Steve Malone

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Steve Malone

Research areas

Interests: Seismicity of the Cascade volcanoes; Earthquake and volcanic hazards; Computer applications in seismic data acquisition and network analysis.

As of fall, 2007 I have retired from full time work at the University of Washington. I am no longer the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic network but continue as an emeritus professor involved in research and network operations. I no longer am advising students nor have funding to support them. I am continuing part time with my primary research interest in network seismology, earthquake hazards, Episodic Tremor and Slip (ETS) and volcano seismology. In the first case, I am interested in the technology of operating a modern digitally recorded regional seismograph network and assist at a low level with the operations of the PNSN. This system includes near real-time event processing and alarms which notify staff members of large earthquakes or equipment failure and provide information to the public and interested parties via e-mail and web pages.

Selected publications

  • Malone, Steve, A Warning about Early Warning, (Opinion) Seis Res Letts. Vol 79,5, 2008
  • Qamar, Anthony, Steve D. Malone, Seth C. Moran, William P. Steele, Weston Thelen, Near-real-time information products for Mount St. Helens – Tracking the ongoing eruption, in A Volcano Rekindled: The Renewed Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 2004-2006, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1750, 2008.
  • Mario La Rocca, Kenneth C. Creager, Danilo Galluzzo, Steve Malone, John E. Vidale, Justin R. Sweet, Aaron G. Wech, Cascadian tremor located near plate interface constrained by S minus P wave times, Science V323, 620-621, 2009
  • Crider, Juliet G., David Frank, Stephen D. Malone, Michael P. Poland, Cynthia Werner, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, Magma at depth: A retrospective analysis of the 1975 unrest at Mount Baker, Washington, USA; Bull. Vol. V73 N2 p175-189. DOI: 10.1007/s00445-010-0441-0, 2011
  • S. D. Malone and J. E. Vidale, Developing earthquake early warning in the US is currently a waste of time and money, Seismological Research Letters, March 2011, v. 82, p. 308