{"id":4,"date":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:30:21","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2><strong>Yehuda Ben-Zion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-152 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2023\/08\/photo_1003092-900x1260-1-214x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Yehuda Ben-Zion\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2023\/08\/photo_1003092-900x1260-1-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2023\/08\/photo_1003092-900x1260-1-731x1024.jpeg 731w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2023\/08\/photo_1003092-900x1260-1-768x1075.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2023\/08\/photo_1003092-900x1260-1-500x700.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/364\/2023\/08\/photo_1003092-900x1260-1.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>My research activities focus on physics of earthquakes and faults using a variety of theoretical tools, numerical simulations and observations from laboratory experiments and the field. Examples of current research interests include localization of seismicity and deformation, high-resolution imaging and monitoring temporal changes of fault zones and the crust, earthquake source properties, detection of small events, dynamic ruptures in geologically-relevant structures, damage rheology for irreversible brittle deformation, correlations between spatio-temporal seismicity patterns and properties of fault zones (e.g. bimaterial interfaces) and the crust (e.g. heat flow), and earthquake forecasting.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/benzion\/publications\/\">Publications<\/a>\u00a0for recent papers on these topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":497,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Home - Yehuda Ben-Zion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yehuda Ben-Zion - My research activities focus on physics of earthquakes and faults using a variety of theoretical tools, numerical simulations and observations from laboratory experiments and the field. 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