Publication

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- 1. Yao, D.*, Z. Peng and X. Meng (2015), Remotely triggered earthquakes in South-Central Tibet following the 2004 Mw 9.1 Sumatra and 2005 Mw 8.6 Nias earthquakes, Geophys. J. Int., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv037.
  2. Bansal, A. R., D. Yao, Z. Peng and D. Sianipar (2016), Isolated Regions of Remote Triggering in South/Southeast Asia following the 2012 Mw8.6 Indian Ocean earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069955.
  3. Yao, D.*, J. I. Walter, X. Meng, T. E. Hobbs, Z. Peng, A. V. Newman, S. Y. Schwartz and M. Protti (2017), Detailed Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Microseismicity and Repeating Earthquakes around the 2012 Mw7.6 Nicoya Earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., Solid Earth, DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013632.
  4. Li, L., D. Yao, X. Meng, Z. Peng and B. Wang (2017), Increasing Normal-Faulting Earthquakes in Southern Tibet following the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake, Tectonophysics, DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.08.008.
  5. Wu, J., D. Yao, X. Meng, Z. Peng, J. Su and F. Long (2017), Spatial-temporal evolutions of early aftershocks following the 2013 Mw6.6 Lushan earthquake in Sichuan, China, J. Geophys. Res., Solid Earth, DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013706.
  6. Hobbs, T. E., C. Kyriakopoulos, A. V. Newman, M. Protti, and D. Yao (2017),Large and primarily updip afterlip following the 2012 Mw 7.6 Nicoya, Costa Rica earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., Solid Earth, DOI:10.1002/2017JB014035.
  7. Li, C., Z. Peng, D. Yao, H. Guo, Z. Zhan and H. Zhang (2018), Abundant Aftershock Sequence of the 2015 Mw7.5 Hindu Kush Intermediate-Depth Earthquake, Geophys. J. Int., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy016.
  8. Peng, Z., B. Fry, K. Chao, D. Yao, X. Meng, A. Jolly (2018), Remote Triggering of Microearthquakes and Tremor in New Zealand following the 2016 Mw7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake, Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170327.
  9. Zhu, L., Z. Peng, J. McClellan, C. Li, D. Yao, Z. Li and L. Fang (2019), Deep learning for seismic phase detection and picking in the aftershock zone of 2008 Mw7. 9 Wenchuan Earthquake, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2019.05.004.
  10. Daniels, C., Z. Peng, Q. Wu, S. Ni, X. Meng, D. Yao, L. Wagner and K. Fischer (2019), The 15 February 2014 4.1 South Carolina Earthquake Sequence: Aftershock Productivity, Hypocentral Depths, and Stress Drops, Seismological Research Letters, DOI: ttps://doi.org/10.1785/0220190034.
  11. Yao, D.*, Y. Huang, Z. Peng and R. R. Castro (2020), Detailed Investigation of the Foreshock Sequence of the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB019076.
  12. Neo., J.C., Y. Huang, D. Yao and S. Wei (2020), Is the Aftershock Area a Good Proxy for the Mainshock Rupture Area? Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., https://doi.org/10.1785/0120190200.
  13. Yao, D.*, Z. Peng, Y. Kaneko, B. Fry and X. Meng (2020), Dynamic Triggering of Earthquakes in the North Island of New Zealand Following the 2016 Mw7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letter, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116723.
  14. Yao, D.*, Y. Huang and J. Fox (2021). New insights into the Lake Erie Fault System from the 2019 ML4.0 Ohio Earthquake Sequence, Seismological Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200335.
  15. Yao, D.*, Y. Huang, L. Xue, Y. Fu, A. Gronewold and J. Fox (2021), Seismicity around southern Lake Erie during 2013–2020 in relation to lake water level, Seismological Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210343. [covered by Michigan News, Ann Arbor News, Toledo Blade].
  16. Li, C., Z. Peng, D. Yao, X. Meng and Q. Zhai (2023), Temporal Changes of Seismicity in Salton Sea Geothermal Field due to Distant Earthquakes and Geothermal Productions, Geophysical Journal International, DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggac324.
Under review/in preparation
- 1. Yao et al., (2021), Background seismicity around the 2008 Wenchuan EQ, in prep
  2. Hobbs et al., (2021), Investigating Apparent Anticorrelation of Aftershocks and Afterslip in Nicoya, Costa Rica, in prep (targeted for JGR)
  3. Church et al. (2023), Single-station seismic event detection and classification, in prep (SRL)
  4. more to come
Dissertation

Yao, D. (2019), Understanding Earthquake Triggering and Fault Slip Behavior Based on Improved Earthquake Catalogs, Georgia Institute of Technology.

- Talks/Posters

Investigating Potential Earthquake Preparatory Phase From ShortTerm and Long-Term Seismic Observations, SSA, 2021, Oral (virtual)
Identification of earthquakes and anthropogenic events around the southern Great Lakes, AGU, 2020, Poster (virtual)
A systematic analysis of the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah foreshock sequence, SSA, 2019, Seattle