Mechanisms to explain soil liquefaction triggering, development, and persistence during an earthquake
December 2024
Mechanisms have been proposed to explain the triggering, development, and persistence of soil liquefaction. The mechanism explaining the horizontal failure plane (triggering) and its depth below the...
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Recent advances in earthquake monitoring I: Ongoing revolution of seismic instrumentation
April 2021
Seismic networks have significantly improved in the last decade in terms of coverage density, data quality, and instrumental diversity. Moreover, revolutionary advances in ultra-dense seismic instruments,...
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An illustrated guide to: Distributed and integrated fibre-optic sensing in seismology
February 2025
The properties of laser signals are affected by deformation of the optical fibre through which they are transmitted. While this deformation dependence is undesirable in telecommunication, it can be...
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Theories and applications of earthquake-induced gravity variation: Advances and perspectives
October 2023
Earthquake-induced gravity variation refers to changes in the earth’s gravity field associated with seismic activities. In recent years, development in the theories has greatly promoted seismic deformation...
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An illustrated guide to: Parsimonious multi-scale full-waveform inversion
December 2024
Having been a seemingly unreachable ideal for decades, 3-D full-waveform inversion applied to massive seismic datasets has become reality in recent years. Often achieving unprecedented resolution, it...
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Machine learning-based aftershock seismicity of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake controlled by flat-ramp geometry and a tear fault
February 2025
The Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT), where the 2015 MW7.8 Gorkha earthquake occurred, features the most seismicity of any structure in Nepal. The structural complexity of the MHT makes it difficult to obtain...
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Post-rifting magmatism at the northern margin of the South China Sea: Evidenced by an ocean bottom seismometer experiment
February 2025
Magmatism at continental margins is of great significance in understanding the continental rifting. We present a two-dimensional P-wave velocity model derived from an ocean bottom seismometer experiment,...
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DiTing: A large-scale Chinese seismic benchmark dataset for artificial intelligence in seismology
April 2023
In recent years, artificial intelligence technology has exhibited great potential in seismic signal recognition, setting off a new wave of research. Vast amounts of high-quality labeled data are required...
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Introduction to China’s Earthquake Emergency Response System
October 2021
Following the MS6.4 earthquake that occurred on May 21, 2021 in Yangbi, Yunnan, China, the earthquake emergency response system (EERS) responded immediately. The real-time software delivered many seismic...
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Shallow destructive earthquakes
February 2021
Depths of earthquake occurrence and large slip distribution are critical for seismic hazard assessment. Numerous examples show that earthquakes with similar magnitudes, however, can result in significantly...
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Pulse-like ground motion observed during the 6 February 2023 MW7.8 Pazarcık Earthquake (Kahramanmaraş, SE Türkiye)
August 2023
In this study, we analyzed 100 three-component strong ground motion records observed within 200 km of the causative fault of the 6 February 2023 MW7.8 Pazarcık (Kahramanmaraş) Earthquake in SE Türkiye....
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A review of geophysical studies on the Mongolian Plateau
June 2024
The Mongolian Plateau in Central Asia is an intracontinental tectonic system far from active plate boundaries. Despite its distance from these boundaries, the plateau is characterized by intense crustal...
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Advances in seismological methods for characterizing fault zone structure
April 2024
Large earthquakes frequently occur along complex fault systems. Understanding seismic rupture and long-term fault evolution requires constraining the geometric and material properties of fault zone...
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Comparison of the earthquake detection abilities of PhaseNet and EQTransformer with the Yangbi and Maduo earthquakes
October 2021
PhaseNet and EQTransformer are two state-of-the-art earthquake detection methods that have been increasingly applied worldwide. To evaluate the generalization ability of the two models and provide insights...
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High-resolution seismicity imaging and early aftershock migration of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş (SE Türkiye) MW7.9 & 7.8 earthquake doublet
December 2023
We build a high-resolution early aftershock catalog for the 2023 SE Türkiye seismic sequence with PALM, a seamless workflow that sequentially performs phase picking, association, location, and matched...
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Strong ground motion characteristics observed in the February 6, 2023 MW7.7 Türkiye earthquake
June 2024
Türkiye is located in a seismically active region, where the Anatolian, African, and Arabian tectonic plates converge. High seismic hazards cause the region to be struck repeatedly by major earthquakes....
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An accessible strong-motion dataset (PGA, PGV, and site vS30) of 2022 MS6.8 Luding, China Earthquake
August 2023
A MS6.8 earthquake occurred on 5th September 2022 in Luding county, Sichuan, China, at 12: 52 Beijing Time (4:52 UTC). We complied a dataset of PGA, PGV, and site vS30 of 73 accelerometers and 791 Micro-Electro-Mechanical...
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Assessment of earthquake location uncertainties for the design of local seismic networks
October 2024
The ability to estimate earthquake source locations, along with the appraisal of relevant uncertainties, is paramount in monitoring both natural and human-induced micro-seismicity. For this purpose,...
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Eastward subduction of the Indian plate beneath the Indo-Myanmese arc revealed by teleseismic P-wave tomography
August 2022
The deep structure of the eastward-subducting Indian plate can provide new information on the dynamics of the India-Eurasia collision. We collected and processed waveform data from temporary seismic...
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A deep-learning-based approach for seismic surface-wave dispersion inversion (SfNet) with application to the Chinese mainland
April 2023
Surface-wave tomography is an important and widely used method for imaging the crust and upper mantle velocity structure of the Earth. In this study, we proposed a deep learning (DL) method based on...
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Assessing the data quality and seismic monitoring capabilities of the Belt and Road GNSS network
February 2025
The Belt and Road global navigation satellite system (B&R GNSS) network is the first large-scale deployment of Chinese GNSS equipment in a seismic system. Prior to this, there have been few systematic...
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An open access dataset for strong-motion data (PGA, PGV, and Site VS) of 2023 M6.2 Jishishan, Gansu, China earthquake
December 2024
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Science and reflections: With some thoughts to young applied scientists and engineers
October 2024
I provide some science and reflections from my experiences working in geophysics, along with connections to computational and data sciences, including recent developments in machine learning. I highlight...
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Transient postseismic slip and aftershock triggering: A case study of the 2008 MW7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake, China
December 2023
In this study, we investigate how a stress variation generated by a fault that experiences transient postseismic slip (TPS) affects the rate of aftershocks. First, we show that the postseismic slip...
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Assessing the effects of model parameter assumptions on surface-wave inversion results
December 2024
Surface-wave inversion is a powerful tool for revealing the Earth’s internal structure. However, aside from shear-wave velocity (vS), other parameters can influence the inversion outcomes, yet these...
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