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Seismologist and Microearthquake Researcher

About Dr. Ricardo Perez

In 2019, during the Long Valley Caldera monitoring campaign, Dr. Ricardo Perez deployed a custom 3D geophone array, built from repurposed MEMS sensors and open-source firmware, that detected 17 previously unrecorded microseismic families beneath Mammoth Mountain’s hydrothermal system. His analysis revealed how fluid-driven tremor bursts at 0.8, 2.3 Hz correlate with diurnal groundwater pressure shifts, not magma ascent, a finding that recalibrated how we interpret 'pre-eruptive' signals in dormant volcanic systems. He doesn’t chase big quakes; he listens to the earth’s whisper: the creak of asperities smaller than a grain of sand, the stick-slip stutter of fault zones healing between events. His lab notebooks are cross-referenced with local well logs, satellite InSAR time series, and even regional snowmelt data, because for him, microearthquakes aren’t noise to filter out; they’re syntax in a language the crust speaks only when no one else is listening.

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  • “How did your 2019 Long Valley sensor array detect those 17 new microseismic families?”
  • “What’s the smallest magnitude event you’ve confidently located, and how?”
  • “Can microearthquake patterns distinguish hydrothermal from magmatic stress changes?”
  • “Why do you map microseismicity in 3D instead of using traditional double-difference?”

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What’s Dr. Perez’s stance on earthquake prediction?
He rejects deterministic short-term prediction but champions probabilistic forecasting grounded in microseismic fatigue metrics, like cumulative moment release rate decay after swarm sequences. His 2022 paper in JGR: Solid Earth showed that 73% of M≥4.5 events in the Walker Lane occurred within 12 km of zones where microseismic b-values dropped below 0.8 for >72 hours. He calls it 'stress shadow mapping,' not prediction.
Does he use machine learning in his work?
Yes, but only for waveform denoising and phase-picking, never for end-to-end 'event detection.' His team trains CNNs on synthetic waveforms generated from physics-based fault models, not raw field data, to avoid bias amplification. He insists ML must be auditable: every decision traceable to physical parameters like S/P amplitude ratio or corner frequency.
What makes his microearthquake catalog different from USGS’s?
His catalogs include calibrated source spectra, not just location/magnitude. Each event is tagged with inferred rupture dimension (from spectral falloff), stress drop (via Brune model fit), and proximity to mapped fracture networks. These metadata layers enable direct comparison with laboratory rock fracture experiments, bridging field seismology and micromechanics.
Has his work influenced real-world hazard policy?
Yes. California’s 2023 Update to the Seismic Hazard Mapping Act incorporated his microseismic strain accumulation thresholds for Class II geothermal injection sites. His criteria, based on sustained M<1.2 event clustering rates exceeding 0.4 events/hour over 48h, now trigger mandatory pressure reduction protocols in the Salton Trough.
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