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Robert C. Witter is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily falls within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions across several subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics central to geological and tectonic studies, particularly focusing on earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and geochemical analysis, and geological formations and processes. Additional areas of study include high-pressure geophysics and materials, seismic waves and analysis, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview and implications, 2023, Earthquake Spectra
  • Toward an Integrative Geological and Geophysical View of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes, 2021, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Palaeotsunamis in the Sino-Pacific region, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Rapid shallow megathrust afterslip from the 2021 M8.2 Chignik, Alaska earthquake revealed by seafloor geodesy, 2023, Science Advances
  • A maximum rupture model for the central and southern Cascadia subduction zone-reassessing ages for coastal evidence of megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews

Robert C. Witter frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Tina Dura
  • Simon E. Engelhart
  • Alan R. Nelson
  • Harvey M. Kelsey
  • Andrea D. Hawkes

The scientist's publications are often found in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Geophysical Monograph
  • Earthquake Spectra
  • Earth-Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • New insights of tsunami hazard from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki event

    Kazuhisa Goto;Kazuhisa Goto;Catherine Chagué-Goff;Catherine Chagué-Goff;Shigehiro Fujino;James Goff

  • Tsunami history of an Oregon coastal lake reveals a 4600 yr record of great earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone

    Harvey M. Kelsey;Alan R. Nelson;Eileen Hemphill-Haley;Robert C. Witter

  • Great earthquakes of variable magnitude at the Cascadia subduction zone

    Alan R. Nelson;Harvey M. Kelsey;Robert C. Witter

  • Influence of Releasing Step-Overs on Surface Fault Rupture and Fault Segmentation: Examples from the 17 August 1999 İzmit Earthquake on the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey

    W. Lettis;J. Bachhuber;R. Witter;C. Brankman

  • Great Cascadia earthquakes and tsunamis of the past 6700 years, Coquille River estuary, southern coastal Oregon

    Robert C. Witter;Harvey M. Kelsey;Eileen Hemphill-Haley

  • Erosion, deposition and landscape change on the Sendai coastal plain, Japan, resulting from the March 11, 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami

    Bruce Richmond;Witold Szczuciński;Catherine Chagué-Goff;Catherine Chagué-Goff;Kazuhisa Goto

  • Heterogeneous rupture in the great Cascadia earthquake of 1700 inferred from coastal subsidence estimates

    Pei-Ling Wang;Pei-Ling Wang;Simon E. Engelhart;Simon E. Engelhart;Kelin Wang;Kelin Wang;Andrea D. Hawkes;Andrea D. Hawkes

  • Plate-boundary earthquakes and tsunamis of the past 5500 yr, Sixes River estuary, southern Oregon

    Harvey M. Kelsey;Robert C. Witter;Eileen Hemphill-Haley

  • Tsunami–tide interaction in 1964 Prince William Sound tsunami

    Yinglong J. Zhang;Robert C. Witter;George R. Priest

  • The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview and implications

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  • Sedimentary and foraminiferal evidence of the 2011 Tōhoku-oki tsunami on the Sendai coastal plain, Japan

    Jessica E. Pilarczyk;Jessica E. Pilarczyk;Benjamin P. Horton;Robert C. Witter;Christopher H. Vane

  • Confidence levels for tsunami-inundation limits in northern Oregon inferred from a 10,000-year history of great earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone

    George R. Priest;Chris Goldfinger;Kelin Wang;Robert C. Witter

  • Maps of quaternary deposits and liquefaction susceptibility in the Central San Francisco Bay Region, California

    Robert C. Witter;Keith L. Knudsen;Janet M. Sowers;Carl M. Wentworth

  • Simulated tsunami inundation for a range of Cascadia megathrust earthquake scenarios at Bandon, Oregon, USA

    Robert C. Witter;Yinglong J. Zhang;Kelin Wang;George R. Priest

  • Toward an integrative geological and geophysical view of Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes

    Maureen A. L. Walton;Lydia M. Staisch;Tina Dura;Jessie Kathleen Pearl

  • Preliminary maps of Quaternary deposits and liquefaction susceptibility, nine-county San Francisco Bay region, California: a digital database

    Keith L. Knudsen;Janet M. Sowers;Robert C. Witter;Carl M. Wentworth

  • Pacific Storms, EI Niño and Tsunamis: Competing Mechanisms for Sand Deposition in a Coastal Marsh, Euchre Creek, Oregon

    Robert C. Witter;Harvey M. Kelsey;Eileen Hemphill-Haley

  • Unusually large tsunamis frequent a currently creeping part of the Aleutian megathrust

    Robert C. Witter;Gary A. Carver;Richard W. Briggs;Guy Gelfenbaum

  • Little late Holocene strain accumulation and release on the Aleutian megathrust below the Shumagin Islands, Alaska

    Robert C. Witter;Richard W. Briggs;Simon E. Engelhart;Guy R. Gelfenbaum

  • Response of a small Oregon estuary to coseismic subsidence and postseismic uplift in the past 300 years.

    Harvey M. Kelsey;Robert C. Witter;Eileen Hemphill-Haley

  • Coseismic slip on the southern Cascadia megathrust implied by tsunami deposits in an Oregon lake and earthquake‐triggered marine turbidites

    Robert C. Witter;Robert C. Witter;Yinglong Zhang;Kelin Wang;Chris Goldfinger

  • Geo-Engineering Reconnaissance of the 2010 Maule, Chile Earthquake

    Pedro Arduino;Scott Ashford;Dominic Assimaki;Jonathan Bray

  • Heterogeneous Rupture in the Great Cascadia Earthquake of 1700 Inferred from Coastal Subsidence Estimates

    P. Wang;K. Wang;A. Hawkes;B. P. Horton

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon E. Engelhart
Simon E. Engelhart Durham University
Alan R. Nelson
Alan R. Nelson United States Geological Survey
Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Harvey M. Kelsey
Harvey M. Kelsey Humboldt State University
Kelin Wang
Kelin Wang Geological Survey of Canada
Guy Gelfenbaum
Guy Gelfenbaum United States Geological Survey
Peter J. Haeussler
Peter J. Haeussler United States Geological Survey
Richard W. Briggs
Richard W. Briggs United States Geological Survey
Bruce E. Jaffe
Bruce E. Jaffe United States Geological Survey
Chris Goldfinger
Chris Goldfinger Oregon State University

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