Publications

Feb-2018 to Present

Wang, Y., Y. N. Lin, Y. Ota, L.-H. Chung, J. B. H. Shyu, H.-W. Chiang, Y.-G. Chen, H.-H. Hsu, and C.-C. Shen (2022), Mud Diapir or Fault-Related Fold? On the Development of an Active Mud-Cored Anticline Offshore Southwestern Taiwan, Tectonics, 41(9), e2022TC007234, doi: 10.1029/2022TC007234.

Jian, P.-R.*, and Y. Wang* (2022), Applying unsupervised machine-learning algorithms and MUSIC back-projection to characterize 2018–2022 Hualien earthquake sequence, Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 33(1), 28, doi: 10.1007/s44195-022-00026-y. *Corresponding Author

Huang, H.-H.*, and Y. Wang* (2022), Seismogenic structure beneath the northern Longitudinal Valley revealed by the 2018–2021 Hualien earthquake sequences and 3-D velocity model, Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 33(1), 17, doi: 10.1007/s44195-022-00017-z. *Corresponding Author

Yao, J., S. Wu, T. Li, Y. Bai, X. Xiao, J. Hubbard, Y. Wang, M. Thant, and P. Tong (2022), Imaging the Upper 10 km Crustal Shear‐Wave Velocity Structure of Central Myanmar via a Joint Inversion of P‐Wave Polarizations and Receiver Functions, Seismol. Res. Lett., 93(3), 1710-1720, doi: 10.1785/0220210292

Fadil, W., E. O. Lindsey, Y. Wang, P. M. Maung, H. Luo, T. L. Swe, P. P. Tun, and S. Wei (2021), The January 11, 2018, Mw 6.0 Bago-Yoma, Myanmar Earthquake: A Shallow Thrust Event Within the Deforming Bago-Yoma Range, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 126(7), e2020JB021313, doi: 10.1029/2020JB021313.

Lin, Y. N., E. Park*, Y. Wang*, Y. P. Quek, J. Lim, E. Alcantara, and H. H. Loc (2021), The 2020 Hpakant Jade Mine Disaster, Myanmar: A multi-sensor investigation for slope failure, ISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens., 177, 291-305, doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.05.015. *Corresponding Author

Wu, S., J. Yao, S. Wei, J. Hubbard, Y. Wang, Yin Myo Min Htwe, Myo Thant, X. Wang, K. Wang, T. Liu, Q. Liu, and P. Tong (2021), New insights into the structural heterogeneity and geodynamics of the Indo-Burma subduction zone from ambient noise tomography, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 562, 116856, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116856.

Liu, C.-N., F.-C. Lin, H.-H. Huang, Y. Wang, E. M. Berg, and C.-H. Lin (2021), High-Resolution 3-D Shear Wave Velocity Model of Northern Taiwan via Bayesian Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity and Phase Velocity With Formosa Array, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 126(5), e2020JB021610, doi: 10.1029/2020JB021610.

Martin, S. S., Y. Wang, M. Muzli, and S. Wei (2020), The 1922 Peninsula Malaysia Earthquakes: Rare Intraplate Seismicity within the Sundaland Block in Southeast Asia, Seismol. Res. Lett., 91(5), 2531-2545, doi: 10.1785/0220200052.

Ornthammarath, T., P. Warnitchai, C.-H. Chan, Y. Wang, X. Shi, P. H. Nguyen, L. M. Nguyen, S. Kosuwan, and M. Thant (2020), Probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for Northern Southeast Asia (Indochina): Smooth seismicity approach, Earthq. Spectra., 36(1_suppl), 69-90, doi: 10.1177/8755293020942528

Lin Thu Aung, S. S. Martin, Y. Wang*, S. -J. Wei, M. Thant, K. N. Htay, I. M. Aung, T. Z. Kyaw, S. Min, K. Sithu, T. Naing, Saw Ngwe Khaing, Kyaw Moe Oo, G. Suresh, W. -W. Chen, Phyu Maung Maung and V. Gahalaut (2019), A comprehensive assessment of ground motions from two 2016 intra-slab earthquakes in Myanmar, Tectonophysics, 765, 146-160, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2019.04.016. *Corresponding Author

Qiu, Q., L. Li, Y. J. Hsu, Y. Wang, C. H. Chan, and A. D. Switzer (2019), Revised earthquake sources along Manila trench for tsunami hazard assessment in the South China Sea, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 19(7), 1565-1583, doi: 10.5194/nhess-19-1565-2019

