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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Professional Experiences
2022.8 -2024.12 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
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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
Peng, W., *Chen, K. H. , Burgmann, R. (2024), Aseismic slip and seismic swarms leading up to the 2024 M7.3 Hualien earthquake, Nature Communication, under review. (preprint)
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