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Professional Experiences

2022.8 -2024.8  Chairman of Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal Univ.
                               台灣師大地球科學系 系主任

2016.8 -present  Professor at Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal Univ.   
                               
台灣師大地球科學系 教授

2015.8-2015.11    Visiting Associate Professor at Earthquake Research Institute, Univ. of Tokyo
                               東京大學地震研究所 訪問副教授

2012.2-2016.7      Associate Professor at Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal Univ.
                               台灣師大地球科學系副教授

2010.12-2011.2    Project Associate Professor at Earthquake Research Institute, Univ. of Tokyo
                               東京大學地震研究所 專案副教授

2008.8-2012.1      Assistant Professor at Dep. of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal Univ.
                               台灣師大地球科學系助理教授

2008.6-2008.9      Postdoc fellow at Berkeley Seismo. Lab, UC Berkeley
                               加州大學柏克萊分校 博士後

2008.2-2008.6      Postdoc fellow at Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan Univ.
                               台灣大學地質科學系 博士後

2006-2007            Visiting Doctoral student at University of California, Berkeley
                               加州大學柏克萊分校 國科會千里馬計畫 訪問學生

Editorial experience

2022.1-2024.12     Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth                                     

2018-present      Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr) Editorial Board 

2019.3-2021.3     Guest Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth 
                                    Special issue: Creep on continental faults and subduction zones: Geophysics, geology, and mechanics


2019.6-2021.1     Topic Editor of Frontiers 
                                    Special issue:
The power of citizen seismology: Science and social impacts

2010.12-2017.12 Associate Editor of Review of Geophysics 

2017                      Editor-in-Chief Search Committee for Review of Geophysics

Professional service 

2020.12-2023.12  科技部自然司  地科學門  地球物理組 
                                 審議委員

2016.1-present   台灣地震科學中心 執行委員

2017.3-2023.7     中華民國地球科學學會 理事  (第十一屆) 

2023.8-present     中華民國地球科學學會 監事  (第十二屆) 

 

2018-2023.8            中華民國地球物理學會 理事 (第十五屆)
2019.1-2022.1   台灣地震科學中心 教育推廣委員會 召集人
2019-2022
            台灣防災產業協會 理事 (第三屆)
2014.1-2016.12   科技部自然司  地科學門  地球物理組  審議委員 
2015-2016            中華民國地質學會與中華民國地球物理學會
                               105 年年會暨學術研討會 總幹事
2013.7-2015.7     科技部國合司  台法前鋒科學論壇(FoS) 
                              應用科學類 規劃委員
2015.1-2016.1     台灣地球物理學會 教育推廣委員會  召集人
2013.7-2014.7     台灣師大  研發處研究推動組  組長  

2008-present      

Reviewer of manuscripts submitted to:

Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am.

J. Geophys. Res.

Geophys. Res. Lett.

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Earth, Planets and Space

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Reviews of Geophysics

Tectonophysics

Science

Scientific Reports

NSF proposal

Frontiers in Earth Sciences 
. . .

Awards

Outstanding student paper award, American Geophysical Union 2005 Fall meeting (Seismology section) 2005 美國地球物理年會傑出論文獎 (link)

 

Wu Ta-You memorial award for year 2013 2013年吳大猷先生紀念獎 (link) 並代表上台發表得獎感言 (link)

台灣師範大學 (獎勵學術卓越教師)

108.01.01~110.12.31 優聘教師

112.01.01~114.12.31 優聘教師

台灣師範大學 109年度 教學優良獎

科技部特殊優秀人才獎勵

2010.10.1~2011.7.31

2012.8.1~2015.7.31

2016.8.1~2022.7.31

2022.8.1~2024.7.31
 

 

Ide, S. and Chen, K. H. (2024), Spatiotemporal characteristics of tectonic tremors in a collisional orogen of Taiwan, Geophysical Research Letters, 51, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106759. (link)

Peng, W., Radiguet, M., Pathier, E., & *Chen, K. H. (2023), Fault coupling on a creeping thrust fault: Joint inversion using geodetic data and repeating earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB026843. https://doi. org/10.1029/2023JB026843 (pdf)

Chen, K. H., Chiu, H. Y., Obara, K., Liu, Y. H. (2023), Segmentation characteristics of deep, low-frequency tremors in Shikoku, Japan using 
machine learning approaches
, Earth, Planets and Space, 75:32, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-023-01776-w. (pdf)

