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  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Paul Somerville is a researcher affiliated with Aecom in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with a notable focus on Geophysics and Civil and Structural Engineering. Their research areas cover earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic performance and analysis, seismic waves and analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, climate variability and models, high-pressure geophysics and materials, and structural response to dynamic loads.

Their recent publications include:

  • Scaling relations between seismic moment and rupture area of earthquakes in stable continental regions, 2021, Earthquake Spectra
  • Complexities of the Turkey-Syria doublet earthquake sequence, 2023, The Innovation
  • Normalised New Zealand natural Disaster insurance losses: 1968-2019, 2021, Environmental Hazards
  • Multicycle Simulation of Strike-Slip Earthquake Rupture for Use in Near-Source Ground-Motion Simulations, 2021, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Residual drift spectra for RC bridge columns subjected to near-fault earthquakes, 2021, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration

Somerville frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Earthquake Spectra
  • International Journal of Global Warming
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Innovation

The researcher has collaborated regularly with colleagues such as Sidao Ni, Yifei Cui, Percy Galvez, Anatoly Petukhin, and Jean-Paul Ampuero.

In the course of their career, Paul Somerville was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1986.

Best Publications

  • Modification of Empirical Strong Ground Motion Attenuation Relations to Include the Amplitude and Duration Effects of Rupture Directivity

    Paul G. Somerville;Nancy F. Smith;Robert W. Graves;Norman A. Abrahamson

  • Characterizing Crustal Earthquake Slip Models for the Prediction of Strong Ground Motion

    Paul Somerville;Kojiro Irikura;Robert Graves;Sumio Sawada

  • Attenuation Relations of Strong Ground Motion in Japan Using Site Classification Based on Predominant Period

    John X. Zhao;Jian Zhang;Akihiro Asano;Yuki Ohno

  • Magnitude scaling of the near fault rupture directivity pulse

    Paul G. Somerville

  • Ground motion evaluation procedures for performance-based design

    Jonathan P. Stewart;Shyh Jeng Chiou;Jonathan D. Bray;Robert W. Graves

  • Ground-motion amplification in the Santa Monica area: Effects of shallow basin-edge structure

    Robert W. Graves;Arben Pitarka;Paul G. Somerville

  • An Empirical Site-Classification Method for Strong-Motion Stations in Japan Using h/v Response Spectral Ratio

    John X. Zhao;Kojiro Irikura;Jian Zhang;Yoshimitsu Fukushima

  • Effects of the hanging wall and footwall on ground motions recorded during the Northridge earthquake

    N. A. Abrahamson;P. G. Somerville

  • The effect of crustal structure on strong ground motion attenuation relations in eastern North America

    R. W. Burger;P. G. Somerville;J. S. Barker;R. B. Herrmann

  • Variable-slip rupture model of the great 1923 Kanto, Japan, earthquake: geodetic and body-waveform analysis

    David J. Wald;Paul G. Somerville

  • Rupture process of the 1944 Tonankai earthquake (Ms 8.1) from the inversion of teleseismic and regional seismograms

    Gene A. Ichinose;Hong Kie Thio;Paul G. Somerville;Toshiaki Sato

  • The influence of critical Moho Reflections on strong ground motions recorded in San Francisco and Oakland during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake

    Paul Somerville;Joanne Yoshimura

  • New Zealand acceleration response spectrum attenuation relations for crustal and subduction zone earthquakes

    Graeme H. McVerry;John X. Zhao;Norman A. Abrahamson;Paul G. Somerville

  • The Cape Mendocino, California, Earthquakes of April 1992: Subduction at the Triple Junction

    D. Oppenheimer;J. Eaton;A. Jayko;M. Lisowski

  • Simulation of Near-Fault Strong-Ground Motion Using Hybrid Green's Functions

    Arben Pitarka;Paul Somerville;Yoshimitsu Fukushima;Tomiichi Uetake

  • Rupture process of the 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska, earthquake from the combined inversion of seismic, tsunami, and geodetic data

    Gene Ichinose;Paul Somerville;Hong Kie Thio;Robert Graves

  • Simulation of strong ground motions recorded during the 1985 Michoacán, Mexico and Valparaíso, Chile earthquakes

    Paul Somerville;Mrinal Sen;Brian Cohee

  • Differences in ground motion and fault rupture process between the surface and buried rupture earthquakes

    Takao Kagawa;Kojiro Irikura;Paul G. Somerville

  • The SCEC Broadband Platform Validation Exercise: Methodology for Code Validation in the Context of Seismic‐Hazard Analyses

    Christine A. Goulet;Norman A. Abrahamson;Paul G. Somerville;Katie E. Wooddell

  • Simulation of the seismic performance of the Bolu Viaduct subjected to near‐fault ground motions

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  • Selecting and Scaling Earthquake Ground Motions for Performing Response-History Analyses | NIST

    Andrew Whittaker;Gail Atkinson;Jack Baker;Jonathan Bray

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Graves
Robert W. Graves United States Geological Survey
Sidao Ni
Sidao Ni Chinese Academy of Sciences
Donald V. Helmberger
Donald V. Helmberger California Institute of Technology
Kojiro Irikura
Kojiro Irikura Aichi Institute of Technology
David A. Rhoades
David A. Rhoades GNS Science
David J. Wald
David J. Wald United States Geological Survey
Norman A. Abrahamson
Norman A. Abrahamson University of California, Berkeley
Jack W. Baker
Jack W. Baker Stanford University
Jonathan P. Stewart
Jonathan P. Stewart University of California, Los Angeles
Jean-Paul Ampuero
Jean-Paul Ampuero Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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