About Me
Publications
My research focuses on fault mechanics and earthquake physics across a range of spatiotemporal scales, from steady sliding at plate velocities to fast earthquakes. I combine fracture mechanics, numerical modeling and earthquake statistics to reveal how local fault processes give rise to large-scale seismic behavior, with particular emphasis on questions relevant to seismic hazard - where and how earthquakes nucleate, what determines rupture complexity, and what limits their final size.
SCEC Participation
SCEC Board of Directors, Core Institution Member (2023 - Present)Lambert, V. R., Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Dunham, E. M., Kim, T., Agajanian, M., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Cappa, F., Cattania, C., Duan, B., Dublanchet, P., Elbanna, A. E., Fialko, Y., Gabriel, A., Karki, P., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liu, D., Magen, Y., Marcum, J., May, D. A., Mia, M., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., Romanet, P., Scuderi, M. M., Thakur, P., van Dinther, Y., Verwijs, R., Yang, Y., & Yun, J. (2025, 09). Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS): Effects from Fluids and Fault Friction Evolution. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14466
Sun, Y., & Cattania, C. (2024, 09). Back-propagating Earthquakes on a Simple Fault. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13843
Sun, Y., & Cattania, C. (2023, 09). Boomerang Earthquakes and Rapid Tremor Reversals: Exploring the Role of Fault Roughness on the Back Propagation of Earthquakes and Slow Slip Events. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12987
Lambert, V. R., Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Dunham, E. M., Abdelmeguid, M., Agajanian, M., Almquist, M., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Barbot, S. D., Bodunde, S., Cattania, C., Chen, A., Dal Zilio, L., Duan, B., Elbanna, A. E., Gabriel, A., Huang, Y., Kaneko, Y., Kim, T., Kozdon, J. E., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liang, C., Liu, D., Liu, Y., Marcum, J., Mia, M., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., Romanet, P., Segall, P., Sun, Y., Thakur, P., Uphoff, C., van Dinther, Y., Verwijs, R., & Yang, Y. (2023, 09). Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS): Effects from Dipping Faults and Full Elastodynamics to Fluids and Fault Friction Evolution. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12930
Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Lambert, V., Barbot, S. D., Abdelmeguid, M., Almquist, M., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Cattania, C., Chen, A., Dal Zilio, L., Deng, S., Dunham, E. M., Elbanna, A. E., Gabriel, A., Harvey, T. W., Huang, Y., Kaneko, Y., Kozdon, J. E., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liang, C., Liu, Y., Ozawa, S., Perez-Silva, A., Pranger, C., Segall, P., Sun, Y., Thakur, P., Uphoff, C., van Dinther, Y., & Yang, Y. (2023). Incorporating Full Elastodynamic Effects and Dipping Fault Geometries in Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 113(2), 499-523. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220066. SCEC Contribution 12627
Jiang, J., Lambert, V. R., Erickson, B. A., Abdelmeguid, M., Almquist, M., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Chen, A., Dal Zilio, L., Duan, B., Dunham, E. M., Elbanna, A. E., Gabriel, A., Harvey, T. W., Huang, Y., Kaneko, Y., Kozdon, J. E., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liang, C., Liu, D., Liu, Y., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., Segall, P., Sun, Y., Thakur, P., Uphoff, C., van Dinther, Y., & Yang, Y. (2022, 09). Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS): From 3D, Full Elastodynamics and Dipping Faults to Fluids and Fault Friction Evolution. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12532
Jiang, J., Erickson, B. A., Lambert, V. R., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Dal Zilio, L., Duan, B., Dunham, E. M., Gabriel, A., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liu, D., Liu, Y., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., & van Dinther, Y. (2022). Community-Driven Code Comparisons for Three-Dimensional Dynamic Modeling of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023519. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023519. SCEC Contribution 11680
Jiang, J., Erickson, B. A., Lambert, V. R., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Dal Zilio, L., Duan, B., Dunham, E. M., Gabriel, A., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liu, D., Liu, Y., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., & van Dinther, Y. (2021, 08). Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS): Three-Dimensional Problems. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11565
Sun, Y., & Cattania, C. (2021, 08). Propagation of Slow Slip Events on a Rough Fault. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11430
Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Abdelmeguid, M., Almquist, M., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Chen, A., Dal Zilio, L., Dunham, E. M., Elbanna, A. E., Gabriel, A., Harvey, T., Huang, Y., Kaneko, Y., Kozdon, J. E., Lambert, V. R., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liang, C., Liu, Y., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., Segall, P., Sun, Y., Thakur, P., Uphoff, C., van Dinther, Y., & Yang, Y. (2021, 08). Community Code Verification Exercises for Simulations of Earthquake Sequences and Aseismic Slip (SEAS): Dynamic Effects and Dipping Fault Geometries. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11412
Milanese, E., Brink, T., Aghababaei, R., Molinari, J., & Cattania, C. (2021, 08). Origins of roughness evolution and strategies for its implementation on rate-state faults. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11254
Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Barall, M., Lapusta, N., Dunham, E. M., Harris, R. A., Abrahams, L. S., Allison, K. L., Ampuero, J., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Elbanna, A. E., Fialko, Y., Idini, B., Kozdon, J. E., Lambert, V. R., Liu, Y., Luo, Y., Ma, X., Best Mckay, M., Segall, P., Shi, P., van den Ende, M., & Wei, M. (2020). The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS). Seismological Research Letters, 91(2A), 874-890. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190248. SCEC Contribution 9066
Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Barall, M., Abdelmeguid, M., Abrahams, L. S., Allison, K. L., Ampuero, J., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Duan, B., Dunham, E. M., Elbanna, A. E., Fialko, Y., Harris, R. A., Idini, B., Kozdon, J. E., Lambert, V. R., Lapusta, N., Li, M., Liu, D., Liu, Y., Luo, Y., Ma, X., Pranger, C., Segall, P., Shi, P., Thakur, P., van den Ende, M., van Dinther, Y., & Wei, M. (2020, 08). Community Code Comparisons for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS): Exploring Full dynamics and 3D Effects. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10593
Cattania, C., Hainzl, S., & Segall, P. (2019, 08). Foreshocks and aftershocks on geometrically complex faults. Oral Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9909
Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Barall, M., Lapusta, N., Dunham, E. M., Harris, R. A., Abrahams, L. S., Allison, K. L., Ampuero, J., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Elbanna, A. E., Fialko, Y., Idini, B., Kozdon, J. E., Lambert, V. R., Liu, Y., Luo, Y., Ma, X., Best Mckay, M., Segall, P., Shi, P., van den Ende, M., & Wei, M. (2019, 08). The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS). Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9618
Mancini, S., Segou, M., Werner, M. J., & Cattania, C. (2019). Improving Physics‐Based Aftershock Forecasts During the 2016–2017 Central Italy Earthquake Cascade. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 8626-8643. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017874. SCEC Contribution 9015
Cattania, C., & Segall, P. (2019). Crack Models of Repeating Earthquakes Predict Observed Moment‐Recurrence Scaling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(1), 476-503. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016056. SCEC Contribution 8999
Cattania, C., & Segall, P. (2018, 08). Crack models of repeating earthquakes predict observed moment-recurrence scaling. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8749
Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Barall, M., Lapusta, N., Dunham, E. M., Harris, R. A., Abrahams, L., Allison, K. L., Ampuero, J., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Elbanna, A. E., Fialko, Y., Idini Zabala, B., Kozdon, J. E., Lambert, V. R., Liu, Y., Luo, Y., Ma, X., Segall, P., Shi, P., & Wei, M. (2018, 07). The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS): Initial Benchmarks and Future Directions. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8214
Cattania, C., Werner, M. J., Marzocchi, W., Hainzl, S., Rhoades, D., Gerstenberger, M., Liukis, M., Savran, W., Christophersen, A., Helmstetter, A., Jimenez, A., Steacy, S., & Jordan, T. H. (2018). The Forecasting Skill of Physics‐Based Seismicity Models during the 2010–2012 Canterbury, New Zealand, Earthquake Sequence. Seismological Research Letters, 89(4), 1238-1250. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180033. SCEC Contribution 8045
Cattania, C., Segall, P., & Hainzl, S. (2017, 08). Slip partitioning and scaling relations of repeating earthquakes on rate-state faults. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7818
Cattania, C., & Segall, P. (2016, 08). Earthquake cycles on rate-state faults: how does recurrence interval and its variability depend on fault length?. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6869
Last updated Sep 18, 2025.
