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Seismology, Earth structures, Earthquakes
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Southern University of Science and Technology: Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN

2019-01-01 to present | Associate professor (Earth and Space Sciences)
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Chunquan Yu

California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA, US

2016-07-01 to 2018-12-31 | Postdotoral (Seismological Laboratory)
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Chunquan Yu

Education and qualifications (2)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA, US

2010-09-01 to 2016-06-04 | Ph.D (Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences)
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Chunquan Yu

Peking University: Beijing, Beijing, CN

2003-09-01 to 2010-06-31 | BSc, MSc (Geophysics)
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Chunquan Yu

Works (48)

A new method for constraining crustal Vp/Vs ratio using P and S wave multiples

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Fanchang Meng; Chunquan Yu; Xianwei Zeng
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Complex fault-zone structure of the 2021 Yangbi Earthquake sequence revealed by dense array observations

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Xianwei Zeng; Chunquan Yu; Gongheng Zhang
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Detection of Immediate Foreshocks Using Dense Seismic Array: A Case Study of the 2021 Ms 6.4 Yangbi aftershock sequence

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Fengjiang Ju; Haoran Meng; Xiaofei Chen; Chunquan Yu
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Sedimentary and crustal structures beneath the northern Ordos basin constrained by receiver functions and Pn multiples

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Weiliang Yin; Chunquan Yu
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Shallow Focal Depths of the 2022 Ms 6.8 Luding Earthquake and Its M ≥3 Aftershocks

Seismological Research Letters
2025-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Qiang Yao; Chunquan Yu; Xianwei Zeng
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Complicated thermo-chemical heterogeneity of the mantle transition zone beneath the Philippine Sea Plate revealed by SS precursors investigation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Fan Yang; Juan Li; Chunquan Yu; Sidan Chen; Yang Li; Zhigang Zhang; Wei Wang
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Three‐Dimensional Crustal Channel Flows Beneath the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau Revealed by Full‐Waveform Ambient Noise Tomography

Geophysical Research Letters
2024-11-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Cong Li; Chunquan Yu; Ian Hillenbrand; Wei Zhang
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A Displaced Lower Mantle Source of the Hainan Plume in South China Revealed by Receiver Function Imaging of the CEArray

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2024-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Yan Zhang; Fenglin Niu; Jieyuan Ning; Chunquan Yu
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Seismic Evidence for Crustal Magmatic Intrusion Beneath the Southern Part of the Eastern North American Margin

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2024-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Cong Li; Chunquan Yu
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A displaced lower mantle source of the Hainan plume in South China revealed by receiver function imaging of the CEArray

2023-09-30 | Preprint
Contributors: Yan Zhang; Fenglin Niu; Jieyuan Ning; Chunquan Yu
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Seismic evidence for global basalt accumulation in the mantle transition zone

Science Advances
2023-06-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunquan Yu; Saskia Goes; Elizabeth A. Day; Robert D. van der Hilst
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Eikonal surface wave tomography of central and eastern China

Geophysical Journal International
2022-09-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Pengxiang Zhou; Sébastien Chevrot; Maximilien Lehujeur; Shaohong Xia; Chunquan Yu
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Compositional heterogeneity in the mantle transition zone

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2022-07-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Saskia Goes; Chunquan Yu; Maxim D. Ballmer; Jun Yan; Robert D. van der Hilst
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Imaging Strong Lateral Heterogeneities Across the Contiguous US Using Body‐To‐Surface Wave Scattering

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunquan Yu; Jorge C. Castellanos; Zhongwen Zhan
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Post-critical SsPmp and its applications to virtual deep seismic sounding (VDSS)—3: back-projection imaging of the crust–mantle boundary in a heterogeneous lithosphere, theory and application

Geophysical Journal International
2020-11-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Tianze Liu; Simon L Klemperer; Chunquan Yu; Jieyuan Ning
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Shallow Basin Structure and Attenuation Are Key to Predicting Long Shaking Duration in Los Angeles Basin

