Jean-Paul Ampuero

Seismology + Earthquake Dynamics + Rupture Imaging

Seismologist, geophysicist

Head of the Earthquake Cycle Team at Geoazur Laboratory

Senior Researcher at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development)

Excellence Chair at Université Côte d’Azur (Nice, France)

Main research topics

Earthquake physics, computational earthquake dynamics, fracture mechanics
Earthquake source imaging and source inversion
Distributed Acoustic Sensing in seismology
Earthquake prompt gravity signals
Induced seismicity

Team

Postdoctoral researchers

Federica Paglialunga (co- supervised with François Passelègue)
Eyup Sopaci
Pierre Romanet (co- supervised with Frédéric Cappa and Marco Scuderi)
Jan Premus
Yuqing Xie

Graduate students

Hsiao-Fan Lin (co-advised with Thibault Candela, TNO)
Vanessa Carrillo (co-advised with Anthony Sladen, Diego Mercerat, and Amaury Vallage, CEA)
Feyza Arzu (co-advised with François Passelègue and Cédric Twardzik)
Hugo Lestrelin (co-advised with Diego Mercerat and Françoise Courboulex)
Pablo Espinoza Lara (co-advised with Quentin Blétery)
Lucas Papotto (co-advised with Diane Rivet)
Gabriela Arias (co-advised with Quentin Blétery)
Carlos Becerril (co-advised with Anthony Sladen and Miguel González Herráez)

Former Geoazur postdocs:

Alister Trabattoni. Now postdoc at Geoazur in ERC project ABYSS.
Huihui Weng. Now faculty at Nanjing University, China.
Andrea Licciardi (co-supervised with Quentin Blétery)
Itzhak Lior (co-supervised with Anthony Sladen and Diane Rivet). Now faculty at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Chao Liang (co-supervised with Daniel Pino Muñoz). Now faculty at Sichuan University, China.
Martijn van den Ende. Now postdoc at Geoazur in ERC project ABYSS.
Elif Oral. Now postdoc at Caltech, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering.

Former students graduated since 2018:

Gauthier Guérin (co-advised with Diane Rivet). Now postdoc at Geoazur.
Daniel Mata (co-advised with Anthony Sladen and Diane Rivet). Now CEO of smart-city DAS startup SequoIA Analytics.
Benjamin Idini (Caltech). Now UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz.
Stacy Larochelle (Caltech, co-advised with Nadia Lapusta). Now postdoc at LDEO Columbia University.

Publications

Complete list, including current pre-prints, in CV and Google scholar.