Chen, Y., Guéguen, P.,  *Chen, K. H., Lin, C. J.,  Ku, C. S.,  Huang, W. G.,  Huang, W. S., Chen, K. C. (2022), Dynamic characteristics of TAIPEI 101 skyscraper from rotational and translation seismometers, BSSA, 113 (2): 690–709, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220147  (pdf)

*Chen, K. H., Yeh, T. C., Chen, Y. C., Johnson, C., Lin, C. H.,  Lai, Y. C.,  Shih, M. H., Gueguen, P., Huang, W. G., Huang, B. S., Chen, K. C, Lin, C. J., Ku, C. S. (2022), Characteristics and impact of environmental shaking in Taipei metropolitan area,  Scientific Reports, 12, 743, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04528-6. (pdf) 

Peng, W., Marsan, D., ​*Chen, K. H.Pathier, E, (2021), Earthquake swarms in Taiwan: A composite declustering method for detection and their spatial characteristics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 574, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117160. (pdf (*corresponding author)

Mai, H. A., Lee, J. C., Chen, K. H., Wen, K. L. (2021), Coulomb stress changes triggering surface pop-up during the 2016 Mw 6.4 Meinong earthquake with implications for earthquake-induced mud diapiring in SW Taiwan, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 218, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104847(pdf)

Toyokuni, G, Zhao, D., Chen, K. H. (2021), Structural control on the 2018 and 2019 Hualien earthquakes in Taiwan,  Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 312, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106673(pdf)

Chen, K. H., Bossu R., Liang W-T. (2020), Editorial: The Power of Citizen Seismology: Science and Social Impacts, Frontiers in Earth Science, 8:610813, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.610813(pdf)

Chen, K. H., Liang, W. T., Lin, C. H., Wu, L. Y. (2020), Citizen Seismology in Taiwan: Development, Outreach, and Formative Assessment of Near-Real Time Earthquake Game Competition Activities, Frontiers in Earth Science, 8:154, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00154. (pdf

Chen, Y., *Chen, K. H., Hu J. C., Lee J. C. (2020) Probing the variation in aseismic slip behavior around an active suture zone: Observations of repeating earthquakes in eastern Taiwan. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124;e2019JB018561, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018561. (pdf (*corresponding author)

Liu, Y. H., Yen, T. C., *Chen, K. H., Chen, Y., Yen, Y. Y., Yen, H. Y. (2019), Investigation of single-station classification for short tectonic tremor in Taiwan, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017866. (pdf) (*corresponding author)

Peng, W., *Chen, K. H., Toda, S. (2019), Evaluating the association between tectonic tremors and earthquakes in Taiwan from 7 years catalogs, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017258(pdf) (*corresponding author)

Chen, K. H., Tai, H.J., Ide S., Bryne T. B., JohnsonC. W. (2018), Tidal modulation and tectonic implications of tremors in Taiwan, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123,  5945-5964, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015663. (pdf)

Chen, K. H., and Burgmann, R. (2017), Creeping faults: Good news, bad news?, Reviews of Geophysics (Commentary), 55, 282–286, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017RG000565. (pdf)

Kawamura, M. and *Chen, K. H. (2017), Influences on the location of repeating earthquakes determined from a and b value imaging, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073335. (pdf) (*corresponding author)

Moldwin, M. B., Florindo, F., Okin, G., Robock, A., Rohling, E. J., Cardenas, B., Carlton, A., Chen, K. H., Crucifix, M., Gettelman, A., Hubbard, A., Katsura, T., Painter, T. H. (2017), Why and how to write a high-impact review paper: Lessons from eight years of editorial board service to Reviews of Geophysics, Reviews of Geophysics (Editorial), 55, 860–863, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017RG000587. (pdf)

Liang, W. T., Lee, J. C., Chen,K. H., Hsiao, N. C. (2017), Citizen Earthquake Science in Taiwan: From Science to Hazard Mitigation, Journal of Disaster Research, 12 (6),1174-1181, https://doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2017.p1174. (pdf)

Liang, W. T., *Chen, K. H., Wu, Y.F., Yen, E., and Chang, C. Y. (2016), Earthquake school in the cloud: Citizen seismologists in Taiwan , Seismo. Res. Lett., 87,1, doi: 10.1785/0220150061. (pdf(*corresponding author)

Chen, K. H., Chen, I., Kim, A. (2016), Can slip heterogeneity be linked to earthquake recurrence? Geophys. Res. Lett., doi: 10.1002/2016GL069516. (pdf)

Toyokuni, G., Zhao, D., and Chen, K. H. (2016), Tomography of the source zone of the 2016 South Taiwan earthquake, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw304. 

