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publications
Seismicity and crustal structure of the southern main Ethiopian rift: new evidence from lake Abaya
Published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021
This work was led by Dr Chris Ogden at Imperial College. I helped with earthquake catalog analysis during a summer Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) Placement carried out in Summer 2020.
Recommended citation: Ogden, C.S., Keir, D., Bastow, I.D., Ayele, A., Marcou, S., Ugo, F., Woodward, A., Kibret, B.A. and Gudbrandsson, S., 2021. Seismicity and crustal structure of the southern main Ethiopian rift: new evidence from lake Abaya. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(8), p.e2021GC009831. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009831
Re-Examining Temporal Variations in Intermediate-Depth Seismicity
Published in JGR Solid Earth, 2023
Paper led by Dr Sam Wimpenny while he was at the University of Leeds. I contributed initial analysis as a Summer Intern with Dr Tim Craig at COMET at the University of Leeds in Summer 2021.
Recommended citation: Wimpenny, S., Craig, T. and Marcou, S., 2023. Re‐Examining Temporal Variations in Intermediate‐Depth Seismicity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(6), p.e2022JB026269. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB026269
Toward Structural Health Monitoring with the MyShake Smartphone Network
Published in Sensors, 2023
This work was led by Dr Sarina Patel at UC Berkeley Seismology Lab. I was responsible for carrying out the smartphone noise floor tests on the special base-isolated facility at Haviland Hall, while I also compiled the crowdsourced earthquake waveform database used to source data “from the wild” for SHM analysis.
Recommended citation: Patel, S.C., Günay, S., Marcou, S., Gou, Y., Kumar, U. and Allen, R.M., 2023. Toward Structural Health Monitoring with the MyShake Smartphone Network. Sensors, 23(21), p.8668. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23218668
Ground-Motion Modeling Using MyShake Smartphone Peak Acceleration Data
Published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2024
I led this work as part of my primary PhD project at UC Berkeley.
Recommended citation: Savvas Marcou, Richard M. Allen, Norman A. Abrahamson, Chih‐Hsuan Sung; Ground‐Motion Modeling Using MyShake Smartphone Peak Acceleration Data. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 2024. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120240209
research
Modeling End-to-End Earthquake Early Warning Performance
Assessing ShakeAlert EEW alert delivery performance using MyShake data 
Studying Earthquake Ground Motion using Crowdsourced Smartphone Records
Building and deploying a ground motion model using MyShake records 
teaching
EPS20: Earthquakes in your Backyard
Undergraduate Class, Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, 2023
Earthquakes in your Backyard (EPS20) is a large lower division undergraduate class at UC Berkeley, taught by Professors Richard Allen and Roland Burgmann. Students come from a wide variety of intended majors, including STEM, Economics, Business, and Media Studies, amongst others. Students spend a semester learning all about earthquake and tsunami hazards, with a particular emphasis on the issues facing California. Equal emphasis is placed on the scientific understanding of these phenomena and potential mitigation actions.