Publications

Eppink, J., Malin, P., Flure, T., Horowitz, F., Mathews, A., Ontiveros, H., Stroujkova, A., Valenzuela, S., Fleure, T., McLain, W., Paschall, S., Sicking, C., Chen, A. T., & Wang, Z. (2026). Extending permeable fracture imaging at Newberry to depth: Added receiver-coverage area and seismic velocity control. Proceedings of the Stanford Geothermal Workshop, Stanford, CA.

Eppink, J., Malin, P., Mathews, A., Ontiveros, H., Stroujkova, A., & Valenzuela, S. (2025). Microseismic monitoring Little Park Creek network final report (Appendix B). In Hot Rock Energy Research Organization, Mt. Baker/Kweq' Smánit region prefeasibility geothermal resource assessment. Prepared for Nooksack Tribe and Whatcom County Public Utility District. https://www.pudwhatcom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MtBakerGeoPrefeasibility_FInal_Report_12_2025.pdf

Malin, P., Leary, P., Valenzuela, S., & Saarno, T. (2017). Engineered geothermal at Otaniemi and Basel: “End”-members in drilling and induced seismicity? SMU Power Plays Conference, Dallas, TX. https://www.smu.edu/-/media/site/dedman/academics/programs/geothermal-lab/conference/pastpresentations/2018/malin_smupowerplays_2018.pdf

Malin, P. E., Leary, P., Valenzuela, S., Vassa, P., & Saarno, T. (2016). Drilling 5 km to boiling: The St1 Helsinki district-heating gamble. SMU Power Plays Conference, Dallas, TX. https://www.smu.edu/-/media/site/dedman/academics/programs/geothermal-lab/conference/pastpresentations/2016/malin_smupowerplays_2016.pdf

Ader, T., Chendorain, M., Free, M., Saarno, T., Heikkinen, P., Malin, P. E., Leary, P., Kwiatek, G., Wollin, C., Blümle, F., & Bohnhoff, M. (2020). Design and implementation of a traffic light system for deep geothermal well stimulation in Finland. Journal of Seismology, 24, 991–1014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-019-09853-y

Ashenden, C. L., Lindsay, J. M., Sherburn, S., Smith, I. E. M., Miller, C. A., & Malin, P. E. (2011). Some challenges of monitoring a potentially active volcanic field in a large urban area: Auckland volcanic field, New Zealand. Natural Hazards, 59(1), 507–528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9773-0

Ben-Zion, Y., & Malin, P. (1991). San Andreas Fault zone head waves near Parkfield, California. Science, 251(5001), 1592–1594. [suspicious link removed]

Bevc, D., Nedorub, O., Malin, P. E., Kwiatek, G., Dresen, G., & Saarno, T. (2019). Near-realtime management of induced seismicity during an EGS stimulation. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019, 2079–2083. https://doi.org/10.1190/segam2019-3214180.1

Blakeslee, S., Malin, P., & Alvarez, M. (1989). Fault-zone attenuation of high-frequency seismic waves. Geophysical Research Letters, 16(11), 1321–1324. https://doi.org/10.1029/GL016i011p01321

Boese, C. M., Wotherspoon, L., Alvarez, M., & Malin, P. (2015). Analysis of anthropogenic and natural noise from multilevel borehole seismometers in an urban environment, Auckland, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 105(1), 285–299. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120130288

Bohnhoff, M., Bulut, F., Dresen, G., Malin, P. E., Eken, T., & Aktar, M. (2013). An earthquake gap south of Istanbul. Nature Communications, 4, 1999. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2999

Bohnhoff, M., Malin, P., ter Heege, J., Deflandre, J.-P., & Sicking, C. (2018). Suggested best practice for seismic monitoring and characterization of non-conventional reservoirs. First Break, 36, 59–64. https://doi.org/10.3997/1365-2397.n0070

Bohnhoff, M., Wollin, C., Domigall, D., Küperkoch, L., Martínez-Garzón, P., Kwiatek, G., Dresen, G., & Malin, P. E. (2017). Repeating Marmara Sea earthquakes: Indication for fault creep. Geophysical Journal International, 210(1), 332–339. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx169

