Huang Earthquake Mechanics Lab UMich

Did you feel this earthquake in southeast Michigan on May 4th? Here’s a local station showing the P and S wave arrivals! #earthquake #GoBlue #Umich #Michiganearthquake

Congratulations, Dr. Peng Zhai for a successful defense!! #GoBlue #Umich

Astrid, one of our undergrads, presented her research on Southern California Earthquake Swarms at the Michigan Geophysical Union. Great job, Astrid! #Seismology #earthquakeresearch #Umich #GoBlue #earthquakeswarms

One of our students, Francesca Burkett, was selected to represent the University of Michigan at the AAAS CASE Workshop in DC, where she learned about the intersection of science and policy, including how research informs public decision-making! #goblue #AAAS #science

In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, read about a @UMich alumna who helped change geology and geophysics forever through her discovery of continental drift! 🌍 👉 smithsonianmag.com/history/seeing… #WomenInScience #MarieTharp #STEM #UMich #GoBlue

Last month, our lab attended #AGU25 in New Orleans 🌎 We had a great time and look forward to the future of Earth science and seismology! #seismology #earthquakescience #AGU

M7.6 Earthquake off the coast of Japan near Misawa! The area is located near the subduction of the Pacific and North American plates, which has historically experienced multiple M 7.5+ events. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev… #earthquake

Members of our lab group were excited to be able to attend the 2025 annual CRESCENT meeting— connecting, learning, and sharing research with others! cascadiaquakes.org/2025/09/10/oct…

📣 Register today for SSA's Networking to Find Collaborators and Build Your Career 📆 Tuesday 18 November, from 11 AM-Noon Pacific ✅ Registration link: buff.ly/jQB6Ki6 @sacnas @AccessibleGEO @ADVANCEGeo @DiverseGeos

The 28 March earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, caused fatalities across a broad swath of the country and beyond. This special issue of Science features papers exploring the risk and reasons behind the anomalously fast, sustained rupture. scim.ag/3LeVvSz

DAS Moment Magnitude Calculation in the Time Domain for General Dislocations: Application at Utah FORGE #BSSA How do you calculate seismic moment with DAS data? buff.ly/wdxm8Nj

Yaolin Miao, Yihe Huang, Jing Ci Neo, Wenyuan Fan, Zack J Spica, Assessing the Applicability of Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Rupture Imaging: a Case Study with the 2022 Michoacán Earthquake, Geophysical Journal International, 2025;, ggaf401, doi.org/10.1093/gji/gg…

⚠️ Three M7+ earthquakes have occurred in the Drake Passage — located between South America & Antarctica — since May. The strongest, a M7.6 on Oct 10th, was recorded within the Antarctic Plate as a shallow strike-slip event, near the August M7.5 quake. #earthquake

Large earthquake (7.4M) just struck off the east coast of Mindanao, Philippines! This earthquake occurred in a highly hazardous region where the Philippine Sea plate is subducting under the Sunda plate. #Earthquake #Philippines

A new damage rheology model simulates how fault slip and deformation evolve across seismic cycles and successfully reproduces key #earthquake observations, including shallow slip deficit, fault-zone structures, and seismic velocity changes! doi.org/10.1093/gji/gg…

Join us in welcoming to our lab our new PhD Student, Em Vogel! Em is interested in subduction zone earthquake hazards, and will be using earthquake cycle models to study slow slip and earthquakes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone!

We are very excited to have undergraduate researcher Astrid continue with us this year! She is focusing on magnitude-frequency statistics for earthquake swarms in Southern California, with the goal of better understanding the seismic hazards in the region.

📣 Attention students and early-career scientists📣 There's still time to apply for a travel #grant for the International Conference on #Intraplate and #Himalayan #Seismology in Gandhinagar, India. Details and deadlines are here buff.ly/EQRXrLs

The time has come to say goodbye. Matthew Salinas did fantastic undergraduate research with us over the last 2 years, finishing with an Honors Thesis that was awarded “Highest of Honors”. Join us in wishing him well as he starts a PhD program at University of Southern California!

🚨 M8.8 earthquake just struck east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. The earthquake was caused by shallow reverse faulting on the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction. Multiple M6.5+ foreshocks, including a M7.4, have occurred in the past 10 days. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…