Chen, K. H., Furumura, T., and Rubinstein, J. (2015), Near-surface vs. fault zone damage following the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake: Observation and simulation of repeating earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 10.1002/2014JB011719. (pdf)

Ide, S., Yabe, S., Tai, H. J., Chen, K. H. (2015), Thrust type focal mechanisms of tectonic tremors in Taiwan: Evidence of subduction? , Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1002/2015GL063794. (pdf)

Chen, K. H., Tseng, Y. L., Furumura, T., Kennett, B. (2015), Anisotropy in the subducting slab: Observations from Philippine Sea plate events in Taiwan,  Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 10248-10255, DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066227. (pdf)

Chuang, L. Y.,  *Chen, K. H., Wech, A., Byrne, T., Peng, W. (2014), Ambient tremors in a collisional orogenic belt, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 1485–1491,doi:10.1002/2014GL059476. (corresponding author) (pdf)

Lin, D. H., Chen, K. H., Rau, R. J., Hu, J. C. (2013), The role of a hidden fault in stress triggering: Stress interactions within the 1935 Mw7.1 Hsinchu-Taichung earthquake sequence in central Taiwan, Tectonophysics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2013.04.022. (pdf)

Chen, K. H., Kennett, B., Furumura, T. (2013), High frequency waves guided by subducted plates underneath Taiwan and their association with seismic intensity anomalies, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 665-680, doi:10.1029/2012JB009691. (pdf)

Chen, K. H., Burgmann, R., Nadeau, R. M. (2013), Do earthquakes talk to each other? Triggering and interaction of repeating sequences at Parkfield, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 165-182, doi:10.1029/2012JB009486.​ (pdf)

Rubinstein, J., Ellsworth, W., Chen, K. H., Uchida, N. (2012), Fixed recurrence and slip models better predict earthquake behavior than the time- and slip-predictable model 1: Repeating earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B02306, doi:10.1029/2011JB008724.

Chen, K. H., Furumura, T., Rubinstein, J., and Rau, R. J., (2011), Observations of changes in waveform character induced by the 1999 Mw7.6 Chi-Chi earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L23302, doi:10.1029/2011GL049841. (pdf)

Chen, K. H., Bürgmann, R., Nadeau, R. M., T. Chen, N. Lapusta (2010), Postseismic variations in seismic moment and recurrence interval of repeating earthquakes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 299,118-125, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.027. (pdf)

Chen, K. H., Bürgmann, R., and Nadeau, R. M. (2010), Triggering effect of M 4-5 earthquakes on the earthquake cycle of repeating events at Parkfield, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 100, 2, doi:10.1785/0120080369. (pdf)

Chen, K. H., Rau, R. J., and Hu, J. C. (2009). Variability of the repeating earthquakes behavior along the Longitudinal Valley fault zone of eastern Taiwan, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B05306, doi:10.1029/2007JB005518. (pdf)

Chen, K. H., Nadeau, R. M., and Rau, R. J. (2008), Characteristic repeating microearthquakes on an arc-continent collision boundary - the Chihshang fault of eastern Taiwan, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.,276, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.021. (pdf)

Chen, K. H., Toda, S., and Rau, R. J. (2008), A leaping, triggered sequence along a segmented fault: the 1951 Hualien - Taitung earthquake sequence in eastern Taiwan, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B02304, doi:10.1029/2007JB005048. (pdf)

Rau, R. J., Chen, K. H., and Ching, K. E. (2007), Repeating earthquakes and seismic potential along the northern Longitudinal Valley fault of eastern Taiwan, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L24301, doi:10.1029/2007GL031622. (pdf)

Chen, K. H., Nadeau, R. M., and Rau, R. J. (2007), Towards a universal rule on the recurrence interval scaling of repeating earthquakes?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16308, doi:10.1029/2007GL030554. (chosen as AGU journal editors’ highlight) (pdf)

