Publications

65 peer-reviewed publications · 4,700+ citations · h-index 31 (Google Scholar). Names of group members in bold. See also the Google Scholar profile.
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• 65
  Swarm cessation and aftershock drivers following the pressure release of a four-year-long seismic sequence at the Noto Peninsula

  Mohanna, S., Meng, L., Vuan, A. & Yu, H.

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 690, 120113 (2026)

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  Dual-fault rupture and thermo-mechanical setting of the 2025 Dingri earthquake (southern Tibet)

  Zhang, Y., Guo, R., Tang, X., He, H., Meng, L., Li, L., Xu, J. & Sun, H.

  Seismological Research Letters (2026)

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  Multiscale fault complexity and hydrothermal processes drive earthquake swarms in the Tengchong Volcanic Field, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau

  Ma, J.-Z., Meng, L., Yin, H., Bai, Y., Li, Z. & Ai, Y.

  Tectonophysics, 231080 (2026)

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

  Xu, L., Meng, L., Yunjun, Z., Yang, Y., Wang, Y., Hu, C., Weng, H., Xu, W., Su, E. & Ji, C.

  Science, 390(6772), 476-481 (2025)

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  PKIKP phase back-projection and its application on Southern Hemisphere earthquake imaging

  Xu, L., Meng, L. & Chu, R.

  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(10), e2025JB031667 (2025)

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• 60
  The 28 January 2020, Mw 7.7, Cayman Trough / Oriente Fault, supershear earthquake rupture

  Calais, E., Delouis, B., Ampuero, J.-P., Bao, H., Courboulex, F., Deschamps, A., de Lépinay, B., Monfret, T., Meng, L., Xu, L., et al.

  Seismica (2025)

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• 59
  The 2024 Noto earthquake and tsunami: insights from the static and adjoint state inversion methods

  Mohanna, S., Meng, L., Ho, T.C., An, C. & Xu, L.

  Earth, Planets and Space, 77, 130 (2025)

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• 58
  Unzipping of the conjugate fault system during the 2024 Mw 7.4 Hualien earthquake

  Xu, L., Meng, L., Xu, W., Lin, Y.-Y., Geng, J., Mohanna, S. & Kawamoto, G.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 52(13), e2025GL115218 (2025)

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  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., Yunjun, Z., Mohanna, S. & Aoki, Y.

  Science, 385(6711), 871-876 (2024)

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• 56
  Adjoint inversion of near-field pressure gauge recordings for rapid and accurate tsunami source characterization

  Xie, Y., Mohanna, S., Meng, L., Zhou, T. & Ho, T.C.

  Earth and Space Science, 10(12), e2023EA003086 (2023)

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• 55
  The overall-subshear and multi-segment rupture of the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey earthquake in millennia supercycle

  Xu, L., Mohanna, S., Meng, L., Ji, C., Ampuero, J.P., Yunjun, Z., Hasnain, M., Chu, R. & Liang, C.

  Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 379 (2023)

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• 54
  Understanding and mitigating the spatial bias of earthquake source imaging with regional slowness enhanced back-projection

  Zhang, Y., Bao, H., Meng, L. & Aoki, Y.

  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(5), e2022JB025525 (2023)

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• 53
  Understanding the rupture kinematics and slip model of the 2021 Mw 7.4 Maduo earthquake: a bilateral event on bifurcating faults

  Xu, L., Yunjun, Z., Ji, C., Meng, L., Fielding, E.J., Zinke, R. & Bao, H.

  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2022JB025936 (2023)

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• 52
  Self-reactivated rupture during the 2019 Mw=8 northern Peru intraslab earthquake

  Vallée, M., Xie, Y., Grandin, R., Villegas-Lanza, J.C., Nocquet, J.-M., Vaca, S., Meng, L., Ampuero, J.-P., et al.

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 601, 117886 (2022)

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• 51
  The 2021 Mw 7.3 East Cape earthquake: triggered rupture in complex faulting revealed by multi-array back-projections

  Xie, Y., Meng, L., Zhou, T., Xu, L., Bao, H. & Chu, R.

  Geophysical Research Letters, e2022GL099643 (2022)

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• 50
  EdgePhase: a deep learning model for multi-station seismic phase picking

  Feng, T., Mohanna, S. & Meng, L.

  Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, e2022GC010453 (2022)

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• 49
  Global frequency of oceanic and continental supershear earthquakes Nature Geosci.

  Bao, H., Xu, L., Meng, L., Ampuero, J.-P., Gao, L. & Zhang, H.

  Nature Geoscience, 15, 942-949 (2022)

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• 48
  Seismic waveform-coherence controlled by earthquake source dimensions

  Zhou, T., Meng, L., Zhang, A. & Ampuero, J.-P.

  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023458 (2022)

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• 47
  Citizen seismology helps decipher the 2021 Haiti earthquake Science

  Calais, E., Symithe, S., Monfret, T., Delouis, B., Lomax, A., Courboulex, F., ... Xu, L. & Meng, L.