Selected recent publications

P. Danré, D. Garagash, L. De Barros, F. Cappa, J. P. Ampuero (2023), Control of seismicity migration in earthquake swarms by injected fluid volume and aseismic crack propagation, J. Geophys. Res., 129 (1), e2023JB027276, doi:10.1029/2023JB027276 - PDF
X. Ding, S. Xu, Y. Xie, M. van den Ende, J. Premus, J. P. Ampuero (2023), The sharp turn: Backward rupture branching during the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) earthquake, Seismica, 2 (3), Special Issue: 2023 Türkiye/Syria earthquakes, doi:10.26443/seismica.v2i3.1083 - PDF
P. Lara, Q. Bletery, J. P. Ampuero, A. Inza, H. Tavera (2023), Earthquake Early Warning starting from 3 seconds of records on a single station with machine learning, J. Geophys. Res., 128 (11), e2023JB026575, doi:10.1029/2023JB026575 - PDF
B. Delouis, M. van den Ende, J. P. Ampuero (2023), Kinematic rupture model of the February 6th 2023 Mw7.8 Turkey earthquake from a large set of near-source strong motion records combined with GNSS offsets reveals intermittent supershear rupture, Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., doi:10.1785/0120230077 - PDF
D. Molina, J. P. Ampuero, A. Tassara (2023), Diverse slip behavior of velocity-weakening fault barriers, Nature Geo., 16, 1200-1207, doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01312-1 PDF
D. Mata, A. Sladen, J. P. Ampuero, D. E. Mercerat, D. Rivet (2023), Monitoring deep sea currents with seafloor Distributed Acoustic Sensing, Earth Space Sci., 10 (6), e2022EA002723, doi:10.1029/2022EA002723 - PDF
L. Dal Zilio, J. P. Ampuero (2023), Earthquake doublet in Turkey and Syria, Nature Comms. Earth & Env., 4, 71, doi:10.1038/s43247-023-00747-z - PDF
H. Weng, J. P. Ampuero (2022), Integrated rupture mechanics for slow slip events and earthquakes, Nature Comms., 13, 7327, doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34927-w
C. Liang, J. P. Ampuero, D. Pino Muñoz (2022), The paucity of supershear earthquakes on large faults governed by rate-and-state friction, Geophys. Res. Lett., 49 (22), e2022GL099749, doi:10.1029/2022GL099749 - PDF
J. Premus, F. Gallovic, J. P. Ampuero (2022), Bridging time scales of faulting: from coseismic to postseismic slip of the Mw 6.0 2014 South Napa, California earthquake, Science Advances, 8 (38), doi:10.1126/sciadv.abq253
H. Bao, L. Xu, L. Meng, J. P. Ampuero, L. Gao, H. Zhang (2022), Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes, Nature Geo., 15, 942–949, doi:10.1038/s41561-022-01055-5 - PDF
A. Licciardi, Q. Bletery, B. Rouet-Leduc, J.-P. Ampuero, K. Juhel (2022), Instantaneous tracking of earthquake growth with elasto-gravity signals, Nature, 606, 319–324, doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04672-7
E. Calais, S. Symithe, T. Monfret, B. Delouis, A. Lomax, F. Courboulex, J. P. Ampuero, P. E. Lara, Q. Bletery, et al. (2022), Citizen seismology helps decipher the 2021 Haiti earthquake, Science, 376 (6590), 283-287, doi:10.1126/science.abn1045
S. Larochelle, N. Lapusta, J. P. Ampuero and F. Cappa (2021), Constraining fault friction and stability with fluid-injection field experiments, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48 (10), e2020GL091188, doi:10.1029/2020GL091188 - PDF
M. van den Ende and J. P. Ampuero (2021), Evaluating seismic beamforming capabilities of Distributed Acoustic Sensing arrays, Solid Earth, 12 (4), 915–934, doi:10.5194/se-12-915-2021
I. Lior, A. Sladen, D. Rivet, J. P. Ampuero, Y. M. Hello, P. Lamare, C. Jestin, S. Tsagkli, C. Markou (2020), On the detection capabilities of underwater DAS, J. Geophys. Res., 126 (3), e2020JB020925, doi:10.1029/2020JB020925 - PDF
B. Idini and J. P. Ampuero (2020), Fault zone damage promotes pulse-like rupture and back-propagating fronts via quasi-static effects, Geophys. Res. Lett., 47 (23), e2020GL090736, doi:10.1029/2020GL090736 - PDF
H. Weng and J. P. Ampuero (2020), Continuum of earthquake rupture speeds enabled by oblique slip, Nature Geo., 13, 817–821, doi:10.1038/s41561-020-00654-4 - PDF
A. Sladen, D. Rivet, J. P. Ampuero, L. De Barros, Y. Hello, G. Calbris, P. Lamare (2019), Distributed sensing of earthquakes and ocean-solid Earth interactions on seafloor telecom cables, Nat. Comms., 10, 5777, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13793-z - PDF
H. Weng and J. P. Ampuero (2019), The dynamics of elongated earthquake ruptures, J. Geophys. Res., 124 (8), 8584-8610, doi: 10.1029/2019JB017684 - PDF
T. Ulrich, A. A. Gabriel, J. P. Ampuero and W. Xu (2019), Dynamic viability of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake cascade on weak crustal faults, Nature Comms., 10, 1213, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09125-w - PDF
H. Bao, J. P. Ampuero, L. Meng, E. J. Fielding, C. Liang, C. W. D. Milliner, H. Huang, T. Feng (2019), Early and persistent supershear rupture of the 2018 Mw 7.5 Palu earthquake, Nature Geo., 12, 200–205, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0297-z
K. Juhel, J. P. Ampuero, M. Barsuglia, E. Chassande-Mottin, D. Fiorucci, J. Harms, J.-P. Montagner, M. Vallée and B. F. Whiting (2018), Earthquake early warning using future generation gravity strainmeters, J. Geophys. Res., 123 (12), 10889-10902, doi:10.1029/2018JB016698
C. Tape, S. Holtkamp, V. Silwal, J. Hawthorne, Y. Kaneko, J. P. Ampuero, C. Ji, N. Ruppert, K. Smith, M. West (2018), Earthquake nucleation and fault slip complexity in the lower crust of central Alaska, Nature Geo., 11, 536–541, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0144-2
M. Vallée, J. P. Ampuero, K. Juhel, P. Bernard, J.-P. Montagner and M. Barsuglia (2017), Observations and modeling of the elasto-gravity signals preceding direct seismic waves, Science, 358 (6367), 1164-1168, doi:10.1126/science.aao0746
M.-A. Meier, J. P. Ampuero and T. Heaton (2017), The hidden simplicity of subduction megathrust earthquakes, Science, 357 (6537), 1277-1281, doi:10.1126/science.aan5643

Current pre-prints

D. S. Kammer, G. C. McLaskey, R. E. Abercrombie, J. P. Ampuero, C. Cattania, M. Cocco, L. Dal Zilio, G. Dresen, A.-A. Gabriel, C.-Y. Ke, C. Marone, P. A. Selvadurai, E. Tinti, Energy dissipation in earthquakes, arXiv preprint, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2403.06916
J. Flores-Cuba, E. Oral, B. Idini, C. Liang, J. P. Ampuero, Mechanisms and seismological signatures of rupture complexity induced by fault damage zones in fully-dynamic earthquake cycle models, EarthArXiv preprint, doi:10.31223/X5668C
M. van den Ende, J. P. Ampuero, F. Courboulex, B. Delouis, M. Godano, C. Larroque, A. Sladen, Distributed Acoustic Sensing for aftershock monitoring: the case of the 2019 Mw4.9 Le Teil earthquake, EarthArXiv preprint, doi:10.31223/X5DX26
C. Liang, J. Peng, J. P. Ampuero, N. Shauer, K. Dai, Resonances in fluid-filled cracks of complex geometry and application to very long period (VLP) seismic signals at Mayotte submarine volcano, ESSOAr preprint, doi:10.22541/essoar.169462053.30447003/v1
M. T. Herrera, J. P. Ampuero, J. G. F. Crempien, A proxy implementation of thermal pressurization for earthquake cycle modeling on rate-and-state faults, EarthArXiv preprint, doi:10.31223/X5S377
A. Inbal, J. P. Ampuero, R. W. Clayton, Earthquake detectability and depth resolution with dense arrays in Long Beach, California, ESSOAr preprint, doi:10.1002/essoar.10508262.1
C. Liang and J. P. Ampuero, Comment on “Coincident locations of rupture nucleation during the 2019 Le Teil earthquake, France and maximum stress change from local cement quarrying” by De Novellis et al., ESSOAr preprint, doi:10.1002/essoar.10504400.1
Y. Luo and J. P. Ampuero, Tremor migration patterns and the collective behavior of deep asperities mediated by creep, EarthArXiv preprint, doi:10.17605/osf.io/mbcav