Where We Stand in Earthquake Prediction

At the Radcliffe Institute, Marine Denolle RI '19 is attempting to quantify how much the earth’s surface and its soft soils are affecting the rupture of large earthquakes. She is studying the fundamental theory of inelastic response of soils during earthquakes and its role in absorbing seismic energy. She plans to then observe large earthquakes, measure the amount of energy radiated at the surface by those large earthquakes, and compare these estimates to those from deep earthquakes to validate the theory.

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