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Susan L. Beck Professor, Global Seismology and Tectonics

My research involves using broadband seismology to understand mountain belts, earthquakes and faulting.  I am interested in the evolution of the North and South American Cordilleras with much of my current research on the south central Andes.   I am also working on earthquakes and Earth structure associated with subduction zones and strike-slip plate boundaries.

Research

• Overview
• North Anatolia Fault, Turkey:  Web Site  One-page pdf summary
• BANJO/SEDA: Central Andes in Bolivia
• CHARGE: South Central Andes in Argentina and Chile:  Web site  One-page pdf summary
• Historic Earthquakes in South America (pdf file, 1.3 MB)
• 2001 Peru Earthquake (Mw = 8.4) (pdf file, 1.7 MB)
• 2001 Kunlun Earthquake (Mw = 7.8) (AGU abstract)
• 2002 Denali (Alaska) Earthquake (pdf file, 812 k)

Courses

• Geos 218, Geological Disasters and Society
• Geos 432/532, Introduction to Seismology
• Geos 477/577, Active Tectonics
• Geos 596F, Intermediate Seismology (Spring 2008)

Curriculum Vitae

• Curriculum Vitae with recent publications list

Related Links

• Global Seismology and Tectonics Group at the University of Arizona
• Tucson (TUC) Seismic Station Display
• Arizona Earthquake Information Center (Northern Arizona University)
• National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC)
• Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)

Office: Gould-Simpson Bldg. 537
Phone: 520-621-8628
Fax: 520-621-2672
Email: slbeck@email.arizona.edu