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Zhen Liu

Education
  • B.S. in Geophysics, University of Science & Technology of China (1994)
  • M.S. in Solid Earth Geophysics, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences (1997)
  • PhD in Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California at Los Angeles (2003)
Research Interests
  • Investigating crustal deformation in southern California and Japan at different spatial and temporal scales using GPS and InSAR
  • Understanding neotectonics and lithosphere dynamics at convergent plate boundaries through the combination of numerical modeling approaches with data from seismology, geodesy, and geology
  • Estimating seismic hazard from tectonics and understanding earthquake dynamics
Projects

Tectonics Laboratory Icon Tectonics Laboratory
The Tectonics Laboratory is a research project working to to understand the importance of the interaction of short time scale tectonic processes.

Selected Awards
  • AGU Outstanding Student Paper, Tectonophysics Section (2003)
  • UCLA Graduate Fellowship, University of California at Los Angeles (2002)
  • Dean's list of the Best Graduate, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1997)
Selected Publications
  1. Liu, Z., and P. Bird, 2007, Kinematic modeling of the neotectonics of the Persia-Tibet-Burma Orogen, Geophysical Journal of International, in review.
  2. Bird, P., and Z. Liu, 2007, Seismic hazard inferred from tectonics: California, Seismological Research Letter, 78(1), 37-48.
  3. N.E. King, D. Argus, J. Langbein, D.C. Agnew, G. Bawden, R.S. Dollar, Z. Liu, D. Galloway, E. Reichard, A. Yong, F.H. Webb, Y. Bock, K. Stark, and D. Barseghian, 2007, Space geodetic observation of expansion of the San Gabriel Valley, California, aquifer system, during heavy rainfall in winter 2004-2005, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B03409, doi:10.1029/2006JB004448, 2007.
  4. Liu, Z., and P. Bird, 2006, 2-D and 3-D finite element modeling of mantle processes beneath the central South Island, New Zealand, Geophysical Journal of International, 165, 1003-1028 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02930.x.
  5. Kagan, Y. Y., D. D. Jackson, and Z. Liu, 2005, Stress and earthquakes in southern California, 1850-2004, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110(5), B05S14, doi:10.1029/2004JB003313.
  6. A. Jin, Kei Aki, Z. Liu, V. Keilis-Borok, 2004, Seismological evidence for the brittle-ductile interaction hypothesis on earthquake loading, Earth, Planets and Space, 56, 823-830.
  7. Zaliapin, I., A. Jin, Z. Liu, K. Aki, and V.Keilis-Borok, 2004, Temporal (un)correlations between coda Q and seismicity - multiscale trend analysis, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 162, 827-841.
  8. Liu, Z., and P. Bird, 2002b, North America plate is driven westward by lower mantle flow, Geophysical Research Letters, 29(24), 2164, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016002.
  9. Liu, Z., and P. Bird, 2002a, Finite element modeling of neotectonics in New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(B12), 2328, doi:10.1029/2001JB001075.
  10. Zaliapin, I., Z. Liu, G. Zöller, V. Keilis-Borok, and D. Turcotte, 2002, On increase of earthquake correlation length prior to large earthquakes in California, Computational Seismology and Geodynamics, 33, 141-161.
  11. Gao, Y., Z. L. Wu, Z. Liu, H. L. Zhou, 2000, Seismic source characteristics of nine strong earthquakes from 1988 to 1990 and earthquake activity since 1970 in the Sichuan-Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) zone of China, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 157, 1423-1443.
  12. Bird, P., and Z. Liu, 1999, Global finite-element model makes a small contribution to intraplate seismic hazard estimation, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 89, 6, 1642-1647.

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