Publications

Cheng, C.-Y., H. Kuo-Chen*, D. Brown, H. Yao, K.-X Chen, K.-F. Ma (2024) High-resolution 3D ambient noise tomography around the Meishan-Chiayi active fault system Taiwan, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2024.100182.

Sun, W.-F., S.-Y. Pan, C.-M. Huang, Z.-K. Guan, I-C. Yen, C.-W. Ho, T.-C. Chi, C.-S. Ku, B.-S. Huang, C.-C. Fu, H. Kuo-Chen* (2024) Deep learning-based earthquake catalog reveals the seismogenic structures of the 2022 Mw6.9 Chihshang earthquake, TAO, https://doi.org/10.1007/s44195-024-00063-9.

Kuo-Chen, H., D. Brown, S.-Y. Lai, and J.-Y. Chen (2023) Reflection seismic profiling along the Longitudinal Valley Basin, Eastern Taiwan: In search of the Central Range fault, Tectonophysics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230129.

Kuo-Chen, H., Sun, W., Huang, C., Pan, S., (2022), Near real-time seismic data processing helps scientist understand aftershocks, Temblor, http://doi.org/10.32858/temblor.276 

Brown, D., J. Alvarez-Marron, G. Camanni, C. Biete, H. Kuo-Chen, Y.-M. Wu, Structure of the south-central Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt: Testing the viability of the model (2022) Earth-Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104094.

Doo, W.-B., W.-N. Wu, Y.-S. Huang, C.-L. Lo, H.-F. Wang, S.-Y. Wang, H. Kuo-Chen (2021) Deep crustal structure in the Taiwan-Ryukyu arc-trench system junction area: new constraints from gravity modeling, Terra Nova, doi:10.1111/ter.12525.

Cai, H.T., H. Kuo-Chen*, W.-B. Doo, C.-P Chang, X. Jin, Y.-W. Kuo, C.-Y. Wang W.-S. Chen, W.-Y. Chang (2021) Geophysical evidence for the ancient suture within the Cathaysia block, In C.H. Lo, X. Xu, W.Y. Chang, and M. Ando (Eds), Earthquake Geology and Tectonophysics around Eastern Tibet and Taiwan, Springer, doi:10.1007/978-981-15-6210-5_8.

Guan, Z.-K., H. Kuo-Chen*, W.-F. Sun (2020) Re-calculation of the attenuation functions for Local Magnitude from the upgraded Central Weather Bureau Seismic network in Taiwan, Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 31, 479-486, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2020.06.16.01.

Zhang, Y., H., Kuo-Chen*, J. Alvarez-Marron, D. Brown , A. Lin, Z. Xie, X. Jin (2020) Imaging active faulting in the western Taiwan Strait, Scientific Reports., doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60666-3

Kuo, T., W. Chen, C. Lewis, C. Ho, H. Kuochen (2019) Precursory behavior of groundwater radon in southeastern Taiwan: Effect of tectonic setting in the subduction zone, Pure and Applied Geophysics., doi: 10.1007/s00024-019-02389-9

Doo, W.-B., C.-L. Lo, H. Kuo-Chen, Y.-S. Huang, W.-N. Wu, S.-K. Hsu and H.-F. Wang (2019) Variations in mantle lithosphere buoyancy reveal seismogenic behaviour in the Sunda–Andaman subduction zone, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1093/gji/ggz502

Chan, H.P., C.P. Chang, T.H. Lin, M. Blackett, H. Kuo-Chen, A.T.S. Lin(2019) The potential of satellite remote sensing for monitoring the onset of volcanic activity on Taipei’s doorstep, International Journal of Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1080/01431161.2019.1667549

Biete, C., D. Brown, B. Lund, J. Alvarez-Marron, Y.-M. Wu, H. Kuo-Chen, C.-W. Ho (2019) The influence of inherited continental margin structures on the stress and strain fields of the south-central Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1093/gji/ggz296

Xu, Y., J.P. Wang, Y.-M. Wu, H. Kuo-Chen (2019) Prediction models and seismic hazard assessment: A case study from Taiwan, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2019.03.038

