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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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*Finley, T., Nissen, E., Cassidy, J. *Salomon, G., Leonard, L., and Froese, D. Exceptionally long intervals between large earthquakes on the low-slip-rate Tintina fault. Submitted to Nature Geoscience.
*Salomon, G., Nissen, E., *Tan, F., Bergman, E., Sloan, A., and *Pousse-Beltran, L. The 2020 Mw 6.4 Koryak Highlands earthquake illustrates hidden seismic hazards in the northern Pacific Cordillera. Submitted to Geophysical Journal International.
*Liu, J., Ren, Z., Nissen, E., Zhang, C., Li, Z., Zhang, Z., and Wu, D. Spatially variable, multi-mm/yr late Pleistocene-Holocene slip rates along the South Riyueshan fault highlight limitations to block-like behaviour in the NE Tibetan Plateau, China. Submitted to Tectonics.
*Zhao, L., Nissen, E., Xu, W., Jamalreyhani, M., Bergman, E.A., Zhao, D., and Xie, L. Variable fault geometry controls the cascading 2023 Herat, Afghanistan multiplet sequence. In revision for Nature Communications: Earth and Environment.
*Sethanant, I., Nissen, E., Bergman, E., *Oliva, S. J., *Pousse-Beltran, L., Karasözen, E., and Pananont, P. Recent earthquakes on unmapped faults highlight hidden seismic hazards within the Golden Triangle region of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. In revision for Geophysical Journal International.
*Sethanant, I. and Nissen, E. The InSAR lookbook: an illustrated guide to earthquake interferograms. In revision for Seismica.

2024
*Oliva, S. J., Bostock, M. G., Schaeffer, A. J., Nissen, E., Merrill, R., Hughes, A., Roecker, S. W., Nedimovic, M. R., Roland, E., Worthington, L. L., Walton, M. A. L., and Gase, A. (2024). Incipient Subduction and Slip Partitioning at High Obliquity: the Haida Gwaii Plate Boundary. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129 (5), e2024JB028752.
*Salomon, G., *Finley, T., Nissen, E., *Stephen, R., and Menounos, B. (2024). Mapping fault geomorphology with drone-based lidar. Seismica, 3 (1), doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v3i1.1186.
*Tan, F., Kao, H., Yi, K.M., Nissen, E., Goerzen, C., Hutchinson, J., Gao, D., and Farahbod, A.M. (2024). Next Generation Source Detection by Computer Vision: Untangling the Complexity of the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake Sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129 (5), e2024JB028735.

2023
Harrichhausen, N., *Finley, T., Morell, K. D., Regalla, C., Bennett, S.E.K., Leonard, L.J., Nissen, E., McLeod, E., Lynch, E.M., *Salomon, G., and *Sethanant, I. (2023). Discovery of an Active Forearc Fault in an Urban Region: Holocene Rupture on the XEOLXELEK-Elk Lake Fault, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Tectonics, 42 (12), e2023TC008170.
*Gaudreau, É., Hollingsworth, J., Nissen, E. and Funning, G.J. (2023). Complex 3-D surface deformation in the 1971 San Fernando, California earthquake reveals static and dynamic controls on off-fault deformation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128 (3), e2022JB024985.
*Sethanant, I., Nissen, E., *Pousse-Beltran, L., Bergman, E. and Pierce, I. (2023). The 2020 Mw 6.5 Monte Cristro Range (Nevada) earthquake: anatomy of a large rupture through a region of highly-distributed faulting. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, doi: 10.1785/0120220166.
Langridge, R.M., Clark, K.J., Almond, P., Baize, S., Howell, A., Kearse, J., Morgenstern, R., Duess, K., Nissen, E., Garcia-Mayordomo, J. and Amos, C. (2023). Late Holocene earthquakes on the Papatea Fault and its role in past earthquake cycles, Marlborough, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 66 (2), 317-341.

