Its time for the SSA2026. Seeing A LOT of familiar people in the first afternoon of the meeting. The next three days will be very intense meeting schedule!

I haven't came back to Caltech for 13 years！ Many things have been changed since 2013. No more bookstore nor Red Door Cafe, but the pond and turtles are still there.

Caltech Mourns the Passing of Planetary Scientist Yuk Yung Yuk Yung, professor of planetary science and JPL senior research scientist, passed away on March 16.

Yuk L. Yung, professor of planetary science and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) senior research scientist, passed away on March 16, 2026, after a brief illness. He was 79.

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If you are interested in the 2025 Myanmar #Earthquake, here is the online memorial conference we organized covering #seismology, #hazard, and #paleoseismology Feel free to register and attend online! mieps-edu.org/conference/

The online conference information here
mieps-edu.org/conference/

It has been almost one year since the Mw 7.7 Mandalay Earthquake. Lessons learned from this event may help us to understand the physics behind the large continental strike-slip fault rupture, and also for earthquake hazard mitigation. Join us in this memorial conference online to learn more about it

"Active faults of Japan" published last year. The book has detailed maps and descriptions of active faults of Japan islands, and comes with the access of an online GIS database.

Planet imagery of the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine Over the weekend, Planet captured almost perfect imagery of the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand.

Over the weekend, @planet.com captured almost perfect satellite imagery of the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand.
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The aftermath of the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand. Image copyright Planet, captured on 15 November 2025, used with permission.

Imagery from @planet.com has captured the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand. It shows the failure was about 4.8 km long and 1.4 km wide. There appears to have been coal waste dumping on the area that failed in the weeks before the landslide.
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Looks like it's related to the cutting of slope from the highway construction.

2025ACES YouTube video by 台灣地震科學中心TEC

The 12th ACES (APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Science) International Workshop in Taipei just finished! 🎉 203 scientists & experts from 21 countries gathered for the largest ACES meeting ever, sharing the latest in #EarthquakeScience.

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For the Philippines, the latter half of 2025 has not been very peaceful in terms of earthquakes. A Mw 7.4 earthquake occured along the Philippine Trench this morning. Background Image source: Earth Observatory of Singapore.

Wow... Wonder what the focal mechanism looks like! That is the source area of the 1762 earthquake. Previous focal mechanisms also showed some normal faulting on the downgoing slab!

Open faculty position!

The Department of Geosciences at the National Taiwan University (NTU-TW) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position.

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A LLOF (Landslide Lake Outburst Flood) event happened in eastern Taiwan on Sept 23, causing severe flooding in the downstream area. Despite warnings issued in advance, it killed 17+ people, mostly elders living in 1F. The image taken by Planet Lab today shows the affected area of this LLOF event.

Simulated propagation of tsunami generated by Kamchatka M8.8 earthquake. Generated by NCDR, Taiwan. 🧪⚒️⚛️

If you are working on earthquake related research in the Pacific region, it's not too late to consider coming to the ACES workshop in Taipei, Taiwan this November.

Uplifted reels platform associated with the 2013 Bohol earthquake

The cave swimming pool in Bohol island, Philippines. People find many different usages to these limestone caves around the world

The change of earthquake swarm near Japan's Tokara islands, from JMA's website. Two clusters developed since the beginning of this episode of activity.

I have to force myself to stop watching it in order to focus on my work....

I was surprised by how fast google updates the image this time....

The highway is open five times per day. No parking lots nor trails open in the gauge. Small-scale rock falls from the cliff. Good for car travel but not recommended for biking or travel by walk.

One year after the 2024 Hualien earthquake, the Taruko gauge is gradually coming back.

There are a few M5 earthquakes that happened in the part of section, but the recent event is close to the eastern boundary of the moderate earthquake cluster, at the western end of the seismic gap...

The msg from my student is 80 percent of town is disfunctioned....

Well.... I did not expect that either. When I got 430 km in 3/29, I was surprised about this result because it stopped in the middle of the Pyu section. Now, the pixel correlation esult in 4/1 confirmed it went further south, until 18.2 deg. This explained my students' damage data collected after eq

I thought the Myanmar earthquake was crazy, but actually, it's even more crazy than what I could imagine....

Never finished my 1839 Ava paper, but the Ava earthquake could be slightly larger than the 2025 event. They did share lots of similarities...

For some reason, the global network did not catch up the aftershocks on the southern part of rupture. The regional network from Thailand did report aftershocks from the south.