  Science, eabn1045 (2022)

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• 46
  Rupture heterogeneity and directivity effects in back-projection analysis

  Li, B., Wu, B., Bao, H., Oglesby, D.D., Ghosh, A., Gabriel, A.A., Meng, L. & Chu, R.

  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2021JB022663 (2022)

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• 45
  Source imaging with a multi-array local back-projection and its application to the 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquakes

  Xie, Y., Bao, H. & Meng, L.

  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB021396 (2021)

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• 44
  Spatio-temporal foreshock evolution of the 2019 M 6.4 and M 7.1 Ridgecrest, California earthquakes

  Huang, H., Meng, L., Bürgmann, R., Wang, W. & Wang, K.

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 551, 116582 (2020)

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• 43
  Stress field variation during the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence

  Sheng, S. & Meng, L.

  Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL087722 (2020)

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• 42
  Detecting offshore seismicity: combining backprojection imaging and matched-filter detection

  Feng, T., Meng, L. & Huang, H.

  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2020JB019599 (2020)

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• 41
  A multi-array back-projection approach for tsunami warning

  Xie, Y. & Meng, L.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 47(14), e2019GL085763 (2020)

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• 40
  Length-scale-dependent relationships between VS30 and topographic slopes in Southern California

  Lin, J., Moon, S., Yong, A., Meng, L. & Davis, P.M.

  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2019)

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• 39
  An adjoint-state full waveform tsunami source inversion method and its application to the 2014 Chile-Iquique tsunami event

  Zhou, T., Meng, L., Xie, Y. & Jia, H.

  Journal of Geophysical Research (2019)

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  Nucleation and kinematic rupture of the 2017 Mw 8.2 Tehuantepec earthquake

  Meng, L., Huang, H., Xie, Y., Bao, H. & Dominguez, L.A.

  Geophysical Research Letters (2019)

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  Comparison of site dominant frequency from earthquake and microseismic data in California

  Hassani, B., Yong, A., Atkinson, G.M., Feng, T. & Meng, L.

  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2019)

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  Early and persistent supershear rupture of the 2018 magnitude 7.5 Palu earthquake Nature Geosci.

  Bao, H., Ampuero, J-P., Meng, L., Fielding, E., Liang, C., Milliner, C., Feng, T. & Huang, H.

  Nature Geoscience (2019)

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  A high-frequency distance metric in ground motion prediction equations based on seismic array back-projections

  Feng, T. & Meng, L.

  Geophysical Research Letters (2018)

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  Rupture behavior and interaction of the 2018 Hualien earthquake sequence and its tectonic implication

  Jian, P., Hung, S.-H. & Meng, L.

  Seismological Research Letters (2018)

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  Complex faulting and triggered rupture during the 2018 Mw 7.9 offshore Kodiak, Alaska earthquake

  Ruppert, N.A., Rollins, C., Zhang, A., Meng, L., Holtkamp, S.G., West, M.E. & Freymueller, J.T.

  Geophysical Research Letters (2018)

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  A sensitivity analysis of tsunami inversions on the number of stations

  An, C., Liu, P.L. & Meng, L.

  Geophysical Journal International, 214(2), 1313-1323 (2018)

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  Source complexity of the 2015 Mw 7.9 Bonin earthquake

  Chen, Y., Meng, L., Zhang, A. & Wen, L.

  Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19 (2018)

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  Double pincer movement: encircling rupture splitting during the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake

  Meng, L., Bao, H., Huang, H., Zhang, A., Bloore, A. & Liu, Z.

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 495, 164-173 (2018)

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  Slow unlocking processes preceding the 2015 Mw 8.4 Illapel, Chile, earthquake

  Huang, H. & Meng, L.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (2018)

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  A viscoplastic shear-zone model for deep (15-50 km) slow-slip events at plate convergent margins

  Yin, A., Xie, Z. & Meng, L.

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 491, 81-94 (2018)

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  Transpressional rupture cascade of the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand

  Xu, W., Feng, G., Meng, L., Zhang, A., Ampuero, J.P., Bürgmann, R. & Fang, L.

  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, 2396-2409 (2018)

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  Theoretical solution and applications of ocean bottom pressure induced by seismic seafloor motion

  An, C., Cai, C., Zheng, Y., Meng, L. & Liu, P.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 44(20) (2017)

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  Utilizing a 3D global P-wave tomography model to improve backprojection imaging: a case study of the 2015 Nepal earthquake

  Liu, Z., Song, C., Meng, L., Ge, Z., Huang, Q. & Wu, Q.

  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(5), 2459-2466 (2017)

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  The 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel, Chile, earthquake: direction-reversed along-dip rupture with localized water reverberation

  An, C., Yue, H., Sun, J., Meng, L. & Báez, J.C.

