Wang Yu

For the Philippines, the latter half of 2025 has not been very peaceful in terms of earthquakes. A Mw 7.4 earthquake occured along the Philippine Trench this morning. Background Image source: Earth Observatory of Singapore.

Wow... Wonder what the focal mechanism looks like! That is the source area of the 1762 earthquake. Previous focal mechanisms also showed some normal faulting on the downgoing slab!

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A LLOF (Landslide Lake Outburst Flood) event happened in eastern Taiwan on Sept 23, causing severe flooding in the downstream area. Despite warnings issued in advance, it killed 17+ people, mostly elders living in 1F. The image taken by Planet Lab today shows the affected area of this LLOF event.

Simulated propagation of tsunami generated by Kamchatka M8.8 earthquake. Generated by NCDR, Taiwan. 🧪⚒️⚛️

If you are working on earthquake related research in the Pacific region, it's not too late to consider coming to the ACES workshop in Taipei, Taiwan this November.

Uplifted reels platform associated with the 2013 Bohol earthquake

The cave swimming pool in Bohol island, Philippines. People find many different usages to these limestone caves around the world

The change of earthquake swarm near Japan's Tokara islands, from JMA's website. Two clusters developed since the beginning of this episode of activity.

I have to force myself to stop watching it in order to focus on my work....

I was surprised by how fast google updates the image this time....

The highway is open five times per day. No parking lots nor trails open in the gauge. Small-scale rock falls from the cliff. Good for car travel but not recommended for biking or travel by walk.

One year after the 2024 Hualien earthquake, the Taruko gauge is gradually coming back.

There are a few M5 earthquakes that happened in the part of section, but the recent event is close to the eastern boundary of the moderate earthquake cluster, at the western end of the seismic gap...

The msg from my student is 80 percent of town is disfunctioned....

Well.... I did not expect that either. When I got 430 km in 3/29, I was surprised about this result because it stopped in the middle of the Pyu section. Now, the pixel correlation esult in 4/1 confirmed it went further south, until 18.2 deg. This explained my students' damage data collected after eq

I thought the Myanmar earthquake was crazy, but actually, it's even more crazy than what I could imagine....

Never finished my 1839 Ava paper, but the Ava earthquake could be slightly larger than the 2025 event. They did share lots of similarities...

For some reason, the global network did not catch up the aftershocks on the southern part of rupture. The regional network from Thailand did report aftershocks from the south.

it's the peel from the paleoseismological trench

Uplifted oyster layer in the Hualien Harbor associated with the Mw 7.4 earthquake last year, eastern Taiwan

New observation deck in the Chelongpu fault trench muesum.

Yah. This, and the Wufong one, are indeed the must go places if you are studying the active fault.

Here I am again. The Cheloungpu fault trench muesum, #Taiwan

We are going to have a special issue in TAO journal addressing the recent M6.4 earthquake in SW Taiwan. Check out more: link.springer.com/collections/...

Fluvial terraces aling the Dahan River, northern Taiwan. Several other levels of terraces have been inundated by the reservoir in this photo.

#Hokudan2025 is starting today online. Unfortunately we can't attend in person this time...

Today is the 30 yrs anniversary of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, the earthquake that advances our understanding of active faults and seismic hazard analysis around the world.

Don't forget that there are another 30+ active faults in Japan that have been classified as S class active fault. Other places could also be struck by hazardous earthquakes (like Noto eq last yr), in addition to the Nankai Trough mega earthquake.

Recent progress in tsunami deposit investigations in Taiwan - Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Identifying deposits of modern/historical and prehistorical tsunamis in Taiwan has been successful in the past two decades and has substantially increased the extant tsunami catalogs, which have been ...

This new paper by Yu et al. describes the recent progress of the tsunami deposit investigation in Taiwan. Although there are some debates about how to identify the tsunami deposit from the typhoon deposit, but surely there is some good evidence of paleotsunami here
link.springer.com/article/10.1...