(* denotes student/postdoc)
In preparation / Under review
*Tan, X. and Lui, S. K. Y. Effects of hydraulic diffusivity and injection rate on earthquake nucleation length under different nucleation regimes on (aging) rate-and-state faults, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, in revision. [Preprint: http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/essoar.173924247.70922881/v1]
Khosravi, M. H., Korolev. A., Ding, L., de Boer, T., Yang, G., Kravchinsky E., Lui, S. K. Y., Grasselli, G., and Liu, Q. Machine-learning-based Automatic Microseismic Event Detection During the August 17, 2015, Mw 4.6 Induced Earthquake Sequence in Northern Montney, British Columbia, Canada, in review.
*Pun, H. L., Lui, S. K. Y., and Göbel, T. H. W. Characteristics of Foreshock Activity in Taiwan: Implications for mainshock properties and nucleation process, in review.
*Mandal, R., and Lui, S. K. Y. Integrated Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Pre-Mainshock Stress Evolution Leading to the 2016 Mw 5.8 Pawnee Earthquake, submitted.
*Tan, X., and Lui, S. K. Y. Understanding Rupture Directivity of Injection-induced Earthquakes: A Numerical Study Coupling Poroelastic Model with Rate-and-state Earthquake Cycle Simulator, to be submitted.
Published
*Ye, S., Lui, S. K. Y., and Young, R. P. (2025). Addressing High-Pressure Fault Rupture Limitations in PFC3D: A Dynamic Weakening Approach, Acta Geophysica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-025-01540-6
*Jeong, S. and Lui, S. K. Y. (2024). Source Characteristics of Tectonic and Induced Events near St. Gallen, Switzerland: Utilizing the Empirical Green’s Functions Method and Generalized Inversion Technique, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120240145
*Ye, S., Lui, S. K. Y., and Young, R. P. (2024). Insights on earthquake nucleation revealed by numerical simulation and unsupervised machine learning of laboratory-scale earthquakes, Scientific Reports 14, 28812. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80136-4
*Jeong, S., *Tan, X., and 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. and 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. and 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., and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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., and 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., and 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
Lui, S. K. Y., and Young, R. P. (2018). 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.
Lui, S. K. Y., and Lapusta, N. (2016). Physics-based elastodynamic modeling of interacting frictional shear cracks, Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.