Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Gong, W.^#, L. Ye*, Y. Qiu^#, T. Lay, & H. Kanamori (2022), Rupture Directivity of the 2021 M_W 6.0 Yangbi, Yunnan Earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2022JB024321.

2. Bai, Y., C. Liu, T. Lay, K. F. Cheung, & L. Ye (2022), Optimizing a model of coseismic rupture for the 22 July 2020 M_W 7.8 Simeonof earthquake by exploiting acute sensitivity of tsunami excitation across the shelf break, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2022JB024484, doi: 10.1029/2022JB024484.

3. Ye, L., Y. Bai, T. Lay, K. F. Cheung, & H. Kanamori (2022), Rupture Model for the 29 July 2021 M_W 8.2 Chignik Earthquake Constrained by Seismic, Geodetic, and Tsunami Observations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2021JB023676, doi: 10.1029/2021JB023676

4. Luo, B., H. Zhu, J. Yang, T. Lay, L. Ye, Z Lu, & D. Lumley (2022), Detecting and locating aftershocks for the 2020 M_W 6.5 Stanley, Idaho earthquake using convolutional neural networks, Seismological Research Letters, 1–12, doi: 10.1785/0220210341.

5. Takeo, A., K. Nishida, H. Aoyama, M. Ishise, T. Kai, T. Maeda, Y. Mizutani, S. Nagahara, X. Wang, L. Ye, & Y. Aoki (2022), S-wave modelling of the Showa-Shinzan lava dome in Usu Volcano, Northern Japan, from seismic observations, Geophysical Journal International,doi: 10.1093/gji/ggac111.

6. 48. Ye, L., W. Gong^#, T. Lay, H. Kanamori, & X. Chen (2021), Shallow Megathrust Rupture during the 10 February 2021 M_W 7.7 Southeast Loyalty Islands Earthquake Sequence, The Seismic Recording, doi:10.1785/ 0320210035.

7. Yang, J., H. Zhu, T. Lay, Y. Niu, L. Ye, Z. Lu, B. Luo, H. Kanamori, J. Huang, & Z. Li (2021), Multifault opposing-dip strike-slip and normal-fault rupture during the 2020 M_W 6.5 Stanley, Idaho earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2021GL092510.

8. Fan, F.^#, L. Ye^*, H. Kanamori, & T. Lay (2021), Responding to Media Inquiries about Earthquake Triggering Interactions,Seismological Research Letters, doi: 10.1785/0220200452.

9. Ye, L., T. Lay, H. Kanamori., Y. Yamazaki, & K. F. Cheung (2021), The 22 July 2020 M_W 7.8 Shumagin seismic gap earthquake: Partial rupture of a weakly coupled Megathrust, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 562, 116879, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116879.

10. Larson, K. M, T. Lay, Y. Yamazaki, K. F. Cheung, L. Ye, S. D. P. Williams, & J. L. Davis (2021), Dynamic Sea Level Variation From GNSS: 2020 Shumagin Earthquake Tsunami Resonance and Hurricane Laura, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2020GL091378.

11. Ye, L., T. Lay, & H. Kanamori (2021), The 25 March 2020 M_W 7.5 Paramushir, Northern Kuril Islands Earthquake and major (M_W ≥ 7.0) Near-Trench Intraplate Compressional Faulting, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116728.

12. Lay, T., L. Ye, Z. Wu, & H. Kanamori (2020), Macrofracturing of Oceanic Lithosphere in Complex Large Earthquake Sequences, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2020JB020137.

13. Ye, L., T. Lay,& H. Kanamori (2020), Anomalously low aftershock productivity of the 2019 M_W 8.0 energetic intermediate-depth faulting beneath Peru, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116528.

14. Ye, L., H. Kanamori, L. Rivera, T. Lay, Y. Zhou, D. Sianipar, & K. Satake (2019). The 22 December 2018 tsunami from flank collapse of Anak Krakatau volcano during eruption. Science Advances, 6, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz1377.

15. Wu, Z., T. Lay, & L. Ye (2019), Shallow megathrust slip during large earthquakes that have high P coda levels, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2019JB018709.

16. Kanamori, H., L. Rivera, L. Ye, T. Lay, S. Murotani, & K. Tsumura (2019), New constraints on the 1922 Atacama, Chile, earthquake from historical seismograms, Geophysical Journal International, 219, 645-661, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggz302.

17. Ye, L., T. Lay, H. Kanamori, & K. Koper (2019), Reply to: Comment by Rodrigo Cienfuegos on Rapidly Estimated Seismic Source Parameters for the 16 September 2015 Illapel, Chile, M_W 8.3 Earthquake, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 1-1, doi: 10.1007/s00024-019-02214-3.

18. Lay, T., L. Ye, H. Kanamori, & K. Satake (2018), Constraining the Dip of Shallow, Shallowly‐Dipping Thrust Events Using Long‐Period Love Wave Radiation Patterns: Applications to the 25 October 2010 Mentawai, Indonesia and 4 May 2018 Hawaii Island Earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2018GL080042.

