Publications
Susan L. Bilek, Associate Professor of Geophysics

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S.L. Bilek, C.E. Elliott, and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, Triggered seismicity associated with the 1990 Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica (Mw=7.0) earthquake, Geochem. Geop. Geosystems, 10, Q04S13, doi:10.1029/2008GC002317, 2009.

S.L. Bilek, Seismicity along the South American subduction zone: Large earthquakes, tsunamis, and subduction zone complexity, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/jtecto.2009.02.037, 2009.

Stankova-Pursley, J.*, S.L. Bilek, C.A. Rowe, and R.C. Aster, Characteristics of the October 2005 microearthquake swarm and reactivation of seismic swarms over decade-scale time periods near Socorro, New Mexico, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 98, 93-105, 2008.

Bilek, S.L., Using earthquake rupture variations along the Sumatra-Andaman subduction system to examine fault zone variations, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 97, S62-S70, 2007. Abstract

Geist, E.L., V.V. Titov, D. Arcas, F. Pollitz, and S.L. Bilek, Implications of the December 26, 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on tsunami forecast and assessment models for great subduction zone earthquakes, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 97, S249-S270, 2007. Abstract

Bilek, S.L., K. Satake, and K. Sieh, Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 97, S1-S5, 2007. Extract

Bilek, S.L., Influence of subducting topography on earthquake rupture, in The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults, ed. T. Dixon and C. Moore, Columbia University Press, pg. 123-146, 2007.

Lay, T., and S.L. Bilek, Anomalous earthquake ruptures at shallow depths on subduction zone megathrusts, in, The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults, ed. T. Dixon and C. Moore, Columbia University Press, pg. 476-511, 2007.

Bilek, S.L., and E.R. Engdahl, Rupture characterization and relocation of aftershocks for the 1994 and 2006 tsunami earthquakes in the Java subduction zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L20311, doi:10.1029/GL031357, 2007. Abstract

Geist, E.L., S.L. Bilek, D. Arcas, C.E. Synolakis, V.V. Titov, D.H. Oppenheimer, Differences in tsunami generation between the December 26, 2004 and March 28, 2005 Sumatra earthquakes, Earth, Planets, Space, 58, 185-193, 2006. Abstract.

Lay, T., Kanamori, H., Ammon, C.J., Nettles. M., Ward, S.N., Aster, R.C., Beck, S.L., Bilek, S.L., Brudzinski, M.R., Butler, R., DeShon, H.R., Ekström, G., Satake, K., Sipkin, S. 2005, The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004, Science, 308, Issue 5725, 1127-1133, 20 May 2005. Abstract.

Bilek, S.L. and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, Stress changes in the Costa Rica subduction zone due to the 1999 Mw=6.9 Quepos earthquake, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 230, 97-112, 2005. Summary.

Bilek, S.L., C.P. Conrad, and C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, Slab pull, slab weakening, and their relationship to deep intra-slab seismicity, Geophys. Res. Lett, 32, L14305, doi:10.1029/2005GL022922, 2005.Abstract

Bilek, S.L., T. Lay, and L.J. Ruff, Radiated seismic energy and earthquake source duration variations from teleseismic source time functions for shallow subduction zone thrust earthquakes, J. Geophysical Research, 109, B09308, doi:10.1029/2004JB00309, 2004. Abstract.

Conrad, C.P., Bilek, S., Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., 2004. Great earthquakes and slab pull: interaction between seismic coupling and plate-slab coupling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 218, 109-122. Abstract.

Bilek, S.L., S.Y. Schwartz, and H.R. DeShon.  Control of seafloor roughness on earthquake rupture behavior, Geology, 31, 455-458, 2003. Abstract

DeShon, H.R., S.Y. Schwartz, S.L. Bilek, L.M. Dorman, J.M. Protti, V. Gonzalez, E.R. Flueh, and T.H. Dixon.  Seismogenic zone structure of the southern Middle America Trench, Costa Rica, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2491, doi:10.1029/2002JB002294, 2003. Abstract

Bilek, S.L. and L.J. Ruff,   Analysis of the June 23, 2001 Mw=8.4 Peru underthrusting earthquake and its aftershocks, Geophys. Res. Lett, 29 (20), 1960, doi:10.1029/2002GL015543, 2002. Abstract

Bilek, S.L. and T. Lay, Tsunami earthquakes possibly widespread manifestations of frictional conditional stability, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (14), 1673, doi:10.1029/2002GL015215, 2002. Abstract

Geist, E.L. and S.L. Bilek, Effect of depth-dependent shear modulus on tsunami generation along subduction zones, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1315-1318, 2001. Abstract

Bilek, S.L. and T. Lay,  Depth dependent rupture properties in Circum-Pacific subduction zones, in GeoComplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes, AGU Geophysical Monograph 120, 165-186, 2000.

Bilek, S.L. and T. Lay, Comparison of depth dependent fault zone properties in the Japan trench and Middle America trench, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 154, 433-456, 1999. Abstract

Bilek, S.L. and T. Lay, Rigidity variations with depth along interplate megathrust faults in subduction zones, Nature, 400, 443-446, 1999. Abstract

Bilek, S.L. and T. Lay,  Variation in interplate fault zone properties with depth in the Japan subduction zone, Science, 281, 1175-1178, 1998. Abstract

Bilek, S.L. and T. Lay, Lower mantle heterogeneity beneath Eurasia imaged by parametric migration of shear waves, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 108, 201-218, 1998. Summary

Brocher, T.M., S.L. Bilek, R.W. Clayton, G.S. Fuis, and D.A. Okaya,  Stacked wide-angle recordings of air-gun signals from the 1994 Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment (LARSE), California, USGS Open File Report 97-132, 1997.

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