Jean-Philippe Avouac
Earle C. Anthony Professor of Geology and Mechanical and Civil Engineering; Associate Director, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies
Research interests: geomechanics, Seismology, Geodesy, Remote Sensing
Overview
My research aims mainly at understanding better earthquakes, crustal deformation, and geomorphic processes. We use field observations, seismological and geodetic measurements, remote sensing to develop kinematic and dynamic models and inform theory. Currently active projects concern: seismicity and mountain building processes in the Himalaya; the imaging and dynamic analysis of seismic (‘regular earthquakes') and aseismic (‘slow earthquakes') fault slip; probabilistic forecasting of ground deformation and seismicity, in particular in the context of subsurface engineering operations (for CO2 storage or geothermal energy production for example; the effect of hydrology on crustal deformation and seismicity; ); dune dynamics on Mars and Earth.
Publications
- Kaveh, Hojjat;Avouac, Jean-Philippe et al. (2025) Spatiotemporal forecast of extreme events in a chaotic model of slow slip eventsGeophysical Journal International
- Sirorattanakul, Krittanon;Wilding, John D. et al. (2025) Bursts of Fast Propagating Swarms of Induced Earthquakes at the Groningen Gas FieldSeismological Research Letters
- Daudon, C.;Beyers, M. et al. (2024) Prediction of barchan dunes migration using climatic models and speed-up effect of dune topography on air flowEarth and Planetary Science Letters
- Tamama, Y.;Acosta, M. et al. (2024) Earthquake Growth Inhibited at Higher Coulomb Stress Change Rate at GroningenGeophysical Research Letters
- Geyman, Emily C.;Douglas, Madison M. et al. (2024) Permafrost slows Arctic riverbank erosionNature
- Im, Kyungjae;Avouac, Jean-Philippe (2024) Quake-DFN: A Software for Simulating Sequences of Induced Earthquakes in a Discrete Fault NetworkBulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Chen, Kejie;Wei, Guoguang et al. (2024) Super-shear ruptures steered by pre-stress heterogeneities during the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doubletNature Communications
- Liu‐Zeng, Jing;Liu, Zhijun et al. (2024) Fault Orientation Trumps Fault Maturity in Controlling Coseismic Rupture Characteristics of the 2021 Maduo EarthquakeAGU Advances
- Heggy, Essam;Moghaddam, Mahta et al. (2024) Airborne Sounding Radar for Desert Subsurface Exploration of Aquifers: Desert-SEA: Mission concept study [Space Agencies]IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
- Kaveh, Hojjat;Batlle, Pau et al. (2024) Induced Seismicity Forecasting with Uncertainty Quantification: Application to the Groningen Gas FieldSeismological Research Letters