Publicaciones

2021

• Peña C., Heidbach O., Moreno M., Melnick D. and Oncken O. (2021) Transient Deformation and Stress Patterns Induced by the 2010 Maule Earthquake in the Illapel Segment. Frontiers in Earth Science / Solid Earth Geophysics 9 (157) https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.644834
• Astudillo-Sotomayor L., Jara-Muñoz J., Melnick D., Cortés-Aranda J., Tassara A., Strecker M. R. (2021) Fast Holocene slip and localized strain along the Liquiñe‑Ofqui strike‑slip fault system, Chile. Scientific Reports, Nature 11 (5970) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85036-5
• Aedo D., Melnick D., Garrett E., & Pino M. (2021) Origen y distribución de depósitos de tsunami en la marisma de Chaihuín (40° S/73,5° O), Chile. Andean Geology 48 (1): 125-152 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5027/andgeoV48n1-3258
• Maldonado, V., Contreras, M. & Melnick, D. (2021) A comprehensive database of active and potentially-active continental faults in Chile at 1:25,000 scale. Sci Data 8, 20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00802-4

2020

• Zamora N., Gubler A., Orellana V., León J., Urrutia A., Carvajal M., Cisternas M., Catalán P., Winckler P., Cienfuegos R., Karich C., Vogel S., Galaz J., Pereira S. and Bertin C. (2020) The 1730 Great Metropolitan Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Commemoration: Joint Efforts to Increase the Country’s Awareness. Geosciencies 10, 246 https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10060246
• Brill D. and Cisternas M. (2020) Testing quartz and feldspar luminescence dating to determine earthquake and tsunami recurrence in the area of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake. Quaternary Geochronology 58 / 101080 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2020.101080
• Garret E., Melnick D., Dura T., Cisternas M., Ely L.L., Wesson R. L., Jara-Muñoz J. and Whitehouse P. L. (2020) Holocene relative sea-level change along the tectonically active Chilean coast. Quaternary Science Reviews 236 / 106281 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106281
• Bedford J. R., Moreno M., Deng Z., Oncken O., Schurr B., John T., Báez J. C. and Bevis M. (2020) Months-long thousand-kilometre-scale wobbling before great subduction earthquakes. Nature 580, 628–635 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2212-1
• Shi F., Li S. and Moreno M. (2020) Megathrust Locking and Viscous Mantle Flow Induce Continental Shortening in Central Andes. Pure and Applied Geophysics 177 / 2841-2852 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02403-0
• Ojeda J., Ruiz S., Del Campo F. and Carvajal M. (2020) The 21 May 1960 Mw 8.1 Concepción Earthquake: A Deep Megathrust Foreshock That Started the 1960 CentralSouth Chilean Seismic Sequence. Seismological Research Letters 91 (3): 1617–1627 https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190143
• De Gelder G., Jara-Muñoz J., Melnick D., Fernández-Blanco D., Rouby H., Pedoja K., Husson L., Armijo R. and Lacassin R. (2020) How do sea-level curves influence modeled marine terrace sequences? Quaternary Science Reviews 229 / 106132 https://doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106132
• Lupi M., Trippanera D., González D., D’amico S., Acocella V., Cabello C., Muelle Stef M. and Tassara A. (2020). Transient tectonic regimes imposed by megathrust earthquakes and the growth of NW-trending volcanic systems in the Southern Andes. Tectonophysics 774 / 228204 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228204
• Peña C., Heidbach O., Moreno M., Bedford J., Ziegler M., Tassara A. and Oncken O. (2020) Impact of power-law rheology on the viscoelastic relaxation pattern and afterslip distribution following the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 542 / 116292 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116292
• Sepúlveda I., Haase J., Carvajal M., Xu X. and Liu P. (2020) Modeling the Sources of the 2018 Palu, Indonesia, Tsunami Using Videos From Social Media. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 125 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018675

