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Emma M. Hill is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on geophysics, oceanography, aerospace engineering, geology, and astronomy and astrophysics. The main topics addressed in their work include earthquake and tectonic studies, geophysics and gravity measurements, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic waves and analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, and GNSS positioning and interference.

Recent notable papers by Emma M. Hill cover a range of geophysical and environmental topics. These include:

  • Slow rupture in a fluid-rich fault zone initiated the 2024 M w 7.5 Noto earthquake (2024, Science)
  • Sea-level rise from land subsidence in major coastal cities (2022, Nature Sustainability)
  • Slip rate deficit and earthquake potential on shallow megathrusts (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Rapid flood and damage mapping using synthetic aperture radar in response to Typhoon Hagibis, Japan (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Rapid identification of tsunamigenic earthquakes using GNSS ionospheric sounding (2020, Scientific Reports)

Emma M. Hill frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Lujia Feng, Eric O. Lindsey, Kyle Bradley, Mason Perry, and Cyril Muller.

The researcher has contributed multiple publications to several important scientific venues. These include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), with five publications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, contributing four publications
  • Nature Geoscience, with three publications
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, with two publications
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, also with two publications

Emma M. Hill has also authored books published by Policy Press, including two editions of Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Locked and loading megathrust linked to active subduction beneath the Indo-Burman Ranges

    Michael S. Steckler;Dhiman Ranjan Mondal;Dhiman Ranjan Mondal;Syed Humayun Akhter;Leonardo Seeber

  • The 2010 Mw 7.8 Mentawai earthquake: Very shallow source of a rare tsunami earthquake determined from tsunami field survey and near-field GPS data

    Emma M. Hill;Jose C. Borrero;Zhenhua Huang;Qiang Qiu

  • Earthquake magnitude calculation without saturation from the scaling of peak ground displacement

    Diego Melgar;Brendan W. Crowell;Jianghui Geng;Richard M. Allen

  • Sea-level rise from land subsidence in major coastal cities

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  • Earthquake-triggered 2018 Palu Valley landslides enabled by wet rice cultivation

    Kyle E Bradley;Rishav Mallick;Harisma Andikagumi;Judith Hubbard

  • Implications of the diffuse deformation of the Indian Ocean lithosphere for slip partitioning of oblique plate convergence in Sumatra

    Kyle Edward Bradley;Lujia Feng;Emma M Hill;Danny H Natawidjaja

  • Asthenosphere rheology inferred from observations of the 2012 Indian Ocean earthquake

    Yan Hu;Roland Bürgmann;Paramesh Banerjee;Lujia Feng

  • The mechanism of partial rupture of a locked megathrust: The role of fault morphology

    Qiang Qiu;Emma Mary Hill;Sylvain Barbot;Judith Hubbard

  • Impact of self-attraction and loading on the annual cycle in sea level

    Mark E Tamisiea;Emma M Hill;Rui M Ponte;James L Davis

  • Slip rate deficit and earthquake potential on shallow megathrusts

    Eric O. Lindsey;Eric O. Lindsey;Rishav Mallick;Judith A. Hubbard;Kyle E. Bradley

  • Transient rheology of the Sumatran mantle wedge revealed by a decade of great earthquakes

    Qiang Qiu;James Daniel Paul Moore;Sylvain Barbot;Lujia Feng

  • A unified GPS-based earthquake catalog for the Sumatran plate boundary between 2002 and 2013

    Lujia Feng;Emma Mary Hill;Paramesh Banerjee;Iwan Hermawan

  • The 2012 Mw 8.6 Wharton Basin sequence: a cascade of great earthquakes generated by near-orthogonal, young, oceanic mantle faults

    Emma Mary Hill;Han Yue;Sylvain Barbot;Thorne Lay

  • Active Convergence of the India-Burma-Sunda Plates Revealed by a New Continuous GPS Network

    Rishav Mallick;Eric O Lindsey;Lujia Feng;Judith Hubbard

  • Rupture process of the 2010 Mw 7.8 Mentawai tsunami earthquake from joint inversion of near-field hr-GPS and teleseismic body wave recordings constrained by tsunami observations

    Han Yue;Thorne Lay;Luis Rivera;Yefei Bai

  • A statistical filtering approach for Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) gravity data

    J. L. Davis;M. E. Tamisiea;P. Elósegui;Jerry Mitrovica

  • Time-varying interseismic strain rates and similar seismic ruptures on the Nias–Simeulue patch of the Sunda megathrust

    Aron J. Meltzner;Aron J. Meltzner;Kerry E. Sieh;Kerry E. Sieh;Hong-Wei Chiang;Hong-Wei Chiang;Chung-Che Wu

  • Tide Gauge Records Show That the 18.61‐Year Nodal Tidal Cycle Can Change High Water Levels by up to 30 cm

    Dongju Peng;Emma M. Hill;Aron J. Meltzner;Adam D. Switzer

  • Characterization of site‐specific GPS errors using a short‐baseline network of braced monuments at Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada

    Emma M. Hill;James L. Davis;Pedro Elósegui;Brian P. Wernicke

  • Combination of geodetic observations and models for glacial isostatic adjustment fields in Fennoscandia

    Emma M. Hill;James L. Davis;Mark E. Tamisiea;Martin Lidberg

  • Rapid flood and damage mapping using synthetic aperture radar in response to Typhoon Hagibis, Japan

    Cheryl W. J. Tay;Sang-Ho Yun;Shi Tong Chin;Alok Bhardwaj

  • A Global Database of Strong‐Motion Displacement GNSS Recordings and an Example Application to PGD Scaling

    Christine J. Ruhl;Diego Melgar;Diego Melgar;Jianghui Geng;Dara E. Goldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry E Sieh
Kerry E Sieh Nanyang Technological University
Danny H Natawidjaja
Danny H Natawidjaja National Research and Innovation Agency of the Republic of Indonesia
James L. Davis
James L. Davis Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Sylvain Barbot
Sylvain Barbot University of Southern California
Rui M. Ponte
Rui M. Ponte Atmospheric and Environmental Research
Shengji Wei
Shengji Wei Nanyang Technological University
Paul Tapponnier
Paul Tapponnier China Earthquake Administration
Roland Bürgmann
Roland Bürgmann University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Geoffrey Blewitt
Geoffrey Blewitt University of Nevada Reno

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