Selected Publications

Yue, H., Wang, K., Xue, L., Shen, Z., & Sun, J. Postseismic process inversion using full time series of surface deformation: Full Time¿series Inversion (FTI) theory and its application to the 2017 Sarpol¿e Zahab earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2021JB023317. PDF file

Shen, Z. K., & Bird, P. (2022). Neokinema deformation model for the 2023 update to the US National Seismic Hazard model. Seismological Research Letters. PDF file

Ge, W. P., Shen, Z. K., Molnar, P., Wang, M., Zhang, P. Z., & Yuan, D. Y. GPS determined asymmetric deformation across central Altyn Tagh fault reveals rheological structure of northern Tibet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2022JB024216. PDF file

Piña¿Valdés, J., Socquet, A., Beauval, C., Doin, M. P., D¿Agostino, N., & Shen, Z. K. (2022). 3D GNSS velocity field sheds light on the deformation mechanisms in Europe: effects of the vertical crustal motion on the distribution of seismicity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(6), e2021JB023451. PDF file

Yue, H., Shen, Z. K., Zhao, Z., Wang, T., Cao, B., Li, Z., ... & Xue, L. (2022). Rupture process of the 2021 M7. 4 Maduo earthquake and implication for deformation mode of the Songpan-Ganzi terrane in Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(23), e2116445119. PDF file

Li, M., Sun, J., Xue, L., Shen, Z., Zhao, B., & Hu, L. (2022). Characterization of Aquifer System and Groundwater Storage Change Due to South-to-North Water Diversion Project at Huairou Groundwater Reserve Site, Beijing, China, Using Geodetic and Hydrological Data. Remote Sensing, 14(15), 3549. PDF file

Wang, M., Wang, F., Jiang, X., Tian, J., Li, Y., Sun, J., & Shen, Z. K. (2022). GPS determined coseismic slip of the 2021 M w7. 4 Maduo, China, earthquake and its tectonic implication. Geophysical Journal International, 228(3), 2048-2055. PDF file

Wang, M., Shen, Z. K., Wang, Y. Z., Bürgmann, R., Wang, F., Zhang, P. Z., ... & Xue, L. (2021). Postseismic deformation of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake illuminates lithospheric rheological structure and dynamics of eastern Tibet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(9), e2021JB022399. PDF_file

Yue, H., Sun, J., Wang, M., Shen, Z., Li, M., Xue, L., ... & Lay, T., The 2019 Ridgecrest, California earthquake sequence: Evolution of seismic and aseismic slip on an orthogonal fault system. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 570, 117066, 2021. PDF_file

Wang K., Y. Zhu, E. Nissen, and Z.-K. Shen, On the Relevance of Geodetic Deformation Rates to Earthquake Potential. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL09323148, e2021GL093231. PDF file

Li, T., J. Sun, Y. Bao, Y. Zhan, Z.-K. Shen, X. Xu, and C. Lasserre, The 2019 Mw 5.8 Changning, China Earthquake: A Cascade Rupture of Fold-Accommodation Faults Induced by Fluid Injection, Tectonophysics, 2021. PDF_file

Liu S, Shen Z K, Bürgmann R, and Jonsson, S., Thin crème brûlée rheological structure for the Eastern California Shear Zone, Geology, 2020. PDF_file

Wang, M., and Shen, Z.-K., Present-day crustal deformation of continental China derived from GPS and its tectonic implications. J. Geophys. Res., 125, e2019JB018774. https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2019JB018774, 2020. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., and Liu, Z., Integration of GPS and InSAR data for resolving 3-dimensional crustal deformation. Earth and Space Science, 7, e2019EA001036. https://doi.org/ 10.1029/2019EA001036, 2020. PDF file

Rong, Y., Xu, X., Cheng, J., Chen, G., Magistrale, H., and Shen, Z. K.. A probabilistic seismic hazard model for Mainland China. Earthquake Spectra, 8755293020910754, 2020. PDF file

Wang, Y., Z.-K. Shen, and M. Wang, Block-like versus distributed crustal deformation around the northeastern Tibetan plateau, J. Asian Earth Sci., 140, 31-47, 2017. PDF file

Wan, Y., Z.-K. Shen, R. Burgmann, J. Sun, and M. Wang, Fault geometry and slip distribution of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan, China earthquake, inferred from GPS and InSAR measurements, Geophys. J. Int., 208(2), 748-766, 2017. PDF file

Sun, J., Z.-K. Shen, T. Li, and J. Chen, Thrust faulting and 3D ground deformation of the 3 July 2015 Mw 6.4 Pishan, China Earthquake from Sentinel-1A radar interferometry, Tectonophysics, 683, 77-85, 2016. PDF file

Zeng, Y., and Z.-K. Shen, A fault-based model for crustal deformation, fault slip rates and off-fault strain rate in California, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 106(2), 766-784, doi:10.1785/0120140250, 2016. PDF file

Tian, Y., and Z-K. Shen, Extracting the regional common-mode component of GPS station position time series from dense continuous network, J. Geophys. Res., 121(2), 1080-1096, 2016. PDF file

Dutilleul, P, C. W. Johnson, R. Burgmann, Y. Wan, and Z.-K. Shen. Multifrequential periodogram analysis of earthquake occurrence: An alternative approach to the Schuster spectrum, with two examples in central California, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 8494-8515, 2015.