Chin, S.-J., J.-Y. Lin, Y.-C. Yeh, H. Kuo-Chen, C.-W. Liang (2019) Seismotectonic characteristics of the Taiwan collision-Manila subduction transition: the effect of pre-existing structures, JAES, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.01.014

Yen, J.-Y., C.-H. Lu, R. J. Dorsey, H. Kuo-Chen, C.-P. Chang, C.-C. Wang, R. Y. Chuang, Y.-T. Kuo, C.-Y. Chiu, Y.-H. Chang, F. Bovenga, W.-Y. Chang (2019) Insights into seismogenic deformation during the 2018 Hualien (Taiwan) earthquake sequence from InSAR, GPS and modeling, SRL, doi:10.1785/0220180228

Kuo-Chen, H.*, Z.-K. Guan, W.-F. Sun, P.-Y. Jhong, and D. Brown (2019) Aftershock sequence of the 2018 Mw6.4 Hualien earthquake in eastern Taiwan from a dense seismic array data set, SRL, doi:10.1785/0220180233

Hsu, Y.-C., J.-Y. Yen, C.-P. Chang, H, Kuo-Chen, C.-C. Wang (2018) Investigating The Structure of Milun Fault from the Surface Ruptures of 2018 Hualien Earthquake, TAO, doi:10.3319/TAO.2018.09.28.01

Zhang, Y., H. Yao, H.-Y. Yang, H.-T. Cai, H. Fang, J. Xu, X. Jin, H. Kuo-Chen, W.-T. Liang, and K.-X. Chen (2018) 3-D Crustal Shear Wave Velocity Structure of the Taiwan Strait and Fujian, SE China, Revealed by Ambient Noise Tomography, J. Geophys. Res, doi:10.1029/2018JB015938

Biete, C.,J. Álvarez-Marrón, D. Brown, H. Kuo-Chen (2018) The structure of southwest Taiwan: the development of a fold-and-thrust belt on a margins outer shelf and slope, Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2017TC004910

Liao, Y.-W., K.-F. Ma, M.-C. Hsieh, S.-N. Cheng, H. Kuo-Chen, C.-P. Chang (2018) Resolving the 1906 Meishan (M7.1), Taiwan, earthquake from historical seismic records, SRL, doi:10.1785/0220170285

Wang, J.P., Y. XuH. Kuo-Chen, Y.-M. Wu (2018) CAV site-effect assessment: a case study of Taipei Basin, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2018.02.028

Lo, C.L., W.-B. Doo, H. Kuo-Chen, S.-K. Hsu (2017) Plate coupling across the northern Manila subduction zone deduced from mantle lithosphere buoyancy, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2017.10.001

Brown, D., J. Alvarez-Marron, C. Biete, H. Kuo-Chen, G. Camanni, and C.-W. Ho (2017) How the structural architecture of the Eurasian continental margin affects the structure, seismicity, and topography of the south-central Taiwan fold-and-thrust belt, Tectonics, doi:10.1002/2017TC004475

Kuo-Chen, H.*, K.-X. Chen, W.-F. Sun, C.-W. Ho, Y.-H. Lee, Z.-K. Guan, C.-C. Kang, W.-Y. Chang (2017) 3D Vs ambient noise tomography in the source region of the 2016 Mw6.4 Meinong earthquake in Taiwan, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, doi:10.3319/TAO.2016.12.28.01

Xu, Y, J.P. Wang, Y.M. Wu, H. Kuo-Chen (2017) Reliability assessment on earthquake early warning: a case study from Taiwan, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 92, 397-407, doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2016.10.015

Kuo, T., H. Kuo-Chen, C.-W. Ho, W.-S. Chen (2017) A Stress Condition in Aquifer Rock for Detecting Anomalous Radon Decline Precursory to an Earthquake, Pure and Applied Geophysics, doi:10.1007/s00024-016-1461-2

Doo, W.B, H. Kuo-Chen, D. Brown, C.-L. Lo, S.-K. Hsu, Y.-S. Huang (2016) Serpentinization of the fore-arc mantle along the Taiwan arc-continent collision of the northern Manila subduction zone inferred from gravity modeling, Tectonophysics, 691, 282-289, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.10.019

