Journal Publications

(* indicates student/postdoc)

In review / to be submitted

• Ye, S.*, Lui, S. K. Y., & Young, R. P. Application of a Novel Local Dynamic Weakening Model Coupled with Smooth-joint Contact in the Simulation of Fault Ruptures and Laboratory Earthquakes, in review.

• Ye, S.*, Lui, S. K. Y., & Young, R. P. Insights on earthquake nucleation revealed by numerical simulation and unsupervised machine learning of laboratory-scale earthquakes, in review.

Published

• Jeong, S.*, Tan, X.*, & Lui, S. K. Y. (2024). Fluid-induced aseismic slip may explain the non-self-similar source scaling of the induced earthquake sequence near the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, Texas, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. http://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB027714

• Tan, X.*, & Lui, S. K. Y. (2023). Potential poroelastic triggering of the 2020 M5.0 Mentone earthquake in the Delaware Basin, Texas, by shallow injection wells, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120230142

• Mandal, R.*, & Lui, S. K. Y. (2022). Interdependent effects of fluid injection parameters on triggered aseismic fault slip and seismic clusters, Scientific Reports 12, 20922. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25239-6

• Lui, S. K. Y., Huang, Y., & Young, R. P. (2021). The Role of Fluid Pressure-Induced Aseismic Slip in Earthquake Cycle Modulation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(4), e2020JB021196. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021196

• Lui, S. K. Y., & Huang, Y. (2019). Do Injection-Induced Earthquakes Rupture Away from Injection Wells due to Fluid Pressure Change? Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 109(1), 358-371. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120180233

• Lui, S. K. Y., & Lapusta, N. (2018). Modeling high stress drops, scaling, interaction, and irregularity of repeating earthquake sequences near Parkfield. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(12), 10-854. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016472

• Lui, S. K. Y., & Lapusta, N. (2016). Repeating microearthquake sequences interact predominantly through postseismic slip. Nature communications, 7(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13020

• Lui, S. K. Y., Helmberger, D., Yu, J., & Wei, S. (2016). Rapid assessment of earthquake source characteristics. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 106(6), 2490-2499. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120160112

• Lui, S. K. Y., Helmberger, D., Wei, S., Huang, Y., & Graves, R. W. (2015). Interrogation of the megathrust zone in the Tohoku-Oki seismic region by waveform complexity: Intraslab earthquake rupture and reactivation of subducted normal faults. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 172(12), 3425-3437. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-015-1042-9

Conference Proceedings

• S. K. Y. Lui and R. P. Young, Investigating the effect of induced stress perturbation on the slip behavior of faults through numerical simulations, Proceedings of the 52th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, American Rock Mechanics Association (2018).

• S. K. Y. Lui and N. Lapusta, Physics-based elastodynamic modeling of interacting frictional shear cracks, Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2016).

Theses 

• S. K. Y. Lui, Earthquake source characterization through seismic observations and numerical modeling, Dissertation, Advisors: Don V. Helmberger & Nadia Lapusta, California Institute of Technology (2016). Link

• S. K. Y. Lui, Applications of Unidirectional Flow Models to Lower Crustal Deformation, Undergraduate honors thesis, Advisor: Eric Hetland, University of Michigan (2011).