Joan Gomberg
Joan Gomberg is a research geophysicist, specializing in earthquake seismology for the Earthquake Hazard Program in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). Her research focuses on how earthquakes initiate and affect one another, the different ways in which faults slip, and earthquake-triggered phenomena in submarine and other environments. Joan has been engaged in efforts to enhance subduction zone science.
Research Interests
Earthquake hazard assessment, earthquake interactions, source scaling, coupled aseismic and seismic deformation, seismicity evolution, earthquake scaling, offshore geodesy, and submarine landslides and gravity flows.
Professional Experience
Post-doc, University of California, San Diego - 1986-87
Post-doc, University of Nevada, Reno - 1987-88
Visiting Scholar, Inst, Geol. & Nuclear Sci., New Zealand - Winter, 2002
Visiting Scholar, Ist. Naz. di Geofisica e Vulc., Italy - Spring, 2002
Research Geophysicist, US Geological Survey, Golden, CO - 1988-1994
Research Geophysicist, US Geological Survey, Memphis,TN - 1994-2006
Adjunct Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Memphis,, Memphis,TN - 1994-2006
Research Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey, Seattle, WA - 2006-present
Affiliate Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA - 2006-present
Education and Certifications
University of California, San Diego, Geophysics, Ph.D., 1986
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Geophysics, B.Sc., 1979
Affiliations and Memberships*
American Geophysical Union Member, Fellow 1979 - present
Seismological Society of America Member, 1986 - present
SSA/IRIS Distinguished Lecturer Selection Standing Comm. Member 2004 - 2010
SSA Selection Standing Comm. Member 2004 - 2010
SSA Board of Directors Member 2003 - 2006
SSA Vice President 2004 - 2006
SSA Board of Dir. Nominating Comm.Chair 2006
Earthquake Engineering Research Institutions 2012 - present
Assoc. of Women in Geoscience Member 1987 - 2005
IRIS PASSCAL Standing Comm. Member 2001 - 2004
Council of Natl. Seismic Sys. Board Member 1997 - 2001
Cascadia Regional Earthquake Working Group 2006 - present
Pacific Northwest Contingency Planners And Recovery Managers
Honors and Awards
2018 National Association of Government Communicators Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Award for the USGS Circular and Fact Sheet, “Reducing Risk Where Tectonic Plates Collide”.
2015 Association for Women Geoscientists Excellence Award
2013 American Geophysical Union Fellow
2016 Star award for participation in Society of Environmental Journalists conference.
2016 Star award for leadership in subduction zone science coordination.
2013 Mendenhall Fellowship Award (mentor) Exploring Fault Slip Modes in Alaska and the Aleutian Arc
2012 Mendenhall Fellowship Award (mentor) Building New Holistic Earthquake Monitoring
2009 Mendenhall Fellowship Award (mentor) Crustal structure, faulting, and earthquake effects in the Cascadia region
2008 Star award for leadership in activities related to episodic tremor and slip.
2007 Star award for leadership in activities related to episodic tremor and slip.
2005 Star award for service to the Earthquake Hazards Program
2004 Star award for leadership in the Central and Eastern U.S. Hazards program
2003 Central Region Geologic Hazards Team Senior Scientist in Residence Award
2001 Star award for leadership in the Central and Eastern U.S. Hazards program
2000 Star award for leadership in the Central and Eastern U.S. Hazards program
1999 Star award for liaison activities with the Mid-America Earthquake Center.
1998 Star award for leadership in responding to the M4.9, southern Alabama earthquake.
1997 On the Spot award for organizing a workshop on U.S. seismic networks and the national seismic system
1993 Gilbert Fellowship (Dynamic Strains and Earthquake Triggering)
1991 Branch of Geologic Risk Assess. Best Pub. Award
Science and Products
External Grants - Overview
Toward an integrative geological and geophysical view of Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes
Separating sea and slow slip signals on the seafloor
Earthquake arrival association with backprojection and graph theory
Sediment gravity flows triggered by remotely generated earthquake waves
Reducing risk where tectonic plates collide—U.S. Geological Survey subduction zone science plan
Reducing risk where tectonic plates collide
Reconsidering earthquake scaling
Demonstration of the Cascadia G‐FAST geodetic earthquake early warning system for the Nisqually, Washington, earthquake
Building a subduction zone observatory
Alternative source models of very low frequency events
Changes in seismic velocity during the first 14 months of the 2004–2008 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington
Earthquake forewarning in the Cascadia region
Non-USGS Publications**
Gomberg, J., K. Ariyoshi, S. Hautala, P. Johnson (2021) The fickle nature of earthquake shaking-triggered submarine sediment slope failures and sediment gravity flows, submitted to J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, in press.
Gomberg, J. and P. Bodin (2021), The productivity of Cascadia aftershock sequences, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, in press.
Walton, M., L. Staisch, T. Dura, J.K. Pearl, B. Sherrod, J. Gomberg, S. Engelhart, A. Trehu, J. Watt, J. Perkins, R.C. Witter, N. Bartlow, C. Goldfinger, H. Kelsey, A.E. Morey, V.J. Sahakian, H. Tobin, K. Wang, R. Wells and E. Wirth, (2021), Toward an integrative geological and geophysical view of Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes, Annual Reviews of Geophysics, v. 49, p. 367-398
Gomberg, J., P. Baxter, E. Smith, K. Ariyoshi, and S. Chiswell (2020), The ocean's impact on slow slip events, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087273. https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2020GL087273.
McBrearty, I.W., J. Gomberg, A.A. Delorey, and P.A. Johnson (2019), Earthquake arrival association with back projection and graph theory: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 109, p. 2510-2531.
Gomberg, J., S. Hautala, P. Johnson, S. Chiswell (2019), Separating sea and slow slip signals on the seafloor: J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, v. 124, 18p.
Gomberg, J. (2018), Cascadia onshore-offshore site-response, submarine sediment mobilization, and earthquake recurrence: Journal of Geophysical Research, 123, 1381–1404. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014985.
Huntington, K.W., and Klepeis, K.A., with 66 community contributors (2018), Challenges and opportunities for research in tectonics: Understanding deformation and the processes that link Earth systems, from geologic time to human time: A community vision document submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation. University of Washington, 84 pp., https://doi.org/10.6069/H52R3PQ5.
Gomberg, J. (2018), Unsettled earthquake nucleation: Nature Geoscience, June 4, 2018 News and Views, p. 463-464.
Marsan, D., G. Beroza, and J. Gomberg (2018), How earthquakes start and stop: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, March, 2p.
Gomberg, J.S., and Ludwig, K.A., 2017, Reducing risk where tectonic plates collide: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2017-3024, 4 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20173024.
Gomberg, J.S., Ludwig, K.A., Bekins, B.A., Brocher, T.M., Brock, J.C., Brothers, Daniel, Chaytor, J.D., Frankel, A.D., Geist, E.L., Haney, Matthew, Hickman, S.H., Leith, W.S., Roeloffs, E.A., Schulz, W.H., Sisson, T.W., Wallace, Kristi, Watt, J.T., Wein, Anne, 2017, Reducing risk where tectonic plates collide - U.S. Geological Survey subduction zone science plan: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1428, 45 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/cir1428.
Gomberg, J. (2017), Cascadia Onshore-Offshore Site-Response, Submarine Sediment Mobilization, and Earthquake Recurrence: Journal of Geophysical Research, in press.
Johnson, H. P., J. S. Gomberg, S. L. Hautala, and M. S. Salmi (2017), Sediment gravity flows triggered by remotely generated earthquake waves, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JB013689.
Marsan, D., G. Beroza, J. Gomberg (2017), How earthquakes start and stop: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, in press.
McBrearty, I., J. Gomberg, A. Delorey, and P. Johnson (2017), Northern Chile seismicity rate changes and ripe-fault triggering: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, in preparation.
