Christine Regalla

Christine Regalla publishes on overriding plates in northwestern U.S. subduction zone

Assistant Professor Christine Regalla has published “Ongoing oroclinal bending in the Cascadia forearc and its relation to concave-outboard plate margin geometry” in Geology. In the article, Dr. Regalla and her colleagues present GPS and geologic data that show the overriding plate of the Cascadia subduction zone in Oregon, Washington and southwestern British Columbia have been […]

BU earthquake science well represented at AGU

Research Assistant Professor Rachel Abercrombie, and Assistant Professor Christine Regalla, and PhD student Emily Schottenfels are attending this month’s Fall AGU Meeting to present their work, interact with their colleagues and catch up with the latest research in Geophysics. Together they are co-authors on 10 presentations, working with colleagues and students from a variety of […]

Christine Regalla co-authors paper on earthquake surface rupture in Geophysical Research Letters

Assistant Professor Christine Regalla and her colleagues have published “Holocene Surface Rupture History of an Active Forearc Fault Redefines Seismic Hazard in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada” in Geophysical Research Letters. This paper documents the first detailed history of earthquake surface rupture for an onland fault within the Cascadia subduction zone of British Columbia, Canada. These […]