Andrew Michael

Geophysicist, Western Earthquake Hazards Team

United States Geological Survey

Education
SchoolMajorDegreeDate
Ward Melville H.S.--6/77
Mass. Inst. of TechGeophysicsB.S.6/81
Stanford UniversityGeophysicsM.S.6/83
Stanford UniversityGeophysicsPh.D.1/86

Ph.D. Thesis title: Regional Stress and Large Earthquakes: An Observational Study Using Focal Mechanisms

Employment History
EmployerPositionDates
Stanford UniversityPost-doctoral Scholar10/85-8/86
National Research Council Resident Research Associate9/86-7/88
U.S.G.S., Menlo Park
U.S. Geological SurveyGeophysicist7/88-present

Current Responsibilities: Chief of the Earthquake Probabilities and Occurrence project, seismological research aimed understanding the physics of the earthquake process in order to provide better long-term hazards estimates. Specialties include: inversion of stress from focal mechanisms, local earthquake tomography, statistical analysis of earthquake prediction methods, seismotectonics, and rapid earthquake monitoring methods.