Ashly Cabas
Assistant Professor
Mapping a Dynamic Planet, Earthquakes and Seismic Hazards
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Fitts-Woolard Hall 3175
Bio
Ashly uses geospatial analytics to characterize earthquake ground motions and the effects of the spatial variability of sedimentary deposits on the intensity of ground shaking and deformation. More specifically, her research team at NC State develops predictive models of liquefaction-induced large ground deformations (i.e., lateral spreading) that incorporate relevant large-scale geomorphological controls, and conducts regional seismic hazard assessments that capture systematic contributions from known geologic structures. Other interests include the spatial variability of the effects of local soil conditions on ground shaking at large-scales, and geostatistical modeling of ground motion data to probabilistically characterize seismic hazards that account for site-specific information when available.

Publications
- A DesignSafe earthquake ground motion database for California and surrounding regions , EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA (2023)
- Resonant Column Testing Procedure for Microbial-Induced Carbonate- Precipitated Sands , GEOTECHNICAL TESTING JOURNAL (2023)
- Quantifying the Error Associated with the Elastic Halfspace Assumption in Site Response Analysis , JOURNAL OF GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (2022)
- Effects of Nonlinear Soil Behavior on Kappa (kappa): Observations from the KiK-Net Database , BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (2021)
- Geotechnical lessons from the M-w 7.1 2018 Anchorage Alaska earthquake , EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA (2021)
- Introduction to the Special Section on Advances in Site Response Estimation , BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (2021)
- Site Effects on Ground Motion Directionality: Lessons from Case Studies in Japan , SOIL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING (2021)
- Turning Disaster into Knowledge: Geotechnical Aspects of the 2018 Mw 7.1 Anchorage Alaska Earthquake , ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication: Proceedings from ASCE GeoCongress (2020)
- Within station variability in kappa: evidence of directionality effects , Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2020)
- Assessment of Lateral Spreading Case Histories from Recent Seismic Events: Port-Au-Prince, Haiti 2010, and Christchurch, New Zealand 2011 , Proceedings from the 7th International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (2019)