Publications and Abstracts (2001-2006)

• Alvarado P. and Beck S., (2006). Source characterization of the San Juan (Argentina) crustal earthquakes of 15 January 1944 (Mw 7.0) and 11 June 1952 (Mw 6.8). Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.015

• Alvarado, P., Castro de Machuca, B. and Beck, S., (2005). Comparative crustal seismic study of the Western and Eastern Sierras Pampeanas region, Argentina, (31ºS). Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, Vol. 60 (4), 787-796.

• Alvarado, P., Beck, S., Zandt, G., Araujo, M. and Triep, E., (2005). Crustal deformation in the south-central Andes backarc terranes as viewed from regional broad-band seismic waveform modelling. Geophysical Journal International 163 (2), 580-598.doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02759.x

• Barrientos S., Vera E., Alvarado P., Monfret T., Intraplate seismicity in central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. Vol 16, 759-768, 2004.

• Alvarado P., Beck S., Zandt G., Araujo M. and Triep E., Modeling of Andean backarc (30°-36°S) crustal earthquake waveforms using a portable regional broadband seismic network). TOPICOS DE GEOCIENCIAS. Un Volumen de Estudios Sismológicos, Geodésicos y Geológicos en Homenaje al Ing. Fernando Séptimo Volponi. EFU. Editorial Universidad Nacional de San Juan, 53-93, 334 pp, 2004. ISBN 950-605-340-5

• Fromm, R., Alvarado P., Beck S., Zandt G., (2006). The April 9, 2001 Juan Fernandez Ridge outer rise earthquake (Mw6.7) and its aftershock sequence. Journal of Seismology, doi: 10.1007/s10950-006-9013-3.

• Anderson, M., Alvarado, P., Zandt, G., and Beck S., (2006). Geometry and brittle deformation of the subducting Nazca plate, Central Chile and Argentina. Submitted to Geophysical Journal International.

• Beck, S., H. Gilbert, L. Wagner, P. Alvarado, G. Zandt, The Sierras Pampeanas of Argentina: A modern analog for the Laramide Rocky Mountains in the western U.S. Earthscope meeting, New Mexico 2005.

• Fromm R., Alvarado P., Beck S. and Zandt G., Regional broadband networks: case studies for the imaging of crustal structure and earthquake source processes in central Chile and Argentina. XVI Annual IRIS workshop. Tucson AZ. 2004.

• Fromm R., Zandt G., Beck S. and CHARGE working group, Crustal Thickness Beneath the South-Central Andes and Sierras Pampeanas at 30ºS Inferred From Pn Apparent Phase Velocities. Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., 2003

• Alvarado P., Beck S., Zandt G., Araujo M. and Triep E., Inversión del Tensor Momento Sísmico para sismos de la corteza andina de Tras-arco, XXII Reunión de la AAGG, Buenos Aires, 2004.

• Fromm R., Alvarado P., Beck S., Zandt G., The April 9, 2001 Juan Fernandez Ridge outer rise earthquake (Mw6.7) and its seismotectonic implications. Actas del X Congreso Geológico Chileno, 2003.

• Alvarado P., Beck S., Zandt G., Regional Seismic Moment Tensor Invertion for Andean Crustal Earthquakes using broadband waveformos of the passive CHARGE Array, IRIS Workshop 2004, June 10-12, 2004 Westward Look, Tucson AZ.

• Alvarado, P., Beck S., Zandt G., Fromm R., Araujo M., Bufaliza M and Triep E., Deep Crustal Earthquakes in the Sierras Pampeanas Region of the South Central Andean Backarc. Spring Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2003.

• Tassone A., Cominguez H.A., Yagupsky D., Alvarado P., Lodolo E., and Menichetti M., Seismic Study of the Southernmost Andes. The Contact Between Scotia and South American Plates. Spring Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2003.

• Gilbert H., Beck S., Zandt G., Alvarado P., Anderson M., Fromm R., Wagner L. and Owens T., Imaging the South Central Andean Lithosphere Using Passive Broadband Seismology: Chile-Argentina Geophysics Experiment IRIS UNAVCO Workshop 2003, June 18-22 Tenaya Lodge, Yosemite, California.

• Beck S., Zandt G., Alvarado, P., Anderson M., Fromm R., Gilbert H., Wagner, L. and Owens T., Imaging the South Central Andean Lithospere using passive broadband Seismology: Chile-Argentina Geophysics. X Congreso Geológico Chileno, 2003.

• Alvarado P., and the CHARGE group, Utilización de una red sismológica de Banda Ancha para la Inversión del tensor Momento Sísmico de sismos corticales de tras-arco en Los Andes (30-36°S ). Segundas Jornadas Regionales de Ciencias de la Tierra. San Juan, Argentina. Junio 2003.

• Alvarado, P., Barbeau, D.L., Cecil, M.R., Ducea, M.N., Gehrels, G.G., Guynn, J.H., Hagbo, C.L., He, S., Hennes, A.M., Krawciw, O.A., McCarthy, A.C., Porter, J.P., Pullen, A., Stavast, W., Uchida, H., Valencia-Gomez, V., Vervoort, J., and Volkmer, J.E. Detrital Zircon Geochronology Of Basement And Cover Rocks From The Santa Lucia Mountains, California; New Evidence For Limited Transport Of Salinia. Geological Society of America (GSA) THEME SESSIONS for the Cordilleran Section - 99th Annual (April, 2003)

• Alvarado P., Evidences of deep crustal seismicity in the Andes back-arc: Is 33 km depth a believable depth for crustal seismicity? GEODAZE, UofAZ, 2003.

• Shearer T., Beck S., Zandt G., Alvarado P., Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson AZ, U.S.A., Triep E., Instituto Geof. Sismol. Zonda and National Univ. of San Juan, San Juan, Argentina, Araujo M., Bufaliza M., INPRES, San Juan, Argentina, Campos J., Department of Geophysics, Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Lithospheric Structure of the Sierras Pampeanas, South Central Andes. Spring Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2002.

• Anderson M., Zandt G., Beck S., Triep E., Alvarado P. and Araujo M., Seismicity and anisotropy in the Argentina flat subduction zone, South America. American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 2002.

• Beck S., Zandt G., Wallace T, Anderson M., Fromm R., Shearer T., Wagner L., Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson AZ, U.S.A., Koper K., Dept. EAS, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO U.S.A. Alvarado P., Triep E., Lince Klinger F., Dept. of Geophysics and Astronomy, National Univ. of San Juan, Argentina, Araujo M., Bufaliza M., INPRES, San Juan, Argentina, Campos J., Kausel E., Ruiz Paredes J., Dept. of Geophysics, Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile, CHARGE, the CHile ARgentina Geophysical Experiment: Imaging the South Central Andean Lithosphere Using Passive Broadband Seismology. Spring Meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2001.