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William L Yeck

Research Geophysicist
National Earthquake Information Center
The U.S. Geological Survey
United States Virgin Islands

Professor Environmental Sciences
Biography

Education: 2015 - Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder 2008 - B.S. in Physics, Astronomy-Physics, (Minor in Archeology), University of Wisconsin - Madison

Research Intrest

improving how we detect and characterize earthquakes. I primarily focus my reserach on anthropogenic seismicity within the United States, but I also have a strong research interest in significant global earthquakes.

List of Publications
Yeck, W. L., A. F. Sheehan, H. M. Benz, M. Weingarten, and J. Nakai (2016), Rapid Response, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Induced Seismicity near Greeley, Colorado, Seismol. Res. Lett., 87(4), 837–847, doi:10.1785/0220150275.
Yeck, W. L., M. Weingarten, H. M. Benz, D. E. Mcnamara, E. Bergman, R. B. Herrmann, J. Rubinstein, and P. S. Earle (2016), Far-field pressurization likely caused one of the largest injection induced earthquakes by reactivating a large pre-existing basement fault structure, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1002/2016GL070861.
Yeck, W. L., G. P. Hayes, D. E. McNamara, J. L. Rubinstein, W. D. Barnhart, P. S. Earle, and H. M. Benz (2017), Oklahoma experiences largest earthquake during ongoing regional wastewater injection hazard mitigation efforts, Geophys. Res. Lett., 1–7, doi:10.1002/2016GL071685.
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