Welcome to the Data Science and Earthquake Physics Group (EPG) at the University of Memphis! The group, led by PI Goebel, includes 1 PostDoc and 5 graduate students. The following pages provide information about research projects, group members and opportunities for students (undergrad and grad students). The EPG studies faults and earthquakes at many scales from micro to macro, fast to slow, single events to cascades, natural to induced events. The group tries to address some fundamental questions in seismology such as: What conditions promote slip instability and earthquakes? How do faults react to natural and induced stress perturbations? Why do some earthquakes occur in isolation while others lead to cascades of subsequent aftershocks? To tackle these questions our team employs empirical observations and machine learning, as well as laboratory experiments and numerical modeling.
Congratulations to Dr. Kiran Pandey and Dr. Roshan Koirala on successfully defending your disserations!
New article explores the role of fault roughness and fluid pressure during earthquake nucleation Nature.com
Sadia Rinty was selected for an NSF research internship at Verisk/AIR Worldwide in Boston in Summer 2024!
Navin Thapa was selected for an NSF geothermal internship at Zanskar in Salt Lake City in Summer 2024!
Thomas Goebel receives the 2023 Tigers Ascending to Excellence Award from the University of Memphis
Earthquake physics group at CERI helped build new seismic network around Santa Ana volcano, El Salvador in the fall of 2023.
Roshan Koirala was selected for an NSF research internship at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque in Spring 2024!
Congratulations to Kiran Pandey who is starting a new position as senior geophysicist at UES, St. Louis in November 2023!
Sadia Rinty receives University of Memphis travel award to present her reseach on volcano seismicity at AGU in San Francisco in December 2023
Alamgir Hossain receives GSA travel award to present his reseach on dynamic triggering at GSA in Pittsburg in October 2023
Kiran Pandey receives SSA travel award to present his reseach on coda wave interferometry at IUGG in Berlin in July 2023
SCEC poster 2021: High-res seismic
velocity changes during labquakes
Here is the first article about the project and a related
I am always looking for more talented, passionate people. Research opportunities are available for graduates and undergraduates. Contact me for further information.
