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13195
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2010
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Charles G. Sammis is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialized concentration in Geophysics. Sammis's work covers topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake detection and analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, neurological disorders and treatments, microtubule and mitosis dynamics, and glycogen storage diseases and myoclonus.

Recent publications by Sammis and collaborators include:

  • A Granular Jamming Model for Low-Frequency Earthquakes (2021), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Signature of transition to supershear rupture speed in the coseismic off-fault damage zone (2021), Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Aftershock distributions, moment tensors and stress evolution of the 2016 Iniskin and 2018 Anchorage Mw 7.1 Alaskan intraslab earthquakes (2022), Geophysical Journal International
  • Tectonic tremor: The chatter of mafic underplating (2025), Seismica
  • Signature of supershear transition seen in off-fault crustal damage and aftershock pattern (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)

The frequent co-authors working with Sammis include:

  • M. G. Bostock
  • Jorge Jara
  • Lucile Bruhat
  • Marion Y. Thomas
  • Solène Antoine

Sammis's work has been published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Seismica
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recognition for Sammis's contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • The damage mechanics of brittle solids in compression

    M. F. Ashby;C. G. Sammis

  • An observational test of the critical earthquake concept

    D. D. Bowman;G. Ouillon;C. G. Sammis;A. Sornette

  • The kinematics of gouge deformation

    Charles Sammis;Geoffrey King;Ronald Biegel

  • Complex Critical Exponents from Renormalization Group Theory of Earthquakes: Implications for Earthquake Predictions

    Didier Sornette;Charles G. Sammis

  • Characterization of Fault Zones

    Yehuda Ben-zion;Charles G. Sammis

  • Statistical physics approach to understanding the multiscale dynamics of earthquake fault systems

    John B. Rundle;Donald L. Turcotte;Robert Shcherbakov;William Klein;William Klein

  • Partial melting in the upper mantle

    Don L. Anderson;Charles Sammis

  • Off-Fault Secondary Failure Induced by a Dynamic Slip Pulse

    James R. Rice;Charles G. Sammis;Robert Parsons

  • The frictional properties of a simulated gouge having a fractal particle distribution

    Ronald L. Biegel;Charles G. Sammis;James H. Dieterich

  • Acoustic emissions document stress changes over many seismic cycles in stick-slip experiments

    T. H. W. Goebel;D. Schorlemmer;T. W. Becker;G. Dresen

  • Long-range and long-term fault interactions in Southern California

    James F. Dolan;David D. Bowman;Charles G. Sammis

  • Self-similar cataclasis in the formation of fault gouge

    Charles G. Sammis;Robert H. Osborne;J. Lawford Anderson;Mavonwe Banerdt

  • Equation of state of NaCl: Ultrasonic measurements to 8 kbar and 800°C and static lattice theory

    H. Spetzler;C.G. Sammis;R.J. O'Connell

  • Precursors, aftershocks, criticality and self-organized criticality

    Y. Huang;H. Saleur;C. Sammis;D. Sornette

  • Evidence for self-similar, triangular slip distributions on earthquakes: Implications for earthquake and fault mechanics.

    Isabelle Manighetti;Michel Campillo;C. Sammis;P.M. Mai

  • Discrete scale invariance, complex fractal dimensions, and log‐periodic fluctuations in seismicity

    H. Saleur;C. G. Sammis;D. Sornette

  • Fractals, fault-gouge, and friction

    Charles G. Sammis;Ronald L. Biegel

  • Quantifying near‐field and off‐fault deformation patterns of the 1992 Mw 7.3 Landers earthquake

    Christopher W. D. Milliner;James F. Dolan;James Hollingsworth;Sebastien Leprince

  • Composition and Evolution of the Mantle and Core

    Don L. Anderson;Charles Sammis;Tom Jordan

  • Fractal dimension and b value on creeping and locked patches of the San Andreas fault near Parkfield, California

    Max Wyss;Charles G. Sammis;Robert M. Nadeau;Stefan Wiemer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ares J. Rosakis
Ares J. Rosakis California Institute of Technology
James F. Dolan
James F. Dolan University of Southern California
Yehuda Ben-Zion
Yehuda Ben-Zion University of Southern California
Thorsten W. Becker
Thorsten W. Becker The University of Texas at Austin
Georg Dresen
Georg Dresen University of Potsdam
Isabelle Manighetti
Isabelle Manighetti Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Don L. Anderson
Don L. Anderson California Institute of Technology
Romain Jolivet
Romain Jolivet École Normale Supérieure
Geoffrey King
Geoffrey King Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

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