Chen, K.-X., H. Kuo-Chen*, D. Brown, Q. Li, Z. Ye, W.-T. Liang, C.-Y. Wang, H. Yao (2016) Three-dimensional ambient noise tomography across the Taiwan Strait: the structure of a magma-poor rift margin, Tectonics, 35, doi:10.1002/2015TC004097

Kuo, Y.W., C.Y. Wang, H. Kuo-Chen*, X. Jin, H.T. Cai, J.Y. Lin, F.T. Wu, H.Y. Yen, B.S. Huang, W.T. Liang, D. Okaya, and L. Brown (2016) Crustal structures from the Wuyi-Yunkai orogen to the Taiwan orogen: the onshore-offshore wide-angle seismic experiments of the TAIGER and ATSEE projects, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2015.09.014

Wu,F, Z. E. Ross,D. Okaya, Y. Ben-Zion, C-Y. Wang, H. Kuo-Chen, W.-T. Liang (2016) Dense Network, intense seismicity and Tectonics of Taiwan, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.04.025

Xu, Y., X.-S. Tang, J.P. Wang, H. Kuo-Chen (2016) Copula-based joint probability function for PGA and CAV: a case study from Taiwan, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, doi:10.1002/eqe.2748

Van Avendonk, H,J.A., K. McIntosh, H. Kuo-Chen, L.L. Lavier, D.A. Okaya, F.T. Wu, C.-Y. Wang, C.-S. Lee, C.-S. Liu (2016) A lithospheric profile across northern Taiwan: From arc-continent collision to extension, Geophysical Journal International, doi:10.1093/gji/ggv468

Doo, W.-B., C.-L. Lo, H. Kuo-Chen, D. Brown, S.-K. Hsu (2015) Exhumation of serpentinized peridotite in the northern Manila subduction zone inferred from forward gravity modeling, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1002/2015GL065705

Kuo-Chen, H.F. Wu, W.-L. Chang, C.-Y. Chang, C.-Y. Cheng, N. Hirata (2015) Is the Lishan Fault of Taiwan Active?, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2015.09.002 (Corrigendum, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.12.016)

Cai, H.-T., H. Kuo-Chen*, X. Jin, C.-Y. Wang, B.-S. Huang, H.-Y. Yen (2015) A three-dimensional Vp, Vs and Vp/Vs crustal structure in Fujian, Southeast China, from active and passive source experiments, J. Asian Earth Sci., doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.06.014

Van Avendonk, H., H. Kuo-Chen, K. McIntosh , L. Lavier , D. Okaya, F. Wu, C.-Y. Wang, C. S. Lee, C.S. Liu (2014) Deep crustal structure of an arc-continent collision: Constraints from seismic travel times in central Taiwan and the Philippine Sea, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/2014JB011327

Wang, J.P., and H. Kuo-Chen (2014) On the use of AFOSM to estimate major earthquake probabilities in Taiwan. Natural Hazards, doi:10.1007/s11069-014-1448-1

Huang, H. H., Y. M. Wu, X. Song, C. H. Chang, H. Kuo-Chen, and S. J. Lee (2014), Investigating the lithospheric structures beneath Taiwan region by nonlinear joint inversion of local and teleseismic data: Slab continuity and deflection, Geophys. Res. Lett, doi:10.1002/2014GL061115

Alvarez-Marron, J., D. Brown, G. Camanni , Y.-M. Wu , and H. Kuo-Chen (2014) Structural complexities in a foreland thrust belt inherited from the shelf-slope transition: Insights from the Alishan area of Taiwan, Tectonics, doi:10.1002/2014TC003584

Wu, F. T., and H. Kuo-Chen, K. McIntosh (2014) Subsurface imaging, TAIGER experiments and tectonic models of Taiwan, J. Asian Earth Sci., doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.03.024

Li, Q., R. Gao, F.T. Wu, Y. Guan, Z.Ye, Q. LiuH. Kuo-Chen, R. He, W. Li, X. Shen (2013) Seismic structure in the southeastern China using teleseismic receiver functions, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.06.033

Kuo-Chen, H., P. Sroda, F. T. Wu, C.-Y. Wang, Y.W. Kuo (2013) Seismic anisotropy of the upper crust in the mountain ranges of Taiwan from the TAIGER explosion experiment, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 24, 6, 963-970, doi:10.3319/TAO.2013.07.30.01(T)

