Research Professor of Geophysics

Research Interests

Research interests are in seismology and tectonophysics, using large regional earthquake data sets to study seismicity, earthquake source processes, statistical seismology, and image crustal structure. Research interests also include determining the state of stress in the crust and the style of faulting from seismicity, as well as seismotectonic synthesis. Also includes research in real-time seismology such as development of instrumentation, implementation of latest seismological algorithms, and software for real-time earthquake monitoring, rapid notification, waveform analysis, earthquake early warning, and hazards mitigation.

Recent Papers

Hauksson, E., Z. E. Ross, and E. Cochran (2019), Slow-Growing and Extended-Duration Seismicity Swarms: Reactivating Joints or Foliations in the Cahuilla Valley Pluton, Central Peninsular Ranges, Southern California; Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 3933–3949. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017494


Ross, Z. E., D. T. Trugman, E. Hauksson, P. M. Shearer (2019), Searching for Hidden Earthquakes in Southern California, Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw6888 (2019).


Hauksson, E. and M.-A. Meier (2018), Applying Depth Distribution of Seismicity to Determine Thermo-mechanical Properties of the Seismogenic Crust in Southern California: Comparing Lithotectonic Blocks; Pure and Applied Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-018-1981-z.