Publications

2025

Jiang, Y., J. Zhang, J. Zi, and H. Yang (2025), Source mechanism and rupture directivity of small earthquakes in the Changning region, China, using a dense array data, Seismo. Res. Lett. (in revision)

Yang, L, J. Zi (co-first author), R. Wang, and H. Yang (2025), Monitoring induced seismicity in the Weiyuan shale gas field utilizing a dense array, Tectonophysics (accepted)

Tan, S., L. Xue, J. Zi, H. Luo, H. Yang, and L. Zhao (2025), Exploring the effects of hydraulic fracturing on the 2019 Mw 5.0 Weiyuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, J. Geophys. Res., minor revision

Song, J, W. Zhu, J. Zi, H. Yang, and R. Chu (2025), An enhanced focal mechanism catalog of induced earthquakes in Weiyuan, Sichuan, from dense array data and a multi- task deep learning model, The Seismic Record, DOI:10.1785/0320250004

hen, L., X. Huang*, C. Wang, X. Xie, H. Ji, S. Greenhalgh, J. Zi, and H. Yang (2025), Evidence of shallow large earthquake associated with Fault Linkage, J. Geophys. Eng., DOI:10.1093/jge/gxaf030

Zi, J., Y. Yang, H. Yang, and J. Su (2025), The 11-month precursory fault activation of the 2019 Mw 5.0 earthquake in the Weiyuan shale gas field, China, Nature Communications Earth & Environment, DOI:10.1038/s43247-025-02151-1

2024

Zhang, J., H. Yang, and J. Zi (2024). An improved estimation of stress drop and its application on induced earthquakes in the Weiyuan Shale Gas Field in China. Geophysical Journal International DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggae014

Abbas, A., H. Yang, J. Zi (2024). Deciphering the low-frequency seismic signals in the Weiyuan shale gas field: Implications for reservoir and structural heterogeneity. Geophysical Journal International DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggae032

Zhang, W., R. Guo, L. Ji, H. Yang, K. Dai, J. Zi, and Heping SUN (2023). Shallow reverse moderate earthquakes in the Weiyuan shale gas field, Sichuan Basin, China. Submitted to Seismological Research Letters DOI: 10.1785/0220230375

Zi, J., H. Yang, and J. Su (2024).

2023

Zi, J., H. Yang, J. Su, and L. Chen (2023). Structural Constraints of Induced Earthquakes in the Weiyuan Shale Gas Field Revealed by High-resolution Body-wave Tomography and Earthquake Relocation. Tectonophysics. DOI:10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230007

Yang, Y., H. Yang, and J. Zi (2023). Stress Transfer Outpaces Injection-Induced Aseismic Slip and Triggers Seismicity. Scientific reports DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-43760-0

Abbas, A., G. Zhu, H. Chen, J. Zi, and H. Yang (2023). Evaluating and correcting short-term clock drift in data from temporary seismic deployments. Earthquake Research Advances. 3(2). DOI:10.1016/j.eqrea.2022.100199

Before 2023

Wong, W., J. Zi, H. Yang, and J. Su (2021). Spatial-temporal evolution of injection-induced earthquakes in the Weiyuan Area determined by machine-learning phase picker and waveform cross-correlation. Earth and Planetary Physcis. DOI:doi.org/10.26464/epp2021055

Zhang, Y., D. Jia, A. R. Muxworthy, Y. Li, B. Xia, Z. Xie, J. Hu, J. Zi and W. Liu (2018), The Chemical Remagnetization of Ediacaran Dolomite in the Taishan Paleo-Reservoir, South China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123: 6161-6175. DOI:10.1029/2018JB015547

Shen, S., D. Jia, Q. Zeng, C. Xie, J. Zi, Y. Zhang, J. Hu (2018), Baddeleyite U-Pb Geochronology and Geological Significance of Maliucun Diabase in the Tangwangzhai-Yangtianwo Syncline, the Northern Segment of Longmen Shan. Geological Bulletin of China, 37(5): 840-852(In Chinese with English Abstracts).

Zi, J., D. Jia, G. Wei, Z. Yang, Y. Zhang, J. Hu and S. Shen (2017). LA-ICP-MS U-Pb Zircon Ages of Volcaniclastic Beds of the Third Member of the Sinian (Edicaran) Dengying Formation in Leshan, Sichuan, and a Discussion on the Rift Evolution in the Basin.