Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

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Sirorattanakul, K. and Avouac, J.-P. (2026), Seismic Rhythms: Earthquake Response to Tectonic, Hydrological, and Tidal Forcing in California, Science Advances, 12(13), adz5711.
Li, Y., Acosta, M., Sirorattanakul, K., Bourne, S. J., and Avouac, J.-P. (2025), Geodetic Monitoring of Elastic and Inelastic Deformation in Compacting Reservoirs due to Subsurface Operations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(3), e2024JB030794.
Sirorattanakul, K., Larochelle, S., Rubino, V., Lapusta, N., and Rosakis, A. J. (2025), Sliding and Healing of Shear Interfaces that Appear Stationary, Nature, 639(8056), 947-953.
Sirorattanakul, K., Wilding, J., Acosta, M., Li, Y., Ross, Z. E., Bourne, S. J., van Elk, J., and Avouac, J.-P. (2025), Bursts of Fast Propagating Swarms of Induced Earthquakes at the Groningen Gas Field, Seismological Research Letters, 96(1), 130-146.
Acosta, M., Avouac, J.-P., Smith, J. D., Sirorattanakul, K., Kaveh, H., and Bourne, S. J. (2023), Earthquake Nucleation Characteristics Revealed by Seismicity Response to Seasonal Stress Variations Induced by Gas Production at Groningen, Geophysical Research Letters, 50(19), e2023GL105455.
Sirorattanakul, K., Ross, Z. E., Khoshmanesh, M., Cochran, E. S., Acosta, M. A., and Avouac, J.-P. (2022), The 2020 Westmorland, California earthquake swarm as aftershocks of a slow slip event sustained by fluid flow, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(11), e2022JB024693.
Hough, S. E., Thompson, E., Parker, G. A., Graves, R. W., Hudnut, K. W., Patton, J., Dawson, T., Ladinsky, T., Oskin, M. Sirorattanakul, K., Blake, K., Baltay, A., and Cochran, E. (2020), Near-Field Ground Motions from the July 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence, Seismological Research Letters, 91(3), 1542-1555.
Sirorattanakul, K., Engle, S., Pepper, J., Wells, M., Laney, C. D., Rodriguez, J. E., and Stassun, K. G. (2017), Period Variations for the Cepheid VZ Cyg, The Astronomical Journal, 154(6), 217.

First-Authored Professional Conferences

Sirorattanakul, K., Fang, Z., An, J., Ruby, N., Tavakoli, R., Palmer, J., and Comiskey, C., Modeling and Forecasting Wastewater Disposal Induced Seismicity in the Delaware Basin, Scheduled for Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA, April 14-18, 2025, Oral Presentation.
Sirorattanakul, K., Larochelle, S., Rubino, V., Lapusta, N., and Rosakis, A. J., Sliding and Healing of Shear Interfaces that Appear Stationary, Scheduled for Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA, April 14-18, 2025, Poster Presentation.
Sirorattanakul, K. and Avouac, J.-P., Earthquake Nucleation Process Revealed by Modulation of Seismicity Rate in California Driven by Tectonic, Hydrological and Tidal Loading, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 9-13, 2024, Poster Presentation S43B-3427.
Sirorattanakul, K., Rubino, V., Lattanzi, A., and Rosakis, A. J., Experimental Quantification of Ultraslow Slip Rate of Shear Interfaces Using Digital Image Correlation, PhotoMechanics – iDICs Conference, Clermont-Ferrand, France, October 29 – 21, 2024, Oral Presentation. [Presented by V. Rubino]
Sirorattanakul, K. and Avouac, J.-P., Constraining Earthquake Nucleation Using Response of Seismicity to Transient Slow-Slip Event and Hydrological Surface Load, Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Anchorage, USA, April 29 – May 3, 2024, Poster 186.
Sirorattanakul, K. and Avouac, J.-P., Seasonal and Tidal Modulations of Seismicity Rate in California, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 11-15, 2023, Oral Presentation S44C-04.
Sirorattanakul, K., Ross, Z. E., Khoshmanesh, M., Cochran, E. S., and Avouac, J.-P., The 2020 Westmorland, California Earthquake Swarm as Aftershocks of a Slow Slip Event Sustained by Fluid Flow, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, December 12-16, 2022, Oral Presentation S56A-02.
Sirorattanakul, K., Ross, Z. E., Khoshmanesh, M., Cochran, E. S., and Avouac, J.-P., The 2020 Westmorland, California Earthquake Swarm as Aftershocks of a Slow Slip Event Sustained by Fluid Flow, Statistical International Seismology Conference, Cargese, France, October 17-21, 2022, Oral Presentation.
Sirorattanakul, K., Ross, Z. E., Khoshmanesh, M., Cochran, E. S., and Avouac, J.-P., The 2020 Westmorland, California Earthquake Swarm as Aftershocks of a Slow Slip Event Sustained by Fluid Flow, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Annual Meeting, Palm Spring, CA, USA, September 11-14, 2022, Poster Presentation #69.
Sirorattanakul, K., Ross, Z. E., Khoshmanesh, M., Cochran, E. S., and Avouac, J.-P., The 2020 Westmorland Swarm in the Salton Trough, California as a Sequence of Non-Interacting Earthquakes Driven by Preceding Aseismic Slip Transient, American Geophysical Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, December 13-17, 2021, Oral Presentation S44C-07.
Sirorattanakul, K., Gualandi, A., and Avouac, J.-P., Imaging Slow-slip Events in Costa Rica, American Geophysical Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 9-13, 2019, Poster Presentation T13D-0308.
Sirorattanakul, K., Shen, C., Huang, H., and Ou-Yang, H. D., Osmotic Compressibility of Colloidal Crystals and Suspensions Measured by Dielectrophoresis and Fluorescence Microscopy, American Physical Society March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 5-9, 2018, Poster Presentation Section L60.165.
Sirorattanakul, K., Pepper, J., and Clayton G. C., KELT Photometric Observations of R Coronae Borealis Variables, American Astronomical Society Meeting #230, Austin, TX, USA, June 4-8, 2017, Poster Presentation Section 217.05.
Sirorattanakul, K., Traphagan, J., Cui, Z., and Meltzer, A., Probing Upper Mantle Structure of Central Mongolia using Finite Frequency, Lehigh EES Undergraduate Symposium, May 5, 2017, Poster Presentation.
Sirorattanakul, K., Shen, C., and Ou-Yang, H. D., A New Technique for Measuring Concentration Dependence of Self and Collective Diffusivity by using a Single Sample, American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, March 13-17, 2017, Oral Presentation Section R17.10.
Sirorattanakul, K., Huang, H., Uhl, C., and Ou-Yang, H. D., On Determination of Equation of State of Colloidal Suspensions, American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA, March 14-18, 2016, Oral Presentation Section A36.7.

