Publications

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Submitted/In revision

• [] Zhang, Z.# and Wei, S. S. (under review), Toward Quantitatively Interpreting Seismic Attenuation and Velocity in the Alaska Mantle Wedge.

• [] Tian, D., Liu, X., Wang, F.#, and Wei, S. S. (in revision), Depth and Tectonic Controls on Stress Drops of Small-to-Moderate Earthquakes Beneath the Alaska Peninsula.

• [] Li, J.#, Wei, S. S., and Meng, H. (in revision), Deciphering the Bimodal Distribution of Marsquake Spectra.

• [] Zhu, W., Rong, B., Jie, Y.#, and Wei, S. S. (under review), Robust Earthquake Location using Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC), arXiv:2502.10933, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.10933.

• [] Hao, S., Wei, S. S., and Shearer, P. M. (in revision), Opposite-polarity SS precursors reveal a 60-km-thick low-velocity layer in the mid-mantle beneath central Siberia.

Accepted/In press

• [] Zhang, Y. R.#, Wei, S. S., Tian, D., Linkimer, L., Beck, S. L., and Portner, D. E. (accepted), Dehydration of the Pampean Flat Slab and Crustal Deformation in the Overriding Plate Revealed by Earthquake Stress Drop.

2026

• [41] Grapenthin, R., Xiao, Z., Elliott, J., Parameswaran, R., Freymueller, J., Nicolsky, D., Wei, S. S., and Abers, G. A. (2026), Triggered Shallow Megathrust Slip following the 2020 Mw7.6 Sand Point (Alaska) Strike-Slip Earthquake Explains its Tsunami. Seismica, 5(2), doi: 10.26443/seismica.v5i2.1409.

• [40] Williams, A., Wiens, D. A., Zanjani, F. A., Bergman, E. A., and Wei, S. S. (2026), Locating the missing Rarotonga hotspot in the Cook Islands, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131(8), e2025JB033217, doi: 10.1029/2025JB033217.

• [39] Zhang, Z.#, Wei, S. S., Zhang, Y. R.#, and Wang, F.# (2026), Along-strike Variations in Sub-Arc Melting beneath the Alaska Peninsula Revealed by P-wave Attenuation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131(8), e2026JB033769, doi: 10.1029/2026JB033769. (Open Access)

• [38] Zhang, Y. R.#, Wei, S. S., Byrnes, J. S., Tian, D., Wang, F.#, and Bezada, M. J. (2026), 3D P-wave attenuation tomography of the Tonga-Lau subduction system with a transdimensional Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131(4), e2025JB032176, doi: 10.1029/2025JB032176. (Open Access)

• [37] Du, Y., Jackson, M. G., Jicha, B., Kylander-Clark, A., Byerly, B. L., Bizimis, M., Halldórsson, S. A., Seward, G. G. E., Anderson, O. E., Rioux, M., Konrad, K., Harðardóttir, S., Bai, R., Giuliani, A., Wiens, D. A., Wei, S. S., McCormack, G., and Parianos, J. M. (2026), Discovery of young submarine volcanism in the Cook Islands: New constraints on the location of the Rarotonga hotspot, Geochim Cosmochim Ac, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2025.12.058.

• [36] Shearer, P. M., Fan, W., Wei, S. S., and Rychert, C. A. (2026), Reflection seismic profiling of mantle structure under the contiguous United States from ambient noise cross-correlation, Geophys. J. Int., 244(1), doi: 10.1093/gji/ggaf416.

• [35] Jie, Y.#, Wei, S. S., Zhu, W., Freymueller, J. T., Elliott, J. L. (2026), Deep-Learning-Based Catalog of Background Seismicity and Aftershocks of the 2020–2021 Large Earthquakes Along the Alaska Peninsula, Seismol. Res. Lett., 97(1), 187-203, doi: 10.1785/0220250072.

2025

• [34] Wang, F.#, Wei, S. S., Ruppert, N. A., Zhang, H., and Wu, J. (2025), Slab Morphology, Dehydration, and Sub-Arc Melting Beneath the Alaska Peninsula Revealed by Body-Wave Tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(3), e2024JB029814, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB029814. (Open Access)

2024

• [33] Jadamec, M., Pavlis, G., Yang, X., Fischer, K., Wei, S. S., Mann, M. E., and Schaeffer, A. (2024), Synthesis of the Seismic Structure of the Greater Alaska Region: Geodynamics Implications, in Tectonics and seismicity of Alaska and Western Canada: EarthScope and beyond, edited by N. Ruppert, M. Jadamec, J. Freymueller, American Geophysical Union.

• [32] Pavlis, G., Jadamec, M., Mann, M. E., Yang, X., Schaeffer, A., Wei, S. S., and Fischer, K. (2024), Synthesis of the Seismic Structure of the Greater Alaska Region: Subducting Slab Geometry, in Tectonics and seismicity of Alaska and Western Canada: EarthScope and beyond, edited by N. Ruppert, M. Jadamec, J. Freymueller, American Geophysical Union.