2022
*Wang, S., Nissen, E., *Pousse-Beltran, L., Craig, T.J., Jiao, R., and Bergman, E.A. (2022). Structural controls on coseismic rupture revealed by the 2020 Mw 6.0 Jiashi earthquake (Kepingtag belt, SW Tian Shan, China). Geophysical Journal International, 230 (3), ggac159.
Ren, Z., Zielke, O., Chevalier, M-L., Nissen, E., Zhang, H. (2022). Resolving Quaternary Tectonic Activity with High-Resolution Data in Space and Time. Lithosphere, 2022 (1), 9823275.
Nissen, E., Cambaz, M.D., *Gaudreau, É., Howell, A., *Karasözen, E. and *Savidge, E. (2022). A reappraisal of active tectonics along the Fethiye-Burdur trend, southwestern Turkey. Geophysical Journal International, 230 (2), ggac096.
*Finley, T., *Salomon, G., *Stephen, R., Nissen, E., Cassidy, J. and Menounos, B. (2022). Preliminary results and structural interpretations from drone lidar surveys over the Eastern Denali fault, Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2021 K.E. MacFarlane (ed.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 83–105.

2021
Jamalreyhani, M., *Pousse-Beltran, L., Büyükakpınar, P., Cesca, S., Nissen, E., Ghods, A., López-Comino, J.A., Rezapour, M., and Najafiand, M. (2021). The 2019-2020 Khalili (Iran) earthquake sequence – anthropogenic seismicity in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt? Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126 (12), e2021JB022797.
Wang, K., *Zhu, Y., Nissen, E., and Shen, Z.-K. (2021). On the Relevance of Geodetic Deformation Rates to Earthquake Potential. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (11), e2021GL093231.
Harrichhausen, N., Morell, K.D., Regalla, C., Bennett, S.E.K, Leonard, L.J., Lynch, E.M., and Nissen, E. (2021). Paleoseismic Trenching Reveals Late Quaternary Kinematics of the Leech River Fault: Implications for Forearc Strain Accumulation in Northern Cascadia. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 111 (2), 1110–1138.

2020
*Tan, F., Kao, H., Nissen, E., and Visser, R. (2020). Tracking Earthquake Sequences in Real Time: Application of Seismicity-Scanning based on Navigated Automatic Phase-Picking (S-SNAP) to the 2019 Ridgecrest, California Sequence. Geophysical Journal International, 223 (3), 1511–1524.
*Pousse-Beltran, L. Nissen, E., Bergman, E., Cambaz, M.D., *Gaudreau, É., *Karasözen, E., and *Tan, F. (2020). The 2020 Mw 6.8 Elazığ (Turkey) earthquake reveals rupture behavior of the East Anatolian Fault. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (13), e2020GL088136.
*Lajoie, L. J., Nissen, E., *Johnson, K. L., and Lajoie, K. (2020). Sub-meter resolution surface rupture topography from legacy aerial photographs – a test case from the 1992 Landers earthquake. Earth and Space Science, 7 (3), e2019EA000651.
Howell, A., Nissen, E., Stahl, T., Clark, K., Kearse, J., Van Dissen, R., Villamor, P., Langridge, R. M., and Jones, K (2020). 3D surface displacements during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake (New Zealand) from photogrammetry-derived point clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125 (1), e2019JB018739.

