California Institute of Technology

Thomas H. Heaton
Publications

Alewine, R.W., and Heaton, T.H. 1973, Tilts associated with the Pt. Mugu earthquake, in Kovach, R.L., and Nur, A., eds..., Conference on tectonic problems of the San Andreas fault system, Stanford, California, 193, Proceedings: Stanford Univ. Pubs. Geol. Sci., v. 13,p. 94-103.

Ellsworth, W., R. Campbell, D. Hill, R. Page, R. Alewine, T. Hanks, T. Heaton, J. Hileman, H. Kanamori, B. Minster, J. Whitcomb, 1973, Point Mugu, California, earthquake of 21 February 1973 and its aftershocks, Science, v. 182, 1127-1129. pdf

Heaton, T.H., 1975, Tidal triggering of earthquakes: Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 43, p. 307-326.

Heaton, T.H., and Helmberger, D.V., 1977, Predictability of strong ground motion in the Imperial Valley: Modeling the M 4.9, November 04, 1976 Brawley earthquake: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 68, no. 1, p. 31-48. pdf

Heaton,T.H., and Helmberger, D.V., 1977, A study of the strong ground motion of the Borrego Mountain, California, Earthquake, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v 67, 315-336. pdf

Heaton, T.H., and Helmberger, D.V., 1978, Synthesis of San Fernando strong-motion records: National Science Foundation Seminar Workshop on Strong Ground Motion, San Diego, 1978, Proceedings, p. 52-55.

Heaton, T.H., 1978, Generalized ray models of strong ground motion: Ph.D. Thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., 300 p. pdf

Heaton, T.H., and Helmberger, D.V., 1979, Generalized ray models of the San Fernando earthquake, Bulletin Seismological Society of America, v. 69, no. 5, p. 1311-1341.pdf

McNutt, M., and Heaton, T.H., 1981, An evaluation of the seismic window theory: California Division of Mines and Geology, California Geology, January 1981, p. 12-16.

Anderson, J.G., and Heaton, T.H., 1980, Aftershock accelerograms recorded on a temporary array in Johnson, C.E., Sharp, R., and Rohan, C., eds..., The Imperial Valley Earthquake: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper No. 1254, pp 443-451.

Heaton, T.H., 1982, The 1971 San Fernando earthquake; a double event: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 72, no. 6, p. 2037-2062.pdf

Heaton, T.H., 1982, Tidal triggering of earthquakes, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 72, no. 6, p. 2181-2200. pdf

Heaton, T.H., Anderson, J.G., and German, P.T., 1983, Ground failure along the New River caused by the 15 October 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake sequence, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 73, no. 4, 1161-1171.pdf

Hartzell, S.H., and Heaton, T.H., 1983, Inversion of strong ground motion and teleseismic waveform data for the fault rupture history of the 1979 Imperial Valley, California, earthquake, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 73, no. 6, 1153-1184. pdf

Heaton, T.H., Tajima. F., and Mori, A.W., 1986, Estimating ground motions using recorded accelerograms, Surveys in Geophysics, V. 8, pp 25-83.

Hartzell, S.H, and Heaton, T.H., 1983, Teleseismic mechanism of the May 02, 1983 Coalinga, California, earthquake from long-period P-waves, in Bennett, J.H., and Sherburne, R.W., eds..., The 1983 Coalinga, California Earthquakes, Calif.. Div. Mines and Geology Special Publications 66, 241-246.

Moslem, K, Amini, A. Kontic, B., Anderson, J.G., and Heaton, T.H., 1983, Accelerograms from the Mammoth Lakes, California earthquake sequence of May-July, 1980 recorded on a temporary array, University of Southern California Department of Civil Engineering Report no. CD83, 64 p.

