• Near Surface Geophysics - Spring 2018, 2020, 2022
  
• Probabilities and Seismic Hazard Analysis - Spring 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
  
• Seminar in Seismology - Fall 2014
  

• Probabilistic and Scenario Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis
• Earthquake Strong Ground Motion and Source, Path, and Site Effects
• Uncertainty in Hazard and Loss Estimates
• Magnitudes of Historic Earthquakes from Intensity Observations
  
• Seismology, including Downhole Seismology
  
• Tectonics
• Earthquake Early Warning
• Magnetotelluric Studies in the New Madrid seismic zone and Mississippi embayement
• Coastal Plain Ground Motion Amplification in the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions
  

Current and Recent Research Projects

• Coastal Plain Amplification in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains
• Magnetotelluric study of the Axial Fault of the New Madrid seismic zone
  
• Seismic Hazard Mapping and Earthquake Early Warning in Western Tennessee
  
• Empirical Eastern North America Ground Motion Prediction Equations (GMPEs)
  
• Ground Motion Intensity Modeling for the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes
• Memphis TN, St. Louis MO, Charleston SC, and Washington DC Urban Seismic Hazard Mapping
• Effect of the Upper Mississippi Embayment on Seismic and Liquefaction Hazard Modeling
• CEUS ground motion database for soil and rock (various soil conditions)
• Q boundary and regional Q, stress drop, and geometrical spreading studies in ENA, Alaska
  

• Allison Shumway - Focal Mechanisms for the Northeast New Madrid Seismic Zone
  
• Jerry Kutliroff - Seismic Hazard of the Middle East, Israel; B-value estimation
  
• Donny Dangkua - ENA intensity vs ground motion; In Situ Soil Nonlinearity
  
• Md. Nayeem Al Noman - ENA Attenuation and Regional Q; Q Tomography
  
• Mahesh Dhar - Seismic response of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal and Mississippi Embayment
  
• Philip Ogweno - GMPE model bias with respect to the NGA East database, intensity to ground motion relations, earthquake early warning
  
• Mostafa Mousavi - Q estimates for easternmost Canada
• Eric Jambo - Crustal Q in Alaska
• Shima Azizadeh-Roodpish - Seismological Statistics and b-value in Alaska
• Md. Jabir Rahman - Ste. Genevieve, MO gravity and seismic studies for sediment thickness and seismic response
• Roshan Bhattarai - Alaska ground motion vs. intensity correlations; liquefaction correlations with geotechnical parameters
• Anuradha Mahanama - Alaska Lg Attenuation Tomography and Coda Q Attenuation
• Kaushik Sarker - Magnetotelluric study of the Axial Fault of the New Madrid seismic zone
  

Bwambale, B., R.D. Andrus, T. Heidari, J. Gathro, and C.H. Cramer, 2022 Influence of Source-to-Site Distance and Diagenesis on Liquefaction Triggering of 200,000-year-old Beach Sand, Engineering Geology 295, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2022.106557.

 

Reichenbach, R., R. Van Arsdale, R. Cox, and C. Cramer, 2022, Geomorphology, Tree-Dimensional Geology, and Seismologic Hazards of the New Madrid Seismic Zone in Dyer County, Tennessee, Environmental and Engineering Geology 28, pp 147-171.

 

Goulet, C.A., T. Kishida, T.D. Ancheta, C.H. Cramer, R.B. Darragh, W.J. Silva, Y.M.A. Hashash, J. Harmon, G.A. Parker, J.P. Stewart, and R.R. Youngs, 2021, PEER NGA-East Database, Earthquake Spectra 37, 1331-1353.

 

Cramer, C.H., 2020, Updated GMICE for central and eastern North America extending to higher intensities, Seis. Res. Lett. 91, 3518-3527.



Ogweno, L.P., M.M. Withers, and C.H. Cramer, 2019, Earthquake early warning feasibility study for the New Madrid seismic zone, Seis. Res. Lett. 90, 1377-1392.

 

Cramer, C.H., and E. Jambo, 2019, Impact of a larger fore-arc region on earthquake ground motions in south-central Alaska including the 2018 M7.1 Anchorage inslab earthquake, Seis. Res. Lett. 91, 174-182.





Azizzadeh-Roodpish, S., and C.H. Cramer, 2018, Visibility graph analysis of Alaska crustal and Aleutian subduction zone seismicity: an investigation of the correlation between b value and k-M slope, Pure and Applied Geophysics 175, 4241-4252.

Cramer, C.H., M.S. Dhar, and D. Arellano, 2018, Update of the urban seismic and liquefaction hazard maps for Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee: liquefaction probability curves and 2015 hazard maps, Seis. Res. Lett. 89, published online 3 January 2018.

Cramer, C.H., 2017, Gulf coast regional Q and boundaries from USArray data, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 108, 437-449, published online 19 December 2017.

Dhar, M.S., and C.H. Cramer, 2017, Probabilistic seismic and liquefaction hazard analysis of the Mississippi embayment incorporating nonlinear effects, Seis. Res. Lett. 89, 253-267, published online 13 December 2017.

Cramer, C.H., 2017, Brune stress parameter estimates for the 2016 Mw 5.8 Pawnee and other Oklahoma earthquakes,

Seis. Res. Lett. 88, 1005-1016.

Cramer, C.H., R.A. Bauer, J. Chung, J.D. Rogers, L. Pierce, V. Voigt, B. Michell, D. Gaunt, R.A. Williams, D. Hoffman, G.L. Hempen, P.J. Steckel, O.S. Boyd, C.M. Watkins, K. Tucker, and N. McCallister, 2017, St. Louis area earthquake hazards mapping projects: seismic and liquefaction hazard maps, Seis. Res. Lett. 88, 206-223.

Ogweno, L.P., and C.H. Cramer, 2017, Improved CENA regression relationships between modified Mercalli intensities and ground-motion parameters, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 107, in press (published online 2016/11-29).

Cramer, C.H., and O.S. Boyd, 2014, Why the New Madrid Earthquakes are M7-8 and the Charleston Earthquake is ~M7, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 104, 2884-2903.

Cramer, C.H., R.B. Van Arsdale, M.S. Dhar, D. Pryne, and J. Paul, 2014, Updating of Urban Seismic-Hazard Maps for Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee: Geology and Vs Observations, Seism. Res. Lett. 85, 986-996.

Ogweno, L.P., and C.H. Cramer, 2014, Comparing the CENA GMPEs using NGA-East ground motion database, Seis. Res. Lett. 85, 1377-1393.

Dangkua, D.T., and C.H. Cramer, 2011, Felt Area versus Instrumental Ground Motion: A Difference between California and Eastern North America?, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 101, 1847-1858.

Cramer, C.H., G. Rix, and K. Tucker, 2008, Probabilistic liquefaction hazard maps for Memphis, Tennessee, Seis. Res. Lett. 79, 416-423.

Cramer, C.H., J.S. Gomberg, E.S. Schweig, B.A. Waldron, and K. Tucker, 2006, First USGS urban seismic hazard maps predict the effects of soils, Seism. Res. Lett. 77, 23-29.

Cramer, C.H., 2006, An assessment of the impact of the EPRI (2003) ground motion prediction models on the USGS national seismic hazard maps, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 96, 1159-1169.

Cramer, C.H., 2006, Quantifying the uncertainty in site amplification modeling and its effects on site-specific seismic-hazard estimation in the Mississippi embayment and adjacent areas, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 96, 2008-2020.