Crowell, B.W., D.A. Schmidt, P. Bodin, J.E. Vidale, J. Gomberg, J. R. Hartog, V.C. Kress, T.I. Melbourne, M. Santillan, S.E. Minson, and D.G. Jamison (2016). Demonstration of the Cascadia G-FAST Geodetic Earthquake Early Warning System for the Nisqually, Washington Earthquake: Seismological Research Letters, v. 87, no. 4., July-August, doi: 10.1785/0220150255.
Gomberg, J., P. Bodin, J. Bourgeois, S. Cashman, D. Cowan, K. Creager, B. Crowell, A. Duvall, A. Frankel, F. Gonzalez, H. Houston, P. Johnson, H. Kelsey, U. Miller, E. Roland, D. Schmidt, L. Staisch, J. Vidale, W. Wilcock, E. Wirth (2016), Planning for a Subduction Zone Observatory, EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 97, 11 p., doi: 10.1029/2016EO052635.
Gomberg, J., A. Wech, K. Creager, K. Obara, D. Agnew, (2016), Reconsidering earthquake scaling: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 43, 9 p., doi: 10.1002/2016GL069967.
Gomberg, J., D. Agnew, and S. Schwartz (2016), Alternative models of very low-frequency earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 121, p. 6722-6740, doi:10.1002/2016JB013001.
Gomberg, J., Atwater, N. Beeler, P. Bodin, E. Davis, A. Frankel, G. Hayes, V. McConnell, T. Melbourne, D. Oppenheimer, J. Parrish, E. Roeloffs, G. Rogers, B. Sherrod, J. Vidale, T. Walsh, C. Weaver, and P. Whitmore (2015), Earthquake forewarning in the Cascadia region, US Geological Survey Open-File Report, US Geological Survey Open-File Report, 2015-1151, 8 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151151.
Hotovec-Ellis, A. J., J. E. Vidale, J. Gomberg, W. Thelen and S. C. Moran (2015), Changes in seismic velocity during the 2004-2008 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 120, doi:10.1002/2013JB01074.
Marsan, D., J. Gomberg, and M. Bouchon (2015), Exploring earthquakes, slow slip and triggering: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 96, doi:10.1029/2015EO025955.
Wu C., R. Guyer, D. Shelly, D. Trugman, W. Frank, J. Gomberg and P. Johnson (2015), Spatial-temporal variation of low-frequency earthquake bursts near Parkfield, California: Geophysical Journal International, v. 202, p. 914-919, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv194.
Gomberg, J., and B. Sherrod (2014), Crustal earthquake triggering by modern great earthquakes on subduction zone thrusts, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, 1235 - 1250, doi:10.1002/2012JB009826.
Hotovec-Ellis, A. J., J. Gomberg, J. E. Vidale, and K. C. Creager (2014), A continuous record of inter-eruption velocity change at Mount St. Helens from coda wave interferometry, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119,doi:10.1002/2013JB010742.
Minson, S.E., J.R. Murray, J.O. Langbein and J.S. Gomberg (2014), Real-time inversions for finite fault slip models and rupture geometry based on high-rate GPS data: Journal of Geophysical Research, 119, 3201-3231, doi:10.1002/2013JB010622.
Sherrod, B., and J. Gomberg (2014), Crustal earthquake triggering by prehistoric great earthquakes on subduction zone thrusts, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, 1273-1294, doi:10.1002/2013JB010635.
Wu, C., J. Gomberg, E. Ben-Naim, and P. Johnson (2014), Triggering of repeating earthquakes in central California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL059051.
Brown, J. R., S. G. Prejean, G. C. Beroza, J. S. Gomberg, and P. J. Haeussler, Deep low-frequency earthquakes in tectonic tremor along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone: Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 1079-1090, doi:10.1029/2012JB009459.
Gomberg, J., Permanently Enhanced Dynamic Triggering Probabilities as Evidenced by Two M>7.5 Earthquakes: Geophysical Research Letters, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50933.
Gomberg, J. and A. Jakobitz, A collaborative, user-produced, assessment of earthquake response products: USGS Open File Report 2013-1103, 17 p.
Gomberg, J. and S. Prejean, Tremor sweet spots in Alaska: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 118, p. 6,203-6,218, doi:10.1002/2013JB010273, v. 343, p. 119.
Hotovec, A.J., S. G. Prejean, J. E. Vidale, J. Gomberg, 2011, Strongly Gliding Harmonic Tremor During the 2009 Eruption of Redoubt Volcano: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 259, 89-99.
Wu, C., D. Shelly, J. Gomberg, Z. Peng, and P. Johnson (2013), Long-term changes of earthquake inter-event times and low-frequency earthquake recurrence in central California,Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 144-150, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.007.
Gomberg, J., A practical guide to Pacific Northwest earthquakes, USGS Technology Enabled Learning course, online.
Gomberg, J. K. Creager, J. Sweet, J. Vidale, A Ghosh, and A. Hotovec, Earthquake spectra and near-source attenuation in the Cascadia subduction zone, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, B5, doi:10.1029/2011JB009055.
Gomberg, J., S. Prejean, and N. Ruppert, Afterslip, tremor and the Denali Fault earthquake: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 102, p. 892-899.
Gomberg, J., B. Sherrod, M. Trautman, E. Burns and D. Snyder, Contemporary seismicity in and around the Yakima Fold and Thrust Belt in eastern Washington: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 201, p. 309-320 .
Wicks, C., W. Thelen, J. Gomberg, C. Weaver and A. Rohay, InSAR observations of aseismic slip associated with an earthquake swarm in the Columbia River Basalt: Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, B12304, 8 p., doi:10.1029/2011JB008433 .
Gomberg, J. and K. Felzer, Reply to Comment on A model of earthquake triggering probabilities and application to dynamic deformations constrained by ground motion observations by Ross Stein: Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, B03313, doi:10.1029/2010JB008094.
Gomberg, J., W. Schulz, P. Bodin, and J. Kean, Seismic and geodetic signatures of fault slip at the Slumgullion landslide natural laboratory: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 116, B09404, doi:10.1029/2011JB008304.
Vidale, J. E., A. J. Hotovec, A. Ghosh, K. C. Creager, and J. Gomberg, Tiny intraplate earthquakes triggered by nearby episodic tremor and slip in Cascadia: Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., v. 12, Q06005, doi:10.1029/2011GC003559.
Gomberg, J., Lessons from (Triggered) Tremor: Journal of Geophysical Research, 47 p., v. 115, B10302, doi:10.1029/2009JB007011.
Gomberg, J., 2010, Introduction to special section on Phenomenology, Underlying Processes, and Hazard Implications of Aseismic Slip and Nonvolcanic Tremor: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.115, doi:10.1029/2010JB008052.
Gomberg, J. and The Cascadia 2007 and Beyond Working Group, Slow Slip Phenomena in Cascadia from 2007 and Beyond: A Review: Geological Society of America Bulletin, online March 29, 2010, p. 963-978, doi:10.1130/B30287.1.
Gomberg, J., B. Sherrod, C. Weaver, and A. Frankel, 2010, A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in the Tacoma Fault Zone; a plausible scenario for the southern Puget Sound region, Washington: USGS Fact Sheet 2010-3023, 4 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2010/3023/
Peng, Z. and J. Gomberg, An integrated perspective of the continuum between earthquakes and slow-slip phenomena: Nature Geosciences, v. 3, p. 599-607, doi:10.1038/ngeo940.
Johnson, P., Bodin, P., J. Gomberg, Pearce, F., Z. Lawrence,, X. Jia, and F-Y. Meng, Inducing in situ, nonlinear soil response applying an active source: Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B05304, doi:10.1029/2008JB005832.