Heaton, T.H., and Kanamori, H., 1984, Seismic potential associated with subduction in the northwestern United States, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America,    v. 74, no. 3, pp. 933-941.pdf

Liu, H.L., and Heaton, T.H., 1984, Array analysis of the ground velocities and accelerations from the 1971 San Fernando California, earthquake, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 74, no. 5, pp. 1951-1968. pdf

Heaton, T.H., 1985, A model for a seismic computerized alert network, Science, v.228, pp. 987-990 pdf

Heaton, T.H., and Kanamori, H., 1985, Reply to Hemendra Acharya on his comments on "Seismic potential associated with subduction in the northwestern United States", Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America., v.75, pp.891-892. pdf

Hartzell, S.H., and Heaton, T.H., 1985, Teleseismic time functions for large shallow Subduction zone earthquakes, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , v. 75, pp. 965-1004. pdf

Heaton, T.H., and P,D. Snavely, Jr., 1985, Possible tsunami along the coast of Washington inferred from Indian traditions, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 75, pp. 1455-1460.pdf

Hartzell, S.H., and Heaton, T.H., 1985, Rupture history of the 1984 Morgan Hill, California, earthquake from the inversion of strong motion records, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v.76, pp. 649-674. pdf

Heaton, T.H., and Hartzell, S.H., 1986, Source characteristics of hypothetical subductions earthquakes in the northwest United States, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, V, 76, pp. 675-708. pdf

Heaton, T.H., and Hartzell, S.H., 1986, Estimation of strong ground motions from hypothetical earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone, Pacific Northwest, U.S. Geol. Surv. , Open-File Report 86-328, 70 p. link

Heaton, T.H., and Hartzell, S.H., 1989, Estimation of strong ground motions from hypothetical earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone, Pacific Northwest, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 129, 131-201.pdf

Heaton, T.H., and Hartzell, S.H., 1987, Seismic hazards on the Cascadia subduction zone, Science, v. 236. pp 162-168. pdf

Heaton, T.H., 1987, Anomalous seismicity in the San Diego coastal region. Proceedings of workshop XXXVII, Physical and Observational Basis for Intermediate-Term Earthquake Prediction, Eds. K. Aki and W. Stuart, U.S. Geological Surv. Open-File Report 87-591, 667-681.

Hartzell, S.H., and Heaton, T.H., 1988, Failure of self-similarity of large shallow subduction earthquakes, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 78, 478-488. pdf

Heaton, T.H., and Hartzell, S.H., 1988, Earthquake Ground Motions, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., v.16, pp 121-145.

Heaton, T.H., and Heaton , R.E., 1989, Static deformations from point forces and force couples located in welded elastic Poissonian half-spaces: implications for seismic moment tensors, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 79. 8133-841. pdf

Heaton, T.H., and Heaton , R.E., 1989, Erratum: Static deformations from point forces and force couples located in welded elastic Poissonian half-spaces: implications for seismic moment tensors, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 79, 1056. pdf

Heaton, T.H., Anderson, D., Arabasz, W., Buland R., Ellsworth, W., Hartzell, S., Lay, T., Spudich, P., 1989, National Seismic System Science Plan, U.S. Geol. Surv. Circular. 1031, 42p. link

Hartzell, S.H., and Heaton, T.H., 1989, The fortnightly tide and tidal triggering of earthquakes, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 79, 1282-1286. pdf

Hartzell, S.H., and Heaton, T.H., 1990, Erratum; The fortnightly tide and tidal triggering of earthquakes, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 90, 504-505. pdf.

Heaton, T.H., and Jones, L.M., 1989, Seismological research issues in the San Diego region, Proceedings of SCEPP Workshop on "The seismic risk in the San Diego region: special focus on the Rosa Canyon fault system", Editor, G. Roquemore, 42-49.

Kanamori, H., Mori, J., and Heaton, T.H., 1990, The December 03, 1988, Pasadena earthquake (ML = 4.9) recorded with the very-broad-band system in Pasadena, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., vol 80, 483-487.pdf

Wald, L.A., and Heaton, T.H., 1991, Lg and Rg waves on the California regional networks from the December 23, 1985 Nahanni earthquake, J. Geophs. Res., vol. 96, 12009-12125.

Heaton, T.H., 1990 Evidence for and implications of self-healing pulses of slip in earthquake rupture, Phys. Earth Planet Int., Vol 64. 1-20.pdf

Kanamori, H., Mori, J., Anderson, D., and Heaton, T., 1991, Seismic excitation by space shuttle Columbia, Nature, v. 349, 781-782. pdf

Heaton, T. H., 1990, The calm before the quake, Nature, vol. 343, 511-512. pdf

Wald, D.J., Helmberger, D.V., and Heaton, T. H., 1991, Rupture model of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake from the inversion of strong motion and broad band teleseismic data, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., vol. 81, 1540-1572. pdf

Hauksson, E., Jones, L., Mori, J., Clayton, R., Heaton, T., Kanamori, H., and Helmberger, D., 1991, Southern California seismographic network: Report to the U.S. Geological Survey August 21, 1990, U.S. Geol. Surv. Open-File Rept.., 91-38, 51p.

