The Coronado Roundtable will meet a week early in November due to the Thanksgiving holiday observance. The meeting will be held on Friday, November 18th in the Winn room of the Coronado Public Library.
The southern San Andreas Fault has not experienced a large earthquake for approximately 300 years, yet the previous five earthquakes occurred at 180-year intervals, causing many scientists to believe we are 100 years overdue’ for a large earthquake. As a large southern San Andreas Fault earthquake seems imminent, it is import to understand how crustal stress perturbations in this region can promote or inhibit fault failure. With this in mind Dr. Debi Kilb of Scripps Institution of Oceanography will present a talk entitled “Shake Rattle and Roll: A study of Earthquakes Along the San Andreas Fault”.
She is a seismologist who studies crustal seismology with a focus on earthquake source physics examining how one earthquake triggers another. She is also working with the Quake Catcher Network (QCN), which is a collaborative initiative to develop a large, low-cost seismic network that uses sensors attached to internet-connected computers in homes, schools and offices. Additionally, Dr. Kilb is the liaison for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), in this position she is working to bring OOI near-real time data (data streams, images and videos) from our Earth’s oceans into classrooms and informal education venues.
Dr. Kilb completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University (1999-2001) after she obtained her PhD in Geophysics from the University of Memphis (1999), a Masters in Mathematics from UCLA (1992) and Bachelors in Mathematics/Computer Science from UCSD (1986).
The Coronado Roundtable presents prominent speakers on a variety of topics at its monthly meetings on the fourth Friday of each month, with the exception of November, at 10 am in the Winn Room of the Coronado Public Library. Come 15 minutes early and enjoy a cup of coffee with your neighbors. The meeting is open to the public.
