Jim Mori

Jim no longer is working at the Pasadena USGS. He has moved to Japan and is a professor at Kyoto University.

He can be contacted at: mori@rcep.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Recent Research Results

Overlapping fault planes of the 1971 San Fernando and 1994 Northridge, California earthquakes, GRL, May 1, 1995.
3-D velocity inversions of Mt Pinatubo (USGS Professional Paper) and Rabaul Caldera .
Analyzing large amplitude SmS phases recorded in Mojave desert from Landers aftershocks
Identifying a precursor to PcP indicating refection off a thin (~10 km) low-velocity (5-10%) layer above the Core-Mantle-Boundary

Background

Career Experience:

1988-1992 Research Seismologist USGS Pasadena
1991 Member of USGS team monitoring large volcanic eruption at Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines
1984-1988 Seismologist at Rabaul Volcano Observatory, Papua New Guinea
1983 Fulbright Research Fellowship at Earthquake Research Institute, Univ. of Tokyo

Education:

Columbia University: Ph.D., Seismology; Oct. 1984; M.A., Geological Sciences; June 1980
Oberlin College: B.A., Physics, May 1978

Last updated 02/17/99.