Hartzell, S., and Heaton, T. H., 1990, Earthquake ground motion at close distances, EPRI/ Stanford/USGS workshop on modeling ground motion at close distances, held in Palo Alto, CA, Sept. 1990, 23p.

Heaton, T. H., 1991, Seismology in the U.S., 1986-1990, 1991, Reviews of Geophysics, Supplement, U.S. National Report to the IUGG, 659-661.

Sacks, I., Heaton, T. H., Andrews, R., Savit, C. Toksöz, Tucker, B., Iwan, W., 1991, Real-time earthquake monitoring, Panel on real-time earthquake warning, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Wash., D.C., 52 p.

Kanamori, H., E. Hauksson, and T. Heaton 1991, TERRAscope and CUBE project at Caltech, EOS v. 72, No. 50, p. 564.

Kanamori, H., J. Mori, B. Sturtevant, D. Anderson, T. Heaton, 1992, Seismic excitation by space shuttles, Shockwaves - an International Journal, V. 2, 89-96.

Aki, K., T. Henyey, and T. Heaton, 1991, What is the Southern California Earthquake Center?, EOS v. 72, no. 39, p 417 and 421.

Heaton, T., 1992, Seismic threat to the Pacific Northwest, EQE Review, fall issue, 13-18.

Heaton, T., 1992, Are earthquakes predictable?, Proceedings of the Frontiers of Science Symposium, held at the Beckman Center, Irvine, and convened by the National Academy of Sciences, Nov. 1991, 16p.

Heaton, T., 1992, Overview of seismological methods for the synthesis of strong ground motion, Proceedings of the EPRI/Stanford/USGS workshop on modeling ground motion at close distances, held at Palo Alto, CA, Sept. 1990, in press, 24p.

Prescott, W.H., J. Dieterich, T. Heaton, T. Holzer, A. Lindh, C. Prentice, P. Spudich, 1992, Report of the Western Region Earthquake Reorganization Task Group, U.S. Geol. Surv. Open-File Rept. xx, about 100 pages.

Agnew, D., K. Aki, A. Cornell, J. Davis, P. Flores, T. Heaton, I. Idriss, D. Jackson, K. McNally, M. Reichle, J. Savage, K. Sieh, 1992, Future Seismic Hazards in Southern California, Phase I: Implications of the 1992 Landers Earthquake Sequence, Southern California Earthquake Center Report, 42p.

Kanamori, H., H. Thio, D. Dreger, E. Hauksson, and T. Heaton , 1992, Initial investigation of the Landers, California, earthquake of 28 June 1992 using TERRAscope, Geophys. Res. Let., V. 19, 2267-2270.

Landers Earthquake Response Team (20 authors), 1993, Near-field investigations of the Landers earthquake sequence, April-July, 1992, Science, V. 260, 171-176. pdf

Kanamori, H., J. Mori, E. Hauksson, T. Heaton, K. Hutton, and L. Jones, 1993, Determination of earthquake energy release and ML using TERRAscope, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., V. 83, 330-346. pdf

Wald, D., H. Kanamori, D. Helmberger, and T. Heaton, 1993, Source study of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., V 83, 981-1019. pdf

Wald, D., and T. Heaton, 1994, Spatial and temporal distribution of slip for the 1992 Landers, California, earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., V 84, 668-691. pdf

Scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey and the Southern California Earthquake Center, 1994, The magnitude 6.7 Northridge, California, earthquake of 17 January 1994, Science, V 266, 389-387.

Heaton, T., 1994, Lessons learned from the Northridge Earthquake, Testimony to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives, March 2, 1994, 7 pages.

Wald, D., and T. Heaton, 1994, A dislocation model of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake determined from strong ground motions, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-278, 53 pages.