2019
*Gaudreau, É., Nissen, E., Bergman, E. A., Benz, H., *Karasözen, E., and *Tan, F. (2019). The August 2018 Kaktovik earthquakes: active tectonics in northeastern Alaska revealed with InSAR and seismology. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (24), 14412-14420.
*Diederichs, A., Nissen, E. K., *Lajoie, L. J., Langridge, R. M., *Malireddi, S. R., Clark, K. J., Hamling, I. J, and Tagliasacchi, A. (2019). Unusual kinematics of the Papatea fault (2016 Kaikōura earthquake) suggest anelastic rupture. Science Advances, 5 (10), eeax5703.
*Karasözen, E., Nissen, E., Bergman, E. A., and Ghods, A. (2019). Seismotectonics of the Zagros (Iran) From Orogen‐Wide, Calibrated Earthquake Relocations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124 (8), 9109-9129.
Scott, C., Champenois, J., Klinger, Y., Nissen, E., Maruyama, T., Chiba, T., and Arrowsmith, R. (2019). 2016 M7 Kumamoto, Japan, Earthquake Slip Field Derived From a Joint Inversion of Differential Lidar Topography, Optical Correlation, and InSAR Surface Displacements. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (12), 6341-6351.
*Tan, F., Kao, H., Nissen, E., and Eaton, D. (2019). Seismicity-Scanning based on Navigated Automatic Phase-picking. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124 (4), 3802-3818.
*Savidge, E., Nissen, E., Nemati, M., *Karasözen, E., Hollingsworth, J., Talebian, M., Bergman, E., Ghods, A., Ghorashi, M., Kosari, E., Rashidi, A., and Rashidi, A. (2019). The December 2017 Hojedk (Iran) earthquake triplet – sequential rupture of shallow reverse faults in a strike-slip restraining bend. Geophysical Journal International, 217 (2), 909-925.
*Tan, F., Ge, Z., Kao, H., and Nissen, E. (2019). Validation of the 3-D Phase-Weighted Relative Back Projection Technique and its Application to the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake. Geophysical Journal International, 217 (1), 375-388.
Nissen, E., Ghods, A., *Karasözen, E., Elliott, J. R., Barnhart, W. D., Bergman, E. A., Hayes, G. P., Jamal-Reyhani, M., Nemati, M., *Tan, F., Abdulnaby, W., Benz, H. M., Shahvar, M. P., Talebian, M., and Chen, L. (2019). The 12 November 2017 Mw 7.3 Ezgeleh-Sarpolzahab (Iran) earthquake and active tectonics of the Lurestan arc. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124 (2), 2124-2152.
*Lajoie, L., Nissen, E., *Johnson, K. L., Arrowsmith, J R., Glennie, C. L., Hinojosa‐Corona, A., and Oskin, M. E. (2019). Extent of low‐angle normal slip in the 2010 El Mayor‐Cucapah (Mexico) earthquake from differential lidar. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124 (1), 943-956.

2018
*Johnson, K. L., Nissen, E., and *Lajoie, L. (2018). Surface rupture morphology and vertical slip distribution of the 1959 Mw 7.2 Hebgen Lake (Montana) earthquake from airborne lidar topography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123 (9), 8229-8248.
Scott, C., Arrowsmith, J R., Nissen, E., *Lajoie, L., Maruyama, T., and Chiba, T. (2018). The M7 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, earthquake: 3D deformation along the fault and within the damage zone constrained from differential topography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123 (7), 6138-6155.
Langridge, R. M., Rowland, J., Villamor, P., Mountjoy, J., Townsend, D. B., Nissen, E., Madugo, C., Ries, W. F., Gasston, C., Hall, B., Albane, C., Hatem, A. E., and Hamling, I. (2018). Co-seismic rupture and preliminary slip estimates across the Papatea fault and its role in the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 108 (3B), 1596-1622.
*Karasözen, E., Nissen, E., Büyükakpınar, P., Cambaz D., Kahraman, M., Kalkan, E., Abgarmi, B., Bergman, E., Ghods, A., and Özacar, A. A. (2018). The 2017 July 20 Mw 6.6 Bodrum-Kos earthquake illuminates active faulting in the Gulf of Gökova, SW Turkey. Geophysical Journal International, 214 (1), 185-199.

