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  • 1986 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Thomas C. Hanks is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on seismic performance and analysis, with a strong emphasis on seismic waves and structural response to dynamic loads.

The main fields of study in which Thomas C. Hanks has contributed include Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work extends into specific subfields such as Civil and Structural Engineering, Geophysics, and Ocean Engineering, alongside contributions to Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Thomas C. Hanks has published research across several notable venues. Frequent publication outlets include Seismological Research Letters, The Seismic Record, and JAMA Network Open.

  • When Source and Path Components Trade-Off in Ground-Motion Prediction Equations (2020, Seismological Research Letters)
  • Rupture Directivity of the 25 October 2022 Mw 5.1 Alum Rock Earthquake (2023, The Seismic Record)
  • Shaking is Almost Always a Surprise: The Earthquakes That Produce Significant Ground Motion (2020, Seismological Research Letters)
  • Metrics Selection and Risk Adjustment Methods to Benchmark Inpatient Antibiotic Use (2025, JAMA Network Open)

Frequent co-authors of Thomas C. Hanks include A. Baltay, Lauren S. Abrahams, E. T. Hirakawa, Grace A. Parker, and S. E. Minson.

The research topics they address encompass seismic performance and analysis, seismic waves and analysis, structural health monitoring techniques, earthquake and tectonic studies, geophysics and sensor technology, structural response to dynamic loads, and antibiotic use and resistance.

  • Seismic Performance and Analysis
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geophysics and Sensor Technology
  • Structural Response to Dynamic Loads
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance

Thomas C. Hanks was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1986.

Best Publications

  • A moment magnitude scale

    Thomas C. Hanks;Hiroo Kanamori

  • b values and ω−γ seismic source models: Implications for tectonic stress variations along active crustal fault zones and the estimation of high‐frequency strong ground motion

    Thomas C. Hanks

  • The character of high-frequency strong ground motion

    Thomas C. Hanks;Robin K. McGuire

  • NGA-West2 Research Project:

    Yousef Bozorgnia;Norman A. Abrahamson;Linda Al Atik;Timothy D. Ancheta

  • Source parameters of southern California earthquakes

    Wayne Thatcher;Thomas C. Hanks

  • The use of body-wave spectra in the determination of seismic-source parameters

    Thomas C. Hanks;Max Wyss

  • Earthquake Stress Drops, Ambient Tectonic Stresses and Stresses That Drive Plate Motions

    Thomas C. Hanks

  • Modification of wave-cut and faulting-controlled landforms

    Thomas C. Hanks;Robert C. Bucknam;Kenneth R. Lajoie;Robert E. Wallace

  • A Bilinear Source-Scaling Model for M-log A Observations of Continental Earthquakes

    Thomas C. Hanks;William H. Bakun

  • Moment‐magnitude relations in theory and practice

    Thomas C. Hanks;David M. Boore

  • Dynamics of liquefaction during the 1987 superstition hills, california, earthquake.

    T. L. Holzer;T. C. Hanks;T. L. Youd

  • The Kuril Trench ‐ Hokkaido Rise System: Large Shallow Earthquakes and Simple Models of Deformation

    Thomas C. Hanks

  • M-logA Observations for Recent Large Earthquakes

    Thomas C. Hanks;William H. Bakun

  • The early thermal history of the earth

    Thomas C. Hanks;Don L. Anderson

  • RMS accelerations and spectral amplitudes of strong ground motion during the San Fernando, California earthquake

    Robin K. McGuire;Thomas C. Hanks

  • SEA96--A New Predictive Relation for Earthquake Ground Motions in Extensional Tectonic Regimes

    P. Spudich;Joe B. Fletcher;M. Hellweg;J. Boatwright

  • Strong ground motion of the San Fernando, California, earthquake: Ground displacements

    Thomas C. Hanks

  • Common features of the excitation and propagation of strong ground motion for North American earthquakes

    Thomas C. Hanks;Arch C. Johnston

  • Transport slopes, sediment cover, and bedrock channel incision in the Henry Mountains, Utah

    Joel Peterson Johnson;Kelin X. Whipple;Leonard S. Sklar;Thomas C. Hanks

  • A graphical representation of seismic source parameters

    Thomas C. Hanks;Wayne Thatcher

  • Seismic Moments of the Larger Earthquakes of the Southern California Region

    Thomas C. Hanks;James A. Hileman;Wayne Thatcher

Frequent Co-Authors

James N. Brune
James N. Brune University of Nevada Reno
Frank L. Vernon
Frank L. Vernon University of California, San Diego
Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jack W. Baker
Jack W. Baker Stanford University
David M. Boore
David M. Boore United States Geological Survey
Clarence R. Allen
Clarence R. Allen California Institute of Technology
Max Wyss
Max Wyss University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ross S. Stein
Ross S. Stein United States Geological Survey
Christopher H. Scholz
Christopher H. Scholz Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Warren D. Sharp
Warren D. Sharp Berkeley Geochronology Center

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