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2021
- Sippl C. , Moreno M., and Benavente R. (2021) Microseismicity Appears to Outline Highly Coupled Regions on the Central Chile Megathrust. JGR Solid Earth. Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022252
- Collignona M., Cardellini C., Duprat-Oualid S. , Hammer O., Chiodini G., Vandemeulebrouck J., Gonzalez D., Espinoza A , Tassara A, Ruch J (2021) Carbon dioxide diffuse emission at the Tolhuaca hydrothermal system (Chile) controlled by tectonics and topography. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JVOLGEORES.2021.107316
- Cortés-Aranda J., Gonzalez R., Fernandez V., Astudillo L., Millerf M. , Molina D., Oviedo A. (2021) Neotectonic evidence for Late Quaternary reverse faulting in the northern Chile outer forearc (22.5◦S-23◦S): Implications for seismic hazard. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JSAMES.2021.103219
- DePaolis J., Dura T, MacInnes B., Ely L., Cisternas M. , Carvajal M., Tang H., Fritz H. M., Mizobe C., Wesson R. L., Figueroa G., Brennan N., Horton B. P., Pilarczyk J. E., Corbett D. R., Benjamin C. Gill, Weiss R. (2021) Stratigraphic evidence of two historical tsunamis on the semi-arid coast of north-central Chile. Quaternary Science Reviews. Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.QUASCIREV.2021.107052
- Drápela J., Calisto I., Moreno M. (2021) Escenarios de tsunami derivados del bloqueo para los mega terremotos más recientes en Chile: implicaciones para la evaluación del peligro de tsunamis. Natural Hazards. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11069-021-04572-5
- Freisleben R., Jara-Muñoz J., Melnick D., Martínez J. M., and Strecker M. R.(2021). Marine terraces of the last interglacial period along the Pacific coast of South America (1◦ N–40◦ S). Earth Syst. Sci. Data. https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/2487/2021/
- Hocking E. P., Garrett E., Aedo D., Carvajal M. y Melnick D.(2021) Geological evidence of an unreported historical Chilean tsunami reveals more frequent inundation. Communications earth and environment. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00319-z
- Melnick D. (2021). Megathrusts sin prisa. Nature Geoscience. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00750-z
- Montalva G. A., Bastías N., and Leyton F. (2021) Strong Ground Motion Prediction Model for PGV and Spectral Velocity for the Chilean Subduction Zone. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120210037
- Peña C, Heidbach O., Moreno M., Melnick D. and Oncken O. (2021). Patrones transitorios de deformación y tensión inducidos por el terremoto del Maule de 2010 en el segmento de Illapel. Frontiers en Ciencias de la Tierra. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.644834
- Peña C, Cabello C., Tassara D. (2021) Dynamic and kinematic characterization of the basement structures of the Mocho-Choshuenco Volcanic Complex, Southern Andes, Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JSAMES.2021.103435
- Stewart D. (2021). El terremoto de 1657 en Concepción, Chile, un análogo colonial del terremoto en Maule 2010. Cuadernos de Historia.
- Wang Y., Zamora, Quiroz N M., Satake K, y Cienfuegos R.(2021). Carácter de resonancia de tsunamiacterización en Japón debido a Trans-Pacific Sources: Respuesta sobre la bahía y Placa continental. JGR Oceans. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JC017037
- Zamora N, Catalán P.A, Gubler A. and Carvajal M.(2021) Microzonificación del peligro de tsunami mediante la combinación de profundidades de flujo y tiempos de llegada. Frontiers en Ciencias de la Tierra. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.591514
- Brader M., Garret E., Melnick D., Shennan I., (2021) Sensitivity of tidal marshes as recorders of major megathrust earthquakes: constraints from the 25 December 2016 Mw 7.6 Chiloé earthquake, Chile. Journal of quaternary Science DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3323
- Acuña F., Montalva G., and Melnick D,. (2021) How Good is a Paleoseismic Record of Megathrust Earthquakes for Probabilistic Forecasting
- Molina D., Tassara A., Abarca R., Melnick D. and Madella A. (2021) Frictional Segmentation of the Chilean Megathrust from a Multivariate Analysis of Geophysical, Geological and Geodetic Data. Journal of Geophysical Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10503796.1
- Espinoza M., Oliveros V., Vásquez P., Giambiagi L., Morgan L., González R., Solari L. and Bechis F. (2021) Gondwanan Inheritance on the Building of the Western Central Andes (Domeyko Range, Chile): Structural and Thermochronological Approach (U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar) Tectonics 40 (3) https://doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006475
- Carvajal M., Winckler P., Garreaud R., Igualt F., Contreras-López M., Averil P., Cisternas M., Gubler A. and Breuer A. W. (2021) Extreme sea levels at Rapa Nui (Easter Island) during intense atmospheric rivers. Natural Hazards 106 (1619-1637) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04462-2
- 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
- Racano S., Jara-Muñoz J., Cosentino D. and Melnick D. (2020) Variable Quaternary Uplift Along the Southern Margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau Inferred From Modeling Marine Terrace Sequences. Tectonics 39 (12) https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005921
- Schurr B., Moreno M., Tréhu A.M., Bedford J., Kummerow J., Li S. and Oncken O. (2020) Forming a Mogi Doughnut in the Years Prior to and Immediately Before the 2014 M8.1 Iquique, Northern Chile, Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters 47 (16) https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088351
- Stewart D.M. (2020) Recalibrando el terremoto del 8 de julio de 1730 en Valparaíso, Chile: dando contexto histórico a las fuentes primarias. Revista de Historia 27 (2) https://doi.org/10.29393/RH27-13RTDS10013
- 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
- Stewart D.M. (2020) El terremoto de 1657 de Concepción, Chile, un análogo colonial del Terremoto de Maule 2010.
- 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
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Carvajal M. and Melnick D. Fuentes de Sismicidad en Chile (2020) Chile cambiando. Revisitando la Geografía rgional de Wolfgang Weischet (375-382) http://bibliotecadigital.ciren.cl/handle/
123456789/32065 - 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) 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