Kuo, T., C. Liu, C. Su, C. Chang, W. Chen, Y. Chen, C. Lin, H. Kuochen, Y. Hsu, Y. Lin, Y. Huang, H. Lin (2013) Concurrent concentration declines in groundwater-dissolved radon, methane and ethane precursory to 2011 MW 5.0 Chimei earthquake, Radiation Measurements, doi:10.1016/j.radmeas.2013.04.006

Wu, Y.M., C.-H. Chang, H. Kuo-Chen, H.-H. Huang, C.-Y. Wang (2013) On the use of explosion records for examining earthquake location uncertainty in Taiwan, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 24, 685-694, doi:10.3319/TAO.2013.01.31.01(T)

Kuo-Chen, H.,F. Wu, D.M. Jenkins, J. Mechie, S. Roecker, C.-Y. Wang, and B.-S.Huang (2012) Seismic evidence for the α-β quartz transition beneath Taiwan from Vp/Vs tomography, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2012GL053649

Kuo-Chen, H., F. T. Wu, and S. W. Roecker (2012) Three-Dimensional P Velocity Structures of the Lithosphere Beneath Taiwan from the Analysis of TAIGER and Related Seismic Data sets, JGR, doi:10.1029/2011JB009108

Chen, P.-F., C.R. Bina, H. Kuo-Chen, F.T. Wu, C.-Y. Wang, B.-S Huang, C.-H. Chen, and W.-T. Liang (2012) Slab-Induced Waveform Effects as Revealed by the TAIGER Seismic Array: Evidence of Slab beneath Central Taiwan, Phy. Earth Planet. In., 196-197, 62-74, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2012.02.004

Huang, B.-S.,.P-F. ChenH. Kuo-Chen, K.-H. Kim., and T.-L. Teng (2012) Significant Contribution of the Shallow Crust to Seismic PKP Travel-Time Residuals and Implications: An Example from Taiwan and Nearby Islands, J. Asian Earth Sci., 46, 86-91, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2011.11.008

Kuo-Chen, H., F. T. Wu, D. Okaya, B.-S. Huang, and W.-T. Liang (2009) SKS/SKKS Splitting and Taiwan Orogeny, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2009GL038148

Kuochen, H., Y.M. Wu, Y.G. Chen, R.Y. Chen (2007) 2003 Mw6.8 Chengkung earthquake and its associated seismogenic structures, J. Asian Earth Sci., 31, 332-339, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.07.028

Hu, J.-C., L.-W. Cheng, H.-Y. Chen,Y.-M. Wu, J.-C. Lee, Y.-G. Chen, K.-C. Lin, R.-J. Rau, H. Kuochen, H.-H. Chen, S.-B. Yu and J. Angelier (2007) Coseismic deformation revealed by inversion of strong motion and GPS data: the 2003 Chengkung earthquake in eastern Taiwan, Geophys. J. Int., 169, 667-674, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03359.x

Wu, Y. M., Y. G. Chen, T. C. Shin, H. Kuochen, C. S. Hou, C. H. Chang, C. F. Wu and T. L. Teng (2006) Coseismic vs. interseismic ground deformations, faults rupture inversion and segmentation revealed by 2003 Mw 6.8 Chengkung earthquake in eastern Taiwan. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L02312, doi:10.1029/2005GL024711

Kuo, T., K. Fan, H. Kuochen, Y. Han, H. Chu, Y. Lee (2006) Anomalous decrease in groundwater radon before the Taiwan M6.8 Chengkung earthquake, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 88,101-106, doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2006.01.005

Kuo, T., K. Fan, H. Kuochen, W. Chen (2006) A mechanism for anomalous decline in radon precursory to an earthquake, Ground Water, 44, 642-647, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2006.00219.x

Kuochen, H., Y. M. Wu, C. H. Chang, J. C. Hu, and W. S. Chen (2004) Relocation of the Eastern Taiwan Earthquakes and Its Tectonic Implications. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 15,647-666, doi:10.3319/TAO.2004.15.4.647(T)