Lay (ed.), T., R. Aster, D. Forsyth, B. Romanowicz, R. Allen, V. Cormier, J. Gomberg, J. Hole, G. Masters, D. Schutt, A. Sheehan, J. Tromp, M. Wysession, 2009, Seismological Grand Challenges in Understanding Earth's Dynamic Systems, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Report to the National Science Foundation, 74 p.
Rubinstein, J., J. Gomberg , J. Vidale , A. Wech , H. Kao , K. Creager , G. Rogers, 2009, Dynamic Triggering of Non-Volcanic Tremor, ETS, and Earthquakes on Vancouver Island: Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B00A01,
doi:10.1029/2008JB005875.
Smith, E.F. and J. Gomberg, A Search in Strainmeter Data for Slow Slip Associated with Triggered and Ambient Tremor near Parkfield, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B00A14, doi:10.1029/2008JB006040.
Gomberg, J. and K. Felzer, 2008, Earthquake triggering and the scaling of ground motions, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B10317, doi:10.1029/2007JB005184.
Gomberg, J., E. Roeloffs, A. Trehu, H. Dragert, C. Meertens, 2008, Report on the Aseismic Slip, Tremor, and EarthquakesWorkshop, USGS Open-File Rept., 2008-1343, 72 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1343/.
Gomberg, J., J.L. Rubinstein, Z. Peng, K.C. Creager, J.E. Vidale, and P. Bodin, 2008, Widespread Triggering of Non-volcanic Tremor in California, Gomberg, J., J.L. Rubinstein, Z. Peng, K.C. Creager, J.E. Vidale, and P. Bodin, 2008, Widespread Triggering of Non-volcanic Tremor in California, Science, v. 319, p. 173.
Hartog, R., J. Gomberg, S. Moran, A. Wright, K. Meagher, The October 8, 2006 M4.5 Cowlitz Chimney earthquake in Mount Rainier National Park, Seismological Research Letters, v. 79, p. 186-193.
Johnson, P.A., Savage, H., Knuth, M., Gomberg, J. and Marone, C., 2008. Effects of acoustic waves on stick-slip in granular media and implications for earthquakes, v. 451|3 January 2008| doi:10.1038/nature06440 , p. 57-60.
Lawrence, Z., P. Bodin,C.A. Langston, F. Pearce, J. Gomberg, P.A. Johnson, F.Y. Menq, T. Brackman, 2008, Induced Dynamic Nonlinear Ground Response at Garner Valley, California: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 98, p. 1412-1418, doi: 10.1785/0120070124.
Peng, Z., JE Vidale, KC Creager, JL Rubinstein, J Gomberg, P Bodin, 2008, Strong tremor near Parkfield, CA excited by the 2002 Denali earthquake, Geophys. Res. Letts, 35, L23305, doi:10.1029/2008GL036080.
Rubinstein, J., J. Vidale, J. Gomberg, P. Bodin, K. Creager, and S. Malone, 2007, Non-volcanic tremor driven by large transient shear stresses: Nature, v. 448, p. 579-582, doi:10.1038/nature06017.
Cramer, C., J.S. Gomberg, E.S. Schweig, B.A. Waldron, and K. Tucker, 2006, First USGS urban hazard maps predict the effects of soils: Seism. Res. Letts., v. 77, p. 23-29.
Gomberg, J.. L. Wald, R. Dart, E.S. Schweig, 2006, Urban Seismic Hazard Mapping for Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee: USGS Fact Sheet 05-3142, 4 p.
Bodin, P., C. Langston, G. Patterson, C. Powell, M. Withers, and J. Gomberg, 2005, Earthscope science for Mid-America, EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 86, p 68-69.
Gomberg, J., M.E. Bardinelli, , M. Cocco, P. Reasenberg, 2005, Time-dependent earthquake probabilities: Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B05S04, doi:10.1029/2004JB003405.
Gomberg, J. and P. Johnson, 2005, Dynamic Triggering of Earthquakes, v. 437, p. 830, doi:10.1038/nature04167, Nature.
Gomberg, J., P. Reasenberg, M. Cocco, M.E. Bardinelli, 2005, A frictional population model of seismicity rate change: Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B05S03, doi:10.1029/2004JB003404.
Steacy, S., J. Gomberg, M. Cocco, 2005, Introduction to special section: Stress transfer, earthquake triggering, and time-dependent seismic hazard, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B05S01, doi:10.1029/2005JB003692.
Cramer, C. H., J. S. Gomberg, E. S. Schweig, B. A. Waldron, and K. Tucker, 2004, The Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, Seismic Hazard Maps: USGS Open-File Report 04-1294, 40 p.
Gomberg, J., P. Bodin, K. Larson, H. Dragert 2004, The fundamental process of earthquake nucleation by transient deformations revealed by the M7.9 Denali, Alaska earthquake, Nature, 427, 621-624.
Gomberg, J., and the Participants in the IRIS/NEES/USGS Workshop and Garner Valley Experiment, 2004, Multifacility, Multidisciplinary Earthquake Science and Engineering, EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 85, p 404.
Petersen, M.D., B.K. Rastogi, E.S. Schweig, S.C. Harmsen, J.S. Gomberg, 2004, Sensitivity analysis of seismic hazard for the northwestern portion of the state of Gujarat, India, Tectonophysics, v. 390, p. 105-115.
Bodin, P., Schweig, E., Pavlis, G. and Gomberg, J., 2003, A Rapid Array Mobilization Procedure (RAMP) Agreement for the Central United States, US Geological Survey Open File Report 03-015, 23 p..
Gomberg, J., P. Bodin, and P. Reasenberg, 2003, Observing Earthquakes Triggered in the Near Field by Dynamic Deformations: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 93, p. 118-138.
Gomberg, J., B. Waldron, E. Schweig, H. Hwang, A. Webbers, R. VanArsdale, K. Tucker, R. Williams, R. Street, P. Mayne, W. Stephenson, J. Odum, C. Cramer, R. Updike, S. Hutson, M. Bradley, 2003, Lithology and Shear-wave Velocity in Memphis, Tennessee, 2003, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 93, p. 986-998.
Larson, K., P. Bodin, and J. Gomberg, 2003, Using 1 Hz GPS Data to Measure Permanent and Seismic Deformations Caused by the Denali Fault Earthquake, Science, v. 300, p. 1421-1424.
Michael, A.J., N. Field, A. Frankel, J. Gomberg, and K. Shedlock, 2003, Chapts. 4 & 5, Time-Independent Hazard and Time-Dependent Hazard, in Earthquake Science and Seismic Risk Reduction, eds. F. Mulargia and R. Geller, NATO Advanced Research Workshop Publ. Series, p. 251-364.
Pratt,T., M. Holmes, E. Schweig, J. Gomberg, H. Cowan, 2003, Shallow faulting in Limon Bay, Republic of Panama: Implications for seismic hazard analyses and recent tectonics: Tectonics, v. 368, p. 211-2287.
Schweig E., Gomberg J., Petersen M., Ellis M., Bodin P., Mayrose L, and Rastogi B. K., 2003, The M 7.6 Bhuj earthquake: Global lessons for earthquake hazard in intra-plate regions: Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 61, p. 277-282.
Gomberg, J. and Schweig, E., 2002, East meets Midwest: An earthquake in India helps hazard assessment in the Central United States, USGS Fact Sheet 007-02, 4 p..
Gomberg, J. and Schweig, E., 2002, Earthquake Hazard in the Heart of the Homeland, USGS Fact Sheet 131-02, 4 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3125/.
Kilb, D., Gomberg, J. & Bodin, P., 2002, Aftershock triggering by complete Coulomb stresses: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 107, 10.1029/2001JB000202.
Cramer, C. and Gomberg, J., 2001, Updated New Madrid analysis better defines the uncertainty in seismic hazard maps: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 82, p. 102-106.
Ellis, M., Gomberg, J. and Schweig, E., 2001, Indian earthquake may serve as analog for New Madrid earthquakes: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 82, p. 345-350.