Tao, W., T. Masterlark, Z.-K. Shen, and E. Ronchin, Impoundment of the Zipingpu reservoir and triggering of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, China, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 7033-7047, 2015. PDF file

Ge, W.-P., P. Molnar, Z.-K. Shen, and Q. Li, Present-day crustal thinning in the southern and northern Tibetan Plateau revealed by GPS measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 5227-5235, doi:10.1002/2015GL064347, 2015. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., M. Wang, Y. Zeng, and F. Wang, Strain determination using spatially discrete geodetic data, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 105(4), 2117-2127, doi: 10.1785/0120140247, 2015. PDF file

Wang, F., M. Wang, Y. Wang, and Z.-K. Shen, Earthquake potential of the Sichuan-Yunnan region, western China, J. Asian Ear. Sci., 107, 232-243, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.04.041, 2015. PDF file

Liu, S., Z.-K. Shen, and R. Burgmann, Recovery of secular deformation field of Mojave Shear Zone in Southern California from historical terrestrial and GPS measurements. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 120, 3965-3990. doi: 10.1002/2015JB011941, 2015. PDF file

Jolivet, R., M. Simons, P. S. Agram, Z. Duputel, and Z.-K. Shen, Aseismic slip and seismogenic coupling along the central San Andreas Fault, Geophys. Res., Lett., 42, 297-306, 2015. PDF file

He, P. C., and Shen, Z. K., Rupture triggering process of Wenchuan earthquake seismogenic faults, Chinese J. Geophys., 57(10), 3308-3317, doi:10.6038/cjg20141018, 2014.

Hao, M., Q. Wang, Z. Shen, et al., Present day crustal vertical movement inferred from precise leveling data in eastern margin of Tibetan Plateau, Tectonophysics, 632, 281-292, 2014. PDF file

Jiang, Z., M. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Wu, S. Che, Z.-K. Shen, R. Burgmann, J. Sun, Y. Yang, H. Liao, and Q. Li, GPS constrained coseismic source and slip distribution of the 2013 Mw6.6 Lushan, China, earthquake and its tectonic implications, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL058812, 2014. PDF file

Wang, Y., F. Wang, M. Wang, Z.-K. Shen, and Y. Wan, Coulomb stress change and evolution induced by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and its delayed triggering of the 2013 Mw 6.6 Lushan earthquake, Seismol. Res. Lett., 85(1), 52-59, doi:10.1785/0220130111, 2014. PDF file

Zeng, Y., and Z.-K. Shen, Fault network modeling of crustal deformation in California constrained using GPS and geologic observations, Tectonophysics, 612-613, 1-14, 2014. PDF file

Parsons, T., K. M. Johnson, P. Bird, J. M. Bormann, T. E. Dawson, E. H. Field, W. C. Hammond, T. A.Herring, R. McCaffrey, Z.-K. Shen, W. R. Thatcher, R. J. Weldon, II, and Y. Zeng, Appendix C: Deformation models for UCERF3, U.S. Geol. Surv. Open-File Report 2013-1165-C, and California Geol. Surv. Special Report 228-C, 2013.

Sun, J., Z.-K. Shen, R. Burgmann, M. Wang, L. Chen, X. Xu, A three-step Maximum-A-Posteriori probability method for InSAR data inversion of coseismic rupture with application to the April 14, 2010 Mw 6.9 Yushu, China earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 4599-4627, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50244, 2013. PDF file

Sun, J., Z.-K. Shen, R. Burgmann, X. Xu, Coseismic slip-distribution of the 24 March 2011 Tarlay (Myanmar) Mw 6.8 Earthquake from ALOS PALSAR Interferometry, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 103, 2928-2936, doi:10.1785/0120120365, 2013.

Wang, Y., M, Wang, Z. Shen, et al., Inter-seismic deformation field of the Ganzi-Yushu fault before the 2010 Mw 6.9 Yushu earthquake, Tectonophysics, 584, 138-143, 2013. PDF file

Burgess, W. P., A. Yin, C. S. Dubey, Z.-K. Shen, and T. K. Kelty, Holocene shortening across the Main Frontal Thrust zone in the eastern Himalaya, Ear. Planet. Sci. Lett., 357-358, 152-167, 2012.

