Welcome to Ali Ozgun Konca's webpage
 
 
 
 
 
Personal Information

I am Ali Ozgun Konca. Currently, I am a research staff working at Caltech Seismo Lab.I got my PhD in Geophysics from Caltech in March 2008. I had my primary, secondary and high school education in Izmit, Turkey. Afterwards, I lived in Istanbul and studied physics at Koc University.   After I had my BS  majoring in physics at Koc University, I came to California Institute of Technology to study  geophysics.  I am a graduate student at Geological and Planetary Sciences.

 
Currently, I am working with Don Helmberger on detailed earthquake rupture characteristics. Our study focuses on using multiple datasets (seismic and geodetic) to study large earthquakes. We utilize strong motion, to body waves, and surface waves and normal modes, as well as surface offsets, GPS and InSAR measurements of coseismic slip.

 

e-mail: ozgun(nospam)@gps.caltech.edu


 
Published Papers:
Konca, A. Ozgun, V Hjorleifsdottir, TA Song, J-P Avouac, DV Helmberger, C Ji, K Sieh, R Briggs, A Meltzner (2007). "Rupture Kinematics of the 2005 Mw 8.6 Nias-Simeulue Earthquake from the Joint Inversion of Seismic and Geodetic Data",Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 97, no:1A, S307-S322
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Avouac JP, Ayoub F,Leprince S, Konca O, Helmberger DV (2006). "The 2005, M-w 7.6 Kashmir earthquake: Sub-pixel correlation of ASTER images and seismic waveforms analysis", Earth Plan. Sci. Lett.i, 249 pp 514-528
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Links

Seismology Links
Seth Stein's Lecture Notes:  These lecture notes are from Seth Stein's Earth's Interior class notes.
Caltech Seismo Lab:  Information on Caltech Seismological laboratory.
Kandilli Rasathanesi: Turkish Observatory & Earthquake Research Institute
Turkish Earthquake site: This web site can prove to be useful especially for people who live in Turkey and want to learn about  Earthquake hazards in their home town.
Mine Research Institute of Turkey: Again you can find information about Turkey and geophysics.
 
Personal Interest
Koc University: This is where I had my undergraduate.  A small university in Istanbul.
Cookbooks online: This is a site of recipes. They have millions of recipes.
IMDB: Internet Movie Database.
http://www.amnesty.org:Amnesty International web site
A.N.S.W.E.R:Act Now to Stop War & End Racism.
Robert Fisk: See the pictures of Iraqi civilians dead, wounded  in the so called "Operation Iraqi Freedom".

Friends' Web Sites
Sirin Caliskan
Vala Hjörleifsdóttir