• [31] Yang, X., Mann, M. E., Fischer, K., Jadamec, M., Wei, S. S., Pavlis, G., and Schaeffer, A. (2024), Synthesis of the Seismic Structure of the Greater Alaska Region: Continental Lithosphere, in Tectonics and seismicity of Alaska and Western Canada: EarthScope and beyond, edited by N. Ruppert, M. Jadamec, J. Freymueller, American Geophysical Union.

• [30] Hao, S., Wei, S. S., and Shearer, P. M. (2024), Substantial global radial variations of basalt content near the 660-km discontinuity, AGU Advances, 5(6), e2024AV001409, doi: 10.1029/2024AV001409. (Open Access)

• [29] Xi, Z.#, Chen, M., Wei, S. S., Li, J.#, Zhou, T., Wang, B., and Kim, Y. (2024), EARA2024: a new radially anisotropic seismic velocity model for the crust and upper mantle beneath East Asia and Northwestern Pacific subduction zones, Geophys. J. Int., 239(2), 914-935, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggae302. (Open Access)

• [28] Xi, Z.#, Wei, S. S., Zhu, W., Beroza, G. C., Jie, Y.#, and Saloor, N.# (2024), Deep Learning for Deep Earthquakes: Insights from OBS Observations of the Tonga Subduction Zone, Geophys. J. Int., 238(2), 1073-1088, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggae200. (Open Access).

• [27] Wang, F.#, Wei, S. S., Drooff, C., Elliott, J. L., Freymueller, J. T., Ruppert, N. A., and Zhang, H. (2024), Fluids control along-strike variations in the Alaska megathrust slip, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 633, 118655, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118655.

• [26] Staats, K., Aderhold, K., Hafner, K., Dalton, C., Flanagan, M., Lau, H., Simons, F. J., Vallée, M., Wei, S. S., Yeck, W., Frassetto, A., and Busby, R. (2024), Inconsistent Citation of the Global Seismographic Network in Scientific Publications, Seis. Res. Lett., 95(3), 1478–1485, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230004.

2023

• [25] Hudson, T. S., Kendall, J. M., Blundy, J. D., Pritchard, M. E., MacQueen, P., Wei, S. S., Gottsmann, J. H., and Lapins, S. (2023), Hydrothermal Fluids and Where to Find Them: Using Seismic Attenuation and Anisotropy to Map Fluids Beneath Uturuncu Volcano, Bolivia, Geophys Res Lett, 50(5), e2022GL100974, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100974. (open access)

• [24] Hicks, S. P., Bie, L., Rychert, C. A., Harmon, N., Goes, S., Rietbrock, A., Wei, S. S., Collier, J. S., Henstock, T. J., Lynch, L., Prytulak, J., Macpherson, C. G., Schlaphorst, D., Wilkinson, J. J., Blundy, J. D., Cooper, G. F., Davy, R. G., and Kendall, J.-M. (2023), Slab to back-arc to arc: Fluid and melt pathways through the mantle wedge beneath the Lesser Antilles, Science Advances, 9(5), eadd2143, doi: doi:10.1126/sciadv.add2143. (open access) 

2022

• [23] Tian, D.#, Wei, S. S., Wang, W., and Wang, F.# (2022), Stress Drops of Intermediate-Depth and Deep Earthquakes in the Tonga Slab, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(10), e2022JB025109, doi: 10.1029/2022JB025109. (open access)

• [22] Yuen, D. A., Scruggs, M. A., Spera, F. J., Zheng, Y., Hu, H., McNutt, S. R., Thompson, G., Mandli, K., Keller, B. R., Wei, S. S., Peng, Z., Zhou, Z., Mulargia, F., and Tanioka, Y. (2022), 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, Earthquake Research Advances, 2(3), 100134, doi: 10.1016/j.eqrea.2022.100134.

• [21] Glišović, P., Grand, S., Lu, C., Forte, A., and Wei, S. S. (2022), The effects of discontinuity topography in the mantle transition zone on global geodynamic observables and mantle heterogeneity, Geophys J Int, 230(1), 623-642, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggac074.

2021

• [20] Wei, S. S., Ruprecht, P., Gable, S. L.#, Huggins, E., Ruppert, N., Gao, L., and Zhang, H. (2021), Along-strike variations in intermediate-depth seismicity and arc magmatism along the Alaska Peninsula, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 563, 116878, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116878.

2020

• [19] Wei, S. S., Shearer, P. M., Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., Stixrude, L., and Tian, D.# (2020), Oceanic plateau of the Hawaiian mantle plume head subducted to the uppermost lower mantle, Science, 370(6519), 983-987, doi: 10.1126/science.abd0312. (Free access to the full text)

• [18] Tian, D.#, Lv, M., Wei, S. S., Dorfman, S. M., and Shearer, P. M. (2020), Global variations of the 520- and 560-km discontinuities, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 552, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116600.

