Heidi Houston
Dept of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
University of Southern California
Professor
Expertise: observational source seismology, stress and fault mechanics, slow slip
About Me
Publications
Zhang, S., & Houston, H. (2026, 08). Symmetric Nearest-Neighbor Analysis for Improved Earthquake Sequence Identification. Poster Presentation at 2026 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 15547
Wang, R., & Houston, H. (2026, 08). Effect of Coseismic Stress Changes from the 1999 Chi-Chi and 2024 Hualien Earthquakes on the Ambient Stress Field. Poster Presentation at 2026 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 15442
Zhang, S., Houston, H., Huang, S., & Wang, B. (2025, 09). Favorable tidal stress triggers more tremors with higher energies. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14375
Zhang, S., Houston, H., Wang, B., & Zhang, H. (2024, 09). Mapping of absolute deviatoric stresses around two California earthquakes reveals a very weak crust. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13589
Houston, H., Hall, K. A., & Schmidt, D. A. (2016, 08). Spatial and temporal relationships between tremor and slip in large slow slip earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7022
Peng, Z., Vidale, J. E., & Houston, H. (2006). Anomalous Early Aftershock Decay Rate of the 2004 Mw6.0 Parkfield, California, Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L17307. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL026744. SCEC Contribution 1028
Kagan, Y. Y., & Houston, H. (2005). Relation between mainshock rupture process and Omori's law for aftershock moment release rate. Geophysical Journal International, 163(3), 1039-1048. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02772.x. SCEC Contribution 922
Last updated Aug 10, 2026.
