Two University of California, Riverside geophysicists who study earthquake prediction and behavior can do media interviews as the Sept. 5 deadline approaches for a predicted magnitude 6.4 quake expected to strike somewhere along a 19,300 square-kilometer area of Southern California.

In April, UCLA professor Vladimir Kellis-Borok made the prediction. He and his colleagues have successfully predicted two other earthquakes - the 6.5 magnitude quake that hit Cambria in Central California last December and the 8.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Hokkaido, Japan last August.

ELECTROMAGNETIC PRECURSORS TO EARTHQUAKES
Stephen Park, professor of geophysics
Park is an internationally noted authority on electromagnetic phenomena associated with earthquakes. He has joint appointments at UC Riverside as a professor of geophysics and in the Institute of Geohysical and Planetary Physics. He leads a group of scientists from UC Riverside, UC Berkeley and Oregon State University in a monitoring experiment on the San Andreas fault in Parkfield, Calif. In the experiment, which began in 1988, the group has developed methods for searching for small electromagnetic signals that might indicate impending earthquakes.
Contact
Telephone: (951) 827-4501
Email: magneto@ucrmt.ucr.edu
Faculty Web page: http://earthscience.ucr.edu/index.php?content=people/park/park.html


PHYSICAL FORCES LEADING TO EARTHQUAKES
David Oglesby, assistant professor of earth sciences
Oglesby develops computer models of the forces acting on faults that develop into fault ruptures and fault slippage, and the transmission of seismic waves from slipping faults. His modeling predicts the wave propagation and ground motion caused by different faults. He can answer how and why faults slip, causing earthquakes. His recent projects included developing ground motion forecasts for the Rose Canyon Fault in San Diego and computer models of earthquakes on segments of thrust faults.
Contact
Telephone: (951) 827-2036
Email: david.oglesby@ucr.edu
Faculty Web page: http://earthscience.ucr.edu/index.php?content=people/oglesby/oglesby.html

The University of California, Riverside is a major research institution and a national center for the humanities. Key areas of research include nanotechnology, genomics, environmental studies, digital arts and sustainable growth and development. With a current undergraduate and graduate enrollment of more than 17,000, the campus is projected to grow to 21,000 students by 2010. Located in the heart of inland Southern California, the nearly 1,200-acre, park-like campus is at the center of the region's economic development.