking-oceans-earthquakes-shape-earth
• Groks Science Radio interview (2007): http://grokscience.wordpress.com/transcripts/jean-philippe-avouac/
• Featured in BBS Earth Story documentary: The roof of the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIqVfHOisuA

TV documentary and interviews:

• Interviews for History Channel (2012), BBC(2012), Discovery Channel (2009), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2009), Television Korea (2006), TF1 (2000, 1997), RFO(1997)
• Featured in the BBC Earth Science documentary: T

Radio Interviews:

• France Inter (2010; 2002),  France Culture (2002), France Info (2002), RMC (1998, 1995), RFI(2000), BerKeley Groks(2004),.

Press Release

Interviews in written press:

• Le Monde (2007), Le Figaro(2008), Pasadena Star News (2008), Earthsky (2008), LA Times (2011)

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