AGU24: What's Next for Science

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting was a blast. With over 25,000 attendees from 100+ countries, this has been the largest Earth and space science conference I have ever been to. As part of an oral session about Recent Earthquakes Across the Globe: Analysis of Main Shocks, Aftershocks, and Secondary Hazards for Preparation, Rapid Response, and Recovery, I presented our recently published study on the multi-event and multi-segment rupture propagation of the 2024 moment magnitude 7.5 Noto Peninsula, Japan, earthquake and how it governs tsunami generation. Using a multiple Centroid Moment Tensor (CMT) Bayesian inversion for tsunami modeling is a new approach and sparked interest of the scientific community. Other exciting presentations that shed light on this earthquake include landscape changes, closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage analysis for tsunami detection, hypotheses about the rupture onset with dual-initiation in connection with a strong fault asperity versus re-nucleation due to preceding fluid migration and fault valving behavior, urgent marine seismic observation in the source region using ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) to obtain precise aftershocks, and many others.

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