John Vidale
  Professor
  Office: ATG-208A
     ESS Mailing Address
  Phone: 206-543-6790
  Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
  Email: vidale @ uw.edu
  Homepage: http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/vidale

  Research Groups: Seismology and Tectonics, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

Areas of Interest:
Earthquakes, Earth structure, earthquake hazard monitoring and mitigation.

Education:
Ph.D. : Caltech, 1987
Undergrad : Yale University, double major in physics and geology, 1981

Current Research Interests:
I have conducted extensive research on earthquakes and Earth structure. My recent work includes measuring the damage to faults during earthquakes, striving to understand why earthquake swarms strike, measuring the rotation of the inner core, and showing there is a correlation, albeit very weak, between the occurrence of earthquakes and the ocean tides.

Graduate Students:
Andrew Delorey

Selected Publications:

2012
Strongly Gliding Harmonic Tremor During the 2009 Eruption of Redoubt Volcano
AJ Hotovec, S Prejean, JE Vidale, J. Gomberg
J.Volcanology and Geothermal Research, accepted.

Slow slip:  A new kind of earthquake
JE Vidale and H Houston, Physics Today, Jan., p. 38-43.

2011
Italian quake: critic’s logic is questionable
Vidale, J.E., Nature, 478, p. 324.

Tiny intraplate earthquakes triggered by nearby episodic tremor and slip in Cascadia
JE Vidale, A Hotovec, A Ghosh, KC Creager, J Gomberg
G-Cubed, in press.

Seattle's 12th-man earthquake goes viral
JE Vidale
Seismological Research Letters, in press.

2010
Tremor bands sweep Cascadia
Ghosh A, JE Vidale, JR Sweet, KC Creager, AG Wech, H Houston
GRL,   Volume: 37 Article Number: L08301