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Martin Vallée is affiliated with the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France. Their research predominantly lies within the Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics. Additional subfields connected to their work include Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics cover earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, seismology and earthquake studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and geological and geochemical analysis.

Martin Vallée has been involved in multiple publications, with frequent contributions appearing in venues such as Seismological Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Reviews of Geophysics, and Comptes Rendus Géoscience.

  • The 2018 unrest phase at La Soufrière of Guadeloupe (French West Indies) andesitic volcano: Scrutiny of a failed but prodromal phreatic eruption, 2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Achievements and Prospects of Global Broadband Seismographic Networks After 30 Years of Continuous Geophysical Observations, 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Rapid response to the M 4.9 earthquake of November 11, 2019 in Le Teil, Lower Rhône Valley, France, 2021, Comptes Rendus Géoscience
  • Self-reactivated rupture during the 2019 M = 8 northern Peru intraslab earthquake, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Slow slip events precursory to the 2014 Iquique Earthquake, revisited with long-base tilt and GPS records, 2021, Geophysical Journal International

Collaborations have occurred frequently with several researchers, including Mathieu Causse, Claudio Satriano, Jean-Mathieu Nocquet, N. Leroy, and É. Stutzmann, each coauthoring at least three papers with Vallée.

Best Publications

  • Slip distribution of the February 27, 2010 Mw = 8.8 Maule Earthquake, central Chile, from static and high‐rate GPS, InSAR, and broadband teleseismic data

    Bertrand Delouis;Jean-Mathieu Nocquet;Martin Vallée

  • Observation of Long Supershear Rupture During the Magnitude 8.1 Kunlunshan Earthquake

    Michel Bouchon;Martin Vallée

  • Motion of continental slivers and creeping subduction in the Northern Andes

    J.-M. Nocquet;J.C. Villegas-Lanza;M. Chlieh;P. Mothes

  • Rupture process of the Mw = 7.9 2015 Gorkha earthquake (Nepal): Insights into Himalayan megathrust segmentation

    Raphaël Grandin;Martin Vallée;Claudio Satriano;Robin Lacassin

  • Supercycle at the Ecuadorian subduction zone revealed after the 2016 Pedernales earthquake

    J.-M. Nocquet;P. Jarrin;M. Vallée;P. A. Mothes

  • SCARDEC: a new technique for the rapid determination of seismic moment magnitude, focal mechanism and source time functions for large earthquakes using body‐wave deconvolution

    M. Vallée;J. Charléty;A. M. G. Ferreira;A. M. G. Ferreira;B. Delouis

  • Intense interface seismicity triggered by a shallow slow slip event in the Central Ecuador subduction zone

    Martin Vallée;Martin Vallée;Jean-Mathieu Nocquet;Jean Battaglia;Yvonne Font

  • Distribution of discrete seismic asperities and aseismic slip along the Ecuadorian megathrust

    M. Chlieh;P.A. Mothes;J.-M. Nocquet;P. Jarrin

  • A new database of source time functions (STFs) extracted from the SCARDEC method

    Martin Vallée;Vincent Douet

  • Faulting characteristics of supershear earthquakes

    Michel Bouchon;Hayrullah Karabulut;Marie-Paule Bouin;Jean Schmittbuhl

  • Slip distribution of the 2003 Boumerdes‐Zemmouri earthquake, Algeria, from teleseismic, GPS, and coastal uplift data

    B. Delouis;M. Vallée;M. Meghraoui;E. Calais

  • Source time function properties indicate a strain drop independent of earthquake depth and magnitude

    Martin Vallée

  • Areas prone to slow slip events impede earthquake rupture propagation and promote afterslip.

    Frederique Rolandone;Frederique Rolandone;Jean-Mathieu Nocquet;Jean-Mathieu Nocquet;Patricia A. Mothes;Paul Jarrin

  • Imaging coseismic rupture in far field by slip patches

    M. Vallée;M. Bouchon

  • The 14 November 2001 Kokoxili (Tibet) earthquake: High‐frequency seismic radiation originating from the transitions between sub‐Rayleigh and supershear rupture velocity regimes

    Maxime Vallée;M Landès;Nikolai M. Shapiro;Y Klinger

  • Observations and modeling of the elastogravity signals preceding direct seismic waves

    Martin Vallée;Jean Paul Ampuero;Kévin Juhel;Pascal Bernard

  • A detailed source model for the Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake reconciling geodesy, seismology, and tsunami records

    Quentin Bletery;Anthony Sladen;Bertrand Delouis;Martin Vallée

  • Rupture characteristics of the A.D. 1912 Mürefte (Ganos) earthquake segment of the North Anatolian fault (western Turkey)

    Murat Ersen Aksoy;Mustapha Meghraoui;Martin Vallée;Ziyadin Çakır

  • Global catalog of earthquake rupture velocities shows anticorrelation between stress drop and rupture velocity

    Agnès Chounet;Martin Vallée;Mathieu Causse;Françoise Courboulex

  • Infrasonic imaging of the Kunlun Mountains for the great 2001 China earthquake

    A. Le Pichon;J. Guilbert;M. Vallée;J. X. Dessa

  • Stabilizing the Empirical Green Function Analysis: Development of the Projected Landweber Method

    Martin Vallée

  • Rupture Process of the Mw=7.9 2015 Gorkha Earthquake (Nepal): Insights into Himalayan Megathrust Segmentation

    C. Satriano;R. Grandin;M. Vallee;R. Lacassin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Mathieu Nocquet
Jean-Mathieu Nocquet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Bertrand Delouis
Bertrand Delouis Université Côte d'Azur
Patricia Mothes
Patricia Mothes National Polytechnic School
Raphaël Grandin
Raphaël Grandin Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Pascal Bernard
Pascal Bernard Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Hugo Yepes
Hugo Yepes National Polytechnic School
Jean-Paul Ampuero
Jean-Paul Ampuero Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Anne Deschamps
Anne Deschamps Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Anthony Sladen
Anthony Sladen Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Eléonore Stutzmann
Eléonore Stutzmann Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

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