Wang, X., S. Wei, Y. Wang, Phyu Maung Maung, J. Hubbard, P. Banerjee, B. S. Huang, K. Moe Oo, T. Bodin, A. Foster and R. Almeida (2019), A 3-D Shear Wave Velocity Model for Myanmar Region, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 124(1), 504-526, doi: 10.1029/2018JB016622

Shi, X., P. Tapponnier, T. Wang, S. Wei, Y. Wang, X. Wang, and L. Jiao (2019), Triple junction kinematics accounts for the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake rupture complexity, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A (PNAS)., 116(52), 26367-26375, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1916770116

Bolotov, I., O. Aksenova, T. Bakken, G. Christopher, M. Gofarov, A. Kondakov, E. Konopleva, M. Lopes-Lima, A. Lyubas, Y. Wang, A. Bychkov, A. Sokolova, K. Tanmuangpak, S. Tumpeesuwan, I. Vikhrev, J. Shyu, Than Win and O. Pokrovsky (2018), Discovery of a silicate rock-boring organism and macrobioerosion in fresh water, Nat. Commun., 9(1), 2882, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05133-4.

Kuo, Y. T., Y. Wang*, J. Hollingsworth, S. Y. Huang, R. Y. Chuang, C. H. Lu, Y. C. Hsu, H. Tung, J. Y. Yen, and C. P. Chang (2018), Shallow Fault Rupture of the Milun Fault in the 2018 Mw 6.4 Hualien Earthquake: A High‐Resolution Approach from Optical Correlation of Pléiades Satellite Imagery, Seismol. Res. Lett., 90(1), 97-107, doi: 10.1785/0220180227. *Corresponding Author

Li, L., A. D. Switzer, Y. Wang, C.-H. Chan, Q. Qiu, and R. Weiss (2018), A modest 0.5-m rise in sea level will double the tsunami hazard in Macau, Sci. Adv., 4(8), eaat1180, doi: doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aat1180.

Li, L., J. Yang, C.-Y. Lin, C.-T. Chua, Y. Wang, K.-F. Zhao, Y.-T. Wu, P. L.-F. Liu, A. Switzer, K.-M. Mok, P. Wang and D. Peng (2018), Field survey of Typhoon Hato (2017) and a comparison with storm surge modeling in Macau, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 18(12), 3167-3178, doi: 10.5194/nhess-18-3167-2018

Shi, X., R. Weldon, J. Liu-Zeng, Y. Wang, E. Weldon, K. Sieh, Z. Li, J. Zhang, W. Yao, and Z. Li (2018), Limit on slip rate and timing of recent seismic ground-ruptures on the Jinghong fault, SE of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, Tectonophysics, 734-735, 148-166, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.04.011.

Shi, X., Y. Wang, K. Sieh, R. Weldon, L.-J. Feng, C.-H. Chan, J. Liu-Zeng (2018) Fault Slip and GPS Velocities Across the Shan Plateau Define a Curved Southwestward Crustal Motion Around the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 2502-2518.

Prior to Feb-2018

Shyu, J.B.H., C.-C. Wang, Y. Wang, C.-C. Shen, H.-W. Chiang, S.-C. Liu, Soe Min, Lin Thu Aung, Oo Than, Soe Thura Tun, (2018) Upper-plate splay fault earthquakes along the Arakan subduction belt recorded by uplifted coral microatolls on northern Ramree Island, western Myanmar (Burma), Earth. Planet. Sci. Lett. 484, 241-252.

Chan, C.-H., Y. Wang, Y.-J. Wang, Y.-T. Lee, (2017) Seismic hazard assessment over time: Modelling earthquakes in Taiwan, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 107 (5): 2342-2352.

Wang, Y., S. Wei, X. Wang, E. Lindsey, F. Tongkul, K. Bradley, C.-H. Chan, E. Hill, K. Sieh, (2017) The 2015 Mw 6.0 Mt. Kinabalu Earthquake: An Infrequent Fault Rupture within the Crocker Fault System of East Malaysia, Geosciences Letters, 4(6).

