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PUBLICATIONS

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2024

  • Wei, M. M., He, L., & Smith-konter, B. (2024). A model of the earthquake cycle along the Gofar oceanic transform faults. Seismica, 3.2. https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v3i2.1382

  • Slead*, S., M. Wei, S. Nooner, W.Chadwick, D. Caress, and J. Beeson (2024), Compartmentalization of Axial Seamount’s magma reservoir inferred by analytical and numerical deformation modeling with realistic geometry, JGR Solid Earth. DOI: 10.1029/2023JB028414.

2023

  • Parons, T., P. Wu*, M. Wei, S. DHondt (2023), The weight of New York City: Possible contributions to subsidence from anthropogenic sources. Earth's Future. DOI: 10.1029/2022EF003465.

  • He*, B., X. Wei, M. Wei, Y. Shen, M. Alvarez, S. Schwartz (2023), A shallow slow slip event in 2018 in the Semidi segment of the Alaska subduction zone detected by machine learning. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118154.

2022

  • Slead*, S., & M. Wei (2022), Yield estimate for the January 2016 DPRK nuclear test based on InSAR and numerical modeling with mechanical heterogeneity, Geophysical Journal International, ggac308. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac308

  • Shi*, P., M. Wei, S. Barbot (2022), Contribution of Viscoelastic Stress to the Synchronization of Earthquake Cycles on Oceanic Transform Faults, JGR Solid Earth, e2022JB024069. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024069

  • Wu*, P.-C., M. Wei, & S. D’Hondt (2022), Subsidence in coastal cities throughout the world observed by InSAR, Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL098477. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022GL098477

2021

  • Shi*, P., M. Wei, R. Pockalny (2021), The ubiquitous creeping segments on oceanic transform faults, Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G49562.1. 

  • Watts, R., M. Wei, K. Tracey, K. Donohue, and B. He* (2021), Seafloor geodetic pressure measurements to detect shallow slow slip events: Methods to remove contributions from ocean water, JGR Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020065.

  • Cruz-Atienza, V. M., Tago, J., Villafuerte, C., Wei, M. et al. (2021), Short-Term Interaction between Silent and Devastating Earthquakes in Mexico, Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22326-6.

2020

  • Wei, M. and P. Shi* (2020), Synchronization of earthquake cycles of adjacent segments on oceanic transform faults revealed by numerical simulation in the framework of rate-and-state friction, JGR Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020231.

  • He*, B., M. Wei, R. Watts, and Y. Shen (2020), Detecting Slow Slip Events from Seafloor Pressure Data Using Machine Learning, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087579.

2018

  • Wei, M. (2018), Seismic Behavior on Oceanic Transform Faults at the East Pacific Rise, Book Chapter in “Transform Plate Boundaries and Fracture Zones”, edited by Dr. João C. Duarte. Publisher Elsevier.

  • Wei, M., Y. Kaneko, P. Shi*, and Y. Liu (2018), Numerical modeling of dynamically triggered shallow slow         slip  events in New Zealand by the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 4764–4772. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077879. 

  • Li*, H., M. Wei, D. Li, Y. Liu, Y. Kim, and S. Zhou (2018), Segmentation of slow slip events in south central Alaska possibly controlled by a subducted oceanic plateau, JGR Solid Earth, 123, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014911

2017

  • Wei, M. (2017), Location and Source Characteristics of the January 6, 2016 North Korean Nuclear Test Constrained by InSAR, Geophysical Journal International, 209 (2), 762-769, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx053.

  • Yang, H., Y. Liu, M. Wei, J. Zhuang, and S. Zhou (2017), Induced earthquakes in the development of unconventional energy resources, Science China Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s11430-017-9063-0.

  • Fu, J., X. Wang, T. Wei, M. Wei, and Y. Shen (2017), A Cost-Effective Geodetic Strainmeter Based on Dual Coaxial Cable Bragg Gratings, Sensors, 17(4), 842; doi:10.3390/s17040842.

Before 2015

  • Wei, M., Y. Liu, Y. Kaneko, J. McGuire, and R. Bilham (2015), Dynamic triggering of creep events in the Salton Trough, Southern California by regional M ≥ 5.4 earthquakes constrained by geodetic observations and numerical simulations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 427, 1-10, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.044.

  • Wei, M., and J. McGuire (2014), The Mw 6.5 offshore Northern California earthquake of 10 January 2010: Ordinary stress drop on a high-strength fault, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL061043.

  • Wei, M., Y. Kaneko, Y. Liu, and J. McGuire (2013), Episodic fault creep events in California controlled by shallow frictional heterogeneity, Nature Geoscience 6, 566–570, doi:10.1038/ngeo1835.

  • Wei, M., J. McGuire, and E. Richardson (2012), A slow slip event in the south central Alaska Subduction Zone and related seismicity anomaly, Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L15309, doi:10.1029/2012GL052351.

  • Wei, M., D. T. Sandwell, Y. Fialko, and R. Bilham (2011), Slip on faults in the Imperial Valley triggered by the 4 April 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor‐Cucapah earthquake revealed by InSAR, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L01308, doi:10.1029/2010GL045235.

  • Wei, M., D. T. Sandwell, and B. Smith-Konter (2010), Optimal combination of InSAR and GPS for measuring interseismic crustal deformation, Advances in Space Research, 46, 2, 236-249, doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.03.013.

  • Wei, M. and D. T. Sandwell (2010), Decorrelation of ALOS and ERS interferometry over vegetated areas in California, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48, 2942-2952, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2043442.

  • Wei, M., D. Sandwell, and Y. Fialko (2009), A silent Mw 4.7 slip event of October 2006 on the Superstition Hills fault, southern California, JGR Solid Earth, 114, B07402, doi:10.1029/2008JB006135.

  • Wei, M. and D. T. Sandwell (2006), Estimates of Ridge-Axis Heat Flow from Depth and Age Data, Tectonophysics, 417, 325-335.

Publications

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” ― Albert Einstein

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