I am interested in understanding earthquake and tsunami hazards in major subduction zones around the world, e.g., East Japan, Nankai Trough, Chile, Peru, Cascadia, Alaska, Sumatra, New Zealand, etc. One of the significant questions I hope to address is the tsunamigenic processes of shallow megathrust and outer wedge of the forearc, and the associated tsunami propagation and coastal inundation processes. I am also interested in the rheology and heterogeneity of deeper megathrusts and their implications for seismic behavior and coastal shaking.
Junle Jiang
Postdoctoral Scholar in Geophysics
My research interests include crustal deformation, earthquake dynamics, and natural hazards.
Publications
Strain budget of the Ecuador--Colombia subduction zone: A stochastic view
The 2016 Pedernales earthquake (MW=7.8) ruptured a portion of the Colombia–Ecuador subduction interface where several large …
Rupture evolution of the 2006 Java tsunami earthquake and the possible role of splay faults
The 2006 Mw 7.8 Java earthquake was a tsunami earthquake, exhibiting frequency-dependent seismic radiation along strike. High-frequency …
Depth varying rupture properties during the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake
On April 25th 2015, the Mw 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake ruptured a portion of the Main Himalayan Thrust underlying Kathmandu and …
Pulse-like partial ruptures and high-frequency radiation at creeping-locked transition during megathrust earthquakes
Megathrust earthquakes tend to be confined to fault areas locked in the interseismic period and often rupture them only partially. For …
Probabilistic imaging of tsunamigenic seafloor deformation during the 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake
Diverse observations from the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake pointed to large coseismic fault slip proximal to the Japan Trench. …
A Bayesian source model for the 2004 great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake
The 2004 Mw 9.1?9.3 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake is one of the largest earthquakes of the modern instrumental era. Despite considerable …
A detailed source model for the Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake reconciling geodesy, seismology, and tsunami records
The 11 March 2011 Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake was recorded by an exceptionally large amount of diverse data offering a unique …
Sources of shaking and flooding during the Tohoku-Oki earthquake: A mixture of rupture styles
Modeling strong ground motions from great subduction zone earthquakes is one of the great challenges of computational seismology. To …
The 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: mosaicking the megathrust from seconds to centuries
Geophysical observations from the 2011 moment magnitude (M(w)) 9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake allow exploration of a rare large event …