• [17] An, C., Wei, S. S., Cai, C., and Yue, H. (2020), Frequency limit for the pressure compliance correction of ocean-bottom seismic data, Seis. Res. Lett., 91(2A), 967-976, doi: 10.1785/0220190259. (PDF)

• [16] Wei, S. S. and Wiens, D. A. (2020), High bulk and shear attenuation due to partial melt in the Tonga-Lau back-arc mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 125(1), e2019JB017527, doi: 10.1029/2019JB017527. (PDF)

2019

• [15] Fan, W., Wei, S. S., Tian, D.#, McGuire, J. J., and Wiens, D. A. (2019), Complex and diverse rupture processes of the 2018 Mw 8.2 and Mw 7.9 Tonga-Fiji deep earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46(5), 2434-2448, doi: 10.1029/2018GL080997. (PDF)

• [14] Chen, M., Manea, V. C., Niu, F., Wei, S. S., and Kiser, E. (2019), Genesis of intermediate-depth and deep intraslab earthquakes beneath Japan constrained by seismic tomography, seismicity, and thermal modeling, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46(4), 2025-2036, doi: 10.1029/2018GL080025. (PDF)

• [13] Chen, J., Chen, Y. J., Wiens, D. A., Wei, S. S., Zha, Y., Julià, J., and Cai, C. (2019), Crustal and lithospheric structure of inactive volcanic arc terrains in Fiji, Tectonophysics, 750, 394-403, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.07.014. (PDF)

2018

• [12] Wei, S. S. and Wiens, D. A. (2018), P-wave attenuation structure of the Lau back-arc basin and implications for mantle wedge processes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 502, 187-199, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.09.005. (PDF)

2017

• [11] Wei, S. S. and Shearer, P. M. (2017), A sporadic low-velocity layer atop the 410 km discontinuity beneath the Pacific Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1002/2017JB014100. (Highlighted by the JGR editor: "Toward an understanding of mass transfers across the mantle transition zone") (PDF)

• [10] Wei, S. S., Wiens, D. A., van Keken, P. E., and Cai, C. (2017), Slab temperature controls on the Tonga double seismic zone and slab mantle dehydration, Science Adv., 3, e1601755, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1601755. (PDF, Supplementary Materials)

2016

• [9] Wei, S. S., Zha, Y., Shen, W., Wiens, D. A., Conder, J. A., and Webb, S. C. (2016),  Upper mantle structure of the Tonga-Lau-Fiji region from Rayleigh wave tomography, Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst., 17(11), 4705-4724, doi: 10.1002/2016GC006656. (PDF)

• [8] Wei, S. S. and Chen, Y. J. (2016), Seismic evidence of the Hainan mantle plume by receiver function analysis in southern China, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43(17), 8978-8985, doi: 10.1002/2016GL069513. (PDF)

2015

• [7] Fan, W., Chen, Y. J., Tang, Y., Zhou, S., Feng, Y., Yue, H., Wang, H., Jin, G., Wei, S., Wang, Y., Ge, Z., and Ning, J. (2015), Crust and upper mantle velocity structure of the eastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions from ambient noise tomography, Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 58(5), 1568-1583, doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2011.08.008. (PDF)

• [6] Wei, S. S., Wiens, D. A., Zha, Y., Plank, T., Webb, S. C., Blackman, D. K., Dunn, R. A., and Conder, J. A. (2015), Seismic evidence of effects of water on melt transport in the Lau back-arc mantle, Nature, 518(7539), 395-398, doi: 10.1038/nature14113. (PDF)

Before 2015

• [5] Zha, Y., Webb, S. C., Wei, S. S., Wiens, D. A., Blackman, D. K., Menke, W., Dunn, R. A., and Conder, J. A. (2014), Seismological imaging of ridge-arc interaction beneath the Eastern Lau Spreading Center from OBS ambient noise tomography, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 408(0), 194-206, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.10.019. (PDF)

• [4] Yue, H., Chen, Y. J., Sandvol, E., Ni, J., Hearn, T., Zhou, S., Feng, Y., Ge, Z., Trujillo, A., Wang, Y., Jin, G., Jiang, M., Tang, Y., Liang, X., Wei, S., Wang, H., Fan, W., and Liu, Z. (2012). Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. J. Geophys. Res., 117, B05307, doi: 10.1029/2011jb008545. (PDF)

• [3] Tang, Y. C., Chen, Y. S., Yang, Y. J., Ding, Z. F., Liu, R. F., Feng, Y. G., Li, P., Yu, C. Q., Wei, S. Q., Fan, W. Y., Wang, H. Y., Zhou, S. Y., and Ning, J. Y. (2011), Ambient noise tomography in north China craton, Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 54(8), 2011-2022, doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2011.08.008. (PDF)

• [2] Wei, S., Chen, Y. J., Sandvol, E., Zhou, S., Yue, H., Jin, G., Hearn, T. M., Jiang, M., Wang, H., Fan, W., Liu, Z., Ge, Z., Wang, Y., Feng, Y., and Ni, J. (2010), Regional earthquakes in northern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for lithospheric strength in Tibet, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37(19), L19307, doi: 10.1029/2010gl044800. (PDF)

• [1] Tang, Y. C., Feng, Y. G., Chen, Y. S. J., Zhou, S. Y., Ning, J. Y., Wei, S. Q., Li, P., Yu, C. Q., Fan, W. Y., and Wang, H. Y. (2010), Receiver function analysis at Shanxi Rift, Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 53(9), 2102-2109, doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2010.09.010. (PDF)