Publications

Kunath, Pascal, Peter J. Talling, Morelia Urlaub, Christian Berndt, Wu-Cheng Chi, and Megan Bake (2025) Ocean-bottom seismometers document how submarine landslides develop and grow, Nature communications earth & environment, DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02918-6.

Han, Wei-Chung, Chen, Liwen, Chi, Wu-Cheng, Chiang, Hsieh-Tang, Chen, Song-Chuen, Liu, Char-Shine, and Shyu, Chuen-Tien (2025) Seafloor thermal structures controlled by recent slope failure and fluid flow: An example from offshore SW Taiwan, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 177, 107394, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2025.107394

Wu, Yi-Hsuan, Wu-Cheng Chi, Liam Chai, Akiko Toh, Megawat Megawati, and Chin-Jen Lin (2025) Mechanism of dynamic triggering for slab-related fluid-induced tremors occurred in Nanao, Taiwan, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, doi: 10.1785/0120240256

Pascal, Kunath, Talling, P.J., Lange, D., Chi, W.-C., Baker, M. Urlaub, M., Berndt., C. (2025) Ocean-bottom seismometers reveal surge dynamics in Earth’s longest-runout sediment flows, Nature communications earth & environment, 6:1, 47, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02137-z

Yang, Chu-Fang, Chi, W.-C., Ke, C.-C. Lin, C.-J. (2024) Application of seismically derived tilt signals to characterize groundwater ﬂow regimes: An example from a constant-rate pumping test in Taiwan, Journal of Hydrology, 645, 132188 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132188

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, Yang, C.-F., Wege, S., Lin, C.-J., Ke, C.-C. (2023) Transient ground bulge derived from a dense broadband seismic array during an aquifer step-drawdown pumping test, Journal of Hydrology, 628, 130595 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130595

Konstantin Reeck*, Marion Jegen, Tim Freudenthal, Judith Elger, Sebastian Hölz, Christian Deusner, Klaus Wallmann, Saulwood Lin, Wu-Cheng Chi, Gerhard Bohrmann, Christian Berndt (2023) Quantification of mixed hydrate and free gas concentrations by the joint integration of velocity and conductivity information, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 158B, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106569

Toh, Akiko*, Yann Capdeville, Wu-Cheng Chi, Satoshi Ide (2023) Strongly Scattering Medium Along Slow-earthquake Fault Zones based on New Observations of Short-duration Tremor, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL10185. http://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101851

Bohrmann, G*, C. Berndt, S. Lin, T.-H. Tu, A.T. Lin, H.-H. Hsu, M.-L. Lai, W.-C. Chi, C. Deusner, J. Elger, K. Wallmann, T. Freudenthal, S. Mau, T. Pape, Y.-T. Tseng, P.-S. Yu, L.-F. Fan, J.-N. Chen, S.-C. Chen, T.-T. Chen, K.-Y. Wei, SONNE SO266 shipboard scientific party (2023) Geological controls on the distribution of gas hydrates in the shallow parts of the gas hydrate stability zone – constraints from seafloor drilling off Taiwan, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 153, 106253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106253

Kunath, P.*, Crutchley, G., Chi, W.-C., Berndt, C., Liu, C.-S., Elger, J., Klaeschen, D., Bohrmann, G. (2022). Episodic venting of a submarine gas seep on geological time scales: Formosa Ridge, northern South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2022JB024668. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024668

Sudipta Sarkar*,Manuel Moser,Christian Berndt,Mechthild Doll,Christoph Böttner,Wu-Cheng Chi,Dirk Klaeschen,Christophe Galerne,Jens Karstens,Sonja Geilert,C. Mortera-Gutierrez,Christian Hensen (2022) Thermal State of the Guaymas Basin Derived From Gas Hydrate Bottom Simulating Reflections and Heat Flow Measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023909

