SEPT 27 & 28 2023

Anaheim Convention Center

SEPT 27 & 28 2023

Anaheim Convention Center

John Rundle: Speaking at the Natural Disaster Expo California

John Rundle

Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Earth & Planetary Science, & Applied Mathematics  -  University of California, Davis, CA

Anticipating Earthquakes

Major earthquakes can cause great destruction, injuries and death.  Anticipating these events has been extremely challenging.  Recently we have pioneered a new approach involving nowcasting, a term borrowed from economics and finance, together with machine learning.  These new methods allow us to rigorously compute earthquake probabilities directly from observed data, over short time scales of 1 to 3 years in the future, compared to the current 30 -year time scales.

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About John Rundle

John Rundle (PhD) is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science, and Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Davis.  He is the Director Emeritus of the APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Science, a Senior Advisor to the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, and a Visiting Professor at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Santa Fe Institute.   He has been Chair of the Advisory Council of the Southern California Earthquake Center, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Professor Rundle was educated at Princeton University and UCLA.  In 2012, he was a co-winner of the NASA Software of the Year Award.  In addition to natural hazards, earthquakes and tsunamis, he also has professional interests in forecasting, complex systems, and quantitative finance.