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Sarah Minson 3rd Year Grad Student in Geophysics BA, 2003, University of California, Berkeley USA California Institute of Technology Seismological Laboratory 1200 E. California Blvd., MS 252-21 So. Mudd Building, Rm 362 Pasadena, CA 91125 Phone: (626) 395-6974 Fax: (626) 564-0715 Email: minson@gps.caltech.edu web page:

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Research
I am interested in source processes. My current research includes a study of the mechanisms of earthquakes associated with the volcanic eruption on Miyakejima, Japan in 2000. I am using full moment tensor inversions of seismic data as well as GPS data to constrain the mechanisms of these earthquakes, some of which appear to have very complex and possibly time-dependent mechanisms.