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Gaspard Farge

postdoc

About Me

Hi! I am a seismologist and geophysicist. In my research, I use spatio-temporal patterns of seismicity and simple modeling approaches to understand the complexity of seismogenic systems: how they organize and the physical processes underpinning it.

I am currently working as a postdoc in the Laboratoire de Géologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, mainly with Romain Jolivet. We are investigating the mechanisms that shape seismicity in places where we expect it the least: in continental interiors, far from plate boundaries. In other terms, why do we get earthquakes where there’s no tectonics?

I used to be working as a postdoc in the Seismo Lab of UC Santa Cruz, with Emily Brodsky, investigating how regular earthquakes and tectonic tremor interact, to understand how fault system can organize into regular seismicity patterns.


📣 News

2025

July 💼 Started a new postdoc at ENS, on R. Jolivet’s iQuake ERC project
  June 🔊 Made the ambient soundtrack of the art exhibition of the Oregon Origins Project VI: The Birth of Cascadia, using sonified tectonic tremor
  May 🎉 Sirena Motter got the URST award! She works on tremor synchronization with me at UCSC
  May 📰 Our tremor synchronization paper is out, in Science Advances
  April 🌊 I was invited to talk at CRESCENT’s Fluids in Cascadia workshop
       

2024

Sept. 👨🏻‍🏫 Invited to present our work on interactions between regular and low frequency seismicity in the CSEP workshop at the SCEC meeting
  May 🌳 Invited to present my PhD work to the Small Earthquakes group at University of Oregon
  April 🫎 Presented our work on interactions between earthquakes and tremor at the 2024 SSA Annual Meeting
  March 🟦 Invited to present my PhD work at Géoazur (Nice, Fr)
       

2023

Nov. 🗞️ Our paper on how to interpret the segmentation of tremor in subduction zones is out in JGR Solid Earth
  Oct. 🏫 Invited to talk in the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab seminar series
  Sept. 🗽 Invited to talk in the Geophysics seminar in LDEO (Columbia University, NY)
  Sept. 🗾 Presented a poster in the Slow-to-Fast earthquakes international workshop, in Tokyo
  March 🌅 Started working in the Seismo group in UCSC
       

2022

Sept. 🎓 I defended my PhD thesis
  Feb. 🌋 Our paper on seismic tremor under Kamtchatka volcanoes is out in Science Advances
       

2021

Dec. 🏢 I presented my work at MIT Earth Resources Laboratory's seminar
  Sept. 〰️ My first PhD paper is out
  July 🔊 Our paper on spatialized sonifications of seismic phenomena is out