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Huihui Weng
Associate Professor, weng@nju.edu.cn
His research vision is to achieve a fundamental understanding of fault mechanics, through synergistic efforts in combining theoretical, computational, laboratorial, and observational approaches. His long-term goals aim at answering the following essential questions: What controls the nucleation, propagation, and arrest of earthquake ruptures? Can we anticipate the size of future earthquakes? What controls the slow and fast earthquake cycle? How can we improve the way seismic risk is evaluated?
Interests
- Earthquake physics
- Slow and fast earthquakes
- Dynamic rupture simulations
Education
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Geophysics, 2015
University of Science and Technology of China
News
Experience
Associate Professor (tenure track)
Nanjing University
Postdoc
Geoazur laboratory/CNRS/UCA France
Postdoc
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research
A new theory in 3D viscoelasticity demonstrating unbounded terminal rupture speeds beyond classical speed limits.
A new theoretical model elucidating the fundamental connections between slow and fast earthquakes.
A new theoretical model predicting continuum of earthquake rupture speeds due to oblique sliding.
A new 3D theory to predict rupture propagation in a fault with finite width.
How can we constrain the frictional parameters on the fault?
Non-peer-reviewed papers
#Students or postdoc *Corresponding
(2024).
Theoretical model for physics-based estimation of maximum earthquake sizes.
Submitted.
(2024).
Viscoelastic ruptures unbounded by classical speed limits.
Submitted to PRL.
(2023).
Physics-based estimates of the maximum magnitude of induced earthquakes in the Groningen gas field (application part).
In manuscript.
(2023).
Toward assessing seismic hazard from laboratory observations of rate-and-state frictional parameters.
In manuscript.
(2023).
The theoretical energy release rate of in-plane elongated ruptures.
In manuscript.
Peer-reviewed papers
#Students or postdoc *Corresponding
(2024).
Physics-based assessment of earthquake potential on the Anninghe-Zemuhe-Daliangshan fault system in southwestern China.
Nature Communications.
(2024).
An updated fault coupling model along major block-bounding faults on the eastern and northeastern Tibetan Plateau from a stress-constrained inversion of GPS and InSAR data.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
(2023).
Numerical modelling of earthquake cycles based on Navier-Stokes equations with Viscoelastic-plasticity rheology.
G-cube.
(2022).
Integrated rupture mechanics for slow slip events and earthquakes.
Nature Communications.
(2020).
Continuum of earthquake rupture speeds enabled by oblique slip.
Nature Geoscience.
(2020).
Does a damaged fault zone mitigate the near-field impact of supershear earthquakes? Application to the 2018 Mw 7.5 Palu earthquake.
Geophysical Research Letters.
(2019).
Deriving rupture scenarios from interseismic locking distributions along the subduction megathrust.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
(2019).
The Dynamics of Elongated Earthquake Ruptures.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
(2018).
Constraining frictional properties on fault by dynamic rupture simulations and near-field observation.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
(2017).
Seismogenic width controls aspect ratios of earthquake ruptures.
Geophysical Research Letters.
(2016).
Earthquake rupture extents and coseismic slips promoted by damaged fault zones.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
(2016).
Coseismic radiation and stress drop during the 2015 Mw8.3 Illapel, Chile megathrust earthquake.
Geophysical Research Letters.
(2015).
Barrier-induced supershear ruptures on a slip-weakening fault.
Geophysical Research Letters.
(2015).
Numerical simulations about subduction earthquake cycles: The case of Japan Tohoku Mw9.0 earthquake.
Journal of Geodesy and Geodynamics (in Chinese).
(2015).
Numerical simulations about the influence of stress disturbance on earthquake cycle and seismic moment.
Acta Seismologica Sinica (in Chinese).
(2014).
Overlapping post-seismic deformation processes: afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation following the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku (Japan) earthquake.
Geophysical Journal International,.
Group
Dezheng Zhao
Geodesy
Yi Gao
Slow and fast earthquakes
Shiran Zhan
Landslides
Yiran Shi
Earthquake cycle simulation
Wangyang Shang
Slow earthquakes
Graduated students
Undergraduate: Jiayi Shen