Gomberg, J., 2001, The failure of earthquake failure models: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, p. 16253-16264.
Gomberg, J., Reasenberg, P., Bodin, P. and Harris, R. 2001, Earthquake triggering by transient seismic waves following the Landers and Hector Mine, California earthquakes: Nature, v. 411, p. 462-466.
Gomberg, J., and Schweig, E., 2001, Earthquake hazard in the Appalachian region, in Adams. D. B., Burke, K., Hemingway, B., Keay, J., and Yurewicz, compilers, U.S. Geological Survey Appalachian region integrated science workshop proceedings, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, October 22-26, 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-406, p. 141-143.
Schweig E., Gomberg J., Bodin P., Patterson G., and Davis, S., 2001, The internet: shaking up scientific communications: Nature, 412, http://www.nature.com/nature/webmatters/equake/.
Schweig, E. S., Gomberg, J.S., and VanArsdale, R.B., 2001, Introduction to special issue titled earthquake hazard evaluation in the Central United States: Engineering Geology, v. 62, p. 1-5.
Gomberg, J., Beeler, N.M., and Blanpied, M.L., 2000, On rate-and-state and Coulomb failure models: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 105, p. 7857-7872.
Gomberg, J., Pavlis, G. and Bodin, P., 2000, The strain in the array is mainly in the plane (waves): Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 89, p. 1428-1438.
Kilb, D., Gomberg, J. & Bodin, P., 2000, Triggering of earthquake aftershocks by dynamic stresses: Nature, v. 408, p. 570-574.
Participants* in the 2000 New Madrid Source Workshop, 2000, Reassessing New Madrid, EOS, Am. Geophys. Union Trans., v. 81, p. 397-403.
Schweig, E., Gomberg, J. and Tuttle, M., 1999, Comment: Caution urged in revising earthquake hazard estimates in New Madrid seismic zone, EOS, Transactions, Amer. Geophys. Union, v. 80, p. 197.
Gomberg, J. and Wolf, L., 1999, A possible cause for an improbable earthquake: The 1997, Mw4.9 southern Alabama earthquake and hydrocarbon recovery: Geology, v. 27, p. 367.
Kilb, D. and Gomberg, J., 1999, The initial subevent of the 1994, Northridge, California earthquake: Do small and large earthquakes initiate similarly?, Seismology,v. 3, p. 409-420.
Gomberg, J., Beeler, N.M., and Blanpied, M.L., 1998, Earthquake triggering by static and dynamic deformations: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, p. 24411-24426.
Bodin, P., Gomberg, J., Singh, S.K., and Santoyo, M., 1997, Dynamic deformations of shallow sediments in the Valley of Mexico, Part I: Three dimensional strains and rotations recorded on a seismic array: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 87, p. 528-539.
Gomberg, J., 1997, Dynamic and permanent deformations, and the M6.7, Northridge, California earthquake: Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, v. 16, p. 471-494.
Gomberg, J., Blanpied, M.L., and Beeler, N.M., 1997, Transient triggering of near and distant earthquakes: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 87, p. 294-309.
Kilb, D., Ellis, M., and Gomberg, J., 1997, On the origin of diverse aftershock mechanisms following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake: Geophysical Journal International, v. 128, p. 557-570.
Singh, S.K., Santoyo, M., Bodin, P., and Gomberg, J., 1997, Dynamic deformations of shallow sediments in the Valley of Mexico, Part II: Single station estimates: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 87, p. 540-550.
Gomberg, J., 1996, Stress/strain changes and triggered seismicity following the Ms7.4 Landers, California earthquake: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, p. 751-764.
Gomberg, J. and Agnew, D.C., 1996, The accuracy of seismic estimates of dynamic strains from Pinyon Flat Observatory, California, strainmeter and seismograph data: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 86, p. 212-220.
Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Hellman, S., and Pratusevich, G., 1996, Aftershock Readiness Training Goes Big in Memphis: Seismological Research Letters, v. 67, p. 40-41.
Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Hellman, S., and Pratusevich, G., 1996, PASSCAL Training Goes Big in Memphis: IRIS Newsletter, v. 15, p. 10-11.
Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Savage, W., and Jackson, M., 1996, Slidequakes and fault creep at the Slumgullion landslide: an analog to crustal tectonics in The Slumgullion Earth flow: A Large Scale Natural Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin B2130, p. 85-92.
Gomberg, J., and Davis, S., 1996, Stress/strain changes and triggered seismicity at The Geysers, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, p. 733-749.
Bodin, P. and Gomberg, J., 1995, Earthquake hazard - Correspondence, Nature, v. 374, p. 492.
Gomberg, J., 1995, Earthquake induced seismicity: Evidence from the Ms7.4 Landers, earthquake and The Geysers geothermal field, California in "Earthquakes Induced by Underground Nuclear Explosions: Environmental and Ecological Problems", eds. R. Console and A. Nikolaev, Publ. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 201-214.
Gomberg, J.S., 1995, Seismic networks: the basics of why, how, and what we learn from them, in Instituto Geografico Nacional de Espana Volume, in Redes Ssmicas Regionales, Instituto Geografico Nacional Monografia Nm. 11, ed. J. Mezcua, p.9-62.
Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Savage, W., and Jackson, M., 1995, The Slumgullion earthflow, Colorado: A useful analog to crustal tectonics, Geology, v. 23, p. 41-44.
Gomberg, J. and Schweig, E.S., "The Mississippi Valley -Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On", USGS Fact Sheet 168-95, 2 p.
Meremonte, M., Gomberg, J., Cranswick, E., 1995, Constraints on the June 29, 1992 Little Skull Mountain, Nevada earthquake sequence provided by robust hypocenter estimates: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 85, p. 1039-1049.
Bodin, P., Bilham, R., Behr, J., Gomberg, J., and Hudnut, K., 1994, Slip Triggered on southern California faults by the Landers earthquake sequence: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 84, p. 806-816.
Bodin, P. and Gomberg, J., 1994, Triggered seismicity and deformation between the Landers, California, and Little Skull Mountain, Nevada, earthquakes: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 84, p. 835-843.
Gomberg, J. and Bodin, P. 1994, Triggering of the Little Skull Mountain, Nevada earthquake with dynamic strains: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 84, p. 844-853.
Gomberg, J.S., and Ellis, M.A., 1994, Topography and tectonics of the central New Madrid Seismic zone: results of numerical experiments using a three-dimensional boundary-element program: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, p. 20299-20310.
Gomberg, J.S., and M.A. Ellis, 1993, 3D-DEF: A user's manual, U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 93-547, 22 p.
Hill, D., Reasenberg, P., Michael, A., Simpson, R., Brune, J., DePolo, D., Smith, R., Nava, S., Gomberg, J., Beroza, G., Arabasz, W., Walter, S., Johnston, M., Jones, L., Ellsworth, W., and Zollweg, J., 1993, Remote seismicity triggered by the M7.5 Landers, California earthquake of June 28, 1992: Science, v. 260, p. 1617-1623.
Meremonte, M., Cranswick, E., Gomberg, J., and the U.S.G.S. Little Skull Mountain Aftershock Investigation Team, 1993, Report on Seismologic Field Investigations of the 29 June 1992 Little Skull Mountain Earthquake: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 93-555, 95 p..
King, G.C.P., Tselentis, A., Gomberg, J., Molnar, P., Roecker, S.W., Sinvhal, H., Soufleris, C., and Stock, J., 1983, Micro-earthquake seismicity and active tectonics in northwestern Greece: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 66.
Gomberg, J.S., 1992, Tectonic deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone--Inferences from boundary element modeling: Seismological Research Letters, v. 63, p. 407-426.
Gomberg, J.S., 1992, Reply to Comment on "Seismicity and detection/location threshold in the Southern Great Basin Seismic Network" by Joan Gomberg: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 97, p. 15363-15364.