Chavarria, J. A., Malin, P., Catchings, R. D., & Shalev, E. (2003). A look inside the San Andreas Fault at Parkfield through vertical seismic profiling. Science, 302(5651), 1746–1748. [suspicious link removed]

Eccles, J. D., Gulley, A. K., Malin, P. E., Boese, C. M., Townend, J., & Sutherland, R. (2015). Fault zone guided wave generation on the locked, late interseismic Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(14), 5736–5743. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064208

Ellsworth, W. L., Ito, H., Malin, P., & Abercrombie, R. (2001). In Jules Verne's footsteps: Seismology in the source. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 82(31), 333–339. https://doi.org/10.1029/01EO00200

Ellsworth, W. L., & Malin, P. E. (2011). Deep rock damage in the San Andreas Fault revealed by P- and S-type fault-zone-guided waves. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 359, 39–53. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP359.3

Goodman, E. D., & Malin, P. E. (1992). Evolution of the southern San Joaquin basin and mid-Tertiary “transitional” tectonics, central California. Tectonics, 11(3), 478–498. https://doi.org/10.1029/91TC02871

Gulley, A. K., Eccles, J. D., Kaipio, J. P., & Malin, P. E. (2017). The effect of gradational velocities and anisotropy on fault-zone trapped waves. Geophysical Journal International, 210(2), 964–978. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx200

Gulley, A. K., Kaipio, J. P., Eccles, J. D., & Malin, P. E. (2017). A numerical approach for modelling fault-zone trapped waves. Geophysical Journal International, 210(2), 919–930. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx199

Heimpel, M., & Malin, P. (1998). Aseismic slip in earthquake nucleation and self-similarity: Evidence from Parkfield, California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 157(3-4), 249–254. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00035-1

Hillers, G., Vuorinen, T. A. T., Uski, M. R., Kortström, J. T., Mäntyniemi, P. B., Tiira, T., Malin, P. E., & Saarno, T. (2020). The 2018 geothermal reservoir stimulation in Espoo/Helsinki, Southern Finland: Seismic network anatomy and data features. Seismological Research Letters, 91(2A), 770–786. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190253

Hofstetter, R., Malin, P., & Ben-Avraham, Z. (2020). Dead Sea earthquake-source scaling using Masada deep borehole data. Seismological Research Letters, 91(4), 2298–2309. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190391

Jongmans, D., & Malin, P. E. (1995). Microearthquake S-wave observations from 0 to 1 km in the Varian well at Parkfield, California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 85(6), 1805–1820. https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0850061805

Kılıç, T., Kartal, R. F., Kadirioğlu, F. T., Alver, F., Fidan, Ö., Parolai, S., Bohnhoff, M., & Malin, P. E. (2020). Geophysical Borehole Observatory at the North Anatolian Fault in the Eastern Sea of Marmara (GONAF): Initial results. Journal of Seismology, 24, 375–395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-020-09907-6

Kukkonen, I. T., Heikkinen, P. J., Malin, P. E., Renner, J., Dresen, G., Karjalainen, A., Rytkönen, J., & Solantie, J. (2023). Hydraulic conductivity of the crystalline crust: Insights from hydraulic stimulation and induced seismicity of an enhanced geothermal system pilot reservoir at 6 km depth, Espoo, southern Finland. Geothermics, 112, 102743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102743

Kwiatek, G., Martínez-Garzón, P., Davidsen, J., Malin, P., Karjalainen, A., Bohnhoff, M., & Dresen, G. (2022). Limited earthquake interaction during a geothermal hydraulic stimulation in Helsinki, Finland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(11), e2022JB024354. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024354

Kwiatek, G., Saarno, T., Ader, T., Blümle, F., Bohnhoff, M., Chendorain, M., Dresen, G., Heikkinen, P., Kukkonen, I. T., Leary, P., Leonhardt, M., Malin, P. E., Martínez-Garzón, P., Passmore, K., Passmore, P., Valenzuela, S., & Wollin, C. (2019). Controlling fluid-induced seismicity during a 6.1-km-deep geothermal stimulation in Finland. Science Advances, 5(5), eaav7224. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav7224

