Welcome to EQSci@MIT! We are part of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT.

We are two research groups focused on earthquake science, covering everything from observational seismology and geodesy to numerical and analytical modeling:
Fault Mechanics, led by Assistant Professor Camilla Cattania, and
Tectonophysics, led by Assistant Professor William Frank.

Prospective students and postdoctoral researchers: if interested in joining us, please reach out to us with a description of your research interests and your CV.

Recent Publications

Deep learning detects uncataloged low-frequency earthquakes across regions

Jannes Münchmeyer, Sophie Giffard-Roisin, Marielle Malfante, William B. Frank, Piero Poli, David Marsan, Anne Socquet

May 2024 Seismica

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Low-Frequency Earthquakes Downdip of Deep Slow Slip Beneath the North Island of New Zealand

Florent Aden-Antoniow, William B. Frank, Calum J. Chamberlain, John Townend, Laura M. Wallace, Stephen Bannister

May 2024 Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

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Untangling the environmental and tectonic drivers of the Noto earthquake swarm in Japan

Qingyu Wang, Xin Cui, William B. Frank, Yang Lu, Takashi Hirose, Kazushige Obara

May 2024 Science Advances

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BPMF: A backprojection and matched-filtering workflow for automated earthquake detection and location

Eric Beaucé, William B. Frank, Leonard S. Seydoux, Piero Poli, Robert D van der Hilst, Michel Campillo

December 2023 Seismological Research Letters

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Along-strike segmentation of seismic tremor and its relationship with the hydraulic structure of the subduction fault zone

Gaspard Farge, Claude Jaupart, William B. Frank, Nikolaï M Shapiro

November 2023 Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

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See all Fault Mechanics Group publications
See all Tectonophysics Group publications

Camilla Cattania

Assistant Professor

William B. Frank