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David R Shelly

Research Geophysicist
Email: dshelly@usgs.gov
Office Phone: 303-273-8659
ORCID: 0000-0003-2783-5158

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P.O. Box 25046
Denver , CO 80225-0046
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High resolution earthquake catalogs from the 2018 Kilauea eruption sequence
The 2018 Kīlauea eruption and caldera collapse generated intense cycles of seismicity tied to repeated large seismic (Mw ~5) collapse events associated with magma withdrawal from beneath the summit. To gain insight into the underlying dynamics and aid eruption response, we applied waveform-based earthquake detection and double-difference location as the eruption unfolded. Here, we augment these rapid results by grouping events based on patterns of correlation-derived phase polarities across the network. From April 29 to August 6, bracketing the eruption, we used ~2800 events cataloged by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory to detect and precisely locate 44,000+ earthquakes. Resulting hypocentroids resolve complex,...
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I use template matching and precise relative relocation techniques to develop a high-resolution earthquake catalog for the initial portion of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, from July 4-16, encompassing the foreshock sequence and the first 10+ days of aftershocks following the Mw 7.1 mainshock. Using 13,525 routinely cataloged events as waveform templates, I detect and precisely locate a total of 34,091 events. Precisely located earthquakes reveal numerous cross-cutting fault structures with dominantly perpendicular SW- and NW-strikes. Foreshocks of the Mw 6.4 event appear to align on a NW-striking fault. Aftershocks of the Mw 6.4 event suggest that it further ruptured this NW-striking fault, as well as...
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SUMMARY This Data Release contains an updated version of the San Andreas catalog of low-frequency earthquakes (LFEs) originally published here: Shelly, D. R. (2017), A 15 year catalog of more than 1 million low-frequency earthquakes: Tracking tremor and slip along the deep San Andreas Fault, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, 3739–3753, doi:10.1002/2017JB014047. This updated catalog contains 88 LFE families, with each family consisting of events detected by cross-correlation with the associated waveform template. These templates were originally identified and located by Shelly and Hardebeck (2010): Shelly, D. R., and J. L. Hardebeck (2010), Precise tremor source locations and amplitude variations along the...
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The 2018 Kīlauea eruption and caldera collapse generated intense cycles of seismicity tied to repeated large seismic (Mw ~5) collapse events associated with magma withdrawal from beneath the summit. To gain insight into the underlying dynamics and aid eruption response, we applied waveform-based earthquake detection and double-difference location as the eruption unfolded. Here, we augment these rapid results by grouping events based on patterns of correlation-derived phase polarities across the network. From April 29 to August 6, bracketing the eruption, we used ~2800 events cataloged by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory to detect and precisely locate 44,000+ earthquakes. Resulting hypocentroids resolve complex,...
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This dataset contains correlation-derived seismic phase arrival times from three different studies: 1. Maple Creek Earthquake Swarm, Yellowstone, Wyoming, June 11 to September 6, 2017: Shelly, D. R., & J. L. Hardebeck (2019). Illuminating faulting complexity of the 2017 Yellowstone Maple Creek earthquake swarm. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 2544– 2552. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081607 2. Kilauea summit eruption earthquake sequence, Hawaii, April 29 to August 6, 2018: Shelly, D. R., & W. A. Thelen (2019). Anatomy of a caldera collapse: Kīlauea 2018 summit seismicity sequence in high resolution. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 14395– 14403. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085636 Shelly, D.R., and W. A. Thelen,...
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