Gail Atkinson
Professor & Industrial Research Chair
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Gail Atkinson, Professor & Industrial Research Chair of the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Research Interest
Seismic hazards, with a focus on eastern North America and the Cascadia subduction zone; Empirical analysis of earthquake ground motions; study of earthquake ground motions processes, including source, path and site; Real-time seismological applications (SHAKEMAP); Ground-motion modeling algorithms; Seismic hazards due to induced seismicity.
Publications
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Atkinson GM. Integrating advances in ground-motion and seismic-hazard analysis. InProceedings of the 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2012.
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Ghofrani H, Atkinson GM, Goda K, Assatourians K. Stochastic finiteâ€fault simulations of the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 2013 May 1;103(2B):1307-20.
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Atkinson GM, Mahani AB. Estimation of moment magnitude from ground motions at regional distances. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 2013 Feb 1;103(1):107-16.
