Dr. Shiqing xk星空官方网站 received B.S. in Geophysics, and in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, from Peking University in 2007. Then, he moved to the US and obtained Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, from the University of Southern California in 2013. After that, Dr. xk星空官方网站 joined the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience in Japan, as a Research Fellow. Starting from September 2019, Dr. xk星空官方网站 became an Assistant Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. Dr. xk星空官方网站 is interested in a wide range of earthquake problems, including earthquake dynamics and faulting, evolution of fault zones, rock friction experiments, and earthquake physics. As a first author or co-author, Dr. xk星空官方网站 so far has published 34 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Geoscience, Nature, and Nature Communications. Dr. xk星空官方网站 has served as the primary session conveners twice for the AGU fall meeting. As the chief guest editor, Dr. xk星空官方网站 has organized a special issue “Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation” in Tectonophysics. As referee, Dr. xk星空官方网站 has helped to review journal articles and NSF proposals (US) for multiple times.

Education

2007 – 2013: Ph.D., University of Southern California (USA), Department of xk星空官方网站 Sciences, Advisor: Yehuda Ben-Zion

2003 – 2007: B.S., Peking University, School of xk星空官方网站 and Space Sciences

                     B.S. Double Major (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), Peking University, School of Mathematical Sciences

Working Experience

2025 – present: Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of xk星空官方网站 and Space Sciences

2019 – 2025: Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of xk星空官方网站 and Space Sciences

2013 – 2019: Research Fellow, National Research Institute for xk星空官方网站 Science and Disaster Resilience (Japan), Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Prevention Research Department, Advisor: Eiichi Fukuyama

Teaching Experience

2007 – 2013: Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California (USA), Department of xk星空官方网站 Sciences

Fellowships and Honors

2025: Wiley China Excellent Author Award (Q4 2024)

2024: Technology Development Award of the Seismological Society of Japan

2024: AGU’s Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid xk星空官方网站 (FY 2023)

2023: AGU’s Outstanding Reviewers for Geophysical Research Letters (FY 2022)

2022: Fu Chengyi Youth Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Geophysical Society

2021: AGU’s Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid xk星空官方网站 (FY 2020)

2020: AGU’s Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid xk星空官方网站 (FY 2019)

2019: AGU’s Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid xk星空官方网站 (FY 2018)

2019: National Research Institute for xk星空官方网站 Science and Disaster Resilience Achievement Award (FY 2018)

2018: Young Scientist Award of the Seismological Society of Japan (FY 2017)

2006: Chinese Academy of Science Scholarship in Geophysics, 2nd Prize

2004: Award for Study Excellence, Peking University

2003: National Scholarship

Professional Society Services

Editor: Geophysical Journal International (GJI) (2023 – present)

Guest Editor: Tectonophysics (2017 – 2018)

Reviewer: Nature Geoscience; Nature Communications; Science Advances; AGU Geophysical Monograph Series; JGR-Solid xk星空官方网站; GRL; Gcubed; EPSL; Tectonophysics; JSG; BSSA; TSR; SRL; EPS; GJI; PAGEOPH etc.

Research
• Earthquake xk星空官方网站: Theoretical Model and Numerical Simulation
• Damage Mechanics and Fracture Mechanics
• Rock Friction Experiments
• Evolution of Fault Zones
• Regular and Slow Earthquakes
• Subduction Zone Earthquakes
• Earthquake Physics

Submitted

[S4] Ding, X., S. xk星空官方网站, and L. Ye, Intermittent supershear rupture punctuated by barrier-induced stopping phase during the 2025 Mw 7.8 Myanmar earthquake: Evidence from near-fault strong motion observation, submitted to Geophysical Research Letters, 2025. 

[S3] Zheng, F., J. Gao, Z. Liu, H. Meng, Y. Hou, L. Wang, S. xk星空官方网站, Z. Peng, C. Wang, M Zhou, H. Yue, J. Sun, Z. Wang, Y. Ben-Zion, Rich Rupture Dynamics of the 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay Earthquake Revealed by Unprecedented Near-Fault and High-Resolution Observations, submitted, 2025. 

[S2] xk星空官方网站, S., Energy-based opinion on the correlation between stress drop and rupture speed, submitted to Seismica, 2025.

[S1] Fukuyama, E., F. Yamashita, S. xk星空官方网站, K. Mizoguchi, H. Kawakata, K. Okubo, and S. Maeda, Development of large-scale friction apparatuses and their contributions to earthquake source physics, submitted to Zisin, 2025.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

[34] Xia, T., L. Ye, Y. Bai, T. Lay, S. xk星空官方网站, H. Kanamori, L. Rivera, and S. P. D. Sriyanto (2024), The 2022 Mw 7.3 Southern Sumatra Tsunami Earthquake: Rupture Up-dip of the 2007 Mw 8.4 Bengkulu Event, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(12), e2024JB030284, doi:10.1029/2024JB030284.

