Wang Yu
@wangyu-1979.bsky.social
Earthquake Geologist. Associate Professor NTU-TW.
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Imagery from @planet.com has captured the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand. It shows the failure was about 4.8 km long and 1.4 km wide. There appears to have been coal waste dumping on the area that failed in the weeks before the landslide.
eos.org/thelandslide...
eos.org/thelandslide...
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Imagery from @planet.com has captured the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand. It shows the failure was about 4.8 km long and 1.4 km wide. There appears to have been coal waste dumping on the area that failed in the weeks before the landslide.
eos.org/thelandslide...
eos.org/thelandslide...
The 12th ACES (APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Science) International Workshop in Taipei just finished! 🎉 203 scientists & experts from 21 countries gathered for the largest ACES meeting ever, sharing the latest in #EarthquakeScience.
Relive the highlights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCPp...
Relive the highlights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCPp...
2025ACES
YouTube video by 台灣地震科學中心TEC
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November 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The 12th ACES (APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Science) International Workshop in Taipei just finished! 🎉 203 scientists & experts from 21 countries gathered for the largest ACES meeting ever, sharing the latest in #EarthquakeScience.
Relive the highlights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCPp...
Relive the highlights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCPp...
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.
October 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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.
Open faculty position!
The Department of Geosciences at the National Taiwan University (NTU-TW) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position.
Details here: web.gl.ntu.edu.tw/index.php/re...
The Department of Geosciences at the National Taiwan University (NTU-TW) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position.
Details here: web.gl.ntu.edu.tw/index.php/re...
October 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Open faculty position!
The Department of Geosciences at the National Taiwan University (NTU-TW) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position.
Details here: web.gl.ntu.edu.tw/index.php/re...
The Department of Geosciences at the National Taiwan University (NTU-TW) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position.
Details here: web.gl.ntu.edu.tw/index.php/re...
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.
September 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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.
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Simulated propagation of tsunami generated by Kamchatka M8.8 earthquake. Generated by NCDR, Taiwan. 🧪⚒️⚛️
July 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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.
July 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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
July 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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
July 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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.
July 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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.
One year after the 2024 Hualien earthquake, the Taruko gauge is gradually coming back.
May 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
One year after the 2024 Hualien earthquake, the Taruko gauge is gradually coming back.
I thought the Myanmar earthquake was crazy, but actually, it's even more crazy than what I could imagine....
March 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I thought the Myanmar earthquake was crazy, but actually, it's even more crazy than what I could imagine....
Uplifted oyster layer in the Hualien Harbor associated with the Mw 7.4 earthquake last year, eastern Taiwan
March 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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.
March 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New observation deck in the Chelongpu fault trench muesum.
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/...
February 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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.
January 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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...
January 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
#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.
January 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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.
南海トラフ地震、30年以内発生確率｢80%程度｣に引き上げ - 日本経済新聞 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
南海トラフ地震、30年以内発生確率｢80%程度｣に引き上げ - 日本経済新聞
政府の地震調査委員会は15日、日本列島周辺の海溝や陸の活断層で予想される大地震の発生確率の2025年版を発表した。南海トラフ巨大地震は今後30年以内で「80%程度」と評価した。24年版の「70〜80%」から上昇した。地震の発生確率は、想定する地震が起きるまで高まり続ける。毎年1月1日を基準に再計算し、新年版を公表する。地震調査委は南海トラフ地震の今後30年以内の発生確率を「75〜82%」と評
www.nikkei.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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.
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...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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 ...
link.springer.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Let's take a look at some field photos showing the normal fault ruptures (Taken by field survey team of the Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration).
January 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Let's take a look at some field photos showing the normal fault ruptures (Taken by field survey team of the Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration).
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from @tectonicsyang.bsky.social:
"Dr. An Li from our department reports on earthquake surface ruptures based on pre- and post-earthquake satellite images."
www.eq-igl.ac.cn/zhxw/info/20...
"Dr. An Li from our department reports on earthquake surface ruptures based on pre- and post-earthquake satellite images."
www.eq-igl.ac.cn/zhxw/info/20...
January 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
from @tectonicsyang.bsky.social:
"Dr. An Li from our department reports on earthquake surface ruptures based on pre- and post-earthquake satellite images."
www.eq-igl.ac.cn/zhxw/info/20...
"Dr. An Li from our department reports on earthquake surface ruptures based on pre- and post-earthquake satellite images."
www.eq-igl.ac.cn/zhxw/info/20...
Now China has enough high-res optical satellite to make timing observations after the earthquake. The following link is the news report in HK related to the damage assessment of the Tibetan earthquake.
www.hk01.com/%E5%8D%B3%E6...
www.hk01.com/%E5%8D%B3%E6...
吉林一號公開衛星圖像 對比西藏定日縣6.8級地震前後變化
1月7日，西藏日喀則市定日縣發生6.8級地震，震源深度10公里。為掌握受災區域實時情況，「吉林一號」衛星緊急調度過境西藏定日縣觀測災區，並在成像
www.hk01.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Now China has enough high-res optical satellite to make timing observations after the earthquake. The following link is the news report in HK related to the damage assessment of the Tibetan earthquake.
www.hk01.com/%E5%8D%B3%E6...
www.hk01.com/%E5%8D%B3%E6...
This paper describes the normal fault scarp associated with the recent earthquake in the Tibetan earthquake. This is one of the iconic papers of active fault study in that area.
On 7 Jan 2025 a Mw 7.1 to 7.2 #earthquake happened on a normal fault in S #Tibet.
The seminal article on Tibetan normal faults and grabens is by Armijo et al. 1986 doi.org/10.1029/JB09... from which I extract these two maps. The 7 Jan epicenter is shown by a star 👇
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The seminal article on Tibetan normal faults and grabens is by Armijo et al. 1986 doi.org/10.1029/JB09... from which I extract these two maps. The 7 Jan epicenter is shown by a star 👇
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January 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This paper describes the normal fault scarp associated with the recent earthquake in the Tibetan earthquake. This is one of the iconic papers of active fault study in that area.