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Overview

Paul S. Earle is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Geophysics. Their research interests also encompass Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their work addresses several key scientific topics, including earthquake and tectonic studies, earthquake detection and analysis, seismic waves and analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, seismology and earthquake studies, geological and geochemical analysis, as well as geological and geophysical studies worldwide.

Paul S. Earle has contributed to multiple papers in several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Seismic Record
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Science Advances
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Their recent published papers exemplify their research focus:

  • Rapid Characterization of the February 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, Earthquake Sequence (2023, The Seismic Record)
  • Leveraging Deep Learning in Global 24/7 Real-Time Earthquake Monitoring at the National Earthquake Information Center (2020, Seismological Research Letters)
  • Rapid Source Characterization of the 2023 Mw 6.8 Al Haouz, Morocco, Earthquake (2023, The Seismic Record)
  • A Big Problem for Small Earthquakes: Benchmarking Routine Magnitudes and Conversion Relationships with Coda Envelope-Derived Mw in Southern Kansas and Northern Oklahoma (2021, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America)
  • High-Precision Characterization of Seismicity from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcanic Eruption (2022, Seismological Research Letters)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Earle's research, with frequent coauthors including William L. Yeck, D. R. Shelly, H. Benz, Dara E. Goldberg, and William D. Barnhart.

Best Publications

  • Twitter earthquake detection: earthquake monitoring in a social world

    Paul S. Earle;Daniel C. Bowden;Michelle R. Guy

  • Characterization of global seismograms using an automatic-picking algorithm

    Paul S. Earle;Peter M. Shearer

  • Coping with earthquakes induced by fluid injection

    Arthur F. McGarr;Barbara Bekins;Nina Burkardt;James W. Dewey

  • OMG Earthquake! Can Twitter Improve Earthquake Response?

    Paul Earle;Michelle Guy;Richard Buckmaster;Chris Ostrum

  • 2018 One‐Year Seismic Hazard Forecast for the Central and Eastern United States from Induced and Natural Earthquakes

    Mark D. Petersen;Charles S. Mueller;Morgan P. Moschetti;Susan M. Hoover

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

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

  • Seismic evidence for small-scale heterogeneity throughout the Earth's mantle

    Michael A. H. Hedlin;Peter M. Shearer;Paul S. Earle

  • Oklahoma experiences largest earthquake during ongoing regional wastewater injection hazard mitigation efforts

    William L. Yeck;Gavin P. Hayes;Daniel E. McNamara;Justin L. Rubinstein

  • Fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth's inner core

    John E. Vidale;Paul S. Earle

  • 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

  • Slow differential rotation of the Earth's inner core indicated by temporal changes in scattering

    John E. Vidale;Doug A. Dodge;Paul S. Earle

  • The global short-period wavefield modelled with a Monte Carlo seismic phonon method

    Peter M. Shearer;Paul S. Earle

  • Rapid Characterization of the February 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, Earthquake Sequence

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  • Integration and dissemination of citizen reported and seismically derived earthquake information via social network technologies

    Michelle Guy;Paul Earle;Chris Ostrum;Kenny Gruchalla

  • Strong directivity of ocean‐generated seismic noise

    Vera Schulte-Pelkum;Paul S. Earle;Frank L. Vernon

  • PAGER-CAT: A Composite Earthquake Catalog for Calibrating Global Fatality Models

    Trevor I. Allen;Kristin D. Marano;Paul S. Earle;David J. Wald

  • Rapid Characterization of the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake Sequence and Its Seismotectonic Context

    Gavin P. Hayes;Richard W. Briggs;William D. Barnhart;William L. Yeck

  • Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER): A System for Rapidly Determining the Impact of Earthquakes Worldwide

    Paul S. Earle;David J. Wald;Kishor S. Jaiswal;Trevor I. Allen

  • Earthquake Casualty Models Within the USGS Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) System

    Kishor Jaiswal;David J. Wald;Paul S. Earle;Keith A. Porter

  • Observations of PKKP Precursors Used to Estimate Small-Scale Topography on the Core-Mantle Boundary

    Paul S. Earle;Peter M. Shearer

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Wald
David J. Wald United States Geological Survey
Harley M. Benz
Harley M. Benz United States Geological Survey
Gavin P. Hayes
Gavin P. Hayes United States Geological Survey
Peter M. Shearer
Peter M. Shearer University of California, San Diego
Daniel E. McNamara
Daniel E. McNamara United States Geological Survey
John E. Vidale
John E. Vidale University of Southern California
Eric A. Bergman
Eric A. Bergman University of Colorado Boulder
Richard W. Briggs
Richard W. Briggs United States Geological Survey
Robert B. Herrmann
Robert B. Herrmann Saint Louis University
Justin L. Rubinstein
Justin L. Rubinstein United States Geological Survey

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