PhD, Physics, New Mexico State University - 1995

My research is focused on solid earth geophysics with a particular emphasis on regional-scale seismology. I am interested in the structure of the shallow and deep earth and in the physical processes that drive plate tectonics. In order to understand the different stages and driving forces of continent-continent collision, I have studied the collision of continental plates in eastern Turkey (early stage) and Tibet (later stage). I have used a wide range tomographic and earth imaging techniques to reveal deep into the earth's subsurface.

• ERT 101 - Natural Hazards
• ERT 325 - Geophysics

• Astha Singh

• Chujie Liu

(* indicates students, postdocs and visiting scholars who worked directly under me)

Li, D.*, Nandy, S., Hui, H.*, Holan, S., Sandvol E., Predicting Lg Blockage in the Middle East Using a Bayesian Lasso Logistic Regression Model (2024) Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, in press.

Rowley, DB, Liu, C.*,Grand, SP, X Liang, X., Sandvol, E., On the relationship between the uppermost mantle (≤ 220 km) seismic velocity, crustal thickness, and topography in Tibet, Geology, in press.

Yao D., Peng Z., Ding C., Sandvol E., Godoladze T., Yetirmishli G., Dynamically Triggered Tectonic Tremors and Earthquakes in the Caucasian Region Following the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, Earthquake Sequence (2024) Geophysical Research Letters, 51 (22), art. no. e2024GL110786, DOI: 10.1029/2024GL110786

Islam M.M.*, Wei S., Persaud P., Steckler M.S., Tilmann F., Ni J., Gaherty J., Oo K.M., Than, Sandvol, E. , Mantle deformation in the highly oblique indo-burma subduction system inferred from shear wave splitting measurements (2024) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 643, art. no. 118895, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118895

Liu, C*, Banerjee, R. Grand, S.,  Sandvol, E., Mitra, S., Liang, X., Wei S., A High-Resolution Seismic Velocity Model for East Asia Using Full-Waveform Tomography: Constraints on India-Asia Collisional Tectonics (2024), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 643. 118895.

Godoladze T., Gök R., Onur T., Gunia I., Dzmanashvili M., Boichenko G., Buzaladze A., Bondár I., Ratiani L., Rostomashvili T., Nabelek J., Javakhishvili Z., Yetirmishli G., Sandvol E., Kadirioğlu F.T., Chiang A., Compilation of a Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog and Relocations in the Caucasus Region  (2024) Seismological Research Letters, 95 (2), pp. 1066 – 1081 DOI: 10.1785/0220230206

Liang X., Chu Y., Wan B., Chen L., Chen L., Sandvol E., Grand S.P., Li Y., Wang M., Tian X., Chen Y., Xu T., Li Y., Ji W.-Q., Fragmentation of continental subduction is ending the Himalayan orogeny (2023) Science Bulletin, 68 (23), pp. 3048 – 3054.  DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2023.10.017

Hui, H.*, Nandy, S., Holan, S., Pan, J., Li, D., and Sandvol, E., A Bayesian Lasso Logistic Regression Model for Predicting the Probability of Regional Seismic Phase Observation Using Sn in the Middle East and East Asia as Examples, (2023), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 113 (2), pp. 562 – 576  DOI: 10.1785/0120220032

Fadil, W., Wei, S., Bradley, K., Wang, Y., He, Y., Sandvol, E., Huang, BS, Active Faults Revealed and New Constraints on Their Seismogenic Depth from a High‐Resolution Regional Focal Mechanism Catalog in Myanmar (2016–2021), (2023), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 113 (2), pp. 613 – 635  DOI: 10.1785/0120220195

Pornsopin, P., Pananont, P., Furlong, K., and E. Sandvol, Sensor Orientation of the TMD Seismic Network (Thailand) from P-Wave Particle Motions (2023) Geoscience Letters, 10 (1), art. no. 24 DOI: 10.1186/s40562-023-00278-7.

Kaviani, A.*, Sandvol, E., Ku, W.*, Beck, SL, and N Türkelli, Seismic attenuation tomography of the Sn phase beneath the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and the Zagros mountain belt, (2022), Geosphere, 18 (4): 1377–1393. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02503.1

Lynner, C., Delph, JR., Portner, DE, SL Beck, SL, and Sandvol E., Slab induced mantle upwelling beneath the Anatolian plateau, (2022), Geophysical Research Letters 49 (11), e2021GL097451.

Tiwari, A.K., Singh, C., Sandvol, E., Mukhopadhyay, S., Singh, A., Gupta, A.K., Sn attenuation tomography of southeastern Tibet: New constraints on lithospheric mantle deformation (2022) Geophysical Journal International, 228 (2), pp. 1038-1053.

Gunnels, M.*, Yetrimishli, G., Kazimova, S., Sandvol, E., Seismotectonic evidence for subduction beneath the Eastern Greater Caucasus(2021) Geophysical Journal International, 224 (3), pp. 1825-1834.

Kaviani, A., Paul, A., Moradi, A., Mai, P.M., Pilia, S., Boschi, L., Rümpker, G., Lu, Y., Tang, Z., Sandvol, E., Crustal and uppermost mantle shear wave velocity structure beneath the Middle East from surface wave tomography (2020) Geophysical Journal International, 221 (2), pp. 1349-1365.

Wongwai, W.*, Pananont, P., Sandvol, E., Furlong, K., Seismic anisotropy of the upper mantle beneath Thailand: Tectonic setting constrained by shear-wave splitting analysis (2020) Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology, 42 (5), pp. 1098-1105.