Tom is a seismologist at the USGS Earthquake Science Center, in Menlo Park, where he has worked for 33 years after working briefly at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He served as Director of the Earthquake Science Center for several years and prior to that served as the USGS Coordinator for Northern California Earthquake Hazard Investigations. His interests include earthquake hazard assessment, earthquake mitigation, and earthquake preparedness. Tom served as chair of the 1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance, a public/private non-profit organization seeking to increase public awareness of that earthquake and the hazards posed by the Hayward Fault. Tom has authored or co-authored 160 peer-reviewed publications and 250 meeting abstracts and is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.
SCEC Participation
SCEC Board of Directors, Liaison Member (2009 - 2011)
Brocher, T. M. (2018, 07). Are we still seeing aftershocks from the M6.8 1872 Central Washington Earthquake?. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8173
Brocher, T. M. (2016, 08). Higher Earthquake Intensity Attenuation Rates in the Urbanized Southern Puget Lowland Than Elsewhere Along the Cascadia Forearc . Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6875
