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Steven G. Wesnousky is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on geophysics. Their research spans multiple subfields, including geophysics, atmospheric science, management, monitoring, policy and law, artificial intelligence, and earth-surface processes.

The main topics of Wesnousky's work include earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, landslides and related hazards, earthquake detection and analysis, and seismology and earthquake studies.

Wesnousky has contributed to several publications, particularly in the field of seismology and tectonics. Some of the recent papers are:

  • Great Pending Himalaya Earthquakes, 2020, Seismological Research Letters
  • Accommodation of Plate Motion in an Incipient Strike-Slip System: The Central Walker Lane, 2020, Tectonics
  • Rupture Passing Probabilities at Fault Bends and Steps, with Application to Rupture Length Probabilities for Earthquake Early Warning, 2021, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Improved Scaling Relationships for Seismic Moment and Average Slip of Strike-Slip Earthquakes Incorporating Fault-Slip Rate, Fault Width, and Stress Drop, 2021, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Seismotectonic Snapshots: The 18 March 2020 Mw 5.7 Magna, 31 March 2020 Mw 6.5 Stanley, and 15 May 2020 Mw 6.5 Monte Cristo Intermountain West Earthquakes, 2021, Seismological Research Letters

Wesnousky's frequent coauthors include:

  • Ian Pierce
  • Lewis A. Owen
  • G. P. Biasi
  • Stephen J. Angster
  • J. M. Bormann

Their work has appeared in various publication venues, particularly:

  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Tectonics
  • Geology

Best Publications

  • Displacement and Geometrical Characteristics of Earthquake Surface Ruptures: Issues and Implications for Seismic-Hazard Analysis and the Process of Earthquake Rupture

    Steven G. Wesnousky

  • Predicting the endpoints of earthquake ruptures.

    Steven G. Wesnousky

  • Seismological and structural evolution of strike-slip faults

    Steven G. Wesnousky

  • The Gutenberg-Richter or characteristic earthquake distribution, which is it?

    Steven G. Wesnousky

  • Earthquakes, quaternary faults, and seismic hazard in California

    Steven G. Wesnousky

  • Paleoseismic evidence of great surface rupture earthquakes along the Indian Himalaya

    Senthil Kumar;Steven G. Wesnousky;Thomas K. Rockwell;Richard W. Briggs

  • Scaling differences between large interplate and intraplate earthquakes

    C. H. Scholz;C. A. Aviles;S. G. Wesnousky

  • Uplift and convergence along the Himalayan Frontal Thrust of India

    Steven G. Wesnousky;Senthil Kumar;R. Mohindra;V. C. Thakur

  • FAULT TRACE COMPLEXITY, CUMULATIVE SLIP, AND THE SHAPE OF THE MAGNITUDE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION FOR STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS : A GLOBAL SURVEY

    Mark W. Stirling;Steven G. Wesnousky;Kunihiko Shimazaki

  • Earthquake frequency distribution and the mechanics of faulting

    S. G. Wesnousky;C. H. Scholz;K. Shimazaki;T. Matsuda

  • Surface Rupture of the 2005 Kashmir, Pakistan, Earthquake and Its Active Tectonic Implications

    Heitaro Kaneda;Takashi Nakata;Hiroyuki Tsutsumi;Hisao Kondo

  • Earthquake recurrence and rupture dynamics of Himalayan Frontal Thrust, India.

    Senthil Kumar;Steven G. Wesnousky;Thomas K. Rockwell;Daniel Ragona

  • Paleoseismological evidence of surface faulting along the northeastern Himalayan front, India: Timing, size, and spatial extent of great earthquakes

    Senthil Kumar;Steven G. Wesnousky;R. Jayangondaperumal;T. Nakata

  • Earthquake size as a function of fault slip rate

    John G. Anderson;Steven G. Wesnousky;Mark W. Stirling

  • Deformation of an island arc: Rates of moment release and crustal shortening in intraplate Japan determined from seismicity and Quaternary fault data

    Steven G. Wesnousky;Christopher H. Scholz;Kunihiko Shimazaki

  • Active faulting in the Walker Lane

    Steven G. Wesnousky

  • SHORELINE PROCESSES AND THE AGE OF THE LAKE LAHONTAN HIGHSTAND IN THE JESSUP EMBAYMENT, NEVADA

    Kenneth D. Adams;Steven G. Wesnousky

  • Surface faulting of the 1954 Fairview Peak (MS 7.2) and Dixie Valley (MS 6.8) earthquakes, central Nevada

    S. J. Caskey;S. G. Wesnousky;P. Zhang;D. B. Slemmons

  • The San Andreas and Walker Lane fault systems, western North America: transpression, transtension, cumulative slip and the structural evolution of a major transform plate boundary

    Steven G. Wesnousky

  • Steps and Gaps in Ground Ruptures: Empirical Bounds on Rupture Propagation

    Glenn P. Biasi;Steven G. Wesnousky

  • Fault slip rates and earthquake histories for active faults in southern California

    Mark D. Petersen;Steven G. Wesnousky

  • Reply to Yan Kagan's comment on “The Gutenberg-Richter or characteristic earthquake distribution, which is it?”

    Steven G. Wesnousky

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard W. Briggs
Richard W. Briggs United States Geological Survey
Lewis A. Owen
Lewis A. Owen North Carolina State University
Christopher H. Scholz
Christopher H. Scholz Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mark W. Stirling
Mark W. Stirling University of Otago
Marc W. Caffee
Marc W. Caffee Purdue University West Lafayette
Graham M. Kent
Graham M. Kent University of Nevada Reno
Peizhen Zhang
Peizhen Zhang Sun Yat-sen University
Thomas K. Rockwell
Thomas K. Rockwell San Diego State University
Kunihiko Shimazaki
Kunihiko Shimazaki University of Tokyo
Corné Kreemer
Corné Kreemer University of Nevada Reno

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