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Marcos Moreno is affiliated with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Chile. Their research primarily centers on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics. They also contribute to fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace Engineering, Plant Science, and subjects related to Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

Their work extensively covers topics in earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, as well as detailed investigations in earthquake detection and analysis. Other topics include seismology and earthquake studies, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, and seismic waves and analysis.

The scientist has contributed to several recent publications, which include:

  • Months-long thousand-kilometre-scale wobbling before great subduction earthquakes, 2020, Nature
  • Forming a Mogi Doughnut in the Years Prior to and Immediately Before the 2014 M8.1 Iquique, Northern Chile, Earthquake, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Impact of power-law rheology on the viscoelastic relaxation pattern and afterslip distribution following the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Dense GNSS Profiles Across the Northwestern Tip of the India-Asia Collision Zone: Triggered Slip and Westward Flow of the Peter the First Range, Pamir, Into the Tajik Depression, 2020, Tectonics
  • Interplate Coupling and Seismic Potential in the Atacama Seismic Gap (Chile): Dismissing a Rigid Andean Sliver, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent coauthors in their research include Andrés Tassara, Francisco Ortega-Culaciati, Roberto Benavente, Juan Carlos Báez, and Jonathan Bedford.

Their publications appear predominantly in the following venues:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • 2010 Maule earthquake slip correlates with pre-seismic locking of Andean subduction zone

    Marcos Moreno;Matthias Rosenau;Onno Oncken

  • Gradual unlocking of plate boundary controlled initiation of the 2014 Iquique earthquake

    Bernd Schurr;Guenter Asch;Sebastian Hainzl;Jonathan Bedford

  • Impact of megathrust geometry on inversion of coseismic slip from geodetic data: Application to the 1960 Chile earthquake

    M. S. Moreno;J. Bolte;J. Klotz;D. Melnick

  • Locking of the Chile subduction zone controlled by fluid pressure before the 2010 earthquake

    Marcos Moreno;Christian Haberland;Onno Oncken;Andreas Rietbrock

  • The 2015 Illapel earthquake, central Chile, a type case for a characteristic earthquake?

    F. Tilmann;Y. Zhang;M. Moreno;Joachim Saul

  • Revisiting viscoelastic effects on interseismic deformation and locking degree: A case study of the Peru‐North Chile subduction zone

    Shaoyang Li;Marcos Moreno;Jonathan Bedford;Matthias Rosenau

  • Aftershock seismicity of the 27 February 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake rupture zone

    Dietrich Lange;Frederik Tilmann;Frederik Tilmann;Sergio E. Barrientos;Eduardo Contreras-Reyes

  • Splay fault slip during the Mw 8.8 2010 Maule Chile earthquake

    Daniel Melnick;Marcos Moreno;Mahdi Motagh;Marco Cisternas

  • A high-resolution, time-variable afterslip model for the 2010 Maule Mw = 8.8, Chile megathrust earthquake

    Jonathan Bedford;Marcos Moreno;Juan Carlos Baez;Dietrich Lange

  • Local tsunami warnings: Perspectives from recent large events

    Diego Melgar;Richard M. Allen;Sebastian Riquelme;Jianghui Geng;Jianghui Geng

  • Active faulting and heterogeneous deformation across a megathrust segment boundary from GPS data, south central Chile (36–39°S)

    M. S. Moreno;J. Klotz;D. Melnick;H. Echtler

  • Estimating coseismic coastal uplift with an intertidal mussel: calibration for the 2010 Maule Chile earthquake (Mw = 8.8)

    Daniel Melnick;Marco Cisternas;Marcos Moreno;Ricardo Norambuena

  • Months-long thousand-kilometre-scale wobbling before great subduction earthquakes.

    Jonathan R. Bedford;Marcos Moreno;Zhiguo Deng;Onno Oncken;Onno Oncken

  • Chilean megathrust earthquake recurrence linked to frictional contrast at depth

    M. Moreno;S. Li;D. Melnick;J. R. Bedford

  • The super‐interseismic phase of the megathrust earthquake cycle in Chile

    Daniel Melnick;Daniel Melnick;Marcos Moreno;Javier Quinteros;Juan Carlos Baez

  • Separating rapid relocking, afterslip, and viscoelastic relaxation: An application of the postseismic straightening method to the Maule 2010 cGPS

    Jonathan Bedford;Marcos Moreno;Shaoyang Li;Onno Oncken

  • Vertical deformation through a complete seismic cycle at Isla Santa Maria, Chile

    Robert L. Wesson;Daniel Melnick;Marco Cisternas;Marcos Moreno

  • Coseismic slip and afterslip of the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel (Chile) earthquake determined from continuous GPS data

    Mahesh N. Shrivastava;Gabriel González;Marcos Moreno;Mohamed Chlieh

  • The Chilean GNSS Network: Current Status and Progress toward Early Warning Applications

    J. C. Báez;F. Leyton;C. Troncoso;F. del Campo

  • Forming a Mogi Doughnut in the Years Prior to and Immediately Before the 2014 M8.1 Iquique, Northern Chile, Earthquake

    Bernd Schurr;Marcos Moreno;Anne Marie Tréhu;Jonathan Bedford

  • Clusters of megaearthquakes on upper plate faults control the Eastern Mediterranean hazard

    Vasiliki Mouslopoulou;Andrew Nicol;John Begg;Onno Oncken

Frequent Co-Authors

Onno Oncken
Onno Oncken University of Potsdam
Daniel Melnick
Daniel Melnick Austral University of Chile
Michael Bevis
Michael Bevis The Ohio State University
Oliver Heidbach
Oliver Heidbach University of Potsdam
Sergio Barrientos
Sergio Barrientos University of Chile
Frederik Tilmann
Frederik Tilmann Freie Universität Berlin
Christophe Vigny
Christophe Vigny École Normale Supérieure
Bernd Schurr
Bernd Schurr Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Mark Simons
Mark Simons California Institute of Technology
Andreas Rietbrock
Andreas Rietbrock Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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