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2020-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Voon Hui Lai; Robert W. Graves; Chunquan Yu; Zhongwen Zhan; Don V. Helmberger
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Imaging strong lateral heterogeneities across the contiguous US using body-to-surface wave scattering

2020-08-23 | Other
Contributors: Chunquan Yu; Jorge Alberto Castellanos; Zhongwen Zhan
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Thermal and chemical properties of the mantle transition zone from seismic observations

2020-03-23 | Other
Contributors: Saskia Goes; Chunquan Yu; Ross Maguire; Elizabeth Day; Rob van der Hilst; Jeroen Ritsema; Jing Jian
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Post-critical SsPmp and its applications to Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS) – 2: 1-D imaging of the crust/mantle and joint constraints with receiver functions

Geophysical Journal International
2019-11-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0956-540X
Part of ISSN: 1365-246X
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Depth Determination of the 2010 El Mayor‐Cucapah Earthquake Sequence (M ≥ 4.0)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2019-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunquan Yu; Egill Hauksson; Zhongwen Zhan; Elizabeth S. Cochran; Donald V. Helmberger
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Determining Moho Depth beneath Sedimentary Basins Using Regional Pn Multiples

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
2019-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0037-1106
Part of ISSN: 1943-3573
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Chunquan Yu

The Potential of DAS in Teleseismic Studies: Insights From the Goldstone Experiment

Geophysical Research Letters
2019-02-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunquan Yu; Zhongwen Zhan; Nathaniel J. Lindsey; Jonathan B. Ajo‐Franklin; Michelle Robertson
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A MATLAB GUI for Examining Triggered Tremor: A Case Study in New Zealand

Seismological Research Letters
2018-09-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0895-0695
Contributors: Kevin Chao; Chunquan Yu
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Post-critical SsPmp and its applications to Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS)—1: sensitivity to lithospheric 1-D and 2-D structure

Geophysical Journal International
2018-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0956-540X
Contributors: Tianze Liu; Simon L Klemperer; Chunquan Yu; Jieyuan Ning
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Compositional heterogeneity near the base of the mantle transition zone beneath Hawaii

Nature Communications
2018-03-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunquan Yu; Elizabeth A. Day; Maarten V. de Hoop; Michel Campillo; Saskia Goes; Rachel A. Blythe; Robert D. van der Hilst
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Mapping Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities Beneath the Central Pacific With Array Processing of SS Precursors

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2017-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunquan Yu; Elizabeth A. Day; Maarten V. de Hoop; Michel Campillo; Robert D. van der Hilst
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Strong SH‐to‐Love Wave Scattering off the Southern California Continental Borderland

Geophysical Research Letters
2017-10-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunquan Yu; Zhongwen Zhan; Egill Hauksson; Elizabeth S. Cochran
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Localized water reverberation phases and its impact on backprojection images

Geophysical Research Letters
2017-10-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Han Yue; Jorge C. Castellanos; Chunquan Yu; Lingsen Meng; Zhongwen Zhan
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Earthquake rupture below the brittle-ductile transition in continental lithospheric mantle

Science Advances
2017-03-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Germán A. Prieto; Bérénice Froment; Chunquan Yu; Piero Poli; Rachel Abercrombie
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Crazyseismic: A MATLAB GUI‐Based Software Package for Passive Seismic Data Preprocessing

Seismological Research Letters
2017-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunquan Yu; Yingcai Zheng; Xuefeng Shang
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Complex deformation in western Tibet revealed by anisotropic tomography

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2016-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Heng Zhang; Junmeng Zhao; Dapeng Zhao; Chunquan Yu; Hongbing Liu; Zhaoguo Hu
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Constraints on residual topography and crustal properties in the western United States from virtual deep seismic sounding

