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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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Not sure where to begin? Try asking Dr. Ricardo Perez:
- “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?”