Heaton, T., J. Hall, D. Wald, and M. Halling, 1995, Response of high-rise and base-isolated buildings to a hypothetical M 7.0 blind thrust earthquake, Science, V 267, 206-211. pdf

Hauksson, E., and T. Heaton, 1995, The Southern California Seismographic Network, Tsunami Warning System Workshop Report, Sept. 14-15, 1994, NOAA, M. Blackford and H. Kanamori, editors, 37-60.

Heaton, T., 1995, Looking back from the year 3,000, Seism. Res. Let., 66, No. 2, 3-4.

Hall, J., T. Heaton, M. Halling, and D. Wald, 1995, Near-source ground motions and its effects on flexible buildings, Earthquake Spectra, 11, 569-605. pdf

Heaton, T., 1995, Urban Earthquakes, Seismological Society of America Presidential Address, Seism. Res. Let., 66, No. 5, 37-40.

Wald, D., T. Heaton, and K. Hudnut, 1996, The slip history of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake determined from strong-motions, GPS, and leveling-line data, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 1b, s49-s70. pdf

Wald, D., T. Heaton, and D. Helmberger, 1996, Strong motion and broad-band teleseismic analysis of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake for rupture process and hazards assessment, USGS Prof. Paper 1550-A, 235-262..

Kanamori, H., and T. Heaton, 1996, The wake of a legendary earthquake, Nature, v. 379, 203-204. pdf

Heaton, T., R. Clayton, J. Davis, E. Hauksson, L. Jones, H. Kanamori, J. Mori, R. Porcella, and T. Shakal, 1996, The TriNet Project, Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, June 23-28, 1996, Acapulco Mexico, published by Pergamon.

Hall, J., T. Heaton, D. Wald, 1997, Near-source ground motion studies for Northridge and Kobe earthquakes, Final Report, CUREe-Kajima Research Project, phase 2, 1996.9, 105 p.

Wald, D., K. Hudnut, and T. Heaton, 1997, Estimation of uniformly spaced near-source broadband ground motions for the 1994 Northridge earthquake from forward and inverse modeling, Proceedings of the CURIEe Northridge Earthquake Research Conference, Los Angeles, August 1997..

Kanamori, H., E. Hauksson, and T. Heaton, 1997, Real-time Seismology and real-time earthquake hazard mitigation, Nature, 390, 461-464. pdf

Eguchi, R., J. Goltz, H. Seligson, P. Flores, N. Blais, T. Heaton, E. Bortugno, 1997, Real-time loss estimation as an emergency response decision support system: the Early Post-Earthquake Damage Assessment Tool (EPEDAT), Earthquake Spectra, 13, 815-832.pdf

Kanamori, H., D. Anderson, and T. Heaton, 1998, Frictional melting during the rupture of the 1994 Bolivian earthquake, Science, 279, 839-842. pdf

Wald, D., and T. Heaton, 1998, Forward and inverse modeling of near-source ground motions for use in engineering response analysis, Structural Engineering Worldwide, Ed. N. Srivastava.

Heaton, T., 1999, Interview with SCEC Scientist, Thomas Heaton, Southern California Earthquake Center Quarterly Newsletter, V. 4, No. 4, 4-10.

Anooshehpoor, A., T. Heaton, B. Shi, and J. Brune, 1999, Estimates of the ground acceleration at Point Reyes Station during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 89, 845-853. pdf

Anooshehpoor, A., T. Heaton, B. Shi, and J. Brune, 1999, Reply to comment by J. Zhang and N. Makris on "Estimates of the ground acceleration at Point Reyes Station during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake," Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 90, 1349-1351. pdf

Wald, D., V. Quitoriano, T. Heaton, and H. Kanamori, 1999, Relationships between peak ground acceleration, peak ground velocity, and Modified Mercalli Intensity in California, Earthquake Spectra, 15, 557-564. pdf

Wald, D., V. Quitoriano, T. Heaton, H. Kanamori, C. Scrivner, and B. Worden, 1999, TriNet “ShakeMaps”: rapid generation of peak ground motion and intensity maps for earthquakes in southern California, Earthquake Spectra, 15, 537-555. pdf

Kanamori, H., and T. Heaton, 2000, Microscopic and macroscopic physics of earthquakes, contained in Geocomplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes, Editors J. Rundle, D. Turcotte, and W. Klein, Geophysical Monograph 20, Published by the American Geophysical Union, D.C., 127-141.pdf

Aagaard, B., J. Hall, and T. Heaton, 2000, Sensitivity study of near-source ground motion, Proceedings of the Twelfth World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Aukland, New Zealand.