2017
Howell, A., Jackson, J., Copley, A., McKenzie, D., and Nissen, E. (2017). Subduction and vertical coastal motions in the eastern Mediterranean. Geophysical Journal International, 211 (1), 593-620.
Clark, K. J., Nissen, E. K., Howarth, J. D., Hamling I. J., Mountjoy, J. J., Ries, W. F., Jones, K., Goldstien, S., Cochran, U. A., Villamor, P., Hreinsdóttir, S., Litchfield, N. J., Mueller, C., Berryman, K. R., and Strong, D. T. (2017). Highly variable coastal deformation in the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake reflects rupture complexity along a transpressional plate boundary. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 474, 334-344.
Walker, R. T., Wegmann, K.W., Bayasgalan, A., Carson, R. J., Elliott, J., Fox, M., Nissen, E., Sloan, R. A., Williams, J. M., and Wright, E. (2015). The Egiin Davaa prehistoric rupture, central Mongolia: a large-magnitude normal faulting earthquake, on a reactivated fault with little cumulative slip, in a slowly-deforming intraplate setting. In “Seismicity, Fault Rupture and Earthquake Hazards in Slowly Deforming Regions” (eds. Landgraf, A., Stein, S., and Hintersbergen, E.), Special Publication of the Geological Society of London, 432, 187-212.

2016
*Karasözen, E., Nissen, E., Bergman, E. A., *Johnson, K. L., and Walters, R. J. (2016). Normal faulting in the Simav-Gediz graben of western Turkey reassessed with calibrated earthquake relocations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121 (6), 4553-4574.
Nissen, E., Elliott, J. R., Sloan, R. A., Craig, T. J., Funning, G. J., Hutko, A., Parsons, B. E., and Wright, T. J. (2016). Limitations of rupture forecasting exposed by instantaneously triggered earthquake doublet. Nature Geoscience, 9, 330-336.
   – See also the associated Nature Geoscience News and Views article by Gavin Hayes.
   – Also highlighted by Science in this Editor's Choice article by Brent Grocholski.

2015
Elliott, J. R., Bergman, E. A., Copley, A. C., Ghods, A. R., Nissen, E. K., Oveisi, B., Tatar, M., Walters, R. J., and Yamini-Fard, F. (2015). The 2013 Mw 6.2 Khaki-Shonbe (Iran) earthquake: insights into seismic and aseismic shortening of the Zagros sedimentary cover. Earth and Space Science, 2 (11), 435-471.
Copley, A., *Karasözen, E., Elliott, J. R., Oveisi, B., Samsonov, S., and Nissen, E. (2015). Seismogenic faulting of the sedimentary sequence and laterally-variable material properties in the Zagros Mountains (Iran) revealed by the August 2014 Murmuri (E. Dehloran) earthquake sequence. Geophysical Journal International, 203 (2), 1436-1459.

2014
Nissen, E., Maruyama, T., Arrowsmith, J. R., Elliott, J. R., Krishnan, A. K., Oskin, M. E., and Saripalli, S. (2014). Coseismic fault zone deformation revealed with differential lidar: examples from Japanese Mw ~7 intraplate earthquakes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 405, 244-256.
*Johnson, K., Nissen, E., Saripalli, S., Arrowsmith, J. R., McGarey, P, Scharer, K., Williams, P., and Blisniuk, K. (2014). Rapid mapping of ultra-fine fault zone topography with structure from motion. Geosphere, 10 (5), 969-986.
Glennie, C. L., Hinojosa-Corona, A., Nissen, E., Kusari, A., Oskin, M. E., Arrowsmith, J. R., and Borsa, A. (2014). Optimization of legacy LiDAR datasets for measuring near-field earthquake displacements. Geophysical Research Letters, 41 (10), 3494-3501.
Nissen, E., Jackson, J., Jahani, S., and Tatar, M. (2014). Zagros “phantom earthquakes” reassessed – the interplay of seismicity and deep salt flow in the Simply Folded Belt? Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119 (4), 3561-3583.

2013
Allen, M. B., Saville, C., Blanc, E., Talebian, M., and Nissen, E. (2013). Orogenic plateau growth: Expansion of the Turkish-Iranian Plateau across the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt. Tectonics, 32 (2), 171-190.
Krishnan, A. K., Nissen, E., Saripalli, S., Arrowsmith, R. and Corona, A. H. (2013). Change detection using airborne Lidar: Applications to Earthquakes.. In Experimental Robotics (eds. Desai, J. P., Dudek, G., Khatib, O., Kumar, V.), Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 88, 733-743.