Wege, Sebastian, Cédric P. Legendre, Wu-Cheng Chi*, Tan Kin Wang, Pascal Kunath, Char-Shine Liu (2022) Field and Synthetic Waveform Tests on Using Large-offset Seismic Streamer Data to Derive Shallow Seabed Shear-Wave Velocity and Geotechnical Properties, Planetary and Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002196

Fongngern, Rattanaporn*, Wu-Cheng Chi, Christian. Berndt and David Mohrig (2022) Characteristics of supercritical bedform on the submarine slope ridge; a report from high-resolution 3D seismic data investigation, Sedimentology https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13002 (visiting professor to our lab)

Yang, Chu-Fang*, Wu-Cheng Chi , Hans van Haren , Ching-Ren Lin , and Ban-Yuan Kuo (2021) Tracking deep-sea internal wave propagation with a differential pressure gauge array, Scientific Reports, 11, 23311. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02721-1

Kunath, Pascal*, Wu-Cheng Chi, Christian Berndt, and Char-Shine Liu (2021) A Rapid Numerical Method to Constrain 2D Focused Fluid Flow Rates Along Convergent Margins Using Dense BSR-Based Temperature Field Data, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB021668. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB021668 (supervised student paper)

Chen, Jui-Chun F., Wu-Cheng. Chi*, and Chu-Fang Yang (2021) Seismically Derived Ground Tilts Related to the 2010 Chilean Tsunami, Seismological Research Letters, 92, 2172-2181, http://doi.org/10.1785/0220200288. (supervised student paper)

Yang, Chu-Fang*, Wu-Cheng Chi*, Hans van Haren (2021) Deep-sea turbulence evolution observed by multiple closely spaced instruments, Scientific Reports, 11:3919. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83419-2 (supervised student paper)

Kunath, Pascal, Wu-Cheng Chi*, Christian Berndt, Liwen Chen, Char-Shine Liu, Dirk Klaschen, and Sina Muff (2020) A shallow seabed dynamic gas hydrate system off SW Taiwan: Results from 3D seismic, thermal, and fluid migration analyses, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB019245‐T. https:// doi.org/10.1029/2019JB019245 (supervised student paper)

Bernal-Olaya＊, Rocio, Wu-Cheng Chi, Pascal Kunath , Javier Sanchez , Benjamin Higgs , Christian Berndt (2020) A gas hydrate site with bi-verging folding in the outer wedge offshore SW Taiwan: Results from kinematic structural modeling and finite strain analysis, Tectonophysics, 790, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228540 (visiting professor to our lab)

Toh, A., Chen, W. J., Takeuchi, N., Dreger, D. S., Chi, W. C., & Ide, S. (2020). Influence of a subducted oceanic ridge on the distribution of shallow VLFEs in the Nankai Trough as revealed by moment tensor inversion and cluster analysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087244.https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087244 (visiting scientist to our lab)

van Haren, Hans, Chi, Wu-Cheng, Yang, Chu-Fang, Yang, Yiing-Jang, and Jan, Sen (2020) Deep sea floor observations of typhoon driven enhanced ocean turbulence, Progress in Oceanography, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102315

Chien, Justin Shih-Han, Chi, Wu-Cheng*, and Ke, Chien-Chung (2020) Precursory and Coseismic Groundwater Temperature Perturbation: An Example from Taiwan, Journal of Hydrology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124457 (supervised research assistant paper)

Ariyoshi, Keisuke, Kuwano-Yoshida, Akira, and Chi, Wu-Cheng (2019) Preface of “Earthquake, volcanism, and physical oceanography”, Marine Geophysical Research, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11001-019-09397-3

Han, Wei-Chung, Chen, Liwen, Liu, Char-Shine, Berndt, Christian, and Chi, Wu-Cheng (2019) Seismic analysis of the gas hydrate system at Pointer Ridge offshore SW Taiwan, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 105, 158-167, DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.04.028

Wu, Ting-Wei, Chi, Wu-Cheng*, Lin, Yu-Sian, Chen, Song-Chuen (2019) Temperature as a Tracer for Fluid Movement at Hydrothermal Sites Near the Yonaguni Knoll IV, Okinawa Trough, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2019.01.10.02 (supervised research assistant paper)