Gomberg, J.S., 1992, Tectonic deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone: Inferences from map-view and cross-sectional boundary element models: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 98, p. 6639-6664.
Gomberg, J.S., 1992, Correction to "Seismicity and shear strain in the Southern Great Basin of Nevada and California" by Joan Gomberg: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 97, p. 4473-4476.
Gomberg, J.S., ed., 1991, U.S. Geological Survey Committee for the Advancement of Science in the Yucca Mountain Project Symposium on "Fractures, Hydrology, and Yucca Mountain"--Abstrs. and Summary: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-125, 39 p.
Gomberg, J.S., 1991, Seismicity and shear strain in the Southern Great Basin of Nevada and California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 96, p. 16,383-16,400.
Gomberg, J.S., 1991, Seismicity and detection/location threshold in the Southern Great Basin Seismic Network: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 96, p. 16,401-16,414.
Harmsen, S., Gomberg, J.S., and Richards, P.G., 1991, Shallow seismicity following selected nuclear explosions at the Nevada test Site: Proceedings of the 13th Annual PL/DARPA Seismic Research Symposium, p. 237-240.
Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., and Martinov. V., 1988, Seismic system calibration using cross-spectral methods from in situ measurements--the Kazakh, USSR, Phase I array: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 78, p. 1380-1386.
Gomberg, J., Shedlock, K., and Roecker, S., 1990, The effect of S wave arrival times on the accuracy of hypocenter estimation: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 80, p. 1605-1628.
Gomberg, J., 1989, Seismic network configuration, earthquake hypocenter determination; a re-evaluation and new approaches to old problems: US Geological Survey Retreat on Earth-Science Studies for the Yucca Mountain Project.
Gomberg, J., Priestley, K., and Brune, J., 1989, The compressional velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle of northern Mexico and the border region: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 79, p. 1496-1519.
Gomberg, J., and Masters, T.G., 1988, Waveform modeling using locked-mode synthetic and differential seismograms--application to determination of the structure of Mexico: Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 94, p. 193-218.
Gomberg, J., Priestley, K., Masters, T.G., and Brune, J., 1988, The structure of the crust and upper mantle of northern Mexico: Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 94, p. 1-20.
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Gomberg, J., K. Ariyoshi, S. Hautala, P. Johnson (2021) The fickle nature of earthquake shaking-triggered submarine sediment slope failures and sediment gravity flows, submitted to J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, in press.
Gomberg, J. and P. Bodin (2021), The productivity of Cascadia aftershock sequences, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, in press.
Walton, M., L. Staisch, T. Dura, J.K. Pearl, B. Sherrod, J. Gomberg, S. Engelhart, A. Trehu, J. Watt, J. Perkins, R.C. Witter, N. Bartlow, C. Goldfinger, H. Kelsey, A.E. Morey, V.J. Sahakian, H. Tobin, K. Wang, R. Wells and E. Wirth, (2021), Toward an integrative geological and geophysical view of Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes, Annual Reviews of Geophysics, v. 49, p. 367-398
Gomberg, J., P. Baxter, E. Smith, K. Ariyoshi, and S. Chiswell (2020), The ocean's impact on slow slip events, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087273. https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2020GL087273.
McBrearty, I.W., J. Gomberg, A.A. Delorey, and P.A. Johnson (2019), Earthquake arrival association with back projection and graph theory: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 109, p. 2510-2531.
Gomberg, J., S. Hautala, P. Johnson, S. Chiswell (2019), Separating sea and slow slip signals on the seafloor: J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, v. 124, 18p.
Gomberg, J. (2018), Cascadia onshore-offshore site-response, submarine sediment mobilization, and earthquake recurrence: Journal of Geophysical Research, 123, 1381–1404. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014985.
Huntington, K.W., and Klepeis, K.A., with 66 community contributors (2018), Challenges and opportunities for research in tectonics: Understanding deformation and the processes that link Earth systems, from geologic time to human time: A community vision document submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation. University of Washington, 84 pp., https://doi.org/10.6069/H52R3PQ5.
Gomberg, J. (2018), Unsettled earthquake nucleation: Nature Geoscience, June 4, 2018 News and Views, p. 463-464.
Marsan, D., G. Beroza, and J. Gomberg (2018), How earthquakes start and stop: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, March, 2p.
Gomberg, J.S., and Ludwig, K.A., 2017, Reducing risk where tectonic plates collide: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2017-3024, 4 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20173024.
Gomberg, J.S., Ludwig, K.A., Bekins, B.A., Brocher, T.M., Brock, J.C., Brothers, Daniel, Chaytor, J.D., Frankel, A.D., Geist, E.L., Haney, Matthew, Hickman, S.H., Leith, W.S., Roeloffs, E.A., Schulz, W.H., Sisson, T.W., Wallace, Kristi, Watt, J.T., Wein, Anne, 2017, Reducing risk where tectonic plates collide - U.S. Geological Survey subduction zone science plan: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1428, 45 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/cir1428.
Gomberg, J. (2017), Cascadia Onshore-Offshore Site-Response, Submarine Sediment Mobilization, and Earthquake Recurrence: Journal of Geophysical Research, in press.
Johnson, H. P., J. S. Gomberg, S. L. Hautala, and M. S. Salmi (2017), Sediment gravity flows triggered by remotely generated earthquake waves, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JB013689.
Marsan, D., G. Beroza, J. Gomberg (2017), How earthquakes start and stop: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, in press.
McBrearty, I., J. Gomberg, A. Delorey, and P. Johnson (2017), Northern Chile seismicity rate changes and ripe-fault triggering: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, in preparation.
Crowell, B.W., D.A. Schmidt, P. Bodin, J.E. Vidale, J. Gomberg, J. R. Hartog, V.C. Kress, T.I. Melbourne, M. Santillan, S.E. Minson, and D.G. Jamison (2016). Demonstration of the Cascadia G-FAST Geodetic Earthquake Early Warning System for the Nisqually, Washington Earthquake: Seismological Research Letters, v. 87, no. 4., July-August, doi: 10.1785/0220150255.
Gomberg, J., P. Bodin, J. Bourgeois, S. Cashman, D. Cowan, K. Creager, B. Crowell, A. Duvall, A. Frankel, F. Gonzalez, H. Houston, P. Johnson, H. Kelsey, U. Miller, E. Roland, D. Schmidt, L. Staisch, J. Vidale, W. Wilcock, E. Wirth (2016), Planning for a Subduction Zone Observatory, EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 97, 11 p., doi: 10.1029/2016EO052635.
Gomberg, J., A. Wech, K. Creager, K. Obara, D. Agnew, (2016), Reconsidering earthquake scaling: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 43, 9 p., doi: 10.1002/2016GL069967.
Gomberg, J., D. Agnew, and S. Schwartz (2016), Alternative models of very low-frequency earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 121, p. 6722-6740, doi:10.1002/2016JB013001.
Gomberg, J., Atwater, N. Beeler, P. Bodin, E. Davis, A. Frankel, G. Hayes, V. McConnell, T. Melbourne, D. Oppenheimer, J. Parrish, E. Roeloffs, G. Rogers, B. Sherrod, J. Vidale, T. Walsh, C. Weaver, and P. Whitmore (2015), Earthquake forewarning in the Cascadia region, US Geological Survey Open-File Report, US Geological Survey Open-File Report, 2015-1151, 8 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151151.
Hotovec-Ellis, A. J., J. E. Vidale, J. Gomberg, W. Thelen and S. C. Moran (2015), Changes in seismic velocity during the 2004-2008 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 120, doi:10.1002/2013JB01074.
Marsan, D., J. Gomberg, and M. Bouchon (2015), Exploring earthquakes, slow slip and triggering: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 96, doi:10.1029/2015EO025955.
