Scott conducts rapid field response to large earthquakes and provides media with post-event interviews and data support.

Scott conducts rapid field response to large earthquakes and provides media with post-event interviews and data support.

 

M5.8 Pawnee, OK - 3 Sept 2016 (USGS summary)

3 to 4 Sept

  • co-led field response team; arrived at epicenter ~10 hrs after mainshock
  • confirmed lack of surface rupture
  • documented and mapped extent of structural damage and liquefaction features

GEER report

  • report summarizing recon observations of damage to built environment (GEER report)

EERI map

AGU 2016 talk

  • gave opening talk at AGU late-breaking session about Pawnee, OK earthquake (AGU abstract)

 

 

M7.8 Gorkha-Nepal - 25 April 2015 (USGS summary)

            and M7.3 aftershock - 12 May 2015 (USGS summary)

 

25 April

500pm (MST) Fox 31 Denver: recorded interview in USGS NEIC for 9PM broadcast (report and video)

620pm (MST) BBC Radio - 5 Live: radio interview with host Dotun Adebayo

650pm (MST) BBC World News: live TV interview with host Daniella Ritorto (video)

26 April

730am (MST) The Weather Channel (AMHQ): live TV interview with hosts Maria LaRosa and Paul Goodloe (video)

930am (MST) The Weather Channel (Weather Center Live): live TV interview with hosts Maria LaRosa and Paul Goodloe (video)

345pm (MST) The Wall Street Journal: science advisement on graphics for WSJ article 

420pm (MST) CNN International (Today Asia): live TV interview with host Michael Holmes (video)

27 April

415am (MST) The Weather Channel (Wake up with Al): live TV interview with host Al Roker (video)

940am (MST) KGO Radio (810AM) San Francisco: recorded radio interview

1240pm (MST) Fox Business: recorded TV interview with host Neil Cavuto (video)

12 May

Provided scientific expertise and delivered data files for GIS illustrations in WSJ article

14 May

200pm (MST) Provided expert review of Smithsonian Channel 1-hour video of Nepal earthquake                                                                                         with USGS colleague Morgan Moschetti

515pm (MST) Live interview on This Morning, Seaul (South Korean radio station tbs eFM 101.3 MHz)

M8.2 Chile (Iquique) - 1 April 2014 (USGS summary)

answering phone questions for various local, national, and international media outlets