basin analysis for oil and gas exploration; earthquake hazard evaluation; earthquake geology; Active Tectonics

Kaneda, H., Nakata, T., Tsutsumi, H., Kondo, H., Sugito, N., Awata, Y., Akhtar, S.S., Majid, A., Khattak, W., Awan, A.A., Yeats, R.S., Hussain, A., Ashraf, M., Wesnousky, S.G., and Kausar, A.B., Surface Rupture of the 2005 Kashmir, Pakistan, Earthquake and Its Active Tectonic Implications: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 521-557, April, 2008

Hussain, A., Yeats, R.S., and MonaLisa, Geological setting of the 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake: 2008

Yeats, R.S., and Thakur, V.C., Active faulting south of the Himalayan Front: Establishing a new plate boundary: ScienceDirect, p. 63-73, 2007.

Parsons, T., Yeats, R.S., Yagi, Y., and Hussain, A., Static stress change from the 8 October, 2005 M=7.6 Kashmir earthquake:  Geophysics Research Letters, v. 33, p. 1-4, 2006.

Levi, S., Nabelek, J., and Yeats, R.S., Paleomagnetism-based limits on earthquake magnitudes in northwestern metropolitan Los Angeles, California, USA: Geology, v. 33, p. 401-404, 2005.

Yeats, R.S., and Gath, E.M., Paleoseismology of surface ruptures: Research tool or standard of practice? Association of Engineering Geologists Newsletter, v. 48 (1), p. 21-23, 2005.

Yeats, R.S., Tectonics of the San Gabriel Basin and surroundings, southern California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, p. 1158-1182, 2004.

Yeats, R.S. and Gath, E.M., The role of geology in seismic hazard mitigation, in Bozorgnia, Y., and Bertero, V., eds. Earthquake Engineering: Recent Advances and Applications, chapter 3, 23 p.: Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, 2004.

Yeats, R.S., Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest: A Survivor¹s Guide: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded: Corvallis, Oregon State University Press, 390 p., 2004.

Yeats, R.S., Seismology and society: A college course in why it all matters: Seismological Research Letters, v. 74, p. 625-627, 2003.

Levi, S., and Yeats, R.S., Paleomagnetic definition of crustal fragmentation and Quaternary block rotations in the east Ventura Basin and San Fernando Valley, southern California: Tectonics, v.22, no. 5, 16 p., do1:10.1029/2002TC001377, 2003.

Yeats, R.S., and Stitt, L.T., Ridge Basin and San Gabriel fault in the Castaic Lowland, southern California: Geological Society of America Special Paper 367, p. 131-156., 2003.

Myers, D.J., Nabelek, J.L., and Yeats, R.S., 2003, Dislocation modeling of blind thrusts in the eastern Los Angeles basin. California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 108, no. B9, 19 p., 2003, doi:10.1029/2002JB002150, 2003.

Yeats R.S., and Madden, C., Damage from the Nahrin, Afghanistan, earthquake of 25 March 2002: Seismological Research Letters, v. 74, p. 305-311, 2003

Yeats, R.S., Geology of earthquakes: Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Third Edition, v. 6, p. 649-661, 2002.

Yeats, R.S., Living with Earthquakes in California: A Survivor¹s Guide: Corvallis, Oregon State University Press, 406 p., 2001.

Tsutsumi, H., Yeats, R.S., and Huftile, G.J., Late Cenozoic tectonics of the northern Los Angeles fault system, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 454-468, 2001

Yeats, R.S., Sieh, K.E., and Allen, C.R., The Geology of Earthquakes: Oxford University Press, 568 p., 1997.

Membership:
Geological Society of America (GSA), Fellow
Seismological Society of America
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, (AAPG Pacific Section Outstanding Educator Award, 1991; Michel T. Halbouty Human Needs Award)
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (SEPM)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Southern California Earthquake Center

Past Positions:
1983-1984, New Zealand Geological Survey, Visiting Geologist
1958-1967, Shell Oil Company, Los Angeles, Senior Geologist
1967-1977, Ohio University, Associate Professor, Professor, Director of Summer Field Course in Geology
1992, visiting scientist, active tectonics group, Geological Survey of Japan
1993, physicien associé, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
1999, visiting scientist, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand

Other Positions:
Senior consultant and partner, Earth Consultants International. Recent projects include (1) advising another consultant on designing a housing development at Moorpark, California, to accommodate faults related to folding, (2) a field survey of the 2002 Nahrin, Afghanistan, earthquake of March 2002 in which 1200 people lost their lives, and (3) hazards related to the proposed Brightwater waste-water treatment plant being planned close to an active trace of the Southern Whidbey Island fault at Woodinville, Washington

Expertise:
I formerly chaired an international group for prehistoric earthquakes. I am completing a worldwide survey of historical reverse-fault earthquakes to determine the relationship of surface rupture to focal depth and to work out a physical model explaining why so many reverse-fault earthquakes nucleate at shallow crustal depths.

I introduced an outreach course as part of the OSU Baccalaureate Core Curriculum Science, Technology, and Society requirement called Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest and wrote an accompanying textbook, Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest – A Survivor’s Guide, now in its second edition. A companion book, Living with Earthquakes in California – A Survivor’s Guide, was published in 2001. Both were published by the Oregon State University Press. This course is now offered on the Web. The course and textbook start with the science (geologic time and plate tectonics) and carry through to the response (insurance, engineering, government involvement, and preparedness).

Member:
US Geodynamics Committee, National Research Council (NRC), 1992-1994

Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere, Chairman, Task Group on Paleoseismology

American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific section

Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific section

Honors:
My students at Ohio University and Oregon State University are the world’s most amazing. They teach at universities and colleges in the U.S., U.K., Japan, and Australia and are advancing their own research careers as well as teaching their own students, some of whom take the Map Interpretation course in the scientific method. Two are on the faculty at OSU. One surveyed the source fault that generated the M 9.3 Sumatra-Andaman Islands earthquake, and another is working on paleoseismology of earlier earthquakes in that area based on earthquake-generated turbidites.Most have gone on to careers in the oil and gas industry, both with major oil companies and some branching out on their own with their own oil companies. One of them went public this year and got to ring the bell of the New York Stock Exchange! One is rebuilding villages in Afghanistan, another works in a national park in Virginia, at least two work for the Forest Service, one works for DOGAMI, several are in environmental consulting geology, another raises dogs for search and rescue, and some are already retired. These incredible people have come together in a campaign to raise money for the Bob Yeats chair in structural geology and active tectonics. We had a celebration of all this at Newport on June 24-25, where many choicer episodes from my life not repeatable on this website were brought up and marinated.

Languages:
reading, writing, speaking; scale: 1 (basic) to 3 (fluent):
Spanish: 2, 2, 2;
French: 1, -, -;
German: 1, -, -

Keywords:
geology; earthquake; earthquake geology; active margin basins; southern California geology; California; southern California; Himalayan geology; Himalayas; paleoseismology; earthquake hazard