Karen M Luttrell

Research Geophysicist
U.S. Geological Survey,

Short Biography

USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

 - Ph.D. Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2010.

 - B.S. Geophysics, Texas A&M University, 2003.

 - B.S. Physics, Texas A&M University, 2002.

Publications

Luttrell, K. and D. Sandwell (2012), Constraints on 3-D stress in the crust from support of mid-ocean ridge topography, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B04402, doi:10.1029/2011JB008765.

Luttrell, K., X. Tong, D. Sandwell, B. Brooks, and M. Bevis (2011), Estimates of stress drop and crustal tectonic stress from the 27 February 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake: Implications for fault strength, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B11401, doi:10.1029/2011JB008509.

Brothers, D., D. Kilb, K. Luttrell, N. Driscoll, and G. Kent (2011), Loading of the San Andreas fault by flood-induced rupture of faults beneath the Salton Sea, Nature Geosci., 4, 486-492, doi:10.1038/ngeo1184.

Tong, X., D. Sandwell, K. Luttrell, B. Brooks, M. Bevis, M. Shimada, J. Foster, R. Smalley Jr., H. Parra, J. C. Báez Soto, M. Blanco, E. Kendrick, J. Genrich, and D. J. Caccamise II (2010), The 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake: Downdip rupture limit revealed by space geodesy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L24311, doi:10.1029/2010GL045805.

Luttrell, K. and D. Sandwell (2010), Ocean Loading Effects on Stress at Near Shore Plate Boundary Fault Systems, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B08411, doi:10.1029/2009JB006541.

Luttrell, K., D. Sandwell, B. Smith-Konter, B. Bills, and Y. Bock (2007), Modulation of the earthquake cycle at the southern San Andreas fault by lake loading, J. Geophys. Res., 112 (B08411), doi:10.1029/2006JB004752.

Luttrell, K. and D. Sandwell (2006), Strength of the lithosphere of the Galilean satellites, Icarus, 183 (1), 159-167, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.01.015.