19. Bai, Y., L. Ye, Y. Yamazaki, T. Lay, & K. F. Cheung (2018), The 4 May 2018 M_W 6.9 Hawaii Island Earthquake and Implications for Tsunami Hazards, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2018GL079742.

20. Lay, T., L. Ye, Y. Bai, K. F. Cheung, & H. Kanamori (2018), The 2018 M_W 7.9 Gulf of Alaska Earthquake: Multiple Fault Rupture in the Pacific Plate, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2018GL079813.

21. Ye, L., H. Kanamori, & T. Lay (2018), Global Variations of Large Megathrust Earthquake Rupture Characteristics, Science Advances, Vol. 4(3), doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aao4915.

22. Ye, L., T. Lay, Y. Bai, K. F. Cheung, & H. Kanamori (2017), The 2017 M_W 8.2 Chiapas, Mexico Earthquake: Energetic Slab Detachment, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi: 10.1002/2017GL076085.

23. Lay, T., L. Ye, Y. Bai, K. F. Cheung, H. Kanamori, J. Freymueller, G. M. Steblov, & M. G. Kogan (2017), Rupture Along 400 km of the Bering Fracture Zone in the Komandorsky Islands Earthquake (M_W 7.8) of 17 July 2017, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL076148.

24. Bai, Y., T. Lay, K. F. Cheung, & L. Ye (2017), Two regions of seafloor deformation generated the tsunami for the 13 November 2016, Kaikoura, New Zealand earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2017GL073717.

25. Hollingsworth, J., L. Ye, & J. P. Avouac (2017), Dynamically triggered slip on a splay fault in the M_W 7.8, 2016 Kaikoura (New Zealand) earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2016GL072228.

26. Lay, T., L. Ye, C. Ammon, & H. Kanamori (2017), Intraslab rupture triggering megathrust rupture co-seismically in the December 17, 2016 Solomon Islands M_W 7.9 earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2017GL072539.

27. Kanamori H., L. Ye, B. S. Huang, H. H. Huang, W. T. Liang, Y. Y. Lin, K. F. Ma, Y. M. Wu, & T. Y. Yeh (2017), A strong-motion hot spot of the 2016 Meinong, Taiwan, earthquake (M_W = 6.4), special issue of TAO on the 2016 Meinong earthquake, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2016.10.07.01.

28. Ye, L., T. Lay, H. Kanamori, J. Freymueller, & L. Rivera (2016), Joint inversion of high-rate GPS and teleseismic observations for rupture process of the 23 June 2014 (M_W 7.9) Rat Islands archipelago, Alaska, intermediate-depth earthquake, Natural Hazards and Plate Boundaries (invited), AGU Monograph.

29. Ye, L., H. Kanamori, J. P. Avouac, L. Li, K. F. Cheung, & T. Lay (2016), The 16 April 2016, M_W 7.8 (M_S 7.5) Ecuador earthquake: a quasi-repeat of the 1942 Ms 7.5 earthquake and partial re-rupture of the 1906 Ms 8.6 Colombia-Ecuador earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.006.

30. Lay T., L. Ye, C. Ammon, A. Dunham, & K. Koper (2016), The 2 March 2016 Wharton Basin M_W 7.8 earthquake: High stress drop north-south strike-slip rupture in the diffuse oceanic deformation zone between the Indian and Australian Plates, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2016GL069931.

31. Ye, L., T. Lay, H. Kanamori, Z. Zhan, & Z. Duputel (2016), Diverse Rupture Processes in the 2015 Peru Deep Earthquake Doublet, Science Advances, 2(6), doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600581.

32. Li, L., T. Lay, K. F. Cheung, & L. Ye (2016), Joint modeling of teleseismic and tsunami wave observations to constrain the 16 September 2015 Illapel, Chile M_W 8.3 earthquake rupture process, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, doi: 10.1002/2016GL068674.

33. Ye, L., T. Lay, H. Kanamori, & K. Koper (2016), Rapidly estimated seismic source parameters for the 16 September 2015 Illapel, Chile M_W 8.3 earthquake, Pure and Applied Geophysics, doi:10. 1007/s00024-015-1202-y.

34. Lay, T., L. Ye, K. D. Koper, & H. Kanamori (2016), Assessment of teleseismically-determined source parameters for the April 25, 2015 M_W 7.9 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake and the May 12, 2015, M_W 7.2 aftershock, Tectonophysics, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.05.023.

35. Ye, L., T. Lay, H. Kanamori, & L. Rivera (2016), Rupture characteristics of major and great (Mw ≥ 7) megathrust earthquakes from 1990 to 2015: 2. depth dependence, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121, 845-863, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012427.

36. Ye, L., T. Lay, H. Kanamori, & L. Rivera (2016), Rupture characteristics of major and great (Mw ≥ 7) megathrust earthquakes from 1990 to 2015: 1. Source parameter scaling relationships, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121, 821-844, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012426.

37. Ye, L., T. Lay, Z. Zhan, H. Kanamori, & J. Hao (2016), The isolated ~680 km deep 30 May 2015 M_W 7.9 Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 433, 169–179, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.049.