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2016-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunquan Yu; Wang-Ping Chen; Robert D. van der Hilst
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Simultaneous Determination of Crustal Thickness andPWavespeed by Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS)

Seismological Research Letters
2016-08-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Dou Kang; Chunquan Yu; Jieyuan Ning; Wang‐Ping Chen
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Varying deformation patterns in central Tibet revealed by radial anisotropy tomography

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2016-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Heng Zhang; Dapeng Zhao; Chunquan Yu; Junmeng Zhao
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Complex rupture of theM6.3 2015 March 10 Bucaramanga earthquake: evidence of strong weakening process

Geophysical Journal International
2016-02 | Journal article
Contributors: P. Poli; G.A. Prieto; C.Q. Yu; M. Florez; H. Agurto-Detzel; T.D. Mikesell; G. Chen; V. Dionicio; P. Pedraza
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Characterization and Petrological Constraints of the Midlithospheric Discontinuity

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2015-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Erika Rader; Erica Emry; Nicholas Schmerr; Daniel Frost; Cheng Cheng; Julie Menard; Chun-Quan Yu; Dennis Geist
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Western US intermountain seismicity caused by changes in upper mantle flow

Nature
2015-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Thorsten W. Becker; Anthony R. Lowry; Claudio Faccenna; Brandon Schmandt; Adrian Borsa; Chunquan Yu
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A unified map of Moho depth and Vp/Vs ratio of continental China by receiver function analysis

Geophysical Journal International
2014-10 | Journal article
Contributors: R. He; X. Shang; C. Yu; H. Zhang; R. D. Van der Hilst
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Focal Mechanism Solutions of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake sequence from P-wave polarities and SH/P amplitude ratios: new results and implications

Earthquake Science
2013 | Journal article
Contributors: Yuan Tian; Jieyuan Ning; Chunquan Yu; Chen Cai; Kai Tao
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Moho, seismogenesis, and rheology of the lithosphere

Tectonophysics
2013 | Journal article
Contributors: Wang-Ping Chen; Chun-Quan Yu; Tai-Lin Tseng; Zhaohui Yang; Chi-yuen Wang; Jieyuan Ning; Tiffany Leonard
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Removing source-side scattering for virtual deep seismic sounding (VDSS)

Geophysical Journal International
2013-10-01 | Journal article
Contributors: C.-Q. Yu; W.-P. Chen; R. D. van der Hilst
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Thick crust beneath the Ordos plateau: Implications for instability of the North China craton

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2012 | Journal article
Contributors: Chun-Quan Yu; Wang-Ping Chen; Jie-Yuan Ning; Kai Tao; Tai-Lin Tseng; Xin-Ding Fang; Yongshun John Chen; Robert D. van der Hilst
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Spatial distribution and focal mechanism solutions of the Wenchuan earthquake series: Results and implications

Earthquake Science
2011-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Chen Cai; Chunquan Yu; Kai Tao; Xingping Hu; Yuan Tian; Hao Zhang; Xiaofeng Cui; Jieyuan Ning
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A new stacking technique in ambient noise tomography

Earthquake Science
2010 | Journal article
Contributors: Jing Liu; Youcai Tang; Kai Tao; Chunquan Yu; Jie Chen; Jieyuan Ning; Yongshun John Chen; Yongge Feng
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Receiver function analysis at Shanxi Rift

Chin J Geophys
2010 | Journal article
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Chunquan Yu

Intermediate-depth earthquakes beneath the Pamir-Hindu Kush region: Evidence for collision between two opposite subduction zones

Earthquake Science
2009 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiaoting Lou; Chen Cai; Chunquan Yu; Jieyuan Ning
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P-wave first-motion focal mechanism solutions and their quality evaluation

Chin J Geophys
2009 | Journal article
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Chunquan Yu

Focal mechanism solutions of Wenchuan earthquake and its strong aftershocks obtained from initial P wave polarity analysis

Chin J Geophys
2008 | Journal article
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