Paula M. Figueiredo
Instituto Dom Luiz - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Assistant Researcher
Expertise: Active Tectonics, Tectonic Geomorphology, Paleoseismology, Quaternary Geochronology (Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides & Luminescence)
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Rockwell, T. K., Scharer, K. M., Brown, N. D., Buckley, W. C., Figueiredo, P. M., Fabbrizzi, A., & Williams, P. (2026, 08). High Resolution Holocene Slip Rate for the Southern San Andreas Fault at Salt Creek, Salton Trough, California. Poster Presentation at 2026 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 15111
Scharer, K. M., Rockwell, T. K., & Figueiredo, P. M. (2025, 09). Extending the southernmost San Jacinto Fault: evidence for repeat Holocene motion along the Wienert Strand. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14659
Meltzner, A. J., Rockwell, T. K., Tsang, R. Y., & Figueiredo, P. M. (2022, 09). Slip variability and temporal clustering along the Imperial fault at Mesquite Basin, Imperial Valley, California. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12568
Figueiredo, P. M., Bohnenstiehl, D. R., Merschat, A. J., Carter, M. W., Wegmann, K. W., Ricker, M. C., & Owen, L. A. (2022, 09). Surface deformation associated with the Mw 5.1 Sparta, North Carolina earthquake and evidence of recurrent Quaternary surface ruptures in an intraplate setting. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12353
Buckley, W. C., Rockwell, T. K., Scharer, K. M., Gontz, A. M., Figueiredo, P. M., & Morgan, Z. A. (2021, 08). Assessment of the paleoseismic potential of the Ferrum site along the southernmost San Andreas fault using new UAV imagery, GPR data, and preliminary trenching. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11148
Karlsson, K. W., Rockwell, T. K., Fletcher, J. M., Figueiredo, P. M., Cambron Rosas, J., Gontz, A. M., Prasanajit Naik, S., Lacan, P., Spelz, R. M., Owen, L. A., Peña Villa, I. A., & Loya, R. (2021). Large Holocene ruptures on the Cañada David detachment, Baja California, Mexico; implications for the seismogenesis of low-angle normal faults. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117070. SCEC Contribution 10217
Gold, P. O., Behr, W. M., Fletcher, J. M., Rockwell, T. K., & Figueiredo, P. M. (2020). Time‐Invariant Late Quaternary Slip Rates Along the Agua Blanca Fault, Northern Baja California, Mexico. Tectonics, 39(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005788. SCEC Contribution 9240
Figueiredo, P. M., Carter, M. W., Cattanach, B., Douglas, T. J., Hill, J. S., Kirby, E., Korte, D., Lynn, A., Merschat, A., Owen, L. A., Scheip, C., Stewart, K., Wells, S. B., & Wooten, R. M. (2020, 08). Preliminary observations of Mw 5.1 Sparta (North Carolina) surface deformation – a first documented Mw 5 instrumental earthquake surface rupture in Eastern USA?. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10753
Hill, J. S., Cattanach, B. L., Douglas, T. J., Figueiredo, P. M., Kirby, E., Korte, D. M., Lynn, A. S., Merschat, A. J., Owen, L. A., Scheip, C., Stewart, K. G., Wells, S. B., & Wooten, R. M. (2020, 08). Surface rupture of the Little River fault in response to the August 9, 2020 Mw 5.1 earthquake near Sparta, North Carolina. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10742
Onderdonk, N. W., Kerr, D. D., & Figueiredo, P. M. (2020, 08). Geomorphic and paleoseismic trenching evidence that the Glen Helen fault has not experienced surface rupture in the past 2000 years, and implications for slip transfer between the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault zones. . Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10436
Figueiredo, P. M., Weldon, R. J., Owen, L. A., & Onderdonk, N. W. (2019, 08). Preliminary Geochronology data for Cajon Pass Terraces- implications to the regional chronosequence. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9649
Kerr, D. D., Onderdonk, N. W., & Figueiredo, P. M. (2019, 08). Late Quaternary deformation and recency of faulting of the northernmost San Jacinto fault zone, and implications for slip transfer to San Andreas fault. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9630
Onderdonk, N. W., Kerr, D. D., & Figueiredo, P. M. (2019, 08). Using UAV-mounted LiDAR surveys to investigate potential slip rate sites along the northernmost San Jacinto fault zone near its junction with the San Andreas fault in the Cajon Pass area, California. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9408
Figueiredo, P. M., Weldon, R. J., & Owen, L. A. (2018, 08). Revisiting the Cajon Pass Quaternary Terraces with Geochronology dating implications for the long term slip rates of the San Jacinto and San Andreas systems. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8767
Karlsson, K. W., Rockwell, T. K., Fletcher, J. M., Gontz, A. M., Figueiredo, P. M., & Owen, L. A. (2018, 08). Paleoseismology and Neotectonics of the Southern Sierra El Mayor, Baja California, Mexico. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8410
McGill, S. F., Figueiredo, P. M., & Owen, L. A. (2017, 08). Puzzling results in a slip rate study for the Banning Strand of the San Andreas Fault near North Palm Springs. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7878
Angster, S. J., Wesnousky, S. G., Owen, L. A., Figueiredo, P. M., & Hammer, S. (2017, 08). Quaternary Rates of Slip for faults of the Central Walker Lane. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7771
Fletcher, J. M., Cambron, J. F., Rockwell, T. K., Karlsson, K. W., Figueiredo, P. M., Spelz, R. M., Lachan, P. G., Peña Villa, I., Leon Loya, A., Hinojosa, A., Prasanajit Naik , S., & Owen, L. A. (2017, 08). Do low-angle normal faults produce large earthquakes? A case study of the Cañada David Detachment of northern Baja California, Mexico. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7649
McGill, S. F., Figueiredo, P. M., & Owen, L. A. (2016, 08). Work in progress to estimate a Latest Pleistocene slip rate for the Banning Strand of the San Andreas Fault near North Palm Springs. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6737
Meltzner, A. J., Rockwell, T. K., Tsang, R. Y., & Figueiredo, P. M. (2016, 08). Slip variability and temporal clustering along the Imperial fault at Mesquite Basin, Imperial Valley, California, and possible through-going rupture to the San Andreas fault. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6728
Last updated Aug 10, 2026.