Berndt, C, Chi, W.-C., Jegen, M., Lebas, E., Crutchley, G., Muff, S., Hölz, S., Sommer, M., Lin, S., Liu, C.-S., Lin, A. T., Klaeschen, D., Klaucke, I., Chen, L., Hsu, H.-H., 4 Kunath, P. McIntosh, K., and Feseker, T. (2019) Tectonic controls on gas hydrate distribution off Taiwan. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016213

Chang, Kaiwen, Chi, Wu-Cheng*, Chen, Rou-Fei Chen, and Rau, Ruey-Juin (2018) Load-Induced Seismicity near Tsaoling, Taiwan. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, S0031-9201(17)30328-X, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2018.06.004 (supervised student paper)

Yang, Chu-Fang, Chi, Wu-Cheng*, and Lai, Ying-Ju (2018). Seismically detected ground tilts induced by precipitation and fluvial processes: An example from Taiwan. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123. Doi:10.1029/2017JB014768 (supervised student paper)

Sourav Kumar Sahoo, Wu-Cheng Chi*, Wei-Chung Han, Liwen Chen, Char-Shine Liu, Yunshuen Wang (2018) Estimating the composition of gas hydrate using 3D seismic data from Penghu Canyon, offshore Taiwan: TAO, 29, no. 2, 105-115. Doi: 10.3319/TAO.2017.09.11.01 (supervised student paper)

Han, W., Liu, C., Chi, W., Chen, L., Chang, J., Lin, C., Chen, S., 2017. Westward Advance of the Deformation Front and Evolution of Submarine Canyons Offshore of Southwestern Taiwan, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 149, 6-19. DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.07.001

Timo Zander, Matthias Haeckel, Christian Berndt, Wu-Cheng Chi, Ingo Klaucke, Joerg Bialas, Dirk Klaeschen, Stephanie Koch, and Orhan Atgın (2017) On the origin of multiple BSRs in the Danube deep-sea fan, Black Sea, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 462, 15-25. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.01.006 (IF:4.326; 2%; cited by 0)

Berndt, C.*, C. Hensen, C. Mortera-Gutierrez, S. Sarkar, S. Geilert, M. Schmidt, V. Liebetrau, R. Kipfer, F. Scholz, M. Doll, S. Muff, J. Karstens, S. Planke, S. Petersen, C. Böttner, W.-C. Chi, M. Moser, R. Behrendt, A. Fiskal, M.A. Lever, C.-C. Su, L. Deng, M.S. Brennwald, and D. Lizarralde (2016) Rifting under steam—How rift magmatism triggers methane venting from sedimentary basins, Geology, 44. No. 9, 767-770, DOI: doi:10.1130/G38049.1 (IF: 4.813; 8%; cited by 1)

Klaucke, I.*, Berndt, C., Crutchley, G., Chi, W. C., Lin, S. and Muff, S. (2016) Fluid venting and seepage at accretionary ridges: An example from Four Way Closure Ridge offshore SW Taiwan, Geo-Marine Letters, 77, 150-160. DOI: 10.1007/s00367-015-0431-5. (IF: 2.122; 33.7%; cited by 2)

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, Liwen Chen, Char-Shine Liu, and Michael Brookfield (2014) Development of arc-continent collision ophiolitic mélanges: linking onshore geological with offshore geophysical observations of the Pliocene Lichi Mélange, southern Taiwan and northern Luzon arc, western Pacific, Tectonophysics, 636, 70-82. (IF: 2.872; 26.6%; cited by 5)

Chen, Liwen, Wu-Cheng Chi*, Shao-Kai Wu, Char-Shine Liu, Chun-Tien Shyu, Yungshuen Wang, and Chia-Yu Lu (2014) Two Dimensional Fluid Flow Models at Two Gas Hydrate Sites Offshore Southwestern Taiwan, Journal of Asia Earth Sciences, v. 92, p. 245-253. (IF:2.741; 20%; cited by 4) (supervised student paper)