[33] Gong, W., L. Ye, S. xk星空官方网站, Y. Tan, and X. Chen (2024), Rupture Behaviors of the Southern Xianshuihe Fault and Seismicity around Mt. Gongga: Insights from the 2022 Mw 6.6 Luding (China) Earthquake Sequence, Tectonophysics, 892, 230538, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230538.

[32] Ding, X., S. xk星空官方网站, E. Fukuyama, and F. Yamashita (2024), Back-Propagating Rupture: Nature, Excitation, and Implications, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(10), e2024JB029629, doi:10.1029/2024JB029629.

[31] Wang, L., S. xk星空官方网站, Y. Zhuo, P. Liu, and S. Ma (2024), Unraveling the roles of fault asperities over earthquake cycles, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 636, 118711, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118711.

[30] Wang, Q., Y. Zhang, L. Wang, P. Yu, S. Guerin-Marthe, X. Peng, S. xk星空官方网站, P. Martínez-Garzón, and M. Bohnhoff (2024), Evolution of shear rupture along a prescribed interface using the Discontinuous Deformation Analysis method, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 57, 7715–7726, doi:10.1007/s00603-024-03897-4.

[29] Liu-Zeng, J., Z. Liu, X. Liu, C. Milliner, A. Rodriguez Padilla, S. xk星空官方网站, J.-P. Avouac, W. Yao, Y. Klinger, L. Han, Y. Shao, X. Yan, S. Aati, and Z. Shao (2024), Fault orientation trumps fault maturity in controlling coseismic rupture characteristics of the 2021 Maduo earthquake, AGU Advances, 5(2), e2023AV001134, doi:10.1029/2023AV001134.

[28] Wan, Z., R. Dong, D. Wang, S. xk星空官方网站, Z. Wang, and Q. Wang (2024), Along-strike Variation of Rupture Characteristics and Aftershock Patterns of the 2023 Mw 7.8 Türkiye Earthquake Controlled by Fault Structure, Seismological Research Letters, 95(4), 2071–2080, doi:10.1785/0220230378.

[27] Lu, R., Y. Gao, Y. Hu, X. Lai, H. Li, J. Lu, L. Shao, P. Wang, W. Wang, W. Wang, C. Xia, H. xk星空官方网站, R. xk星空官方网站, S. xk星空官方网站, H. Yue, L. Zhao, X. Zheng, E. Zhou, and Y. Zou (2024), Quakes: from the Earth to Stars, Scientia Sinica Physica, Mechanica & Astronomica, 54(8), 289501, doi:10.1360/SSPMA-2023-0424.

[26] Ding, X., J. Xie, and S. xk星空官方网站 (2024), Dynamic activation of near-orthogonal conjugate faults during earthquakes: Insights from the 2023 Türkiye Mw 7.6 earthquake, Chinese Science Bulletin, 69(11), 1501–1516, doi:10.1360/TB-2023-0894.

[25] Ding, X., S. xk星空官方网站, Y. Xie, M. van den Ende, J. Premus, and J.-P. Ampuero (2023), The sharp turn: Backward rupture branching during the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) earthquake, Seismica, 2(3), doi:10.26443/seismica.v2i3.1083. Preprint link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06051

[24] Cheng, C., D. Wang, Q. Yao, L. Fang, S. xk星空官方网站, Z. Huang, T. Liu, Z. Wang, and X. Huang (2023), The 2021 Mw 7.3 Madoi, China earthquake: Transient supershear ruptures on a presumed immature strike-slip fault, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Special Issue "100-Year Anniversary of the Great 1920 Haiyuan Earthquake: What Have We Learned on Large Continental Earthquakes and Faults?", 128, e2022JB024641, doi:10.1029/2022JB024641.

[23] xk星空官方网站, S., E. Fukuyama, F. Yamashita, H. Kawakata, K. Mizoguchi, and S. Takizawa (2023), Fault strength and rupture process controlled by fault surface topography, Nature Geoscience, 16, 94–100, doi:10.1038/s41561-022-01093-z.

[22] Yamashita, F., E. Fukuyama, and S. xk星空官方网站 (2022), Foreshock activity promoted by locally elevated loading rate on a 4-meter-long laboratory fault, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(3), e2021JB023336, doi:10.1029/2021JB023336.

[21] Yoshida, K., N. Uchida, H. Kubo, R. Takagi, and S. xk星空官方网站 (2022), Prevalence of updip rupture propagation in interplate earthquakes along the Japan Trench, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 578, 117306, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117306.

[20] Yamashita, F., E. Fukuyama, S. xk星空官方网站, H. Kawakata, K. Mizoguchi, and S. Takizawa (2021), Two end-member earthquake preparations illuminated by foreshock activity on a meter-scale laboratory fault, Nature Communications, 12, 4302, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24625-4.

