The 2024 Mj7.6 Noto Peninsula, Japan earthquake caused by the fluid flow in the crust
Available online 16 February 2024
On January 1st, 2024 at 16:10:09 JST, an Mj7.6 earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in the southern part of the Sea of Japan. This location has been experiencing an earthquake swarm for more than three...
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Rapid report of seismic damage to hospitals in the 2023 Turkey earthquake sequences
October 2023
The seismic performance of medical systems is crucial for the seismic resilience of communities. The report summarizes the observed damage to twelve hospital buildings in the area affected by the MW...
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Rapid report of the December 18, 2023 MS 6.2 Jishishan earthquake, Gansu, China
April 2024
On December 18, 2023, the Jishishan area in Gansu Province was jolted by a MS 6.2 earthquake, which is the most powerful seismic event that occurred throughout the year in China. The earthquake occurred...
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Tectonic geomorphology of Türkiye and its insights into the neotectonic deformation of the Anatolian Plate
January 2024
Quantitative geomorphic analyses are usually powerful in identifying active tectonics across global orogenic belts. Our present study will focus on the Anatolian Plate which hosts a lot of recent catastrophic...
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Step-over of strike-slip faults and overpressure fluid favor occurrence of foreshocks: Insights from the 1975 Haicheng fore-main-aftershock sequence, China
January 2024
This study analyzed and summarized in detail the spatial and temporal distributions of earthquakes, tidal responses, focal mechanisms, and stress field characteristics for the M 7.3 Haicheng earthquake...
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In memory of Professor David Alexander Yuen
April 2024
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Preliminary report of coseismic surface rupture (part) of Türkiye's MW7.8 earthquake by remote sensing interpretation
January 2024
Both MW 7.8 and MW 7.5 earthquakes occurred in southeastern Türkiye on February 6, 2023, resulting in numerous buildings collapsing and serious casualties. Understanding the distribution of coseismic...
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Under the surface: Pressure-induced planetary-scale waves, volcanic lightning, and gaseous clouds caused by the submarine eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano
July 2022
We present a narrative of the eruptive events culminating in the cataclysmic January 15, 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcano by synthesizing diverse preliminary seismic, volcanological,...
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The advance in obtaining fault slip rate of strike slip fault-A review
October 2021
Slip rate along the major active fault is an important parameter in the quantitative study of active tectonics. It is the average rate of fault slip during a certain period of time, reflecting the rate...
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Rapid rupture characterization for the 2023 MS 6.2 Jishishan earthquake
April 2024
On December 18, 2023, the MS 6.2 Jishishan earthquake occurred in the northeastern region of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, causing heavy casualties and property damage in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces....
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A novel control strategy for reproducing the floor motions of high-rise buildings by earthquake-simulating shake tables
January 2024
To enable the experimental assessment of the seismic performance of full-scale nonstructural elements with multiple engineering parameters (EDPs), a three-layer testbed named Nonstructural Element Simulator...
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Assessment of strong earthquake risk in the Chinese mainland from 2021 to 2030
January 2023
The long-term earthquake prediction from 2021 to 2030 is carried out by researching the active tectonic block boundary zones in the Chinese mainland. Based on the strong earthquake recurrence model,...
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Research progress in geophysical exploration of the Antarctic ice sheet
July 2023
The Antarctic ice sheet is an important target of Antarctic research. Thickness and structure, including intraice and subice, are closely related to the mass balance of the ice sheet, and play an important...
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Monitoring seismicity in the southern Sichuan Basin using a machine learning workflow
January 2024
Monitoring seismicity in real time provides significant benefits for timely earthquake warning and analyses. In this study, we propose an automatic workflow based on machine learning (ML) to monitor...
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Preliminary report of the September 5, 2022 MS 6.8 Luding earthquake, Sichuan, China
January 2023
The 2022 MS 6.8 Luding earthquake is the strongest earthquake in Sichuan Province, Western China, since the 2017 MS 7.0 Jiuzhaigou earthquake. It occurred on the Moxi fault in the southeastern segment...
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Seismic anisotropy and upper mantle dynamics in Alaska: A review of shear wave splitting analyses
April 2024
Shear wave splitting (SWS) is regarded as the most effective geophysical method to delineate mantle flow fields by detecting seismic azimuthal anisotropy in the earth's upper mantle, especially in tectonically...
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Rapid report of seismic damage to buildings in the 2022 M 6.8 Luding earthquake, China
January 2023
The report summarizes the observed damage to a variety of buildings near the epicenter of the M6.8 Luding earthquake in Sichuan Province, China. They include base-isolated buildings, multi-story reinforced...
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Analysis of GAMIT/GLOBK in high-precision GNSS data processing for crustal deformation
July 2021
The advances in satellite navigation and positioning technology and the worldwide establishment of continuous-tracking stations have greatly promoted the development and application of the high-precision...
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Trade space for time for inspecting an earthquake cycle by modern seismological observation: The central-southern part of the Sichuan-Yunnan rhombic block
October 2023
The central-southern part of the eastern border of the Sichuan-Yunnan rhombic block provides the research strategy of ‘trade space for time’ with an interesting fault system, where the segments have...
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Evaluating and correcting short-term clock drift in data from temporary seismic deployments
April 2023
Temporary seismic network deployments often suffer from incorrect timing records and thus pose a challenge to fully utilize the valuable data. To inspect and fix such time problems, the ambient noise...
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Major methods of seismic anisotropy
Available online 6 March 2024
Seismic anisotropy reveals that seismic wave velocity, amplitude, and other physical properties show variations in different directions, which can be divided into lattice-preferred orientation (LPO)...
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A summary of seismic activities in and around China in 2021
July 2022
In this article, we review the general characteristics of seismicity in and around China and the overall statistics of earthquake damage in 2021, focusing on several significant events and related scientific...
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Freely accessible inventory and spatial distribution of large-scale landslides in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, China
July 2023
In this study, we used high-resolution optical satellite images on the Google Earth platform to map large-scale landslides in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, China. After mapping, a comprehensive and...
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Identification and hazard analysis of landslides triggered by earthquakes and rainfall
Available online 23 December 2023
This study aims to utilize the Small Baseline Subset Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SBAS-InSAR) technique and Google Earth optical remote sensing images to analyze the area within 20 km around...
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