Martin Vallee
professor
Seismology
Institute of Physics of the Globe of Paris
France
Biography
Since Dec 2012 ------------- Associate professor (CNAP) at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) . Director of the GEOSCOPE observatory since 2015 De c 2004 –Dec 2012------- Researcher at Institut de Recherch e pou r le Développement (IRD) at Géo azur laboratory (Nice , France ). Jan 2004 - Nov 2004 ----- European research contract at Osservatorio Vesu viano (INGV), Naples, Italy : « Analysis of Southern Italy moderate seismicity ». Mar 2003 - De c 2003 - --- Research contract at Laboratoire de Détection Géophysique (CEA), Paris , F rance : « Earthquake source study and application to seism ic risk ». Jun 2001- Sep 2001 : ------ Visitor at University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) : « Central - American subduction zone study : Costa -Rica and El Salvador ». Jun 1998- Sep 1998: ---- --- Training period at Elf Exploration Angola : « Isobath régional maps ».
Research Interest
Study of the seismic source : fundamental (rupture velocity, scaling laws...) and applied (near real-time earthquake modeling) research.
Publications
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Bletery, Q., A. Sladen, B. Delouis, M. Vallée, J. †M. Nocquet, L. Rolland and J. Jiang, A detailed source model for the Mw9.0 Tohoku -Oki earthquake reconciling Geodesy, Seismology and tsunami records , J. Geophys. Res. , 119 , doi:10.1002/2014JB011261, 2014 .
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Grandin, R., M. Vallée, C. Satriano, R. Lacassin, Y. Klinger, M. Simoes and L. Bollinger , Rupture process of the Mw=7.9 2015 Gorkha earthquake (Nepal):insights into Himalayan megathrust segmentation , Geophys. Res. Lett. , doi : 10.1002/2015GL066044, 2015.
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Villegas -Lanza, J.C., J.- M. Nocquet, F. Rolandone, M. Vallée, H. Tavera, F. Bondoux, T. Tran, X. Martin and M. Chlieh , A mixed seismic –aseismic stress release episode in t he Andean subduction zone , Nature Geoscience , doi:10.1038/ngeo2620, 2015.
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Zhang , G., E.A. Hetland, X. Shan, M. Vallée , Y. Liu, Y. Zhang, and C. Qu, Triggered slip on a back reverse fault in the Mw6.8 2013 Lushan, China earthquake revealed by joint inv ersion of local strong motion accelerograms and geodetic measurements , Tectonophysics , 672- 673 , 24 -33, 2016.
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Courboulex, F., M. Vallée, M. Causse, and A. Chounet, Stress -drop variability of shallow earthquakes extracted from a global d atabase of Source Time Functions , Seismol. Res. Lett. , 87 , 912 -918, doi: 10.1785/0220150283, 2016 .
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Vallée, M. , and V. Douet, A new database of source time functions (STFs) extracted from the SCARDEC method , Phys. Earth Planet. Int er. , 257 , 149 -157, 2016.
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Nocque t, J. -M., P. Jarrin, M. Vallée, P. A. Mothes, R. Grandin, F. Rolandone , B. Delouis, H. Yepes , Y. Font, D. Fuentes, M. Régnier, A. Laurendeau, D. Cisneros, S. Hernandez, A. Sladen, J. -C. Singaucho, H. Mora, J. Gomez, L. Montes , and P. Charvis, Supercycle at the Ecuadorian subduction zone revealed after the 2016 Pedernales earthquake , Nature Geoscience , doi:10.1038/ngeo2864 , 2016.