Book Chapter and Thesis

Sirorattanakul, K. (2024), Response of Earthquakes to Transient Stresses, in Laboratory and Nature, Ph.D. Thesis, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA.
Abdeljelil, N. et al. (incl. Sirorattanakul K.), (2020), The Design of City States on Mars, a Vision from SGAC, In Crossman, F. (Eds.), Mars City States –New Societies for a New World (pp. 431-462), Lakewood, Colorado: Polaris Books.
Sirorattanakul, K. (2018), Characterization of Slip Behaviors Observed at the Bulnay Fault System in Mongolia, Undergraduate Thesis, Lehigh University, PA, USA.

Invited Talks and Seminars

How Earthquakes Respond to Transient Stresses: Lessons from Lab, Field, and Oil & Gas Operations, American Rock Mechanics Association Student Chapter, Texas A&M University (November 6, 2025)
Induced Seismicity and Inelastic Compaction due to Gas Extraction: Learning from Groningen, Geomechanics Community of Practice, Chevron Corporation (August 5, 2025)
Beyond Coulomb: Managing Induced Seismicity Using Next-Generation Friction Model, Geomechanics Community of Practice, Chevron Corporation (July 10, 2025)
Modeling and Forecasting Induced Seismicity in the Delaware Basin, The Center of Geomechanics and Mitigation of Geohazards (GMG), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), CA, USA (March 27, 2025)
Modeling and Forecasting Induced Seismicity in the Delaware Basin, Sponsor Project Meetings, Center for Integrated Seismicity Research (CISR), University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA (December 6, 2024)
Modeling the Response of Earthquakes to Transient Stresses, ITI-GeoT Seminar, Interdisciplinary Thematic Institutes, Geosciences for the Energy System Transition, University of Strasbourg, France [Virtual] (October 21, 2024)
Response of Faults to Transient Stresses, in Laboratory and Nature, The Center of Geomechanics and Mitigation of Geohazards (GMG), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), CA, USA (March 21, 2024)
Response of Faults to Transient Stresses, from Aseismic Slip to Seasonal Strains, Lithospheric Dynamics Seminar, University of Southern California (USC) (November 1, 2023)
What drives earthquake swarms? Insights from the 2020 Westmorland, California swarm and fluid-induced laboratory earthquakes, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland (October 27, 2022)
From Newton's sliding blocks to earthquake sequences, a geomechanical view of frictional interfaces, Geomechanics Chapter, Chevron Technical Center, Houston, TX, USA (August 10, 2022)
What drives earthquake swarms? An insight from the 2020 Westmorland swarm in the Salton Trough, California, Geophysics Seminar, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), CA, USA (April 27, 2022)
Injecting fluids into laboratory scale earthquake faults, James K. Knowles Lectures and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium, Pasadena, CA, USA (March 6, 2020)
Unfolding Mysterious Evolution of Cepheids, Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Society (LVAAS) General Meeting, Allentown, PA, USA (February 11, 2018)