Wu, Shao-Kai, Wu-Cheng Chi*, Shi-Meng Hsu, Chien-Chung Ke, and Yunshuen Wang (2013) Shallow crustal thermal structures of Central Taiwan Foothills region, TAO, v. 24, no. 4, p. 695-707. (IF:0.703; 78%; cited by 4)

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, W. H. K. Lee, C.J. Lin, and C.C. Liu (2013) Inverting Ground Motion from a Seismometer Array to obtain the Vertical Component of Rotation: A Test Using Data from Explosions, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 66; p. 55-62. (IF:2.741; 20%; cited by 1)

Chi, Wu-Cheng* (2012) Co-Seismic Indentor-related deformation during the Termination of Subduction and its Associated Geophysical Characteristics: An Example from Taiwan, Lithosphere, v. 4; no. 6; p. 594–602. doi: 10.1130/L193.1 (IF:1.74; 30%; cited by 2)

Chen, Liwen, Wu-Cheng Chi*, Char-Shine Liu, Chun-Tien Shyu, and Yunshuen Wang (2012) Deriving Regional Vertical Fluid Migration Rates Offshore Southwestern Taiwan Using Bottom-Simulating Reflectors, Marine Geophysical Researches, v. 33, no. 4, p. 379-388. DOI 10.1007/s11001-012-9162-4 (IF:1.82; 56%; cited by 1) (*corresponding author of a student paper)

Chi, Wu-Cheng* (2012) The 2003 Big Bear, California Earthquake Sequence: a Coulomb Stress Transfer-related Aftershock Sequence that also Follows Aftershock Diffusion Process, Bul. Seism. Soc. Amer., 102, no.4, 1908-1912. Doi:10.1785/0120110353. (IF:1.7; 45%; cited by 1)

Chang, K.W., Wu-Cheng Chi*, Y.C. Gung, D. Dreger, H.K. Lee, H.C. Chiu (2011) Moment Tensor Inversions using Strong Motion Waveforms of Taiwan TSMIP Data, 1993-2009. Tectonophysics. 511, 53-66, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.08.020 (*corresponding author of a student paper) (IF:2.43)

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, W.H.K. Lee, J.A.D. Aston, C.J. Lin, and C.C. Liu (2011) Inversion of ground motion data from a seismometer array for rotation using a modification of Jeager’s method, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 101, no. 6, 3105-3109, doi: 10.1785/0120100204. (IF:1.7)

Lin, Chin-Jen*, Hung, Han-Pang, Nguyen Pham, Chun-Chi Liu, Wu-Cheng Chi, and Willie Lee (2011) Rotational Motions for Teleseismic Surface Waves, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L15301, doi: 10.1029/2011GL047959. (IF:3.79)

Lin, Ching-Ren, Ban-Yuan Kuo, Wen-Tzong Liang, Wu-Cheng Chi, Yu-Chih Huang, John Collins, and Chien-Ying Wang (2010) Ambient noise and teleseismic signals recorded by ocean-bottom seismometers offshore eastern Taiwan. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 21, 743-755, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2009.09.14.01(T) (IF:0.88)

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, W.J. Chen, D. Dolenc, B.Y. Kuo, and D. Dolenc (2010) Seismic Monitoring of Western Pacific Typhoons, Marine Geophysical Researches, 31:239-251. DOI 10.1007/s11001-010-9105-x.