[19] xk星空官方网站, S. (2020), Recognizing fracture pattern signatures contributed by seismic loadings, Interpretation, Special Issue "Seismic interpretation of fractures in deep subsurface", 8(4), SP95–SP108, doi:10.1190/int-2020-0033.1. Preprint link: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/308/

[18] xk星空官方网站, S., E. Fukuyama, F. Yamashita, and S. Takizawa (2019), Evolution of Fault-Interface Rayleigh Wave speed over simulated earthquake cycles in the lab: Observations, interpretations, and implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 524, 115720, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115720.

[17] xk星空官方网站, S. (2019), Probing earthquake physics using multidisciplinary approaches, Zisin, 72(2), 17–34, doi:10.4294/zisin.2018-12.

[16] xk星空官方网站, S., E. Fukuyama, and F. Yamashita (2019), Robust estimation of rupture properties at propagating front of laboratory earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(1), 766–787, doi:10.1029/2018JB016797.

[15] xk星空官方网站, S., E. Fukuyama, A. Sagy, and M.-L. Doan (2018), Preface: Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation, Tectonophysics, Special Issue "Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation", 733, 1–3, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2018.04.013.

[14] Yamashita, F., E. Fukuyama, S. xk星空官方网站, K. Mizoguchi, H. Kawakata, and S. Takizawa (2018), Rupture preparation process controlled by surface roughness on meter-scale laboratory fault, Tectonophysics, Special Issue "Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation", 733, 193–208, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2018.01.034.

[13] Fukuyama, E., K. Tsuchida, H. Kawakata, F. Yamashita, K. Mizoguchi, and S. xk星空官方网站 (2018), Spatiotemporal complexity of 2-D rupture nucleation process observed by direct monitoring during large-scale biaxial rock friction experiments, Tectonophysics, Special Issue "Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation", 733, 182–192, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.12.023.

[12] xk星空官方网站, S., E. Fukuyama, F. Yamashita, K. Mizoguchi, S. Takizawa, and H. Kawakata (2018), Strain rate effect on fault slip and rupture evolution: Insight from meter-scale rock friction experiments, Tectonophysics, Special Issue "Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation", 733, 209-231, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.11.039.

[11] Aldam, M., S. xk星空官方网站, E.A. Brener, Y. Ben-Zion, and E. Bouchbinder (2018), Non-monotonicity of the frictional bimaterial effect, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(10), 8270–8284, doi:10.1002/2017JB014665.

[10] xk星空官方网站, S., and Y. Ben-Zion (2017), Theoretical constraints on dynamic pulverization of fault zone rocks, Geophysical Journal International, 209(1), 282–296, doi:10.1093/gji/ggx033.

[9] xk星空官方网站, S., E. Fukuyama, H. Yue, and J.-P. Ampuero (2016), Simple crack models explain deformation induced by subduction zone megathrust earthquakes, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 106(5), 2275–2289, doi:10.1785/0120160079.

[8] Fukuyama, E., S. xk星空官方网站, F. Yamashita, and K. Mizoguchi (2016), Cohesive zone length of metagabbro at supershear rupture velocity, Journal of Seismology, Special Issue "Imaging Earthquakes and Earth Structure Through Waves" Honoring Professor Raul Madariaga, 20(4), 1207–1215, doi:10.1007/s10950-016-9588-2.

[7] Yamashita, F., E. Fukuyama, K. Mizoguchi, S. Takizawa, S. xk星空官方网站, and H. Kawakata (2015), Scale dependence of rock friction at high work rate, Nature, 528, 254–257, doi:10.1038/nature16138.

[6] xk星空官方网站, S., E. Fukuyama, Y. Ben-Zion, and J.-P. Ampuero (2015), Dynamic rupture activation of backthrust fault branching, Tectonophysics, 644–645, 161–183, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.01.011.

[5] xk星空官方网站, S., Y. Ben-Zion, J.-P. Ampuero, and V. Lyakhovsky (2015), Dynamic ruptures on a frictional interface with off-fault brittle damage: Feedback mechanisms and effects on slip and near-fault motion, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 172, 1243–1267, doi: 10.1007/s00024-014-0923-7.

[4] xk星空官方网站, S., and Y. Ben-Zion (2013), Numerical and theoretical analyses of in-plane dynamic rupture on a frictional interface and off-fault yielding patterns at different scales, Geophysical Journal International, 193, 304–320, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggs105.

[3] xk星空官方网站, S., Y. Ben-Zion, and J.-P. Ampuero (2012b), Properties of inelastic yielding zones generated by in-plane dynamic ruptures: II. Detailed parameter-space study, Geophysical Journal International, 191, 1343–1360, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05685.x.

[2] xk星空官方网站, S., Y. Ben-Zion, and J.-P. Ampuero (2012a), Properties of inelastic yielding zones generated by in-plane dynamic ruptures: I. Model description and basic results, Geophysical Journal International, 191, 1325-1342, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05679.x.

[1] Ben-Zion, Y., T. Rockwell, Z. Shi, and S. xk星空官方网站 (2012), Reversed-polarity secondary deformation structures near fault stepovers, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Special Issue Honoring Professor James R. Rice, 79(3), 031025, doi:10.1115/1.4006154.