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Education

2011: Ph.D., University of Bologna, Italy, Geophysics.

2007: M.S., "Summa Cum Laude" University of Milan, Italy, Geology (Emphasis in Geophysics).

Research Interests

Rupture Dynamics, Subduction Zones, Space Geodesy

Recent Papers

Wu, B., Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., & Ryan, K. J. (2023). Variation of proportionality between stress drop and slip, with implications for megathrust earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL100568. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100568

Tarnowski, J.M., Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D.D., Cooke, M.L., and Stern, A., 2022, The effects of pre-stress assumptions on dynamic rupture with complex fault geometry in the San Gorgonio Pass,California, region: Geosphere, v. 18, no. X, p. 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02511.1.

Kyriakopoulos, C., Wu, B., & Oglesby, D. D. (2021). Asymmetric topography causes normal stress perturbations at the rupture front: The case of the Cajon Pass. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL095397. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095397 
 
Baoning Wu, Douilly R, Ford HA, Funning GJ, Lee HY, Niyogi S, Mendoza M, Kyriakopoulos C, Oglesby D; Monitoring Human Activity at a Very Local Scale with Ground-Motion Records: The Early Stage of COVID-19 Pandemic in California, U.S.A., New York City, U.S.A., and Mexicali, Mexico. Seismological Research Letters 2021; 92 (5): 3007–3023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200257 
 
Harris, R. A., Barall, M., Lockner, D. A., Moore, D. E., Ponce, D. A., Graymer, R. W., Kyriakopoulos C., Eberhart-Phillips D. (2021). A geology and geodesy-based model of dynamic earthquake rupture on the Rodgers Creek-Hayward-Calaveras fault system, California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB020577. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020577 
 
Kyriakopoulos C, Barth NC, Koelemeijer P, Winterbourne J and Toussaint R (2021) 3D Printing in Geology and Geophysics: A New World of Opportunities in Research, Outreach, and Education. Front. Earth Sci. 9:734291. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.734291 

Cortez, J. T., Oglesby, D. D., Kyriakopoulos, C., Wu, B., Chaudhuri, K., Ghosh, A., & Douilly, R. (2021). On the rupture propagation of the 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley, California, earthquake, and the lack of immediate triggering of the M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL090659. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090659

Kyriakopoulos, C., (2019), 3D Printing: A Remedy to Common Misconceptions about Earthquakes. Seismological Research Letters doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190121.

Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Rockwell, T. K., Meltzner, A. J., Barall, M., Fletcher, J. M., & Tulanowski, D. ( 2019). Dynamic rupture scenarios in the Brawley Seismic Zone, Salton Trough, southern California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016795 .

Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Funning, G. J., & Ryan, K. J. (2017). Dynamic rupture modeling of the M7.2 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake: Comparison with a geodetic model. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014294. 

Hobbs, T. E., C. Kyriakopoulos, A. V. Newman, M. Protti, and D. Yao (2017), Large and primarily updip afterslip following the 2012 Mw 7.6 Nicoya, Costa Rica, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi:10.1002/2017JB014035. 

Kyriakopoulos C. and A.V Newman et al., (2016). Structural Asperity focusing locking and earthquake slip along the Nicoya megathrust, Costa Rica. J.Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, 5461–5476, doi:10.1002/2016JB012886. 

Please visit Dr. Kyriakopoulos's website for full list of publications.