38. He, X., S. Ni, L. Ye, T. Lay, Q. Liu, & K. Koper (2015), Rapid seismological quantification of source parameters of the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake, Seismological Research Letters, 86 (6), 1568-1577, doi: 10.1785/0220150131.

39. Meng, Q., H. David, L. Ye, T. Lay, D. A. Wiens, M. Jia, & P. R. Cummin (2015), The 3 May 2006 (M_W 8.0) and 19 March 2009 (M_W 7.6) Tonga earthquakes: Intraslab compressional faulting below the megathrust, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012242.

40. Ye, L., T. Lay, K. D. Koper, R. Smalley, Jr., L. Rivera, M. G. Bevis, A. F. Zakrajsek, & F. N. Teferl (2014), Complementary slip distributions of the August 4, 2003 M_W 7.6 and November 17, 2013 M_W 7.8 South Scotia Ridge earthquakes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 401, 15–226, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.06.007.

41. Bai, Y., K. F. Cheung, Y. Yamazaki, T. Lay, & L. Ye (2014), Tsunami surges around the Hawaiian Islands from the 1 April 2014 North Chile M_W 8.1 earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 41(23), 8512–8521, doi: 10.1002/2014GL061686.

42. Ye, L., T. Lay, & H. Kanamori (2014), The 23 June 2014 M_W 7.9 Rat Islands archipelago, Alaska, intermediate depth earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 41(18), 6389–6395, doi: 10.1002/2014GL061153.

43. Ye, L., T. Lay, H. Kanamori, & K. D. Koper (2013), Energy Release of the 2013 M_W 8.3 Sea of Okhotsk Earthquake and Deep Slab Stress Heterogeneity, Science, 341(6152), 1380-1384, doi: 10.1126/science.1242032.

44. Lay, T., Z. Duputel, L. Ye, & H. Kanamori (2013), The December 7, 2012 Japan Trench intraplate doublet (M_W 7.2, 7.1) and interactions between near-trench intraplate thrust and normal faulting, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 220, 73-78, doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2013.04.009.

45. Ye, L., T. Lay, & H. Kanamori (2013), Large earthquake rupture process variations on the Middle America megathrust, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 381,147-155, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.042.

46. Lay, T., L. Ye, H. Kanamori, Y. Yamazaki, K. F. Cheung, & C. J. Ammon (2013), The February 6, 2013 M_W 8.0 Santa Cruz Islands earthquake and tsunami, Tectonophysics, Vol. 608, 1109-1121, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.07.001.

47. Lay, T., L. Ye, H. Kanamori, Y. Yamazaki, K. F. Cheung, K. D. Koper, & K. Kwong (2013), The October 28, 2012 M_W 7.8 Haida Gwaii underthrusting earthquake and tsunami: Slip partitioning along the Queen Charlotte Fault transcompressional plate boundary, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 375, 57-70, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.005.

48. Ye, L., T. Lay, & H. Kanamori (2013), Ground shaking and seismic source spectra for large earthquakes around the megathrust fault offshore of northeastern Honshu, Japan, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 103, no. 2B, 1221–1241, doi: 10.1785/0120120115.

49. Ye, L., T. Lay, & H. Kanamori (2012), Intraplate and interplate faulting interactions during the August 31, 2012, Philippine Trench earthquake (M_W 7.6) sequence, Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L24310, doi: 10.1029/2012GL054164.

50. Lay, T., H. Kanamori, C. J. Ammon, K. D. Koper, A. R. Hutko, L. Ye, H. Yue, & T. Rushing (2012), Depth-Varying Rupture Properties of Subduction Zone Megathrust Faults, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117, B04311, 21, doi: 10.1029/2011JB009133.

51. Ye, L., T. Lay, & H. Kanamori (2012), The Sanriku-Oki Low Seismicity Region on the Northern Margin of the Great 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake Rupture, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 117, B02305, 17, 10.1029/2011JB008847.

52. 叶玲玲, 李娟 (2012), 东北地区660 km间断面附近波速结构研究, 地震学报, 34(2), 137-146.

53. Ye, L., J. Li, T. Tseng, & Z. Yao (2011), A Stagnant Slab in a Water-bearing Mantle Transition Zone beneath Northeast China: Implications from Regional SH Waveform Modelling, Geophysical Journal International, 186, 706–710, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05063.x.

Other Scientific Publications

1. Hu, Y.#, L. Ye*, X. Chen, T. Lay, H. Kanamori, F. Romano, & S. Lorito (2022), Deep Megathrust Rupture and Faulting Interaction during the 2021 MW 8.1 Kermadec Earthquake Sequence, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, under review.

2. Ye, L., & T. Lay (2020), A Ghost Tsunami without warning. The Science Breaker (invited), doi: 10.25250/thescbr.brk365.

3. Wu, R. S., Y. Geng, & L. Ye (2013), Preliminary study on Dreamlet based compressive sensing data recovery, SEG Expanded Abstracts, pp. 3585-3590.

4. Wu, R. S., L. Ye, & Y. Zheng (2013), Nonlinear Partial Functional Derivative and Nonlinear LS Seismic Inversion, 75th EAGE Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC.