TRAILBLAZER: Leveraging Extreme Environment Experimental Mechanics to Decipher Deep-Focus — NSF Award to University of Utah (UT, $
This award will fund research to address a grand challenge in the geophysics community: deep-focus earthquakes, which are earthquakes that originate at depths greater than 70km below the Earth’s surface. Although there is no consensus on the processes that cause the sudden release of energy that results in a deep-focus
| Award title | TRAILBLAZER: Leveraging Extreme Environment Experimental Mechanics to Decipher Deep-Focus |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2535247 |
| Awardee | University of Utah |
| City | SALT LAKE CITY |
| State | UT |
| Amount obligated | $3,000,000 |
| Principal investigator | Owen Kingstedt |
| Program | EFRI Research Projects |
| Start date | 01/01/2026 |
| Abstract | This award will fund research to address a grand challenge in the geophysics community: deep-focus earthquakes, which are earthquakes that originate at depths greater than 70km below the Earth’s surface. Although there is no consensus on the processes that cause the sudden release of energy that results in a deep-focus earthquake, there are three agreed-upon mechanisms that could occur individually or together during a deep-focus earthquake event. These mechanisms are 1) the transformation of mi |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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