Wu C., R. Guyer, D. Shelly, D. Trugman, W. Frank, J. Gomberg and P. Johnson (2015), Spatial-temporal variation of low-frequency earthquake bursts near Parkfield, California: Geophysical Journal International, v. 202, p. 914-919, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv194.
Gomberg, J., and B. Sherrod (2014), Crustal earthquake triggering by modern great earthquakes on subduction zone thrusts, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, 1235 - 1250, doi:10.1002/2012JB009826.
Hotovec-Ellis, A. J., J. Gomberg, J. E. Vidale, and K. C. Creager (2014), A continuous record of inter-eruption velocity change at Mount St. Helens from coda wave interferometry, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119,doi:10.1002/2013JB010742.
Minson, S.E., J.R. Murray, J.O. Langbein and J.S. Gomberg (2014), Real-time inversions for finite fault slip models and rupture geometry based on high-rate GPS data: Journal of Geophysical Research, 119, 3201-3231, doi:10.1002/2013JB010622.
Sherrod, B., and J. Gomberg (2014), Crustal earthquake triggering by prehistoric great earthquakes on subduction zone thrusts, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, 1273-1294, doi:10.1002/2013JB010635.
Wu, C., J. Gomberg, E. Ben-Naim, and P. Johnson (2014), Triggering of repeating earthquakes in central California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL059051.
Brown, J. R., S. G. Prejean, G. C. Beroza, J. S. Gomberg, and P. J. Haeussler, Deep low-frequency earthquakes in tectonic tremor along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone: Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 1079-1090, doi:10.1029/2012JB009459.
Gomberg, J., Permanently Enhanced Dynamic Triggering Probabilities as Evidenced by Two M>7.5 Earthquakes: Geophysical Research Letters, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50933.
Gomberg, J. and A. Jakobitz, A collaborative, user-produced, assessment of earthquake response products: USGS Open File Report 2013-1103, 17 p.
Gomberg, J. and S. Prejean, Tremor sweet spots in Alaska: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 118, p. 6,203-6,218, doi:10.1002/2013JB010273, v. 343, p. 119.
Hotovec, A.J., S. G. Prejean, J. E. Vidale, J. Gomberg, 2011, Strongly Gliding Harmonic Tremor During the 2009 Eruption of Redoubt Volcano: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 259, 89-99.
Wu, C., D. Shelly, J. Gomberg, Z. Peng, and P. Johnson (2013), Long-term changes of earthquake inter-event times and low-frequency earthquake recurrence in central California,Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 144-150, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.007.
Gomberg, J., A practical guide to Pacific Northwest earthquakes, USGS Technology Enabled Learning course, online.
Gomberg, J. K. Creager, J. Sweet, J. Vidale, A Ghosh, and A. Hotovec, Earthquake spectra and near-source attenuation in the Cascadia subduction zone, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, B5, doi:10.1029/2011JB009055.
Gomberg, J., S. Prejean, and N. Ruppert, Afterslip, tremor and the Denali Fault earthquake: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 102, p. 892-899.
Gomberg, J., B. Sherrod, M. Trautman, E. Burns and D. Snyder, Contemporary seismicity in and around the Yakima Fold and Thrust Belt in eastern Washington: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 201, p. 309-320 .
Wicks, C., W. Thelen, J. Gomberg, C. Weaver and A. Rohay, InSAR observations of aseismic slip associated with an earthquake swarm in the Columbia River Basalt: Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, B12304, 8 p., doi:10.1029/2011JB008433 .
Gomberg, J. and K. Felzer, Reply to Comment on A model of earthquake triggering probabilities and application to dynamic deformations constrained by ground motion observations by Ross Stein: Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, B03313, doi:10.1029/2010JB008094.
Gomberg, J., W. Schulz, P. Bodin, and J. Kean, Seismic and geodetic signatures of fault slip at the Slumgullion landslide natural laboratory: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 116, B09404, doi:10.1029/2011JB008304.
Vidale, J. E., A. J. Hotovec, A. Ghosh, K. C. Creager, and J. Gomberg, Tiny intraplate earthquakes triggered by nearby episodic tremor and slip in Cascadia: Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., v. 12, Q06005, doi:10.1029/2011GC003559.
Gomberg, J., Lessons from (Triggered) Tremor: Journal of Geophysical Research, 47 p., v. 115, B10302, doi:10.1029/2009JB007011.
Gomberg, J., 2010, Introduction to special section on Phenomenology, Underlying Processes, and Hazard Implications of Aseismic Slip and Nonvolcanic Tremor: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.115, doi:10.1029/2010JB008052.
Gomberg, J. and The Cascadia 2007 and Beyond Working Group, Slow Slip Phenomena in Cascadia from 2007 and Beyond: A Review: Geological Society of America Bulletin, online March 29, 2010, p. 963-978, doi:10.1130/B30287.1.
Gomberg, J., B. Sherrod, C. Weaver, and A. Frankel, 2010, A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in the Tacoma Fault Zone; a plausible scenario for the southern Puget Sound region, Washington: USGS Fact Sheet 2010-3023, 4 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2010/3023/
Peng, Z. and J. Gomberg, An integrated perspective of the continuum between earthquakes and slow-slip phenomena: Nature Geosciences, v. 3, p. 599-607, doi:10.1038/ngeo940.
Johnson, P., Bodin, P., J. Gomberg, Pearce, F., Z. Lawrence,, X. Jia, and F-Y. Meng, Inducing in situ, nonlinear soil response applying an active source: Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B05304, doi:10.1029/2008JB005832.
Lay (ed.), T., R. Aster, D. Forsyth, B. Romanowicz, R. Allen, V. Cormier, J. Gomberg, J. Hole, G. Masters, D. Schutt, A. Sheehan, J. Tromp, M. Wysession, 2009, Seismological Grand Challenges in Understanding Earth's Dynamic Systems, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Report to the National Science Foundation, 74 p.
Rubinstein, J., J. Gomberg , J. Vidale , A. Wech , H. Kao , K. Creager , G. Rogers, 2009, Dynamic Triggering of Non-Volcanic Tremor, ETS, and Earthquakes on Vancouver Island: Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B00A01,
doi:10.1029/2008JB005875.
Smith, E.F. and J. Gomberg, A Search in Strainmeter Data for Slow Slip Associated with Triggered and Ambient Tremor near Parkfield, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B00A14, doi:10.1029/2008JB006040.
Gomberg, J. and K. Felzer, 2008, Earthquake triggering and the scaling of ground motions, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B10317, doi:10.1029/2007JB005184.
Gomberg, J., E. Roeloffs, A. Trehu, H. Dragert, C. Meertens, 2008, Report on the Aseismic Slip, Tremor, and EarthquakesWorkshop, USGS Open-File Rept., 2008-1343, 72 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1343/.
Gomberg, J., J.L. Rubinstein, Z. Peng, K.C. Creager, J.E. Vidale, and P. Bodin, 2008, Widespread Triggering of Non-volcanic Tremor in California, Gomberg, J., J.L. Rubinstein, Z. Peng, K.C. Creager, J.E. Vidale, and P. Bodin, 2008, Widespread Triggering of Non-volcanic Tremor in California, Science, v. 319, p. 173.
Hartog, R., J. Gomberg, S. Moran, A. Wright, K. Meagher, The October 8, 2006 M4.5 Cowlitz Chimney earthquake in Mount Rainier National Park, Seismological Research Letters, v. 79, p. 186-193.
Johnson, P.A., Savage, H., Knuth, M., Gomberg, J. and Marone, C., 2008. Effects of acoustic waves on stick-slip in granular media and implications for earthquakes, v. 451|3 January 2008| doi:10.1038/nature06440 , p. 57-60.
