Elizabeth H. Hearn
Capstone Geophysics
Consulting Geophysicist
Expertise: kinematics and dynamics of lithosphere deformation and faulting
About Me
Publications
Luttrell, K., Hardebeck, J. L., & Hearn, E. H. (2024, 09). Toward a Statewide Community Model for Stress Orientation and Stressing Rate. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13675
Field, E. H., Milner, K. R., Hatem, A., Powers, P. M., Pollitz, F. F., Llenos, A. L., Zeng, Y., Johnson, K. M., Shaw, B. E., McPhillips, D., Thompson, J., Shumway, A. M., Michael, A. J., Shen, Z., Evans, E. L., Hearn, E. H., Mueller, C. S., Frankel, A., Petersen, M. D., DuRoss, C. B., Briggs, R., Page, M. T., Rubinstein, J. L., & Herrick, J. (2023). The USGS 2023 Conterminous U.S. Time‐Independent Earthquake Rupture Forecast. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America,. doi: 10.1785/0120230120. SCEC Contribution 13392
Petersen, M. D., Shumway, A. M., Powers, P. M., Field, E. H., Moschetti, M. P., Jaiswal, K. S., Milner, K. R., Rezaeian, S., Frankel, A., Llenos, A. L., Michael, A. J., Altekruse, J., Ahdi, S. K., Withers, K. B., Mueller, C. S., Zeng, Y., Chase, R., Salditch, L., Luco, N., Rukstales, K. S., Herrick, J. A., Girot, D. L., Aagaard, B. T., Bender, A. M., Blanpied, M. L., Briggs, R., Boyd, O. S., Clayton, B. S., DuRoss, C. B., Evans, E. L., Haeussler, P., Hatem, A., Haynie, K. L., Hearn, E. H., Johnson, K. M., Kortum, Z. A., Kwong, N. S., Makdisi, A. J., Mason, B., McNamara, D., McPhillips, D., Okubo, P., Page, M. T., Pollitz, F. F., Rubinstein, J. L., Shaw, B. E., Shen, Z., Shiro, B., Smith, J. A., Stephenson, W. J., Thompson, E. M., Thompson Jobe, J. A., Wirth, E., & Witter, R. C. (2023). The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview and implications. Earthquake Spectra,. doi: 10.1177/87552930231215428. SCEC Contribution 13391
Su, M., Maechling, P. J., Pauk, E., Huynh, T. T., Marshall, S. T., Floyd, M., Hearn, E. H., & Montesi, L. G. (2021, 08). Improving web-based access tools for the SCEC Community Models. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11654
Maechling, P. J., Su, M., Marshall, S. T., Hearn, E. H., & Montesi, L. G. (2021, 08). The SCEC Unified Community Velocity Model (UCVM) Software Models and Tools. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11579
Hearn, E. H. (2021, 08). San Andreas Fault seismic-cycle models incorporating viscous shear zones and the SCEC Community Rheology Model (CRM). Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11217
Hearn, E. H., Montesi, L. G., Hirth, G., Oskin, M. E., Behr, W. M., & Thatcher, W. R. (2021, 08). The SCEC Community Rheology Model: A modular resource for investigating the effective viscosity structure of southern California. Oral Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11113
Hearn, E. H., Oskin, M. E., Hirth, G., Montesi, L. G., Thatcher, W. R., Behr, W. M., & Pauk, E. (2020, 08). The SCEC Community Rheology Model (CRM) . Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10606
Maechling, P. J., Su, M., Hearn, E. H., Marshall, S. T., Plesch, A., Shaw, J. H., Oskin, M. E., Montesi, L. G., Pauk, E., Huynh, T. T., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2020, 08). Developing Web-based Visualization and Query Tools for the SCEC CVM, CFM, GFM, and CTM Community Models. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10315
Thatcher, W. R., Hearn, E. H., Oskin, M. E., Montesi, L. G., Hirth, G., Behr, W. M., Plesch, A., & Shaw, J. H. (2019, 08). Preliminary SCEC Community Rheology Model. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9833
Hearn, E. H., & Williams, C. A. (2019, 08). Postseismic deformation models for the July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes: Applications of the SCEC Community Rheology Model. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9806
