birth_place nationality field work_institutions birth_date article_title name alma_mater
upland , pennsylvania american geology , seismology u.s. chevron corporation army corp of engineers united states geological survey 29 march 1929 george plafker
 george plafker brooklyn college university of california , berkeley stanford university
george plafker

george plafker is an american geologist and seismologist who has made significant contributions to both fields , with research focused on subduction , tsunami , and the geology of alaska .
while the theory of plate tectonics was still not completely accepted by the scientific community , and following prolonged study of the region of the 1964 alaska earthquake , plafker correctly concluded that the largest earthquakes are the result of fault slip at convergent boundaries .
additional studies were done in chile in the late 1960s regarding the series of earthquakes there .
