T051
Subduction Zone Observation through Time and Space: Path to an SZ4D Initiative on the Science of Subduction Hazards
Subduction Zone Observation through Time and Space: Path to an SZ4D Initiative on the Science of Subduction Hazards
Session ID#: 75837
Session Description:
Subduction zone processes produce volcanic unrest, megathrust earthquakes, and shape land- and seascapes associated with plate convergence over seconds to millions of years. New technologies, including ocean-bottom and conventional seismometer networks, on- and off-shore geodetic networks, high-resolution imaging of subduction zone geomorphology, continuous multi-parameter instrumentation of volcanoes, as well as novel geochronologic, paleoseismologic, and geologic approaches, will all be critical to advancing new discoveries. At the same time, new modeling capabilities that integrate geologic and geophysical observations will be required to understand them and to develop and test hypotheses about subduction zone processes spanning human and geologic time scales. Submissions that highlight present and emerging observational capability, data acquisition, and modeling across a wide range of disciplines are welcomed. The session will also explore new research directions that promise to produce substantial advances in our holistic understanding and forecasting of subduction-related hazards in the coming decade.
Co-Organized:
- EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
- G - Geodesy
- S - Seismology
- V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
7230 Seismicity and tectonics [SEISMOLOGY]
8170 Subduction zone processes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8488 Volcanic hazards and risks [VOLCANOLOGY]
Primary Convener: Harold J Tobin, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners: George E Hilley, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States; Stanford University, Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Diana C. Roman, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States and Emily E Brodsky, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Harold J Tobin, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
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