Kuo, Y.-T., C.-S. Ku, Y.-G. Chen, Y. Wang, Y.-N. N. Lin, R. Y. Chuang, Y.-J. Hsu, F. W. Taylor, B.-S. Huang, and H. Tung (2016), Characteristics on fault coupling along the Solomon megathrust based on GPS observations from 2011 to 2014, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 8519–8526, doi:10.1002/2016GL070188.

Li, L., A. D. Switzer, C.-H. Chan, Y. Wang, R. Weiss, and Q. Qiu (2016), How heterogeneous coseismic slip affects regional probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment: A case study in the South China Sea, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, 6250–6272, doi:10.1002/ 2016JB013111.

Chan, C.-H., Y. Wang*, R. Almeida and R.B.S. Yadav (2016) Enhanced stress and changes to regional seismicity due to the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake on the neighbouring segments of the Main Himalayan Thrust, J. Asian Earth Sci., doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.03.004 *Corresponding Author

Li, L., A. D. Switzer, Y. Wang, R. Weiss, Q. Qiu, C.-H. Chan, and P. Tapponnier (2015), What caused the mysterious eighteenth century tsunami that struck the southwest Taiwan coast?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 8498–8506, doi:10.1002/2015GL065567.

Soe Thura Tun, Y. Wang*, Saw Ngwe Khaing, Myo Thant, Myunt Htay, Yin Myo Min Htwe, Than Myint, K. Sieh, (2014), Surface ruptures of the Mw 6.8 March 2011 Tarlay Earthquake, Eastern Myanmar. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 104(6), 2915-2932, doi: 10.1785/0120130321 *Corresponding Author

Wang, Y., Y.-N. Lin, M. Simons, Soe Thura Tun, (2014), Shallow rupture of the 2011 Tarlay earthquake (Mw 6.8), eastern Myanmar. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 104(6), 2904-2914

Wang, Y., K. Sieh, S. T. Tun, K.-Y. Lai, and T. Myint (2014), Active tectonics and earthquake potential of the Myanmar region, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 3767–3822, doi:10.1002/2013JB010762.

Wang, Y., J.B.H. Shyu, K. Sieh, H.-W. Chiang, C.-C. Wang, Thura Aung, Y.-N. Lin, C.-C. Shen, Soe Mon, O. Than, Kyaw Kyaw Lin, Soe Thura Tun (2013) Permanent upper-plate deformation in western Myanmar during the great 1762 earthquake: Implications for the neotectonic behavior of the northern Sunda megathrust. J. Geophys. Res., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50121.

Wang, Y., K. Sieh, T. Aung, S. Min, S.N. Khaing and S.T. Tun (2011) Earthquakes and slip rate of the Southern Sagaing fault: insights from an offset ancient fort-wall, Lower Burma (Myanmar), Geophys. J. Int. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04918.x

Lai, K. Y., Y. G. Chen, Y. M.Wu, J. P. Avouac, Y. T. Kuo, Y. Wang, C. H. Chang and K. C. Lin (2009) The 2005 Ilan earthquake doublet and seismic crisis in northeastern Taiwan: evidence for dike intrusion associated with on-land propagation of the Okinawa Trough, Geophys. J. Int. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04307.x.

Shyu, J.B.H., K. Sieh, Y.G. Chen, R.Y. Chuang, Y. Wang and L.H. Chung, (2008) Geomorphology of the southernmost Longitudinal Valley fault: Implications for evolution of the active suture of eastern Taiwan, Tectonics, 27, TC1019, doi:10.1029/2006TC002060.

Lin, Y.S., Y.W. Lin, Y. Wang, Y.G. Chen, M.L. Hsu, S.H. Chiang and Z.S. Chen, (2007) Relationships between topography and spatial variations in groundwater and soil morphology within the Taoyuan-Hukou Tableland, Northwestern Taiwan, Geomorphology, Vol. 90, I.1-2, 36-54.

Chen, Y.G., K.Y. Lai, Y.H. Lee, J. Suppe, W.S. Chen, Y.N. Lin, Y. Wang, J.H. Hung and Y.T. Kou (2007) Coseismic fold scarps and their kinematic behavior in the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake Taiwan. J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 112, B03S02, doi:10.1029/2006JB004388.

Chen, Y.G., J.B.H. Shyu, Y. Ota, W.S. Chen, J.C. Hu, B.W. Tsai, and Y. Wang (2004) Active structures as deduced from geomorphic features: A case in Hsinchu Area, northwestern Taiwan. Quat. Intl., Vol. 115, 189-199.