Ilma del Carmen Juarez Garfias

Carmen sitting in a helicopter and wearing a headset.

Contact

Email: ilmadelcarmen.juarezgarfias@vuw.ac.nz

Office: CO524

Qualifications

BE in Geophysical engineering, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (2020)

MSc in Geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington (2021)

PhD Candidate in Geophysics

Research Interests

Seismology:

Seismic source
Strong ground motion
Earth structure
Rupture dynamics
Ambient noise

PhD thesis

Title

From source to city: using ambient noise to characterise shaking from the Alpine Fault.

Supervisors

- Prof John Townend

- Dr Calum Chamberlain

- Caroline Holden (SeismoCity)

Project objectives and description

My PhD focus on characterising shaking from an imminent Alpine Fault earthquake using ambient noise.

My objectives during this research are:

Characterise the noise field in the South Island, New Zealand
Calculate Green’s functions using ambient noise cross-correlations
Simulate ground motion in locations of interest in the South Island from many Alpine Fault earthquake simulations.

Publications

Pardo, E., Garfias, C., Malpica, N. (2019). Seismic Phase Picking Using Convolutional Networks. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume: 57, Issue: 9:7086 – 7092. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2911402.