Influence of far-field mega earthquake on cascade hydropower along the Yalongjiang river by simulating the 1850 Xichang M 7.5 earthquake
July 2025
Researching and comprehending the characteristics of destructive seismic motions is essential for the seismic design of critical infrastructure. This study employs historical data from the M 7.5 earthquake...
Crustal velocity structure and composition of Bayan Har block and surrounding areas
July 2025
The Bayan Har block, one of China's most seismically active regions, has experienced multiple major earthquakes (≥M 7.0) in recent years. It is a key area for investigating the interactions between...
Travel-time corrections for stations in the Guangdong seismic network and their impact on earthquake location accuracy
July 2025
The travel-time corrections for the primary seismic phases of 72 stations in the Guangdong seismic network, relative to the 1D South China travel-time model, were determined using joint hypocentral...
Risk-targeted seismic hazard model for the Philippines
Available online 25 July 2025
The Philippines' current seismic design framework, grounded in outdated uniform hazard approaches, fails to ensure consistent structural safety due to regional variations in seismic risk and structural...
Research on Rainfall-Induced Landslide Susceptibility Prediction Considering Spatial Heterogeneity
Available online 9 July 2025
Existing landslide susceptibility prediction methods often fail to fully account for the spatial heterogeneity of environmental factors such as topography, soil, and vegetation, nor do they accurately...
Determination of Focal Depths for the 2024 M7.3 Hualien Offshore and 2025 M6.2 Tainan Earthquakes in Taiwan: An Enhanced Method Based on sPn Phase and Waveform Cross-Correlation Techniques
Available online 8 July 2025
This study proposes a method for determining earthquake focal depths by combining the sPn phase with waveform cross-correlation technique, based on waveform data recorded by the Fujian Seismic Network...
The Emerging Roles of 3D and 4D Geophysical and Geological Modelling in Evaluating Seismic Risks: A Critical Review
Available online 30 June 2025
Seismic hazard assessment (SHA) is crucial in mitigating the hazards associated with earthquakes, particularly in tectonically active regions. This study critically examines the emerging roles of 3D...
Coulomb Stress Transfer from the 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar Earthquake to Active Faults in Southwestern Yunnan, China: Implications for Seismic Hazard
Available online 6 June 2025
On 28 March 2025, a strong Mw 7.7 earthquake struck the seismic gap in the central section of the Sagaing Fault in Myanmar, causing significant damage and casualties in Myanmar and neighboring countries....
Spatiotemporal Correlation of Multi-Depth Rock Mass Deformation and Mining-Induced Subsidence: A Case Study of the Shagoucha Coal Mine
Available online 12 May 2025
To address the insufficient understanding of the dynamic coupling between surface subsidence and multi-depth rock mass deformation induced by underground mining, this study focuses on the 520109 working...
Mutual influence mechanism between soft soil interlayers and shield tunnels under seismic action: Laboratory tests and numerical simulations
Available online 9 May 2025
Soft soil is widely distributed and has complex origins, shield tunnels are inevitably constructed within soft soil interlayers, and under seismic action, tunnels may be subject to severe damage. On...
Assessing Precursory Signals with Kinematic GNSS: Insights from the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake
Available online 6 May 2025
Identifying precursors of large earthquakes is critical for minimizing the losses of life and property. Recently, Bletery and Nocquet (2023)captured a ∼2-hour-long exponential acceleration of slip using...
Estimating the final fatalities using early reported death count from the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, MS 8.0–7.9 earthquake doublet and revising the estimates over time
April 2025
Earthquakes can cause significant damage and loss of life, necessitating immediate assessment of the resulting fatalities. Rapid assessment and timely revision of fatality estimates are crucial for...
A comprehensive earthquake source database for China’s strong-motion flatfile (2007–2020)
April 2025
The National Strong-Motion Observation Network System of China has collected over 12 000 strong-motion recordings from 2007 to December 2020. This study assembled the source-related metadata of 1 920...
Reexamination confirming additional seismic evidence for the 12 May 2010 low-yield nuclear test
April 2025
This study examines event location and source discrimination for the May 12, 2010 possible nuclear event in North Korea, using seismic data recorded in the Dongbei Broadband Seismic Network in China....
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...
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...
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...
Summary of environmental effect and seismic activity in Qinghai-Xizang Plateau
April 2025
This paper focuses on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. It systematically reviews its seismic activity characteristics and extensive environmental effects under extreme climatic conditions in dry and cold...
Automatic location of surface-monitored microseismicity with deep learning
April 2025
Accurate and rapid determination of source locations is of great significance for surface microseismic monitoring. Traditional methods, such as diffraction stacking, are time-consuming and challenging...
The seismogenic structure of strong intraplate earthquakes in Shantou region, South China: Insights from upper crustal shear-wave velocity structure
Available online 17 April 2025
The Shantou region, one of the most seismically active zones of Guangdong Province (South China), has experienced multiple strong earthquakes, including two significant events with magnitudes greater...
Using historical remote sensing images for detailed tectonic geomorphological interpretation in the study of active faults: Application to the Xiaojiang fault case study
Available online 1 April 2025
The northern section of the Xiaojiang fault is the most active section in the Xiaojiang Fault Zone, and a detailed interpretation of this fault is highly important. In this work, KeyHole-4B images and...
Assessment of seismic spatiotemporal characteristics and migration distance in the Badong section of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area
January 2025
This paper aims to elucidate the seismic characteristics of the Three Gorges Reservoir area after impoundment and investigate the seismic source migration. Based on the seismic data analysis from the...
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...
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...
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...