2012
Nissen, E., Krishnan, A. K., Arrowsmith, J. R., and Saripalli, S. (2012). Three-dimensional surface displacements and rotations from differencing pre- and post-earthquake LiDAR point clouds. Geophysical Research Letters, 39 (16), L16301.
Elliott, J. R., Nissen, E. K., England, P. C., Jackson, J. A., Lamb, S., Li, Z., Oehlers, M., and Parsons, B. (2012). Slip in the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquakes, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117 (B3), B03401.

2011
Nissen, E., Tatar, M., Jackson, J. A., and Allen, M.B. (2011). New views on earthquake faulting in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt of Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 186 (3), 928-944.

2010
Walker, R. T., Claisse, S., Telfer, M., Nissen, E., England, P., Bryant, C., and Bailey, R. (2010). Preliminary estimate of Holocene slip rate on active normal faults bounding the southern coast of the Gulf of Evia, central Greece. Geosphere, 6 (5), 583-593.
Nissen, E., Yamini-Fard, F., Tatar, M., Gholamzadeh, A., Bergman, E., Elliott, J., Jackson, J., and Parsons, B. (2010). The vertical separation of mainshock rupture and microseismicity at Qeshm island in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt, Iran. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 296, 181-194.
Biggs, J., Nissen, E., Craig, T., Jackson, J., and Robinson, D. P. (2010). Breaking up the hanging wall of a rift border fault: the 2009 Karonga earthquakes, Malawi. Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (11), L11305.
Roustaei, M., Nissen, E., Abbassi, M., Gholamzadeh, A., Ghorashi, M., Tatar, M., Yamini-Fard, F., Bergman, E., Jackson, J., and Parsons, B. (2010). The 25 March 2006 Fin earthquakes – insights into the vertical extents of faulting in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt. Geophysical Journal International, 181 (3), 1275-1291.

2009
Nissen, E., Walker, R., Bayasgalan, A., Carter, A., Fattahi, M., Molor, E., Schnabel, C., West, A. J., and Xu, S. (2009). The late Quaternary slip-rate of the Har-Us-Nuur fault (Mongolian Altai) from Cosmogenic 10Be and Luminescence dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 286, 467-478.
Nissen, E., Walker, R., Molor, E., Fattahi, M., and Bayasgalan, A. (2009). Late Quaternary rates of uplift and shortening at Baatar Hyarhan – implications for mountain building in the Mongolian Altai. Geophysical Journal International, 177 (1), 259-278.

2007
Nissen, E., Ghorashi, M., Jackson, J., Parsons, B., and Talebian, M. (2007). The 2005 Qeshm Island earthquake (Iran) – a link between buried reverse faulting and surface folding in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt? Geophysical Journal International, 171 (1), 326-338.
Walker R., Nissen, E., Molor, E., and Bayasgalan, A. (2007). Reinterpretation of the active faulting in central Mongolia. Geology, 35 (8), 759-762.
Nissen, E., Emmerson, B., Funning, G., Mistrukov, A., Parsons, B., Robinson, D., Rogozhin, E., and Wright, T. (2007). Combining InSAR and seismology to study the 2003 Siberian earthquakes: dextral strike-slip and anticlockwise rotations in the northern India-Eurasia collision zone. Geophysical Journal International, 169 (1), 216-232.

2006
Talebian, M., Biggs, J., Bolourchi, M., Copley, A., Ghassemi, A., Ghorashi, M., Hollingsworth, J., Jackson, J., Nissen, E., Oveisi, B., Parsons, B., Priestley, K., and Saiidi, A. (2006). The Dahiuyeh (Zarand) earthquake of 2005 February 22 in central Iran: reactivation of an intramountain reverse fault. Geophysical Journal International, 164 (1), 137-148.