Jolivet, R., C. Lasserre, M.-P. Doin, S. Guillaso, G. Peltzer, R. Dailu, J. Sun, Z.-K. Shen, and X. Xu, Shallow creep on the Haiyuan Fault (Gansu, China), revealed by SAR Interferometry, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B06401, doi:10.1029/2011JB008732, 2012.

Hao, M., Z.-K. Shen, Q. Wang, and D. Cui, Postseismic deformation mechanisms of the 1990 Mw 6.4 Gonghe, China earthquake constrained using leveling measurements, Tectonophysics, Vol.532-535, 205-214, 2012. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., R. King, D. Agnew, et al., A unified analysis of crustal motion in Southern California, 1970-2004: The SCEC Crustal Motion Map, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B11402, doi:10.1029/2011JB008549, 2011. PDF file

Sun, J., K. Johnson, Z. Cao, Z. Shen, R. Burgmann, and X. Xu, Mechanical constraints on inversion for fault slip and geometry using InSAR data from the Oct. 6 2008 Mw 6.3 Dangxiong-Yangyi (Tibet) earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B01406, doi:10.1029/2010JB007849, 2011.

Zhang, P. Z., X. Z. Wen, Z.-K. Shen, and J. H. Chen, Oblique, high-Angle, listric-reverse faulting and associated development of strain: The Wenchuan earthquake of May 12, 2008, Sichuan, China, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 38: 351-80, 2010. PDF file

Wan, Y., and Z.-K. Shen, Static Coulomb stress changes on faults caused by the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan, China earthquake, Tectonophysics, V. 491, 105-118, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2010.03.017, 2010. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., J. Sun, P. Zhang, Y. Wan, M. Wang, R. B¨¹rgmann, Y. Zeng, W. Gan, H. Liao, and Q. Wang, Slip maxima at fault junctions and rupturing of barriers during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Nature Geoscience, 2, 718-724, 2009. PDF file

Hilley, G. E., K. M. Johnson, M. Wang, Z.-K. Shen, and R. Burgmann, Earthquake-cycle deformation and fault slip rates in northern Tibet, Geology, 37, no.1, 31-34, doi:10.1130/G25157A.1, 2009.

Cavali¨¦, O., C. Lasserre, M.-P. Doin, G. Peltzer, J. Sun, X. Xu, Z.-K. Shen, Measurement of interseismic strain across the Haiyuan fault (Gansu, China), by InSAR, Ear. Planet. Sci. Lett., 275(3-4), 246-257, 2008.

Sun, J., Z. Shen, X. Xu, and R. Burgmann, Synthetic Normal faulting of the 9 January 2008 Nima (Tibet) Earthquake from Conventional and Along-track SAR Interferometry, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L22308, doi:10.1029/2008GL035691, 2008.

Shen, Z.-K., D. D. Jackson, and Y. Y. Kagan, Implications of Geodetic Strain Rate for Future Earthquakes, With a Five-Year Forecast of M5 Earthquakes in Southern California, Seismol. Res. Lett., 78, No.1, 117-120, 2007. PDF file

Gan, W., P. Zhang, Z.-K. Shen, et al., Present-day crustal motion within the Tibetan Plateau inferred from GPS measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B08416, doi:10.1029/2005JB004120, 2007. PDF file

Liu, M., Y. Yang, Z.-K. Shen, S. Wang, M. Wang, and Y. Wan., Active tectonics and intracontinental earthquakes in China: the kinematics and geodynamics, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap., Vol. 425-19, 299-318, 2007.

Yu, H.-Z., Z.-K. Shen, et al., Increasing critical sensitivity of the Load/Unload Response Ratio before large earthquakes with identified stress accumulation pattern, Tectonophysics, 428 (1), 87-94, 2006.

Calais, E., L. Dong, M. Wang, Z.-K. Shen, and M. Vergnolle, Continental deformation in Asia from a combined GPS solution, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L24319, doi:10.1029/2006GL028433, 2006. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., J. Lu, M. Wang, and R. Burgmann, Contemporary crustal eeformation around southeast borderland of Tibetan plateau, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B11409, doi:10.1029/2004JB003421, 2005. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., Q. Wang, R. Burgmann, Y. Wan, and J. Ning, Pole Tide Modulation of Slow Slip Events at Circum-Pacific Subduction Zones, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 95, No.5, 2009-2015, doi:10.1785/0120050020, 2005. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., Y. Wan, W. Gan, et al., Crustal stress evolution of the last 700 years in North China and earthquake occurrence (in Chinese), Chinese Earthquakes, 20, No.3, 211-228, 2004.

Zhang, P.-Z., Z.-K. Shen, M. Wang, et al., Continuous deformation of the Tibetan plateau from global positioning system data, Geology, 32, 809-812, 2004. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K. Y. Wan, W. Gan, et al., Viscoelastic triggering between large earthquakes along the east Kunlun fault system, Chinese J. Geophys., 46(6), 1125-1138, 2003.