Lawrence, Z., P. Bodin,C.A. Langston, F. Pearce, J. Gomberg, P.A. Johnson, F.Y. Menq, T. Brackman, 2008, Induced Dynamic Nonlinear Ground Response at Garner Valley, California: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 98, p. 1412-1418, doi: 10.1785/0120070124.
Peng, Z., JE Vidale, KC Creager, JL Rubinstein, J Gomberg, P Bodin, 2008, Strong tremor near Parkfield, CA excited by the 2002 Denali earthquake, Geophys. Res. Letts, 35, L23305, doi:10.1029/2008GL036080.
Rubinstein, J., J. Vidale, J. Gomberg, P. Bodin, K. Creager, and S. Malone, 2007, Non-volcanic tremor driven by large transient shear stresses: Nature, v. 448, p. 579-582, doi:10.1038/nature06017.
Cramer, C., J.S. Gomberg, E.S. Schweig, B.A. Waldron, and K. Tucker, 2006, First USGS urban hazard maps predict the effects of soils: Seism. Res. Letts., v. 77, p. 23-29.
Gomberg, J.. L. Wald, R. Dart, E.S. Schweig, 2006, Urban Seismic Hazard Mapping for Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee: USGS Fact Sheet 05-3142, 4 p.
Bodin, P., C. Langston, G. Patterson, C. Powell, M. Withers, and J. Gomberg, 2005, Earthscope science for Mid-America, EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 86, p 68-69.
Gomberg, J., M.E. Bardinelli, , M. Cocco, P. Reasenberg, 2005, Time-dependent earthquake probabilities: Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B05S04, doi:10.1029/2004JB003405.
Gomberg, J. and P. Johnson, 2005, Dynamic Triggering of Earthquakes, v. 437, p. 830, doi:10.1038/nature04167, Nature.
Gomberg, J., P. Reasenberg, M. Cocco, M.E. Bardinelli, 2005, A frictional population model of seismicity rate change: Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B05S03, doi:10.1029/2004JB003404.
Steacy, S., J. Gomberg, M. Cocco, 2005, Introduction to special section: Stress transfer, earthquake triggering, and time-dependent seismic hazard, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B05S01, doi:10.1029/2005JB003692.
Cramer, C. H., J. S. Gomberg, E. S. Schweig, B. A. Waldron, and K. Tucker, 2004, The Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, Seismic Hazard Maps: USGS Open-File Report 04-1294, 40 p.
Gomberg, J., P. Bodin, K. Larson, H. Dragert 2004, The fundamental process of earthquake nucleation by transient deformations revealed by the M7.9 Denali, Alaska earthquake, Nature, 427, 621-624.
Gomberg, J., and the Participants in the IRIS/NEES/USGS Workshop and Garner Valley Experiment, 2004, Multifacility, Multidisciplinary Earthquake Science and Engineering, EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 85, p 404.
Petersen, M.D., B.K. Rastogi, E.S. Schweig, S.C. Harmsen, J.S. Gomberg, 2004, Sensitivity analysis of seismic hazard for the northwestern portion of the state of Gujarat, India, Tectonophysics, v. 390, p. 105-115.
Bodin, P., Schweig, E., Pavlis, G. and Gomberg, J., 2003, A Rapid Array Mobilization Procedure (RAMP) Agreement for the Central United States, US Geological Survey Open File Report 03-015, 23 p..
Gomberg, J., P. Bodin, and P. Reasenberg, 2003, Observing Earthquakes Triggered in the Near Field by Dynamic Deformations: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 93, p. 118-138.
Gomberg, J., B. Waldron, E. Schweig, H. Hwang, A. Webbers, R. VanArsdale, K. Tucker, R. Williams, R. Street, P. Mayne, W. Stephenson, J. Odum, C. Cramer, R. Updike, S. Hutson, M. Bradley, 2003, Lithology and Shear-wave Velocity in Memphis, Tennessee, 2003, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 93, p. 986-998.
Larson, K., P. Bodin, and J. Gomberg, 2003, Using 1 Hz GPS Data to Measure Permanent and Seismic Deformations Caused by the Denali Fault Earthquake, Science, v. 300, p. 1421-1424.
Michael, A.J., N. Field, A. Frankel, J. Gomberg, and K. Shedlock, 2003, Chapts. 4 & 5, Time-Independent Hazard and Time-Dependent Hazard, in Earthquake Science and Seismic Risk Reduction, eds. F. Mulargia and R. Geller, NATO Advanced Research Workshop Publ. Series, p. 251-364.
Pratt,T., M. Holmes, E. Schweig, J. Gomberg, H. Cowan, 2003, Shallow faulting in Limon Bay, Republic of Panama: Implications for seismic hazard analyses and recent tectonics: Tectonics, v. 368, p. 211-2287.
Schweig E., Gomberg J., Petersen M., Ellis M., Bodin P., Mayrose L, and Rastogi B. K., 2003, The M 7.6 Bhuj earthquake: Global lessons for earthquake hazard in intra-plate regions: Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 61, p. 277-282.
Gomberg, J. and Schweig, E., 2002, East meets Midwest: An earthquake in India helps hazard assessment in the Central United States, USGS Fact Sheet 007-02, 4 p..
Gomberg, J. and Schweig, E., 2002, Earthquake Hazard in the Heart of the Homeland, USGS Fact Sheet 131-02, 4 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3125/.
Kilb, D., Gomberg, J. & Bodin, P., 2002, Aftershock triggering by complete Coulomb stresses: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 107, 10.1029/2001JB000202.
Cramer, C. and Gomberg, J., 2001, Updated New Madrid analysis better defines the uncertainty in seismic hazard maps: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 82, p. 102-106.
Ellis, M., Gomberg, J. and Schweig, E., 2001, Indian earthquake may serve as analog for New Madrid earthquakes: EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 82, p. 345-350.
Gomberg, J., 2001, The failure of earthquake failure models: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, p. 16253-16264.
Gomberg, J., Reasenberg, P., Bodin, P. and Harris, R. 2001, Earthquake triggering by transient seismic waves following the Landers and Hector Mine, California earthquakes: Nature, v. 411, p. 462-466.
Gomberg, J., and Schweig, E., 2001, Earthquake hazard in the Appalachian region, in Adams. D. B., Burke, K., Hemingway, B., Keay, J., and Yurewicz, compilers, U.S. Geological Survey Appalachian region integrated science workshop proceedings, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, October 22-26, 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-406, p. 141-143.
Schweig E., Gomberg J., Bodin P., Patterson G., and Davis, S., 2001, The internet: shaking up scientific communications: Nature, 412, http://www.nature.com/nature/webmatters/equake/.
Schweig, E. S., Gomberg, J.S., and VanArsdale, R.B., 2001, Introduction to special issue titled earthquake hazard evaluation in the Central United States: Engineering Geology, v. 62, p. 1-5.
Gomberg, J., Beeler, N.M., and Blanpied, M.L., 2000, On rate-and-state and Coulomb failure models: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 105, p. 7857-7872.
Gomberg, J., Pavlis, G. and Bodin, P., 2000, The strain in the array is mainly in the plane (waves): Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 89, p. 1428-1438.
Kilb, D., Gomberg, J. & Bodin, P., 2000, Triggering of earthquake aftershocks by dynamic stresses: Nature, v. 408, p. 570-574.
Participants* in the 2000 New Madrid Source Workshop, 2000, Reassessing New Madrid, EOS, Am. Geophys. Union Trans., v. 81, p. 397-403.
Schweig, E., Gomberg, J. and Tuttle, M., 1999, Comment: Caution urged in revising earthquake hazard estimates in New Madrid seismic zone, EOS, Transactions, Amer. Geophys. Union, v. 80, p. 197.
Gomberg, J. and Wolf, L., 1999, A possible cause for an improbable earthquake: The 1997, Mw4.9 southern Alabama earthquake and hydrocarbon recovery: Geology, v. 27, p. 367.
