Michael L. Blanpied
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
Associate Coordinator
Expertise: Laboratory rock mechanics; earthquake triggering; earthquake forecasting and prediction; earthquake hazards and risk assessment; science communications; science program management.
About Me
Publications
Field, E. H., Jordan, T. H., Jones, L. M., Michael, A. J., & Blanpied, M. L. (2015). The Potential Uses of Operational Earthquake Forecasting. Seismological Research Letters, (in preparation). SCEC Contribution 6029
Blanpied, M. L. (2025, 09). The NEHRP post-earthquake investigations program. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14599
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,. https://doi.org/10.1177/87552930231215428. SCEC Contribution 13391
Blanpied, M. L., Kottke, A. R., Reath, K., & Lara, J. (2023, 09). SCEC Sponsor Remarks. Oral Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13323
Field, E. H., Jordan, T. H., Jones, L. M., Michael, A. J., & Blanpied, M. L. (2017). The potential uses of operational earthquake forecasting. Seismological Research Letters, 87(2a), 313-322. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220150174. SCEC Contribution 7292
Magnani, M., Blanpied, M. L., DeShon, H., & Hornbach, M. (2016, 08). Discriminating Between Induced vs Tectonic Seismicity in Intraplate Regions: the Contribution of the Long-Term History of Fault Behavior . Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6692
Field, E. H., Gupta, N., Gupta, V., Blanpied, M. L., Maechling, P. J., & Jordan, T. H. (2005). Hazard Calculations for the WGCEP-2002 Earthquake Forecast Using OpenSHA and Distributed Object Technologies. Seismological Research Letters, 76(2), 161-167. SCEC Contribution 819
Last updated Sep 18, 2025.
