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John B. Rundle
University of California, Davis
Distinguished Professor
Expertise: Earthquake Source physics driven threshhold systems statistical field theory and physics of earthquakes; phase transitions; complex systems; driven threshold systems.
John was a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology (1980-1982) at the Caltech Seismological Laboratory. He was also a Member (1990 - 1997) and Chair (1994-1996) of the scientific Advisory Council to the Southern California Earthquake Center. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (1995-present), an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2005), the American Geophysical Union (2008), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017). Recently, he was a co-winner of the NASA Software of the Year Award (2012). John received his B.S.E from Princeton University (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi), and M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) from the University of California at Los Angeles. In addition to natural hazards and earthquakes, he also has professional interests in forecasting, validation of forecasts, and quantitative finance. He co-organized (along with Michael Maouboussin, Chris Wood and Martin Lebowitz) a yearly meeting on risk for the Santa Fe Institute, often held at Morgan Stanley, Inc., in New York. He teaches courses in Risk and Natural Disasters; Complex Systems; and Econophysics and Quantitative Finance at the University of California, Davis.
SCEC Participation
Current Roles
SCEC Board of Directors, Core Institution Member (2024 - Present)
Saylor, C., & Rundle, J. B. (2021, 08). Multifractal analysis of a seismic moment distribution obtained from InSAR inversion. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11175
Ortez, R., & Rundle, J. B. (2019, 08). A Percolation Model for Induced Seismicity: An Avalanche Burst Model for Induced b-Value Seismicity.. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9890
Grzan, D., Rundle, J. B., Wilson, J. M., & Song, T. (2019, 07). Tsunami Squares: Validation by Comparison to the Regional Ocean Modeling System Tsunami Simulator and Earthquake Driven Inundation Mapping. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9247
Wilson, J. M., Rundle, J. B., Ward, S., Donnellan, A., Song, T., Komjathy, A., & Savastano, G. (2017, 08). Tsunami Squares: fast tsunami computation for use in coupled earthquake, tsunami, and ionosphere simulations. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7493
Wilson, J. M., Schultz, K. W., Rundle, J. B., & Bhaskar, R. (2016, 09). Using Virtual Quake for GNSS tsunami early warning: coupling earthquakes, tsunamis, and ionosphere physics. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6868
Klein, W., Gulbahce, N., Gould, H., Rundle, J. B., & Tiampo, K. F. (2007). The structure of fluctuations near mean-field critical points and spinodals and its implication for physical processes. Physical Review E, 75(3). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.031114. SCEC Contribution 942
Tiampo, K. F., Rundle, J. B., & Klein, W. (2006). Stress Shadows Determined from a Phase Dynamical Measure of Historic Seismicity. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 163(11-12), 2407-2416. doi: 10.1007/s00024-006-0134-y. SCEC Contribution 812
Tiampo, K. F., Rundle, J. B., & Klein, W. (2006). Premonitory Seismicity Changes Prior to the Parkfield and Coalinga Earthquakes in Southern California. Tectonophysics, 413(1-2), 77-86. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.10.011. SCEC Contribution 811
Tiampo, K. F., Rundle, J. B., Sá Martins, J. S., Klein, W., & McGinnis, S. (2004). Methods for Evaluation of Geodetic Data and Seismicity Developed with Numerical Simulations: Review and Applications. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 161(7), 1489-1507. doi: 10.1007/s00024-004-2516-3. SCEC Contribution 704