Dr. Margaret Diana Wiggins-Grandison

Research Interests

• Densified GPS measurements to determine the activity of individual Jamaican faults
• Seismic Microzonation of Kingston using 2D Finite Difference and Modal Summation Technique
• Structure of the Jamaican crust from modeling Receiver Functions

Citations

Book, Chapter

• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret, D., Reid, Wayne G.. Seismic hazard in Jamica
• Mann, P., DeMets, C., Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret. Toward a better understanding of the Late Neogene strike-slip restraining bend in Jamaica: geodetic, geological, and seismic constraints

Journal, Article

• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret D.. Simultaneous inversion for local earthquake hyocentres, station corrections and 1-D velocity model of the Jamaican crust
• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret, D. Preliminary results from the New Jamaica Seismograph network
• Moreno, Bladimir, Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret D., Atakan, Kuvvet. Crustal velocity model along the southern Cuban margin: Implications for the tectonic regime at an active plate boundary
• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret, D.. Unexpected earthquakes on unsuspected faults
• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret D., Atakan, Kuvvet. Seismotectonics of Jamaica
• DeMets, Charles, Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret. Deformation of Jamaica and motion of the Gonāve microplate from GPS and seismic data
• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret D. , Havskov, Jens. Crustal attenuation for Jamaica, West Indies
• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret, D.. Seismology of the January 13, 1993 earthquake

Conference Proceedings

• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret, D.. The earthquake of January 13, 1993 and implications for earthquake hazard in eastern Jamaica
• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret D., DeMets, Charles . GPS measurements of slip rates Jamaican faults
• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret D., Kebeasy, T.R., Husebye, E.S.. Enhanced earthquake risk of Kingston due to wavefield excitation in the Liguanea basin, Jamaica. [Abstract]

Dissertation

• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret D.. Advances in Jamaican seismology

Unpublished Work

• Wiggins-Grandison, Margaret, D.. Earthquakes and high-rise buildings in Jamaica: Insurance or assurance? Housing and Finance, Building Societies Association of Jamaica