Ross Stein is a scientist ''emeritus'' at the

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, and cofounder and CEO of Temblor, a startup intended to teach seismic hazards and reduce their risk.

Education

Stein graduated '' magna cum laude'' from

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in 1975, received a Ph.D. from

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in 1980 and was an Observatory Post-Doctoral Fellow at

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in 1981.

Media

Stein appeared in the

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-nominated

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, ''Killer Quake'' (NOVA, 1995); the four-part ''Great Quakes'' series (Discovery Channel, 1997–2001); ''Earthquake Storms'' (BBC, 2003); and the

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film, ''Forces of Nature'' (National Geographic Society, 2004), which he helped to write and animate. ''Forces'' was awarded best feature film of the 2004 Large Format Cinema Association Film Festival, best film and best educational film of the 2005 Giant Screen Theater Association, and Grand Prize of the 2005 La Géode International Large Format Film Festival.Ross Stein profile
at the US Geological Survey

Selected publications

* R. S. Stein, G. C. P. King and J. Lin, Stress triggering of earthquakes: evidence for the 1994 M=6.7 Northridge, California, shock, Annali di Geofisica, 37, pp. 1799–1805, 1995 * R. S. Stein, Earthquakes: Characteristic or haphazard? (News and Views), Nature, 378, pp. 443–444, 1995 * R. S. Stein, Northridge Earthquake: Which fault and what next?, Nature, 373, pp. 388–389, 1995. * R. S. Stein, Comment on "The impact of refraction correction on leveling interpretation in Southern California", by William E. Strange, J. Geohys. Res., 89, pp. 559–561, 1984 * R. S. Stein, Coalinga's caveat, EOS, American Geophysical Union Transaction, 65, pp. 791–795, 1984 * R. S. Stein, Aerodynamics of the Pterosaur wing, Science (letter), 191, pp. 898, 1976 *

References

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