Kilb, D. and Gomberg, J., 1999, The initial subevent of the 1994, Northridge, California earthquake: Do small and large earthquakes initiate similarly?, Seismology,v. 3, p. 409-420.
Gomberg, J., Beeler, N.M., and Blanpied, M.L., 1998, Earthquake triggering by static and dynamic deformations: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, p. 24411-24426.
Bodin, P., Gomberg, J., Singh, S.K., and Santoyo, M., 1997, Dynamic deformations of shallow sediments in the Valley of Mexico, Part I: Three dimensional strains and rotations recorded on a seismic array: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 87, p. 528-539.
Gomberg, J., 1997, Dynamic and permanent deformations, and the M6.7, Northridge, California earthquake: Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, v. 16, p. 471-494.
Gomberg, J., Blanpied, M.L., and Beeler, N.M., 1997, Transient triggering of near and distant earthquakes: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 87, p. 294-309.
Kilb, D., Ellis, M., and Gomberg, J., 1997, On the origin of diverse aftershock mechanisms following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake: Geophysical Journal International, v. 128, p. 557-570.
Singh, S.K., Santoyo, M., Bodin, P., and Gomberg, J., 1997, Dynamic deformations of shallow sediments in the Valley of Mexico, Part II: Single station estimates: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 87, p. 540-550.
Gomberg, J., 1996, Stress/strain changes and triggered seismicity following the Ms7.4 Landers, California earthquake: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, p. 751-764.
Gomberg, J. and Agnew, D.C., 1996, The accuracy of seismic estimates of dynamic strains from Pinyon Flat Observatory, California, strainmeter and seismograph data: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 86, p. 212-220.
Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Hellman, S., and Pratusevich, G., 1996, Aftershock Readiness Training Goes Big in Memphis: Seismological Research Letters, v. 67, p. 40-41.
Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Hellman, S., and Pratusevich, G., 1996, PASSCAL Training Goes Big in Memphis: IRIS Newsletter, v. 15, p. 10-11.
Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Savage, W., and Jackson, M., 1996, Slidequakes and fault creep at the Slumgullion landslide: an analog to crustal tectonics in The Slumgullion Earth flow: A Large Scale Natural Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin B2130, p. 85-92.
Gomberg, J., and Davis, S., 1996, Stress/strain changes and triggered seismicity at The Geysers, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, p. 733-749.
Bodin, P. and Gomberg, J., 1995, Earthquake hazard - Correspondence, Nature, v. 374, p. 492.
Gomberg, J., 1995, Earthquake induced seismicity: Evidence from the Ms7.4 Landers, earthquake and The Geysers geothermal field, California in "Earthquakes Induced by Underground Nuclear Explosions: Environmental and Ecological Problems", eds. R. Console and A. Nikolaev, Publ. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 201-214.
Gomberg, J.S., 1995, Seismic networks: the basics of why, how, and what we learn from them, in Instituto Geografico Nacional de Espana Volume, in Redes Ssmicas Regionales, Instituto Geografico Nacional Monografia Nm. 11, ed. J. Mezcua, p.9-62.
Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Savage, W., and Jackson, M., 1995, The Slumgullion earthflow, Colorado: A useful analog to crustal tectonics, Geology, v. 23, p. 41-44.
Gomberg, J. and Schweig, E.S., "The Mississippi Valley -Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On", USGS Fact Sheet 168-95, 2 p.
Meremonte, M., Gomberg, J., Cranswick, E., 1995, Constraints on the June 29, 1992 Little Skull Mountain, Nevada earthquake sequence provided by robust hypocenter estimates: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 85, p. 1039-1049.
Bodin, P., Bilham, R., Behr, J., Gomberg, J., and Hudnut, K., 1994, Slip Triggered on southern California faults by the Landers earthquake sequence: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 84, p. 806-816.
Bodin, P. and Gomberg, J., 1994, Triggered seismicity and deformation between the Landers, California, and Little Skull Mountain, Nevada, earthquakes: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 84, p. 835-843.
Gomberg, J. and Bodin, P. 1994, Triggering of the Little Skull Mountain, Nevada earthquake with dynamic strains: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 84, p. 844-853.
Gomberg, J.S., and Ellis, M.A., 1994, Topography and tectonics of the central New Madrid Seismic zone: results of numerical experiments using a three-dimensional boundary-element program: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, p. 20299-20310.
Gomberg, J.S., and M.A. Ellis, 1993, 3D-DEF: A user's manual, U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 93-547, 22 p.
Hill, D., Reasenberg, P., Michael, A., Simpson, R., Brune, J., DePolo, D., Smith, R., Nava, S., Gomberg, J., Beroza, G., Arabasz, W., Walter, S., Johnston, M., Jones, L., Ellsworth, W., and Zollweg, J., 1993, Remote seismicity triggered by the M7.5 Landers, California earthquake of June 28, 1992: Science, v. 260, p. 1617-1623.
Meremonte, M., Cranswick, E., Gomberg, J., and the U.S.G.S. Little Skull Mountain Aftershock Investigation Team, 1993, Report on Seismologic Field Investigations of the 29 June 1992 Little Skull Mountain Earthquake: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 93-555, 95 p..
King, G.C.P., Tselentis, A., Gomberg, J., Molnar, P., Roecker, S.W., Sinvhal, H., Soufleris, C., and Stock, J., 1983, Micro-earthquake seismicity and active tectonics in northwestern Greece: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 66.
Gomberg, J.S., 1992, Tectonic deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone--Inferences from boundary element modeling: Seismological Research Letters, v. 63, p. 407-426.
Gomberg, J.S., 1992, Reply to Comment on "Seismicity and detection/location threshold in the Southern Great Basin Seismic Network" by Joan Gomberg: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 97, p. 15363-15364.
Gomberg, J.S., 1992, Tectonic deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone: Inferences from map-view and cross-sectional boundary element models: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 98, p. 6639-6664.
Gomberg, J.S., 1992, Correction to "Seismicity and shear strain in the Southern Great Basin of Nevada and California" by Joan Gomberg: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 97, p. 4473-4476.
Gomberg, J.S., ed., 1991, U.S. Geological Survey Committee for the Advancement of Science in the Yucca Mountain Project Symposium on "Fractures, Hydrology, and Yucca Mountain"--Abstrs. and Summary: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-125, 39 p.
Gomberg, J.S., 1991, Seismicity and shear strain in the Southern Great Basin of Nevada and California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 96, p. 16,383-16,400.
Gomberg, J.S., 1991, Seismicity and detection/location threshold in the Southern Great Basin Seismic Network: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 96, p. 16,401-16,414.
Harmsen, S., Gomberg, J.S., and Richards, P.G., 1991, Shallow seismicity following selected nuclear explosions at the Nevada test Site: Proceedings of the 13th Annual PL/DARPA Seismic Research Symposium, p. 237-240.
Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., and Martinov. V., 1988, Seismic system calibration using cross-spectral methods from in situ measurements--the Kazakh, USSR, Phase I array: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 78, p. 1380-1386.
Gomberg, J., Shedlock, K., and Roecker, S., 1990, The effect of S wave arrival times on the accuracy of hypocenter estimation: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 80, p. 1605-1628.
Gomberg, J., 1989, Seismic network configuration, earthquake hypocenter determination; a re-evaluation and new approaches to old problems: US Geological Survey Retreat on Earth-Science Studies for the Yucca Mountain Project.
Gomberg, J., Priestley, K., and Brune, J., 1989, The compressional velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle of northern Mexico and the border region: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 79, p. 1496-1519.
Gomberg, J., and Masters, T.G., 1988, Waveform modeling using locked-mode synthetic and differential seismograms--application to determination of the structure of Mexico: Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 94, p. 193-218.
Gomberg, J., Priestley, K., Masters, T.G., and Brune, J., 1988, The structure of the crust and upper mantle of northern Mexico: Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 94, p. 1-20.
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