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Victor C. Tsai

Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Professor

Expertise: earthquakes, seismic noise, wave phenomena
 
 
About Me Publications
Lee, J., Tsai, V. C., Hirth, G., Trugman, D. T., & Chatterjee, A. (2023, 09). Does Fault Network Complexity Explain Stress Drop Variability?. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13271
Tsai, V. C., Hirth, G., Trugman, D., & Chu, S. (2022, 09). An Elastic Impact Model of High-Frequency Earthquake Radiation: Predictions and Observational Constraints. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12497
Chu, S., Baltay, A. S., Tsai, V. C., Abercrombie, R. E., Hirth, G., & Trugman, D. (2022, 09). How is fault complexity linked to high-frequency radiation from Southern California earthquakes? . Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12251
Muir, J. B., Clayton, R. W., Tsai, V. C., & BRISSAUD, Q. (2021, 08). Parsimonious velocity inversion applied to the Los Angeles Basin, CA. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11625
Chu, S., Tsai, V. C., Trugman, D. T., & Hirth, G. (2021, 08). Fault interactions enhance high-frequency earthquake radiation. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11597
Muir, J. B., Clayton, R. W., & Tsai, V. C. (2020, 08). A Level-Set Approach to Parsimoniously Updating the SCEC CVMs. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10482
Park, S., Tsai, V. C., & Ishii, M. (2019, 08). Near-Surface Structure Constrained Using Body-Wave Polarization. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9360
Muir, J. B., & Tsai, V. C. (2018, 08). Geometric and Level Set Tomography for Interface Detection in the Near Surface. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8399
Bowden, D. C., & Tsai, V. C. (2017, 07). The Site Response of Surface Waves. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7347
Walker, R. L., Hough, S. E., Jha, B., Tsai, V. C., Page, M. T., & Aminzadeh, F. (2016, 08). Using Coupled Geomechanical Modeling to Investigate Potential Production Induced Seismicity. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6791
Lin, Y., Ma, K., Kanamori, H., Song, T. A., Lapusta, N., & Tsai, V. C. (2016, 08). Evidence for Non-Self-Similarity of Microearthquakes Recorded at a Taiwan Borehole Seismometer Array. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6735
Hough, S. E., Tsai, V. C., Walker, R. L., Page, M. T., & Hosseini, S. M. (2016, 07). Were the 1952 Kern County and 1933 Long Beach, California, Earthquakes Induced?. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6401
Niu, F., Tsai, V. C., & Chen, H. (2018). Observations and modeling of long-period ground-motion amplification across northeast China. Geophysical Research Letters,. doi: 10.1029/2018GL078212. SCEC Contribution 8107
Bowden, D. C., Kohler, M. D., Tsai, V. C., & Weeraratne, D. S. (2016). Offshore southern California lithospheric velocity structure from noise cross-correlation functions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121(5), 3415-3427. doi: 10.1002/2016JB012919. SCEC Contribution 7135
Bowden, D. C., Tsai, V. C., & Lin, F. (2016). Interpreting site amplification from surface wave tomography. Poster Presentation at Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7113
Bowden, D. C., Tsai, V. C., & Lin, F. (2015). Site amplification, attenuation, and scattering from noise correlation amplitudes across a dense array in Long Beach, CA. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(5), 1360-1367. doi: 10.1002/2014GL062662. SCEC Contribution 6068
Lin, F., Tsai, V. C., & Schmandt, B. (2014). 3-D crustal structure of the western United States: application of Rayleigh-wave ellipticity extracted from noise cross-correlations. Geophysical Journal International, 198, 656-670. SCEC Contribution 7121
Zhan, Z., Tsai, V. C., & Clayton, R. W. (2013). Spurious velocity changes caused by temporal variations in ambient noise frequency content. Geophysical Journal International, 194(3), 1574-1581. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt170. SCEC Contribution 1734
Tsai, V. C., & Zhan, Z. (2012, 9). When are noise correlation amplitudes useful?. Poster Presentation at SCEC Annual Meeting 2012. doi: doi:10.1029/2011JB008483. SCEC Contribution 2058
Meng, L., Ampuero, J., Stock, J. M., Duputel, Z., Luo, Y., & Tsai, V. C. (2012). Earthquake in a Maze: Compressional Rupture Branching During the 2012 Mw 8.6 Sumatra Earthquake. Science, 337(6095), 724-726. doi: 10.1126/science.1224030. SCEC Contribution 1881
Duputel, Z., Kanamori, H., Tsai, V. C., Rivera, L., Meng, L., Ampuero, J., & Stock, J. M. (2012). The 2012 Sumatra great earthquake sequence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 351-352, 247-257. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.017. SCEC Contribution 1875
Duputel, Z., Kanamori, H., Tsai, V. C., Rivera, L., Meng, L., Ampuero, J., & Stock, J. M. (2012, 12). The Sumatra great earthquake sequence of 11 April 2012: Evidence of rupture onto multiple subfaults. Oral Presentation at AGU Fall Meeting 2012. SCEC Contribution 1788
Lin, F., Tsai, V. C., & Ritzwoller, M. (2012). The local amplification of surface waves: A new observable to constrain elastic velocities, density, and anelastic attenuation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117(B6), B06302. doi: 10.1029/2012JB009208. SCEC Contribution 1733
Meng, L., Ampuero, J., Stock, J. M., Duputel, Z., Luo, Y., & Tsai, V. C. (2012). Earthquake in a maze: compressional rupture branching during the 2012 Mw 8.6 Sumatra earthquake. Science,. doi: 10.1126/science.1224030. SCEC Contribution 1656

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