Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos
Assistant Professor, CERI
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Education
2011: Ph.D., University of Bologna, Italy, Geophysics.
2007: M.S., "Summa Cum Laude" University of Milan, Italy, Geology (Emphasis in Geophysics).
Research Interests
Rupture Dynamics, Subduction Zones, Space Geodesy
Recent Papers
, , , & (2023). Variation of proportionality between stress drop and slip, with implications for megathrust earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL100568.
Tarnowski, J.M., Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D.D., Cooke, M.L., and Stern, A., 2022, The effects of pre-stress assumptions on dynamic rupture with complex fault geometry in the San Gorgonio Pass,California, region: Geosphere, v. 18, no. X, p. 1–16, .
Kyriakopoulos, C., Wu, B., & Oglesby, D. D. (2021). Asymmetric topography causes normal stress perturbations
at the rupture front: The case of the Cajon Pass. Geophysical Research Letters, 48,
e2021GL095397. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095397
Baoning Wu, Douilly R, Ford HA, Funning GJ, Lee HY, Niyogi S, Mendoza M, Kyriakopoulos C, Oglesby D; Monitoring Human Activity at a Very Local Scale with Ground-Motion Records:
The Early Stage of COVID-19 Pandemic in California, U.S.A., New York City, U.S.A.,
and Mexicali, Mexico. Seismological Research Letters 2021; 92 (5): 3007–3023. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200257
Harris, R. A., Barall, M., Lockner, D. A., Moore, D. E., Ponce, D. A., Graymer, R.
W., Kyriakopoulos C., Eberhart-Phillips D. (2021). A geology and geodesy-based model of dynamic earthquake
rupture on the Rodgers Creek-Hayward-Calaveras fault system, California. Journal of
Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB020577. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020577
Kyriakopoulos C, Barth NC, Koelemeijer P, Winterbourne J and Toussaint R (2021) 3D Printing in Geology
and Geophysics: A New World of Opportunities in Research, Outreach, and Education.
Front. Earth Sci. 9:734291. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.734291
Cortez, J. T., Oglesby, D. D., Kyriakopoulos, C., Wu, B., Chaudhuri, K., Ghosh, A., & Douilly, R. (2021). On the rupture propagation of the 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley, California, earthquake, and the lack of immediate triggering of the M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL090659. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090659
Kyriakopoulos, C., (2019), 3D Printing: A Remedy to Common Misconceptions about Earthquakes. Seismological Research Letters doi: .
Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Rockwell, T. K., Meltzner, A. J., Barall, M., Fletcher, J. M., & Tulanowski, D. ( 2019). Dynamic rupture scenarios in the Brawley Seismic Zone, Salton Trough, southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124. .
Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Funning, G. J., & Ryan, K. J. (2017). Dynamic rupture modeling of the M7.2 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake: Comparison with a geodetic model. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, .
Hobbs, T. E., C. Kyriakopoulos, A. V. Newman, M. Protti, and D. Yao (2017), Large and primarily updip afterslip following the 2012 Mw 7.6 Nicoya, Costa Rica, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, .
Kyriakopoulos C. and A.V Newman et al., (2016). Structural Asperity focusing locking and earthquake slip along the Nicoya megathrust, Costa Rica. J.Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, 5461–5476, .
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