Su, M., Maechling, P. J., Marshall, S. T., Nicholson, C., Plesch, A., Shaw, J. H., Pauk, E., Huynh, T. T., & Hearn, E. H. (2019, 08). A Queryable Map-Based Web Interface to the SCEC Community Fault Model. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9787
Hearn, E. H. (2019). Kinematics of southern California crustal deformation: Insights from finite-element models. Tectonophysics, 758, 12-28. SCEC Contribution 8217
Hearn, E. H., Oskin, M. E., Thatcher, W. R., Hirth, G., Behr, W. M., & Legg, M. R. (2018, 08). Progress toward a Community Rheology Model of Southern California. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8696
Hearn, E. H. (2016, 09). How Sensitive are Inferred Stresses and Stressing Rates to Rheology? Clues from Southern California Deformation Models. Oral Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6447
Hearn, E. H., & Thatcher, W. R. (2015). Reconciling viscoelastic models of postseismic and interseismic deformation: Effects of viscous shear zones and finite-length ruptures. Journal of Geophysical Research, 120(4), 2794-2819. SCEC Contribution 1956
Thatcher, W. R., Hearn, E. H., & Hirth, G. H. (2013). Ductile Rheology of the Southern California Lithosphere: Constraints from Deformation Modeling, Rock Mechanics, and Field Observations. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 94(32), 280. doi: 10.1002/20. SCEC Contribution 1824
Hearn, E. H., Pollitz, F. F., & Thatcher, W. R. (2013). How do “ghost transients” from past earthquakes affect GPS slip rate estimates on southern California faults?. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(4), 828-838. doi: 10.1002/ggge.20080. SCEC Contribution 1666
Vaghri, A., & Hearn, E. H. (2012). Can Lateral Viscosity Contrasts Explain Asymmetric Interseismic Deformation around Strike-Slip faults?. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 102(2), 490-503. doi: 10.1785/0120100347. SCEC Contribution 1494
Hearn, E. H., Johnson, K. M., & Thatcher, W. R. (2010). Space geodetic data improve seismic hazard assessment in California: Workshop on incorporating geodetic surface deformation data into UCERF3; Pomona, California, 1-2 April 2010. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 91(38), 336. doi: 10.1029/2010EO380007. SCEC Contribution 1878
Finzi, Y., Hearn, E. H., Ben-Zion, Y., & Lyakhovsky, V. (2009). Structural properties and deformation patterns of evolving strike-slip faults: Numerical simulations incorporating damage rheology. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 166, 1537–1573. doi: 10.1007/s00024-009-0522-1. SCEC Contribution 1711
Hearn, E. H., & Fialko, Y. (2009). Can compliant fault zones be used to measure absolute stresses in the upper crust?. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114. doi: 10.1029/2008JB005901. SCEC Contribution 1232
Finzi, Y., Hearn, E. H., Ben-Zion, Y., & Lyakhovsky, V. (2009). Structural Properties and Deformation Patterns of Evolving Strike-slip Faults: Numerical Simulations Incorporating Damage Rheology . Pure and Applied Geophysics, 166(10-11), 1537-1573. doi: 10.1007/s00024-009-0522-1. SCEC Contribution 1231
Hearn, E. H., & Bürgmann, R. (2005). The Effect of Elastic Layering on Inversions of GPS Data for Coseismic Slip and Resulting Stress Changes: Strike-Slip Earthquakes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 95(5), 1637-1653. doi: 10.1785/0120040158. SCEC Contribution 850
Hearn, E. H. (2003). What Can GPS Data Tell Us About the Dynamics of Post-Seismic Deformation?. Geophysical Journal International, 155(3), 753-777. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2003.02030.x. SCEC Contribution 716
Hearn, E. H., & Humphreys, E. D. (1998). Kinematics of the southern Walker Lane Belt and Motion of the Sierra Nevada, California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103(B11), 27033-27049. SCEC Contribution 408
Last updated Sep 19, 2024.
