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Eric A. Bergman is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans numerous subfields, including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Education, Ocean Engineering, and Geology.

The scientist's research topics cover various areas within geosciences and earthquake studies. These include earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, seismic waves and analysis, seismology and earthquake studies, and geophysics and sensor technology.

Eric A. Bergman has contributed to multiple publication venues. Frequent publication outlets include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geophysical Journal International, Geophysical Research Letters, Seismological Research Letters, and Tectonics.

Frequent coauthors in Bergman's work are Léa Pousse-Beltran, Edwin Nissen, James Hollingsworth, Lucia Andreuttiova, and Pieter Vermeesch.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Eric A. Bergman include:

  • The 2020 Mw 6.8 Elazığ (Turkey) Earthquake Reveals Rupture Behavior of the East Anatolian Fault, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Structural Control on Megathrust Rupture and Slip Behavior: Insights From the 2016 Mw 7.8 Pedernales Ecuador Earthquake, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • A Global Catalog of Calibrated Earthquake Locations, 2022, Seismological Research Letters
  • Revisiting the 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake Using Optical Image Correlation; New Constraints on Near-Field 3D Ground Displacement, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The 2020 Mw 6.5 Monte Cristo Range, Nevada, Earthquake: Anatomy of a Crossing-Fault Rupture through a Region of Highly Distributed Deformation, 2023, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Best Publications

  • Global patterns of tectonic stress

    Mary Lou Zoback;Mark D. Zoback;J. Adams;M. Assumpção

  • Relocation and assessment of seismicity in the Iran region

    E. Robert Engdahl;James A. Jackson;Stephen C. Myers;Eric A. Bergman

  • Epicentre accuracy based on seismic network criteria

    István Bondár;Stephen C. Myers;E. Robert Engdahl;Eric A. Bergman

  • Source mechanisms of earthquakes near mid-ocean ridges from body waveform inversion - Implications for the early evolution of oceanic lithosphere

    Eric A. Bergman;Sean C. Solomon

  • Continuing megathrust earthquake potential in Chile after the 2014 Iquique earthquake

    Gavin P. Hayes;Matthew W. Herman;William D. Barnhart;Kevin P. Furlong

  • The 2004 May 28 Baladeh earthquake (Mw 6.2) in the Alborz, Iran: overthrusting the South Caspian Basin margin, partitioning of oblique convergence and the seismic hazard of Tehran

    M. Tatar;J. Jackson;Denis Hatzfeld;E. Bergman

  • Far-field pressurization likely caused one of the largest injection induced earthquakes by reactivating a large preexisting basement fault structure

    William L. Yeck;Matthew Weingarten;Harley M. Benz;Daniel E. McNamara

  • Earthquake hypocenters and focal mechanisms in central Oklahoma reveal a complex system of reactivated subsurface strike‐slip faulting

    Daniel E. McNamara;Harley M. Benz;Robert B. Herrmann;Eric A. Bergman

  • The 1994 Sefidabeh (eastern Iran) earthquakes revisited: new evidence from satellite radar interferometry and carbonate dating about the growth of an active fold above a blind thrust fault

    B. Parsons;T. Wright;P. Rowe;J. Andrews

  • Oceanic intraplate earthquakes: Implications for local and regional intraplate stress

    Eric A. Bergman;Sean C. Solomon

  • Earthquake source mechanisms from body-waveform inversion and intraplate tectonics in the northern Indian Ocean

    Eric A. Bergman;Sean C. Solomon

  • Fault identification for buried strike-slip earthquakes using InSAR: The 1994 and 2004 Al Hoceima, Morocco earthquakes

    Juliet Biggs;Eric Bergman;Brian Emmerson;Gareth J. Funning

  • Earthquake swarms on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - Products of magmatism or extensional tectonics?

    Eric A. Bergman;Sean C. Solomon

  • Intraplate earthquakes and the state of stress in oceanic lithosphere

    Eric Allen Bergman

  • Thermoelastic stress: How important as a cause of earthquakes in young oceanic lithosphere?

    Steven R. Bratt;Eric A. Bergman;Sean C. Solomon

  • Transform fault earthquakes in the North Atlantic: Source mechanisms and depth of faulting

    Eric A. Bergman;Sean C. Solomon

  • An extensive region of off‐ridge normal‐faulting earthquakes in the southern Indian Ocean

    Eric A. Bergman;John L. Nábělek;Sean C. Solomon

  • Focal depths and mechanism of Mid-Atlantic Ridge earthquakes from body waveform inversion

    Paul Y. Huang;Sean C. Solomon;Eric A. Bergman;John L. Nabelek

  • Earthquake source mechanisms and transform fault tectonics in the Gulf of California

    John A. Goff;Eric A. Bergman;Sean C. Solomon

  • Seismotectonic framework of the 2010 February 27 Mw 8.8 Maule, Chile earthquake sequence

    Gavin P. Hayes;Eric Bergman;Kendra L. Johnson;Kendra L. Johnson;Harley M. Benz

  • The vertical separation of mainshock rupture and microseismicity at Qeshm island in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt, Iran

    E. Nissen;F. Yamini-Fard;M. Tatar;A. Gholamzadeh

Frequent Co-Authors

Harley M. Benz
Harley M. Benz United States Geological Survey
Sean C. Solomon
Sean C. Solomon Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Edwin Nissen
Edwin Nissen University of Victoria
Gavin P. Hayes
Gavin P. Hayes United States Geological Survey
James Jackson
James Jackson University of Cambridge
Morteza Talebian
Morteza Talebian Geological Survey of Iran
Robert B. Herrmann
Robert B. Herrmann Saint Louis University
Paul S. Earle
Paul S. Earle United States Geological Survey
Daniel E. McNamara
Daniel E. McNamara United States Geological Survey
Richard Walker
Richard Walker University of Oxford

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