Former chair, National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council[4] American Geophysical Union Walter H. Bucher Medal (2000) James H. Dieterich (born 1942) is an American geophysics professor emeritus at University of California, Riverside (UCR).
[1] His doctoral thesis discussed the "Sequence and mechanics of folding in the area of New Haven, Westport, and Naugatuck, Connecticut.
[8] In October 1983 Dieterich made a trip to Costa Rica to evaluate recent University of California, Santa Cruz earthquake prediction models.
[10] A study published in 2002 by Shinji Toda et al., addressing an earthquake swarm at the Izu Islands in 2000, confirms Dieterich's hypothesis.
The study design included the use of computer simulations to better model seismic activity at the San Andreas Fault.