Advancements in remote sensing techniques for earthquake engineering: A review
Available online 19 December 2024
Remote sensing technologies play a vital role in our understanding of earthquakes and their impact on the Earth's surface. These technologies, including satellite imagery, aerial surveys, and advanced...
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Physical mechanisms of earthquake nucleation and foreshocks: Cascade triggering, aseismic slip, or fluid flows?
April 2025
Earthquakes are caused by the rapid slip along seismogenic faults. Whether large or small, there is inevitably a certain nucleation process involved before the dynamic rupture. At the same time, significant...
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Leveraging the DeepSeek large model: A framework for AI-assisted disaster prevention, mitigation, and emergency response systems
Available online 1 April 2025
We proposes an AI-assisted framework for integrated natural disaster prevention and emergency response, leveraging the DeepSeek large language model (LLM) to advance intelligent decision-making in geohazard...
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A 15-year-Long catalog of seismicity in the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (ETSZ) using matched filter detection
January 2023
We present a detailed catalog of 13 671 earthquakes in the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (ETSZ) that spans January 1, 2005 to July 31, 2020. We apply a matched filter detection technique on over 15...
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The 2024 Mj 7.6 Noto Peninsula, Japan earthquake caused by the fluid flow in the crust
July 2024
On January 1, 2024 at 16:10:09 JST, an Mj 7.6 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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The evolution process between the earthquake swarm beneath the Noto Peninsula, central Japan and the 2024 M 7.6 Noto Hanto earthquake sequence
January 2025
Several physical mechanisms of earthquake nucleation, such as pre-slip, cascade triggering, aseismic slip, and fluid-driven models, have been proposed. However, it is still not clear which model plays...
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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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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 report of the March 28, 2025 Mw 7.9 Myanmar earthquake
Available online 22 May 2025
On 28 March 2025, a moment magnitude (MW) 7.9 earthquake struck Myanmar, marking it as the most powerful seismic event of the year. The earthquake occurred along the Sagaing Fault, a prominent right-lateral...
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Coseismic deformation and seismogenic structure of the 2024 Hualien Earthquake measured by InSAR and GNSS
January 2025
On April 3, 2024, an M7.3 earthquake occurred in the offshore area of Hualien County, Taiwan, China. The seismogenic structure at the epicentral location was highly complex, and studying this earthquake...
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Disaster analysis and lessons learned from the July 22, 2024, Ethiopian landslide
Available online 10 January 2025
Rainfall-induced landslides are often highly destructive. Reviewing and analyzing the causes, processes, impacts, and deficiencies in emergency response is critical for improving disaster prevention...
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Seismogenic Characteristics of the 2025 Dingri Ms6.8 Earthquake: Insights from GNSS Observations
Available online 24 March 2025
This study investigates the seismogenic characteristics of the 2025 Dingri Ms6.8 earthquake through multi-parametric GNSS analysis of velocity field, strain rate evolution and displacement patterns...
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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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Global research trends in seismic landslide: A bibliometric analysis
January 2025
Earthquake-induced landslides have always been a hot research topic in the field of geosciences. However, there have been few bibliometric analyses on this topic. To systematically understand the research...
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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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IonKit-NH: A MATLAB-based toolkit for ionospheric detection of earthquake, tsunami and volcanic eruption
April 2025
In recent years, GNSS-derived total electron content (TEC) measurements have emerged as an effective method for detecting natural hazards through their ionospheric manifestations. Seismo-atmospheric...
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High-performance CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing method for 9-component ambient noise cross-correlation
Available online 1 January 2025
Ambient noise tomography is an established technique in seismology, where calculating single- or nine-component noise cross-correlation functions (NCFs) is a fundamental first step. In this study, we...
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The rupture process of the Hualien M7.3 sequence on April 3, 2024
January 2025
The Hualien M 7.3 earthquake on April 3, 2024, was a significant and strong earthquake in Taiwan, China in the past two decades. The rupture process of the main shock and strong aftershocks is of great...
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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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Major methods of seismic anisotropy
July 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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Frontiers in Chinese seismology: Synthesizing innovations from the 18th Seismological Society of China Conference (SSC 2023)
April 2025
The 18th Academic Conference of the Seismological Society of China was held in Guiyang, China, on August 7, 2023, fostering academic exchanges on the latest advancements in earthquake science. The conference...
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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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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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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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Recorded Responses of Four Tall Buildings in South China to the M7.9 Myanmar Earthquake on March 28, 2025
Available online 20 May 2025
This paper reports the recorded structural responses of four 170m to 320m tall buildings in China to the mainshock of the M7.9 Myanmar earthquake on March 28, 2025. The buildings are located approximately...
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