  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(5), 2416-2426 (2017)

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  Localized water reverberation phases and its impact on back-projection images

  Yue, H., Castellanos, J.C., Yu, C., Meng, L. & Zhan, Z.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (2017)

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  Rupture characteristics of the 2016 Meinong earthquake revealed by the back projection and directivity analysis of teleseismic broadband waveforms

  Jian, P.-R., Hung, S.-H., Meng, L. & Sun, D.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 3545-3553 (2017)

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  Time reversal imaging of the 2015 Illapel tsunami source

  An, C. & Meng, L.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 44(4), 1732-1739 (2017)

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  Fault geometry of 2015, Mw 7.2 Murghab, Tajikistan earthquake controls rupture propagation: insights from InSAR and seismological data

  Sangha, S., Peltzer, G., Zhang, A., Meng, L., Liang, C., Lundgren, P. & Fielding, E.

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 462, 132-141 (2017)

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  Early aftershocks and afterslip surrounding the 2015 Mw 8.4 Illapel rupture

  Huang, H., Xu, W., Meng, L., Bürgmann, R. & Baez, J.C.

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 457, 282-291 (2017)

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  Matched-filter detection of the missing pre-mainshock events and aftershocks in the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake sequence

  Huang, H., Meng, L., Plasencia, M., Wang, Y., Wang, L. & Xu, M.

  Tectonophysics (2016)

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  Application of array back-projection to tsunami prediction and early warning

  An, C. & Meng, L.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 43(8), 3677-3685 (2016)

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  Improving back projection imaging with a novel physics-based aftershock calibration approach: a case study of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake

  Meng, L., Zhang, A. & Yagi, Y.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 43(2), 628-636 (2016)

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  Lower edge of locked Main Himalayan Thrust unzipped by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake Nature Geosci.

  Avouac, J.P., Meng, L., Wei, S., Wang, T. & Ampuero, J.-P.

  Nature Geoscience (2015)

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  Dual megathrust slip behaviors of the 2014 Iquique earthquake sequence

  Meng, L., Huang, H., Bürgmann, R., Ampuero, J.P. & Strader, A.

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 411, 177-187 (2015)

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  Application of seismic array processing to earthquake early warning

  Meng, L., Allen, R. & Ampuero, J.-P.

  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 104(5), 2553-2561 (2014)

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  The 2013 Okhotsk deep-focus earthquake: rupture beyond the metastable olivine wedge and thermally controlled rise time near the edge of a slab

  Meng, L., Ampuero, J.-P. & Bürgmann, R.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 41 (2014)

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  The 2013, Mw 7.7 Balochistan earthquake, energetic strike-slip reactivation of a thrust fault

  Avouac, J-P., Ayoub, F., Wei, S., Ampuero, J-P., Meng, L., Leprince, S., Jolivet, R., Duputel, Z. & Helmberger, D.

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 391, 128-134 (2014)

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  A dynamic model of the frequency-dependent rupture process of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

  Huang, Y., Meng, L. & Ampuero, J.-P.

  Earth, Planets and Space, 64(12), 1061-1066 (2013)

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  Mitigating artifacts in back-projection source imaging with implications on frequency dependent properties of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake

  Meng, L., Ampuero, J.-P., Luo, Y., Wu, W. & Ni, S.

  Earth, Planets and Space, 64(12), 1101-1109 (2013)

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  The 2012 Sumatra great earthquake sequence

  Duputel, Z., Kanamori, H., Tsai, V.C., Rivera, L., Meng, L. & Ampuero, J.-P.

  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 351-352, 247-257 (2012)

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  Earthquake in a maze: compressional rupture branching during the 2012 Mw 8.6 Sumatra earthquake Science

  Meng, L., Ampuero, J.-P., Stock, J., Duputel, Z., Luo, Y. & Tsai, V.C.

  Science, 337(6095), 724-726 (2012)

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  High-resolution back-projection at regional distance: application to the Haiti M7.0 earthquake and comparisons with finite source studies

  Meng, L., Ampuero, J.-P., Sladen, A. & Rendon, H.

  Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, B04313 (2012)

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  A window into the complexity of the dynamic rupture of the 2011 Mw 9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

  Meng, L., Inbal, A. & Ampuero, J.-P.

  Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L00G07 (2011)

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  The 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: mosaicking the megathrust from seconds to centuries Science

  Simons, M., Minson, S.E., Sladen, A., Ortega, F., Jiang, J., Owen, S.E., Meng, L., Ampuero, J.-P., Wei, S., Chu, R., Helmberger, D.V., Kanamori, H., Hetland, E., Moore, A.W. & Webb, F.H.

  Science, 332 (2011)

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  Discrete element modeling of the faulting in the sedimentary cover above an active salt diaper

  Yin, H., Zhang, J., Meng, L., Liu, Y. & Xu, S.

  Journal of Structural Geology, 31(9), 989-995 (2009)

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  Simulation of active salt domes using 2D discrete element method (in Chinese)

  Zhang, J., Yin, H., Meng, L. & Xu, S.

  Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 23(6), 1924-1930 (2008)

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  Influence of rock strength and strain rate on horizontally compressive deformation: insights from discrete element modeling (in Chinese)

  Meng, L., Yin, H., Zhang, J. & Xu, S.

  Acta Petrologica Sinica, 23(11), 2918-2926 (2007)

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