Shen, Z.-K., M. Wang, W. Gan, and Z. Zhang, Present day tectonic strain rates of continental China and associated mechanisms (in Chinese), Geoscience frontier, 10 (supple), 93-100, 2003.

Wang, M., Z. Shen, Z. Niu, et al., Contemporary crustal deformation of the Chinese continent and tectonic block model, Science in China (D), 46(supp.), 25-40, 2003.

Agnew, D. C., S. Owen, Z.-K. Shen, et al., Coseismic displacements from the Hector Mine, California, Earthquake: Results from survey-mode global positioning system measurements, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92, 1355-1364, 2002.

Zang, S., Q. Chen, J. Ning, Z.-K. Shen, and Y. Liu, Motion of the Philippine Sea Plate consistent with the NUVEL-1A model, Geophys. J. Int., 150, 809-819, 2002.

Owen, S., G. Anderson, D. C. Agnew, H. Johnson, K. Hurst, R. Reilinger, Z.-K. Shen, J. Svarc, and T. Baker, Early postseismic deformation from the 16 October 1999 Mw 7.1 Hector Mine, California, earthquake as measured by survey-mode GPS, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92, 1423-1432, 2002.

Shen, Z.-K., M. Wang, Y. Li, D. D. Jackson, A. Yin, D. Dong, and P. Fang, GPS study of crustal deformation associated with the Altyn Tagh fault system, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 7-30,621, 2001. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., C. Zhao, Y. Li, D. Jackson, P. Fang, D. Dong, and A. Yin, Contemporary crustal deformation in east Asia constrained by global positioning system measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 5721-5734, 2000. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., D. Dong, T. Herring, K. Hudnut, D. Jackson, R. King, S McClusky, and L. Sung, Geodetic measurements of southern California crustal deformation, EOS, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 78, pp. 477, 482, 1997.

Jackson, D. D., Z.-K. Shen, D. Potter, X. Ge., and L. Sung, Southern California deformation, Science, 277, 1621-1622, 1997. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., X. B. Ge, D. D. Jackson, D. Potter, M. Cline, and L. Sung, Northridge earthquake rupture models based on the Global Positioning System measurements, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 86, 1B, S37-S48, 1996. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., D. D. Jackson, and B. X. Ge, Crustal deformation across and beyond the Los Angeles basin from geodetic measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 27,957-27,980, 1996. PDF file

Hudnut, K. W., Z.-K. Shen, M. Murray, S. McClusky, R. King, T. Herring, B. Hager, Y. Feng, P. Fang, A. Donnellan, and Y. Bock, Co-seismic displacements of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 86, 1B, S19-S36, 1996. PDF file

Snay, R. A., M. W. Cline, C. R. Philipp, D. D. Jackson, Y. Feng, Z.-K. Shen, and M. Lisowski, Crustal velocity field near the Big Bend of California's San Andreas fault, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 3173-3185, 1996.

Shen, Z.-K., Oblique subduction of a Newtonian fluid slab, Pure Appl. Geophys., 145, 561-577, 1995. PDF file

Liu, X., K. McNally, and Z.-K. Shen, Evidence for a role of the downgoing slab in earthquake slip partitioning at oblique subduction zones, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 15,351-15,372, 1995. PDF file

Shen, Z.-K., D. D. Jackson, Y. Feng, M. Cline, M. Kim, P. Fang, and Y. Bock, Postseismic deformation following the Landers earthquake, California, June 28, 1992, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 84, 780-791, 1994. PDF file

Hudnut, K. W., Y. Bock, M. Cline, P. Fang, Y. Feng, J. Freymueller, X. Ge, W. K. Gross, D. D. Jackson, M. Kim, N. E. King, J. Langbein, S. C. Larsen, M. Lisowski, Z.-K. Shen, J. Svarc, and J. Zhang, Co-seismic displacements of the 1992 Landers earthquake sequences, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 84, 625-645, 1994. PDF file

Shen, Z-K., and D. D. Jackson, GPS reoccupation of early triangulation sites: tectonic deformation of the Southern Coast Ranges, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 9931-9946, 1993.

Feigl, K. L., D. C. Agnew, Y. Bock, D. Dong, A. Donnellan, B. H. Hager, T. A. Herring, D. D. Jackson, T. H. Jordan, R. W. King, S. Larsen, K. M. Larson, M. H. Murray, Z. Shen, and F. H. Webb, Space geodetic measurement of crustal deformation in central and southern California, 1984-1992, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 21,677-21,712, 1993. PDF file

Flatte, S. M., R. Wu, and Z. Shen, Nonlinear inversion of phase and amplitude coherence functions at NORSAR for a model of nonuniform heterogeneities, Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 1269-1272, 1991.