Hsin-Hua Huang: Earthquake hazard mitigation

Earthquakes are one of the most frequent natural hazards in Taiwan. To mitigate the level of their damage, the development of early warning system is of great importance on one hand (Wu et al., 2011); gaining better understanding of ground motion relations, such as medium attenuation, source characteristics (e.g. directivity), and site effects, is also critical on the other hand. With derived high resolution velocity models, we have analyzed the source properties of Nantou (Lee et al., 2015) and Ruisui earthquakes (Lee et al., 2014) and demonstrated the capability of capturing realistic ground motions to some extent, especially across mountains and within basins, which could give us better insights into complicated wave propagation and help the hazard mitigation ultimately. More recently, we focus on the directional strong ground shaking of earthquakes and develop the directivity moment tensor inversion method (DMT) (Huang et al., 2017) and near-field directional attenuation regression analysis (Jan et al., 2018) for early estimation of rupture directivity and in turn more accurate shaking alerts in EEW system.

Related works:

Jan, J.-C., H.-H. Huang*, Y.-M. Wu, C.-C. Chen, and C.-H. Lin (2018), Near real-time estimates on earthquake rupture directivity using near-field ground motion data from a dense low-cost seismic network, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2018GL078262.
Huang, H.-H.*, N. Aso*, and V. C. Tsai (2017), Toward automated directivity estimates in earthquake moment tensor inversion, Geophys. J. Int., 211, 1084-1098, doi:10.1093/gji/ggx354.
Kanamori, H.*, L. Ye, B.-S. Huang, H.-H. Huang, S.-J. Lee, W.-T. Liang, Y.-Y. Lin, K.-F. Ma, Y.-M. Wu, and T.-Y. Yeh (2017), A strong-motion hot spot of the 2016 Meinong, Taiwan, earthquake (Mw=6.4), Terre. Atmos. Oceanic Sci., doi: 10.3319/TAO.2016.10.07.01.
Lee, S.-J.*, T.-Y. Yeh, H.-H. Huang, and C.-H. Lin (2015), Numerical earthquake models of the 2013 Nantou, Taiwan, earthquake series: Characteristics of source rupture processes, strong ground motions and their tectonic implication, J. Asian Earth Sci., 111, 365-372.
Lee, S.-J.*, H.-H. Huang, J. B. H. Shyu, T.-Y. Yeh, and T.-C. Lin (2014), Numerical earthquake model of the 31 October 2013 Ruisui, Taiwan, Earthquake: Source rupture process and seismic wave propagation, J. Asian Earth Sci., 96, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.09.020.
Wu, Y.-M., T.-L. Lin*, W.-A. Chao, H.-H. Huang, N.-C. Hsiao and C.-H. Chang (2011), Faster short-distance earthquake early warning using continued monitoring of filtered vertical displacement ― a case study for the 2010 Jiasian earthquake, Taiwan. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 101, 701-709.

NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS

2020/5/18:

Our work about detecting precursory seismic velocity changes (dv/v) prior to the 2018 May 2 Kilauea Hawaii volcano was accepted by Earth, Planets and Space, in which a spatiotemporal dv/v evolution in relation to multi-stage magma intrusion processes between the summit reservoirs and East Rift Zone dike system is illuminated and discussed.

2020/1/15:

IES & ESLab 2019 year-end party~

2019/12/4:

Congratulations to Kuan-Fu Feng who is awarded Outstanding Student Paper Awards in International Conferences by Earth Science Research Promotion Center (ESPRC)!

2019/9/27:

We are organizing a workshop on Frontiers in Seismic Interferometry on Sep. 27 and pleasant to have renowned experts from worldwide to join us! Please click and register if you are interested. We welcome everyone who'd like to learn or know more about this fast-growing research area in seismology.

2019/7/9:

Kicking off a seismic network deployment at Chunlin, Kaohsiung area for a integrative landslide monitoring project!

2019/6/19:

Congratulations to Jen Chu who received the grant of College Student Research Program from MOST!

2019/2/15:

ESLab go hiking for new year of the pig!

2019/1/12:

2018 year-end party of ESLab at Shin Yeh~

2019/1/9:

We are now recruiting an research assistant for the Academia Sinica thematic project of Landslide monitoring. Please click the [ad] for more details if you are interested! (position filled)

2018/12/5:

Our work using seismic and geodetic data to jointly constrain the multi-fault geometry and coseismic slips of the Hualien earthquake is just coming out on Geophys. Res. Lett.. 5-month postseismic data is also processed and shows significant displacement occurred at the Milun fault.

2018/8/31:

Congratulations to my summer program interns who won the 2nd position Poster Competition Award :)

2018/7/31:

Congratulations to Yu-Fang Hsu who received MOST College Student Research Award!

2018/7/14:

Our work about using near-field ground motion data to constrain earthquake rupture directivity in near real time has been accepted by Geophys. Res. Lett., which demonstrates a possibility of incorporating directivity information into EEW system for more accurate shaking alerts.

2018/5/3:

Congratulations to Yu-Fang Hsu who won outstanding student poster award in Geological and Geophysical Annual Meeting!

2018/3/20:

Based at Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo as a visiting researcher for one month

2018/2/9:

Group photo of Earth Structure Lab taken at IES weiya party~

2017/10/18:

Our three series papers about planetary seismology has been accepted in journal Astrobiology and JGR this year, and in the one of JGR papers, we demonstrate the usefulness of seismic interferometry to obtaining discontinuity structure beneath single station in Europa.

2017/10/6:

Group photo for a dense geophone array deployment at Lantai landslide area

2017/9/1:

Congratulations to my summer program interns who won the 3rd position Poster Competition Award :)

2017/8/20:

We have recently developed a method to estimate primary rupture directivity in earthquake moment tensor inversion that has the potential to be automated in real time. The paper is just coming out in journal GJI.

2017/6/9:

Congratulations to En-Shih Wu who received the grant of College Student Research Program from MOST!

2017/3/17:

Seismology Forum 2017: Natural Hazards and Surface Processes is held this year on Mar 17 at IES, with a theme aiming to cover a wide range of topics such as landslide and volcanic hazards which recently gain much attention in Taiwan. Welcome to join us! [agenda]

2017/1/10:

Welcome to join the Earth Structure Laboratory (ESLab) at IESAS.

2016/10/08:

Two new papers about Mw 6.4 Meinong earthquake in southern Taiwan has been online! We discuss its triggered aseismic slips at a shallow fault [GRL], and the possible effects on anomalously large S-wave pulses striking Tainan area [TAO].

2016/10/01:

Officially move back to Taiwan and start a faculty position as assistant research fellow at Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica. Prospective students and postdocs enthusiastic about exploring Earth structure and seismotectonics are wanted!

2015/12/23:
Our new work using earthquake coda interferometry to probing inner core structure is published in journal GRL.

2015/05/15:
Employing joint inversion of local earthquake and teleseismic data, we unveiled the second larger magma reservoir in the lower crust beneath the Yellowstone. The works has been published in journal Science. (click the link for a 3-D demonstration of Yellowstone magamatic system)