David R. Shelly
U.S. Geological Survey
Research Geophysicist
Expertise: Seismology/tectonics
About Me
Publications
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SCEC Participation
SCEC Mentor (2011)Alongi, T. V., Skoumal, R. J., Shelly, D. R., & Hatem, A. (2025, 09). Non-planar 3D fault models from earthquake hypocenters. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14729
Shelly, D. R., Thomas, A. M., Materna, K., & Skoumal, R. J. (2025, 09). Low-Frequency Earthquakes Track the Evolution of a Captured Slab Fragment at the Mendocino Triple Junction. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14441
Alongi, T. V., Elliott, A. J., Skoumal, R., Hatem, A., & Shelly, D. R. (2024, 09). From Hypocentral Seismicity Patterns to 3D Fault Models. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13674
Yoon, C., & Shelly, D. R. (2023, 09). Distinct Aftershock Sequences of Moderate Magnitude Earthquakes Near the Mendocino Triple Junction in Northern California: 2021-12-20 Mw 6.1 and 6.0 Petrolia Sequence, and 2022-12-20 Mw 6.4 Ferndale Earthquake. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13102
Shelly, D. R., Goldberg, D. E., Skoumal, R. J., Hardebeck, J. L., Materna, K. Z., Yoon, C. E., Yeck, W. L., & Earle, P. (2023, 09). The 2022 M 6.4 Ferndale, California Earthquake Sequence: A Piece of the Puzzle at the Mendocino Triple Junction. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12821
Shelly, D. R., Skoumal, R. J., & Hardebeck, J. L. (2021, 08). Conjugate Rupture Patterns and Role of Fluids in the 2020 Maacama Fault, California Earthquake Swarm. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11168
Shelly, D. R. (2020). A High-Resolution Seismic Catalog for the Initial 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence: Foreshocks, Aftershocks, and Faulting Complexity. Seismological Research Letters, 91(4), 1971-1978. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190309. SCEC Contribution 10125
Shelly, D. R. (2019, 08). Foreshocks, Aftershocks, and Faulting Complexity: the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence in High Resolution. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9770
Shelly, D. R., & Hardebeck, J. L. (2018, 08). Illuminating faulting complexity of the 2017 Yellowstone (Maple Creek) earthquake swarm. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8323
Thomas, A., Beeler, N. M., Bletery, Q., Bürgmann, R., & Shelly, D. R. (2018). Using Low-Frequency Earthquake Families on the San Andreas Fault as Deep Creepmeters. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(1), 457-475. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014404. SCEC Contribution 7965
Shelly, D. R. (2017, 08). A 15-year catalog of more than 1 million low-frequency earthquakes: tracking tremor and slip along the deep San Andreas Fault. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7653
Xue, L., Bürgmann, R., & Shelly, D. R. (2017, 08). Frequency-Dependent Tidal Triggering of Low Frequency Earthquakes Near Parkfield, California. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7376
Shelly, D. R., Hardebeck, J. L., Ellsworth, W. L., & Hill, D. P. (2016, 08). A new strategy for earthquake focal mechanisms using waveform-correlation-derived relative polarities and cluster analysis: Application to a fluid-driven earthquake swarm. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6766
Thomas, A., Beroza, G. C., Shelly, D. R., Bostock, M., Rubin, A. M., Savard, G., & Chuang, L. (2016, 09). Constraints on the Source Parameters of Low-Frequency Earthquakes in Parkfield and Cascadia. Oral Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6436
Zeng, X., Thurber, C. H., Shelly, D. R., Harrington, R. M., Cochran, E. S., Bennington, N. L., Peterson, D., Guo, B., & McClement, K. D. (2016). 3-D P- and S-wave velocity structure and low-frequency earthquake locations in the Parkfield, California region. Geophysical Journal International, 206(3), 1574-1585. SCEC Contribution 6293
Hauksson, E., Andrews, J., Plesch, A., Shaw, J. H., & Shelly, D. R. (2016). The 2015 Fillmore Earthquake Swarm and Possible Crustal Deformation Mechanisms Near the Bottom of the eastern Ventura Basin, California. Seismological Research Letters, 87(4), 807-815. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220160020. SCEC Contribution 6208
McClement, K. D., Thurber, C. H., Shelly, D. R., Sumy, D. F., Bennington, N. L., Peterson, D. E., Cochran, E. S., & Harrington, R. M. (2013, 12). Extending seismic tomography along the San Andreas fault to the lower crust with low frequency earthquakes. Oral Presentation at 2013 AGU Fall Meeting. SCEC Contribution 2056
Hill, D. P., Peng, Z., Shelly, D. R., & Aiken, C. (2013). S-wave triggering of tremor beneath the Parkfield, CA, section of the San Andreas Fault by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Japan earthquake: observations and theory. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 103(2B), 811-833. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120120144. SCEC Contribution 1868
Peterson, D. E., Thurber, C. H., Shelly, D. R., Bennington, N. L., Zhang, H., & Brown, J. R. (2012, 12). Tomographic imaging of the tectonic tremor zone beneath the San Andreas fault in the Parkfield region. Oral Presentation at AGU Fall Meeting 2012. SCEC Contribution 1784
Peng, Z., Aiken, C., Kilb, D. L., Shelly, D. R., & Enescu, B. D. (2012). Listening to the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake. Seismological Research Letters, 83(2), 287-293. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.83.2.287. SCEC Contribution 1563
Peterson, D. E., Thurber, C. H., Montgomery-Brown, E. K., Brown, J. R., & Shelly, D. R. (2011, 12). Identifying and locating tectonic tremor beneath the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, CA, with the PASO array. Presentation at 2011 AGU Fall Meeting. SCEC Contribution 2057
Shelly, D. R., Peng, Z., Hill, D. P., & Aiken, C. (2011). Triggered creep as a possible mechanism for delayed dynamic triggering of tremor and earthquakes. Nature Geoscience, 4, 384–388. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1141. SCEC Contribution 1558
Peng, Z., Hill, D. P., Shelly, D. R., & Aiken, C. (2010). Remotely triggered microearthquakes and tremor in Central California following the 2010 Mw8.8 Chile Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L24312. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL045462. SCEC Contribution 1556
Last updated Aug 14, 2025.
