Prof. RAOUL MADARIAGA

  • Laboratoire de Géologie
  • Ecole Normale Supérieure
  • 24 rue Lhomond
  • 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
  • Tél. 0144322216, Fax 0144322200
  • Web page: http://www.geologie.ens.fr/~madariag
  • e-mail: madariag@geologie.ens.fr

 

EDUCATION

  • School of Engineering University of Chile. 1961-1967.
  • Civil Engineering Degree. August 1967.
  • Graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1967-1971.
  • Ph.D. in Geophysics from M. I. T., June 1971.

ACADEMIC CAREER

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics, University of Chile, Santiago, 1971-1973
  • Research Associate, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974-1976.
  • Physicien Adjoint, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, University of Paris VI, 1977-1979.
  • Professor 2nd class (Associate Professor). Département de Sciences Physiques de la Terre, Université Paris VII, 1979-1984.
  • Professorr 1st class (Full Professor). Département de Sciences Physiques de la Terre, Université Paris VII, 1984-1991.
  • Professor of exceptional class. Département de Sciences Physiques de la Terre, Université Paris VII, 1991-1998.
  • Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France, 1993-1998.
  • Professor of exceptional class, Ecole Normale Supérieure, since 1998.

ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Director of the seismological observatory, Department of Geophysics, University of Chile, 1971-1973.
  • Director Seismological Laboratory, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and Université Paris 7 1985-1997.
  • Director of the Seismic Researche Group of CNRS, Elf Aquitaine and IFP. 1987-1992.
  • Member of the National Committee of Astronomers and Physics of the Earth (CNAP) 1992-2000.
  • President of CNAP 1996-2000.
  • Director Geology Laboratory of Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2000-2006.

FELLOWSHIPS

  • U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Antartic Research Fellowship. September 1967 - May 1971.
  • Green Scholar, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, San Diego, 1981

PUBLICATIONS

  • MADARIAGA, R.., Seismic source theory, Chapter 2 of vol 4, Earthquake seismology H. Kanamori, ed., Tretatise of Geophysics, Academic Press, 2007.
  • MADARIAGA, R., ADDA-BEDIA, M. and AMPUERO, J.P. Seismic radiation from simple models of earthquakes, Geophys. Mon. Series 170, Amer. Geophys. Union, 10.1029/170GM07, 2007.
  • MADARIAGA, R., Slippery when hot, Science, 316, 842, 2007
  • ADDA-BEDIA, M. and MADARIAGA, R., Seismic radiation from a kink on an antiplane fault, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. in press, 2008.
  • MADARIAGA, R., Earthquake scaling laws, Chapter in Encyclopedia of Non-linear Physics, Elsevier, in press, 2008.
  • Ruegg, J.C., A. Rudloff, C. Vigny, R. Madariaga, J.B. Dechabalier, J. Campos, E. Kausel, S. Barrientos and D. Dimitrov. Interseismic strain accumulation measured by GPS in south central Chile seismic gap. in press Phys. earth Planet. Physics, 2008.
  • Vigny, Ch., A. Rudloff, J.C. Ruegg, R. Madariaga, J. Campos and M. Alvarez. Upper plate deformation measured by GPS in the Coquimbo Gap, Chile. in press Phys. earth Planet. Physics, 2008