Lingsen Meng

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• Jul 2026 New paper accepted in Geophysical Journal International: compressing distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) data for seismology with compressive sensing (Ma, Meng & Lin).
• Jun 2026 Congratulations to Saeed Mohanna on completing his PhD.
• May 2026 New paper in EPSL on swarm cessation and aftershock drivers after the four-year Noto Peninsula sequence (Mohanna et al.).
• Dec 2025 Congratulations to Liuwei Xu on completing his PhD.
• Oct 2025 Our study of the 2025 Mandalay (Myanmar) earthquake, a ~450 km supershear rupture enabled by a bimaterial effect and a favourable energy ratio, published in Science (Xu, Meng et al.).
• Jul 2025 Promoted to Professor of Geophysics at UCLA.
• Aug 2024 Dual-initiation ruptures of the 2024 Noto earthquake encircling a fault asperity at a swarm edge, published in Science (Xu, Ji, Meng et al.).
• Oct 2023 The overall-subshear, multi-segment rupture of the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) earthquake, published in Communications Earth & Environment.

• 2025
  Bimaterial effect and favorable energy ratio enabled supershear rupture in the 2025 Mandalay earthquake Science

  Xu, L., Meng, L., Yunjun, Z., et al.

  Science 390, 476–481
• 2024
  Dual-initiation ruptures in the 2024 Noto earthquake encircling a fault asperity at a swarm edge Science

  Xu, L., Ji, C., Meng, L., Ampuero, J.-P., et al.

  Science 385, 871–876
• 2022
  Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes Nature Geosci.

  Bao, H., Xu, L., Meng, L., Ampuero, J.-P., et al.

  Nature Geoscience 15, 942–949
• 2019
  Early and persistent supershear rupture of the 2018 magnitude 7.5 Palu earthquake Nature Geosci.

  Bao, H., Ampuero, J.-P., Meng, L., et al.

  Nature Geoscience 12, 200–205
• 2012
  Earthquake in a maze: compressional rupture branching during the 2012 Mw 8.6 Sumatra earthquake Science

  Meng, L., Ampuero, J.-P., Stock, J., et al.

  Science 337, 724–726

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