2019

• Carvajal M., Cisternas M., Gubler A., and Muñoz D. (2019) Past and future tsunamis in central Chile. La zona costera en Chile: adaptación y planificación para la resiliencia. Hidalgo R., Martinez C., Henríquez C., Arenas F., Rangel-Buitrago N. and Contreras-López M. PROYECTO FONDECYT Nº 1151367, la Cátedra UNESCO-Cousteau “Formación de especialistas en Ordenamiento Territorial y Desarrollo Sustentable de la Zona Costera”, y el Centro para la Gestión Integrada del Riesgo de Desastre, CIGIDEN http://cyclosismico.cl/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/6_Matías-Carvajal.pdf
• Zamora N. and Babeyko A.Y. (2019) Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment for Local and Regional Seismic Sources Along the Pacific Coast of Central America with Emphasis on the Role of Selected Uncertainties. Pure and Applied Geophysics 177, 1471–1495 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02372-4
• Stewart D. (2019) El mercado regional de Concepción y su articulación al mercado virreinal y mundial. Siglo XVII. Historia N° 52(1): 259-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-71942019000100259
• Stewart D. (2019) Historical tsunamis in the Concepcion bay, as seen in the reconstructed flood levels from the colonial city of Concepcion ( Penco ), Chile ( 1570-1835 ). Revista de Historia https://doi:10.1785/0120110289.4
• Peña C., Heidbach O., Moreno M., Bedford J., Ziegler M., Tassara A. and Oncken O. (2019) Role of Lower Crust in the Postseismic Deformation of the 2010 Maule Earthquake: Insights from a Model with Power-Law Rheology. Pure and Applied Geophysics 1-16 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-018-02090-3
• Van Daele M., Araya-Cornejo C., Pille T., Vanneste K., Moernaut J., Schmidt S., Kempf P., Meyer I. and Cisternas M. (2019) Distinguishing intraplate from megathrust earthquakes using lacustrine turbidites. Geology. The Geological Society of America 47 (2): 127–130 https://doi.org/10.1130/G45662.1
• Jara-Muñoz J., Melnick D., Pedoja K. and Strecker M. R. (2019). TerraceM-2: A Matlab Interface for Mapping and Modeling Marine and Lacustrine Terraces. Frontiers in Earth Science (2019) 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00255
• González J., González G., Aránguiz R., Melgar D., Zamora N., N. Shrivastava M., Das R., Catalán P. y Cienfuegos R. (2019) A hybrid deterministic and stochastic approach for tsunami hazard assessment in Iquique, Chile. Natural Hazards 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03809-8
• Melnick D., Hillemann C., Jara-Muñoz J., Garrett E., Cortés-Aranda J., Molina D., Tassara A. and Strecker M. R. (2019). Hidden Holocene Slip Along the Coastal El Yolki Fault in Central Chile and Its Possible Link With Megathrust Earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 124 / 7280-7302 https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017188
• Carvajal M., Araya‐Cornejo C., Sepúlveda I., Melnick D. and Haase J. S. (2019) Nearly Instantaneous Tsunamis Following the Mw 7.5 2018 Palu earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 2019GL082578. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082578
• Mazzorana B., Picco L., Rainato R., Iroumé A., Ruiz-Villanueva V., Rojas C., Valdebenito G., Iribarren-Anacona P. and Melnick D. (2019) Cascading processes in a changing environment: Disturbances on fluvial ecosystems in Chile and implications for hazard and risk management. Science of The Total Environment, 655, 1089–1103. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.217
• Moernaut J., Van Daele M., Heirman K., Wiemer G., Molenaar A., Vandorpe T., Melnick D., Hajdas I., Pino M., Urrutia R. and De Batist M. (2019) The subaqueous landslide cycle in south-central Chilean lakes : The role of tephra, slope gradient and repeated seismic shaking. Sedimentary Geology, 381, 84–105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.01.002
• Garrett E., Brader M., Melnick D., Bedford J. and Aedo D. (2019). First Field Evidence of Coseismic Land‐Level Change Associated with the 25 December 2016 Mw 7.6 Chiloé, Chile, Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 109 N° 1 pp- 87-98 http://doi.org/10.1785/0120180173
• Inzunza D., Montalva G., Leyton F., Prieto G. and Ruiz, S. (2019). Shallow Ambient‐Noise 3D Tomography in the Concepción Basin, Chile: Implications for Low‐Frequency Ground Motions. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 109 N° 1 pp. 75-86 http://doi.org/10.1785/0120180061

2018

• Cardona C., Tassara A., Gil-Cruz F., Lara L., Morales S., Kohler P. and Franco L. (2018). Crustal seismicity associated to rpid surface uplift at Laguna del Maule Volcanic Complex, Southern Volcanic Zone of the Andes. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 353, 83–94. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2018.01.009
• Li S., Bedford J., Moreno M., Barnhart W. D., Rosenau M. and Oncken, O. (2018). Spatiotemporal variation of mantle viscosity and the presence of cratonic mantle inferred from 8 years of postseismic deformation following the 2010 Maule, Chile, earthquake. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007645
• Melnick D., Li S., Moreno M., Cisternas M., Jara-Muñoz J., Wesson R., Nelson A., Báez J. C. & Deng Z. (2018) Back to full interseismic plate locking decades after the giant 1960 Chile earthquake. Nature Communications 9:3527 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05989-6
• Moreno M. , Li S. , Melnick D., Bedford J.R., Báez J. C., Motagh M., Metzger S. , Vajedian S., Sippl C. , Gutknecht B. D. , Contreras-Reyes E., Deng Z., Tassara A. and Oncken O. (2018) Chilean megathrust earthquake recurrence linked to frictional contrast at depth. Nature Geoscience volumen 11 , pp. 285-290 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0089-5
• Albert F., Kukowski N., Tassara A. and Oncken O. (2018). Material transfer and subduction channel segmentation at erosive continental margins: Insights from scaled analogue experiments, Tectonophysics 749 pp. 46-61 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.10.019
• Mazzorana B., Trenkwalder-Platzer H., Heiser M., and Hübl, J. (2018). Quantifying the damage susceptibility to extreme events of mountain stream check dams using Rough Set Analysis. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 11(4), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12333

2017

• Cisternas M., Carvajal M., Wesson R., Ely L. L. and Gorigoitia N. (2017) Exploring the Historical Earthquakes Preceding the Giant 1960 Chile Earthquake in a Time-Dependent Seismogenic Zone, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 107 (6): 2664-2675 https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170103
• Dura T., Horton B. P., Cisternas M., Ely L. L., Hong I., Nelson A. R., Wesson R. L., Pilarczyk J. E., Parnell A. C. and Nikitina D. (2017) Subduction zone slip variability during the last millennium, south-central Chile, Quaternary Science Reviews 175 (2017) 112-137 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.023
• Ruiz, S., Moreno M., Melnick D., Del Campo F., Poli P., Báez J.C., Leyton F. and Madariaga R. (2017) Reawakening of large earthquakes in South-Central Chile: The 2016 Mw7.6 Chiloé event, Geophysical Research Letters 44 https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074133
• Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Zambrano, P., Rietbrock, A., Gonzalez, J., Argandoña, B. and Strecker, M.R., (2017) Quantifying offshore forearc deformation and splay-fault slip using drowned Pleistocene shorelines, Arauco Bay, Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research 122 pp. 4529-4558 https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013339