PUBLUCATIONS

my recent projects

collaborators

Seismic signatures of aseismic slip  
無震滑移的地震學特徵

 

Monitoring deep slip rate using repeating earthquake sequence in Taiwan (2008-2009 papers)

Triggering and interaction of small repeating earthquakes at Parkfield (2010 EPSL 2010 BSSA 2013 JGR papers)

Change in crustal properties associated with the Chi-Chi earthquake using M4 repeating earthquakes (2011 GRL, 2015 JGR paper)

Controls of repeaters' location (2017 GRL paper)

Monitoring of slow earthquakes in Taiwan
台灣慢地震的監測

Ambient tremors in Taiwan (2014 GRL paper)
 

Tidal modulation of tectonic tremors (2018 JGR paper)

Single-station classification of short, weak, tectonic tremors (2019 JGR)

 

Subduction zone guided waves 隱沒帶導波 

High frequency waves guided by subducted plates in Taiwan and their association with ground motion anomalies (2013 JGR paper)

 

Anisotropy in the subducting slab: Observation and simulation (2015 GRL paper)

 

 

 

 

Urban seismology 城市地震學 - 噪音的種類和起源
Whispering of the city: Characteristics and origin of environmental shaking in Taipei metropolitan area (2022, Scientific Reports) 

Robert Nadeau (Berkeley Seismological Lab., UC Berkeley, U.S.)   2007 GRL, 2008 EPSL, 2010 BSSA, EPSL, 2013, JGR paper

Roland Burgmann (Department of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, U.S.) 2010 BSSA, EPSL, 2013, JGR paper

 

Ruey-Juin Rau (Department of Earth Sciences, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan) 2007 GRL, 2008 EPSL, JGR, 2009 JGR papers

Jyr-Ching Hu (Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
2009 JGR paper

Shinji Toda (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
2008 JGR paper

 

Nadia Lapusta & Ting Chen (Seismological Lab., Caltech, U.S.) 2010 EPSL paper

Justin Rubinstein (USGS)

2012 JGR paper

Takashi Furumura (Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan) 2011 GRL, 2013 JGR paper

Brian Kennett (Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Australia) 2013 JGR paper
 

Brian Kennett’s lecture in NTNU  (materials)

1. Seismic waves (video)

2. Proving the interior of the Earth (video)

3. Elements of seismic tomography (video)

4. The global seismic wavefield (video)

5. Global seismic tomography (video)

Timothy Byrne  (University of Connecticut ) - tectonic tremors in Taiwan  2018 JGR paper

Wen-Tzong Liang (IES, Acadamia Sinica, Taiwan) - earthquake science education and outreach  2016 SRL paper

 

Leon Wu (Institute of Science Education, National Taiwan Normal University )- earthquake science education and outreach  2016 SRL paper

Ahyi Kim (Yokohama City University)

Rupture process of small repeating earthquakes 2016 GRL paper

 

Kaj Johnson (Dep. of Geological Sciences, Indiana University) -  Understanding the nature of stress interaction and triggering of repeating earthquakes using RSBEM

 

Satoshi Ide (Dep. of Earth and Planetary Science, Univ. of Tokyo) - Focal mechanism of Slow earthquakes in Taiwan

 2015 GRL paper, 2018 JGR PAPER

Christoph Johnson (Los Alamos National Lab) - Monitoring of environmental vibrations   2018 JGR paper

 

Yi-Hung Liu (Taiwan Tech) - Machine learning in seismology    2019 JGR paper

Erwan Pathier and Mathilde Radiguet (ISTerre, France) - Detection of aseismic slip (current project)

Philippe Guéguen (ISTerre, France) - Long-term vibration behavior of TAIPEI 101 (current project)

Citizen seismology 公民地震學
Earthquake school in the cloud: Citizen seismologists in Taiwan 
(2016 SRL paper)


Citizen seismologists in Taiwan: past, present, and future challenge (2020 Frontiers in Earth Science)

my phD dissertation

Characteristics of repeating earthquake sequences in eastern Taiwan

Abstract

摘要

Acknowledgement

致謝

Chapter 1

General Introduction

 

Chapter 2

Repeating earthquake identification

 

Chapter 3

Characterization of repeating earthquakes in eastern Taiwan

 

Chapter 4

Nature of repeating earthquake behavior

Chapter 5

Conclusions

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