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The Institute of Earthquake Studies (IES) at the University of Missouri (MU) has been established as a center of research and education of earthquakes and earthquake-related processes.  IES aims to stimulate and facilitate interdisciplinary research into processes of active lithospheric deformation, to attract world-class scientists to pursue that research at UMC, and to enhance MU’s competitiveness in attracting funds to support that research.

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UMC - IES Faculty

Active Projects

Michael Underwood      sedimentology; tectonics Mian Liu      geodynamics Eric Sandvol      earthquake seismology Francisco Gomez      neotectonics & earthquake geology Marie-Helene Cormier      marine geophysics / tectonics Christopher Sorlien (adjunct)      geophysics & tectonics

IES is a base for major interdisciplinary research programs throughout the world, including: PIRE:  A US-China partnership in research and education in intraplate tectonics and earthquakes Nankai Trough Seismic Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) Measuring present-day deformations on the East Pacific Rise Earthquake geology and tectonic geodesy of the Dead Sea fault (eastern Mediterranean) Submarine earthquake geology of the Marmara Sea Active and late Cenozoic tectonics of northern Morocco  Dynamic links between trench coupling and crustal deformation in the Central Andes Seismic structure & lithospheric dynamics in the southernmost Andean Plateau Seismic structure of northeastern Tibet (Project INDEPTH-IV)

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last modified 1 November 2007
questions?  contact fgomez@missouri.edu