Welcome!

Hello! Welcome to the Observational Seismology Lab at IUB! 

My name is Jianhua Gong. I go by Ginny. I am a seismologist interested in the seismotectonic processes of active plate boundaries on Earth. I use seismological observations and numerical simulations to understand the structure, seismic activity, and deformation of the plate boundaries, particularly subduction zones and oceanic transform faults.

Active tectonic plate boundaries are the places where the Earth materials are created, partitioned, and recycled, and the deformation is accommodated by various fault slip modes and faulting networks. These processes are fundamentally related to the evolution of the Earth and are the causes of many natural hazards, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. However, because of their remote or undersea locations, many of the active plate boundaries lack adequate geophysical observations to resolve the mechanisms of these tectonic processes or to monitor natural hazards, which may cause sever social and economic damage to nearby communities.

Given those challenges (opportunities), my research group aims to design and conduct field experiments to study the tectonic plate boundaries and develop novel data analysis methods on a variety of seismic data types to probe the seismotectonic processes of the plate boundaries with much higher spatiotemporal resolutions.