Lamb, O. D., Lees, J. M., Malin, P. E., & Saarno, T. (2021). Audible acoustics from low-magnitude fluid-induced earthquakes in Finland. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 19206. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98701-6

Leary, P., & Malin, P. (2021). Crustal reservoir flow simulation for long-range spatially-correlated random poroperm media. Journal of Energy and Power Technology, 3(1), 013. https://doi.org/10.21926/jept.2101013

Leary, P., Malin, P., & Niemi, R. (2017). Fluid flow and heat transport computation for power-law scaling poroperm media. Geofluids, 2017, 9687325. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9687325

Leary, P., Malin, P., Saarno, T., & Kukkonen, I. (2017). Prospects for assessing enhanced geothermal system (EGS) basement rock flow stimulation by wellbore temperature data. Energies, 10(12), 1979. https://doi.org/10.3390/en10121979

Leary, P., Malin, P., Saunders, G., & Sicking, C. (2020). Seismic imaging of convective geothermal flow systems to increase well productivity. Journal of Energy and Power Technology, 2(3), 012. https://doi.org/10.21926/jept.2003012

Li, Y.-G., & Malin, P. E. (2008). San Andreas Fault damage at SAFOD viewed with fault-guided waves. Geophysical Research Letters, 35(8), L08304. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL032924

Malin, P. E. (1996). Earth systems science and the evolution (revolution?) of seismology. Seismological Research Letters, 67(4), 3–5. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.67.4.3

Malin, P. E., Bohnhoff, M., Blümle, F., Dresen, G., Martínez-Garzón, P., Nurlu, M., Ceken, U., Kadirioglu, F. T., Kartal, R. F., Kiliç, T., & Yanik, K. (2018). Microearthquakes preceding a M4.2 earthquake offshore Istanbul. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 16176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34563-9

Malin, P. E., Leary, P. C., Cathles, L. M., & Barton, C. C. (2020). Observational and critical state physics descriptions of long-range flow structures. Geosciences, 10(2), 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10020050

Malin, P. E., Shalev, E., Balven, H., & Lewis-Kenedi, C. (2006). Structure of the San Andreas Fault at SAFOD from P-wave tomography and fault-guided wave mapping. Geophysical Research Letters, 33(13), L13314. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL025973

Mattioli, G. S., Young, S. R., Malin, P. E., et al. (2004). Prototype PBO instrumentation of CALIPSO project captures world-record lava dome collapse on Montserrat Volcano. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 85(34), 317–325. https://doi.org/10.1029/2004EO340001

Oye, V., Chavarria, J. A., & Malin, P. E. (2004). Determining SAFOD area microearthquake locations solely with the Pilot hole seismic array data. Geophysical Research Letters, 31(12), L12S10. https://doi.org/10.1029/2003GL019403

Prevedel, B., Bulut, F., Bohnhoff, M., Raub, C., Kartal, R. F., Alver, F., & Malin, P. E. (2015). Downhole geophysical observatories: Best installation practices and a case history from Turkey. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104(6), 1537–1547. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-015-1147-5

Raub, C., Bohnhoff, M., Petrovic, B., Parolai, S., Malin, P. E., Yanik, K., Kartal, R. F., & Kiliç, T. (2016). Seismic-wave propagation in shallow layers at the GONAF-Tuzla site, Istanbul, Turkey. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 106(3), 912–927. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120150216

Rundle, J. B., Elbring, G. J., Striker, R. P., Finger, J. T., Carson, C. C., Walck, M. C., Ellsworth, W. L., Hill, D. P., Malin, P. E., Tono, E., et al. (1985). Seismic imaging in Long Valley, California, by surface and borehole techniques: An investigation of active tectonics. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 66(18), 194–200. https://doi.org/10.1029/EO066i018p00194

Sicking, C., & Malin, P. (2019). Fracture seismic: Mapping subsurface connectivity. Geosciences, 9(12), 508. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9120508

Sloan, S. D., Steeples, D. W., & Malin, P. E. (2007). Acquisition and processing pitfall associated with clipping near-surface seismic reflection traces. Geophysics, 73(1), W1–W5. https://doi.org/10.1190/1.2807051

Thurber, C., Roecker, S., Boness, N., Malin, P., Zoback, M., Ellsworth, W., & Hickman, S. (2007). Structure and properties of the San Andreas Fault in central California: Recent results from the SAFOD experiment. Scientific Drilling, Special Issue 1, 29–32. https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.sd.s01.39.2007

Unsworth, M. J., Malin, P. E., Egbert, G. D., & Booker, J. R. (1997). Internal structure of the San Andreas fault at Parkfield, California. Geology, 25(4), 359–362. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0359:ISOTSA>2.3.CO;2

Vasconcelos, I., Snieder, R., Sava, P., Taylor, T., Malin, P., & Chavarria, A. (2008). Drill bit noise illuminates the San Andreas Fault. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 89(38), 349. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008EO380001

Wernicke, B., Clayton, R., Ducea, M., Jones, C. H., Park, S., Ruppert, S., Saleeby, J., Snow, J. K., Squires, L., Fliedner, M., Jiracek, G., Keller, R., Klemperer, S., Luetgert, J., Malin, P., Miller, K., Mooney, W., Oliver, H., & Phinney, R. (1996). Origin of high mountains in the continents: The southern Sierra Nevada. Science, 271(5246), 190–193.

Nummedal, D., Isaksen, G., & Malin, P. (2013). 2011 Napa Hedberg Research Conference report on enhanced geothermal systems. AAPG Bulletin, 97(3), 413–420. https://doi.org/10.1306/01211312130

Rundle, J. B., Elbring, G. J., Striker, R. P., Finger, J. T., Carson, C. C., Walck, M. C., Ellsworth, W. L., Hill, D. P., Malin, P. E., Tono, E., Robertson, M., Kuhlman, S., McEvilly, T., Clymer, R., Smithson, S. B., Deemer, P., Johnson, R., Henyey, A., Leary, P., . . . Malenky, I. (1985). Seismic imaging in Long Valley, California, by surface and borehole techniques: An investigation of active tectonics. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 66(18), 194–200. https://doi.org/10.1029/EO066i018p00194

Rundle, J. B., Elbring, G. J., Striker, R. P., Finger, J. T., Carson, C. C., Walck, M. C., Ellsworth, W. L., Hill, D. P., Malin, P. E., Tono, E., Robertson, M., Kuhlman, S., McEvilly, T., Clymer, R., Smithson, S. B., Deemer, P., Johnson, R., Henyey, A., Leary, P., Malenky, I., et al. (1985). Seismic imaging in Long Valley, California, by surface and borehole techniques: An investigation of active tectonics. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 66(18), 194–200. https://doi.org/10.1029/EO066i018p00194

Hofstetter, R., Dorbath, C., & Calò, M. (2012). Crustal structure of the Dead Sea Basin from local earthquake tomography. Geophysical Journal International, 189(1), 554–568. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05369.x

Hofstetter, R., Gitterman, Y., Pinsky, V., Kraeva, N., & Feldman, L. (2008). Seismological observations of the northern Dead Sea basin earthquake on 11 February 2004 and its associated activity. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, 57(2), 101–124. https://doi.org/10.1560/IJES.57.2.101

Hofstetter, R., Klinger, Y., Amrat, A.-Q., Rivera, L., & Dorbath, L. (2007). Stress tensor and focal mechanisms along the Dead Sea fault and related structural elements based on seismological data. Tectonophysics, 429(1-2), 165–181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2006.03.010

Salamon, A., Hofstetter, R., Garfunkel, Z., & Ron, H. (2003). Seismotectonics of the Sinai subplate—the eastern Mediterranean region. Geophysical Journal International, 155(1), 149–173. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.02017.x

Šílený, J., Cesca, S., & Hofstetter, R. (2023). Single‐station estimates of the focal mechanism for weak earthquakes. Seismological Research Letters, 94(2A), 856–868. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220096

van Eck, T., & Hofstetter, R. (1989). Microearthquake activity in the Dead Sea region. Geophysical Journal International, 99(3), 605–620. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1989.tb02044.x

van Eck, T., & Hofstetter, R. (1990). Fault geometry and spatial clustering of microearthquakes along the Dead Sea-Jordan rift fault zone. Tectonophysics, 180(1), 15–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(90)90003-E