Aagaard, B., J. Hall, and T. Heaton, 2000, Simulation of near-source ground motions with dynamic failure, Proceedings of the ASCE Structures Congress, Philadelphia, Pa.

Aagaard, B., J. Hall, and T. Heaton, 2001, “Characterization of Near-source Ground Motions with Earthquake Simulations,” Earthquake Spectra, 17, 177-207. pdf

Aagaard, B., T. Heaton, and J. Hall, 2001, “Dynamic earthquake ruptures in the presence of lithostatic normal stresses, implications for friction models and heat production,” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 91, 1765-1796. pdf

Clinton, J, and T. Heaton, 2002, “Potential advantages of a strong-motion velocity meter as opposed to a strong motion accelerometer,” Seismological Research Letters, 73, 332-342.

Aagaard, B., and T. Heaton, 2004, “Effect of fault dip and slip rate on near-source ground motions: why rupture directivity was minimal in the 199 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake”, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 94, 1765-1796. pdf

Aagaard, B., and T. Heaton, 2004, “Near-source ground motions from simulations of sustained intersonic and supersonic fault ruptures”, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 94, 2064-2078. pdf

Bradford, S.C., J. Clinton, J Favela, and T. Heaton, 2004, Results of Millikan Library Forced Vibration Testing, Earthquake Eng. Res. Laboratory Report No. 2004-03, 39 p. pdf

Smith, D., and B. Aagaard, and T. Heaton, 2005, “Teleseismic body waves from dynamically rupturing shallow thrust faults: are they opaque for surface reflected phases?”, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 95, 800-817. pdf

Clinton, J., S.C. Bradford, T. Heaton, and J. Favela, 2006, “The observed wander of the natural frequencies in a structure,” Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 96, 237-257. pdf

Liu-Zeng, J., T. Heaton, and C. DiCaprio, 2005, “The effect of slip variability on earthquake slip-length scaling,” Geophys. J. Intl., 162, 841-845. pdf

Cua, G., and Heaton, T, 2007, The Virtual Seismologist (VS) method: a Bayesian approach to earthquake early warning, in Seismic early warning, editors: P. Gasparini, G. Manfredi, J. Zschau, Springer Heidelberg, in press. pdf

Kohler, M. D., T. Heaton, and C. Bradford, 2007, Wave propagation in buildings, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am.,97, 1334-1345. pdf.

Kohler, M, T. Heaton, R. Govindan, P. Davis, and D. Estrin, 2006, Using embedded wired and wireless seismic networks in the moment-resisting steel frame Factor building for damage identification, Proceedings of the 4th China-Japan-US conference on Structural Control and Monitoring. pdf

Aagaard, B., and T. Heaton, Constraining fault constitutive behavior with slip heterogeneity, J. Geophys. Res., submitted.

Yamada, M., and T. Heaton, 2007, Real-Time Estimation of Fault Rupture Extent Using Envelopes of Acceleration, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., submitted.

Yamada, M., T. Heaton, and J. Beck, 2007, Early warning systems for large earthquakes: classification of near-source and far-source stations by using Bayesian model selection, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, in press.

Yamada, M., T. Heaton, and J. Beck, 2007, Early Warning Systems for Large Earthquakes: Near-Source versus Far-Source Classification, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., submitted.

Bradford, S.C., J. Yang, and T. Heaton, 2006, Variation in the dynamic properties of structures: the Wigner-Ville Distribution, Proceedings of the 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, April 18-22, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA, Paper 1439.pdf

Heaton, T., 2007, Will performance based earthquake engineering break the power law?, Seism. Res. Lett., Vol. 78, No.2, 183-185. pdf

Heaton. T., J. Yang, and J. Hall, 2007, Simulated performance of steel moment-resisting frame buildings in the 2003 Tokachi-Oki earthquake, Bull. Earthq. Res. Inst., Tokyo Univ., in press. pdf

Olsen, A., B. Aagaard, and T. Heaton, 2007, Long-period building response to earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay area, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., submitted. pdf


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