Karen Lythgoe
Seismologist | University of Edinburgh
Bin Abdul Rahman S. I., Lythgoe K., Muktadir M. G., Akhter S. H., and Hubbard J. (2024). Characterization and spatiotemporal variations of ambient seismic noise in Bangladesh. Frontiers in Earth Science, 12. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2024.1334248/full
Lythgoe, K., Bradley, K., Zeng, H., Wei, S. (2023). Persistent asperities at the Kermadec subduction zone controlled by changes in forearc structure: 1976 and 2021 doublet earthquakes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118465
Feng, M., Wei., S., Chen, L., Umar, M., Lythgoe, K., Wang, T., Wu, Z.. (2023). Pervasive crustal volcanic mush in the highly stretched Sunda plate margin of northern Sumatra. Geophysical Research Letters, 50. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104391
Meilano, I., Salman, R., Susilo S., Shiddiqi, H. A., Supendi, P., Lythgoe, K., Tay, C., Bradley, K., Rahmadani, S., Kristyawan, S., Yun, S. H. (2023). The 2021 MW 6.2 Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia earthquake: partial rupture of the Makassar Strait thrust. Geophysical Journal International. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac512
Felix, R., Hubbard, J., Bradley, K., Lythgoe, K., Li, L., Switzer, A. (2022). Tsunami hazard in Lombok and Bali, Indonesia, due to the Flores back-arc thrust. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 1665–1682, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1665-2022
Brett, H., Hawkins, R, Waszek, L., Lythgoe, K., Deuss, A. (2022). 3D transdimensional seismic tomography of the inner core. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 593, 117688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117688
Lythgoe, K., Muzli, M., Bradley, K., Wang, T., Nugraha, A.D., Zulfakriza, Z., Widiyantoro, S. and Wei, S. (2021). Thermal squeezing of the seismogenic zone controlled rupture of the volcano-rooted Flores Thrust. Science Advances, 7(5), p.eabe2348. PDF
Lythgoe, K., Loasby, A., Hidayat, D., Wei, S. (2021) Seismic event detection in urban Singapore using a nodal array and frequency domain array detector: earthquakes, blasts and thunderquakes. Geophysical Journal International, 226(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab135
Lythgoe, K., Inggrid, M.I. and Yao, J. (2020). On waveform correlation measurement uncertainty with implications for temporal changes in inner core seismic waves. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 309, p.106606. PDF
Lythgoe, K., Ong Su Qing, M., & Wei, S. (2020). Large‐scale crustal structure beneath Singapore using receiver functions from a dense urban nodal array. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 PDF
Salman, R., Lindsey, E.O., Lythgoe, K., Bradley, K., Muzli, M., Yun, S.H., Chin, S.T., J. Tay, C.W., Costa, F., Wei, S. and Hill, E.M. (2020). Cascading Partial Rupture of the Flores Thrust during the 2018 Lombok Earthquake Sequence, Indonesia. Seismological Research Letters, 91 (4): 2141–2151. PDF
Lythgoe, K. and A. Deuss (2015) The existence of radial anisotropy in Earth’s upper inner core revealed from seismic normal mode observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 4841-4848. PDF
Lythgoe, K., Rudge, J. F., Neufeld, J. A., Deuss, A. (2015) The feasibility of thermal and compositional convection in Earth’s inner core. Geophysical Journal International. 201, 764–782. PDF
Lythgoe, K., Deuss, A., Rudge, J. F., Neufeld, J. A. (2014) Earth’s inner core: innermost inner core or hemispherical variations? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 385, 181 – 189. PDF
Extended Abstracts
Lythgoe, K., Li, Y.E., Wei S., Poh, J., Tjiawi, H. (2023). Fault zone identification using seismic noise autocorrelations at a prospective geothermal site in Singapore. In NSG2023 29th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. EAGE. PDF
Nilot, E., Li, Y.E. and Lythgoe, K. (2020). Bedrock detection based on seismic interferometry using ambient noise in Singapore. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2020 (pp. 3577-3581). Society of Exploration Geophysicists. PDF
Ourabah, A., Crosby, A., Brooks, C., Manning, T., Lythgoe, K., Ablyazina, D., Zhuzhel, V., Holst, E., Knutsen, T. (2019) A Comparative Field Trial of a New Nimble Node and Cabled Systems in a Desert Environment. EAGE Conference and Exhibition Extended Abstract. PDF
Magazine Articles
Lythgoe, K., U. Muksin, Arifullah, A. Simanjuntak, and Wei, S. (2022). Striking out into the field to track slip on the Sumatran fault. Eos, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220140