Wang, Jui-Hsien, Wu-Cheng Chi*, N. Edwards, and E. Willoughby (2010) Effects of Sea States on Seafloor Compliance Studies, Marine Geophysical Researches, Vol. 31, 99-107, doi:10.1007/s11001-010-9091-z. (supervised student paper)

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, W.J. Chen, D. Dolenc, B.Y. Kuo, C.R. Lin, and J. Collins (2010) Seismological Report on the 2006 Typhoon Shanshan that Lits up Seismic Stations Along its Way, Seismological Research Letters, 81, 4, 592-596, doi: 10.1785/gssrl.81.4.592. (IF:3.01)

Hirtzel, Justin, Wu-Cheng Chi*, Donald Reed, Liwen Cheng, Char-Shine Liu, and Neil Lundberg (2009) Destruction of Luzon arc and its forearc basin from subduction to Taiwan arc-continent collision, Tectonophysics. Vol. 479, 43-51. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2009.01.032. (IF:2.43)

Kuo, B.-Y.*, Wu-Cheng Chi, Ching-ren Lin, Emmy Tsui-Yu Chang, John Collins, and Char-Shine Liu (2009) Two-station measurement of Rayleigh-wave phase velocities for the Huatung basin, the westernmost Philippine Sea, with OBS: Implications for regional tectonics, Geophysical Journal International. Vol.179, 1859-1869; doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04391.x. (IF:2.42)

Chi, Wu-Cheng* and Donald Reed (2008) Evolution of shallow, crustal thermal structure from subduction to collision: An example from Taiwan, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 120, no. 5/6, 679-690; doi:10.1130/B26210.1. (IF:3.79)

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, Donald Reed, and Chih-Chin Tsai (2006) Gas hydrate stability zone offshore southern Taiwan, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAO), Vol. 17, no. 4, 829-843. (IF:0.88)

Chi, Wu-Cheng* and Egill Hauksson (2006) Fault-perpendicular aftershock clusters following the 2003 Mw=5.0 Big Bear, California, earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, L07301, doi: 10,1029/2005GL025033. (IF:3.79)

Chi, Wu-Cheng* and Douglas Dreger (2004) Crustal Deformation in Taiwan: Results from Finite Source Inversions of Six Mw>5.8 Chi-Chi Aftershocks, Journal Geophysical Research, Vol. 109, B07305, doi:10,1029/2003JB002606. (IF:3.02)

Jian Zhang, C.Y. Wang*, Y. Shi, Y. Cai, W.-C. Chi, D. Dreger, W.-B. Cheng, and Y.H. Yuan (2004) Three-dimensional crustal structure in central Taiwan from gravity, Geophysics, 69, 4, 917-924. (IF:1.42)

Chi, Wu-Cheng (2003) From Subduction to Collision: Results from Seismic Profiling, Gravity Modeling, and Earthquake Finite Fault Inversions in Taiwan Region. Ph.D. Dissertation, 200 p.

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, Don Reed, Greg Moore, T. Nguyen, C.S. Liu, and N. Lundberg (2003) Tectonic wedging along the rear of the offshore Taiwan accretionary prism, Tectonophysics, Vol. 374, p. 199-217. (IF:2.43)

Chi, Wu-Cheng* and Douglas Dreger (2002) Finite Fault Inversion of the September 25, 1999 (Mw=6.4) Taiwan Earthquake: Implications for GPS displacements of Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake Sequence, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 29, no. 14, doi: 10,1029/2002GL015237. (IF:3.79)

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, Douglas Dreger, and Anastasia Kaverina (2001) Finite source modeling of the 1999 Taiwan (Chi-Chi) Earthquake derived from a dense strong motion network, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., Vol. 91, no. 5, p. 1144-1157. (IF:1.7)

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, Don Reed, C.S. Liu, N. Lundberg, and 張光學 (2001) Distribution of the Bottom-Simulating Reflector in the Offshore Taiwan Collision Zone, Marine Geology (海洋地質), Vol. 4, p. 10-20. (translated into Chinese by張光學)

Chi, Wu-Cheng*, Don Reed, C.S. Liu, N. Lundberg (1998) Distribution of the Bottom-Simulating Reflector in the Offshore Taiwan Collision Zone, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (TAO), Vol. 9, no. 4, p. 779-794. (IF:0.88)

Chi, Wu-Cheng (1995) Distribution of the bottom-simulating reflector in the offshore Taiwan collision zone; implications for fluid migration. San Jose State University, MS Thesis, 46 p.