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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Kuo-Fong Ma is affiliated with National Central University in Taiwan. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics. Ma's research intersects subfields such as Civil and Structural Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Ocean Engineering, and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology.

The researcher has contributed extensively to topics including earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, seismology and earthquake studies, seismic performance and analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake detection and analysis, and seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Ma's recent publications span from 2020 to 2024 and demonstrate a range of investigations in seismology and geophysics:

  • Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis at Regional and National Scales: State of the Art and Future Challenges, 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for Taiwan: TEM PSHA2020, 2020, Earthquake Spectra
  • Within- and Between-Event Variabilities of Strong-Velocity Pulses of Moderate Earthquakes within Dense Seismic Arrays, 2021, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • The Global DAS Month of February 2023, 2023, Seismological Research Letters
  • Broad-band strain amplification in an asymmetric fault zone observed from borehole optical fiber and core, 2024, Communications Earth & Environment

Their frequent coauthors include Chung-Han Chan, Yen-Yu Lin, Ming-Che Hsieh, Sebastian von Specht, and Jia-Cian Gao.

Kuo-Fong Ma's work has been published in well-known venues such as Seismological Research Letters, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Geophysical Journal International, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, and Reviews of Geophysics.

Among their recognitions, Ma was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Slip zone and energetics of a large earthquake from the Taiwan Chelungpu-fault Drilling Project

    Kuo Fong Ma;Hidemi Tanaka;Sheng Rong Song;Chien Ying Wang

  • Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Slip for the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake

    Kuo Fong Ma;Jim Mori;Shiann Jong Lee;S. B. Yu

  • The Chi‐Chi, Taiwan earthquake: Large surface displacements on an inland thrust fault

    Kuo Fong Ma;Chyi Tyi Lee;Yi Ben Tsai;Tzay Chyn Shin

  • Slip history and dynamic implications of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake

    Chen Ji;Donald V. Helmberger;David J. Wald;Kuo Fong Ma

  • Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis at Regional and National Scales: State of the Art and Future Challenges

    Matthew C. Gerstenberger;Warner Marzocchi;Trevor Allen;Marco Pagani

  • Response of seismicity to Coulomb stress triggers and shadows of the 1999 Mw=7.6 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake

    Kuo Fong Ma;Chung Han Chan;Ross S. Stein

  • Transition from oblique subduction to collision: Earthquakes in the southernmost Ryukyu arc-Taiwan region

    Honn Kao;Sern-su Jack Shen;Kuo-Fong Ma

  • Heat signature on the Chelungpu fault associated with the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake

    Yasuyuki Kano;Jim Mori;Ryo Fujio;Hisao Ito

  • Ionospheric GPS total electron content (TEC) disturbances triggered by the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

    Jann Yenq Liu;Yi Ben Tsai;Kuo Fong Ma;Yuh Ing Chen

  • Evidence for fault lubrication during the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake (Mw7.6)

    Kuo-Fong Ma;Emily E. Brodsky;Jim Mori;Chen Ji

  • Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure of the Crust and Uppermost Mantle beneath Taiwan

    Kuo-Fong Ma;Jeen-Hwa Wang;Dapeng Zhao

  • Spatial slip distribution of the September 20, 1999, Chi‐Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake (MW7.6) —Inverted from teleseismic data

    Kuo Fong Ma;Teh Ru Alex Song;Shiann Jong Lee;Hsiang I. Wu

  • Moment-tensor inversion for offshore earthquakes east of Taiwan and their implications to regional collision

    Honn Kao;Pei-Ru Jian;Kuo-Fong Ma;Bor-Shouh Huang

  • Rapid afterslip following the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake

    Ya Ju Hsu;Ya Ju Hsu;Noa Bechor;Paul Segall;Shui Beih Yu

  • Source-Scaling relationship for M 4.6-8.9 earthquakes, specifically for earthquakes in the Collision Zone of Taiwan

    Yin Tung Yen;Kuo Fong Ma

  • High magnetic susceptibility of fault gouge within Taiwan Chelungpu fault: Nondestructive continuous measurements of physical and chemical properties in fault rocks recovered from Hole B, TCDP

    Tetsuro Hirono;Weiren Lin;En Chao Yeh;Wonn Soh

  • Stress orientations of Taiwan Chelungpu-Fault Drilling Project (TCDP) hole-A as observed from geophysical logs

    Hung Yu Wu;Kuo Fong Ma;Mark Zoback;Naomi Boness

  • In situ measurement of the hydraulic diffusivity of the active Chelungpu Fault, Taiwan

    M. L. Doan;M. L. Doan;E. E. Brodsky;Y. Kano;K. F. Ma

  • Frictional heat from faulting of the 1999 Chi‐Chi, Taiwan earthquake

    H. Tanaka;W. M. Chen;C. Y. Wang;K. F. Ma

  • Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for Taiwan

    Yu Ju Wang;Yu Ju Wang;Chung Han Chan;Ya Ting Lee;Kuo Fong Ma

  • Slip distribution and tectonic implication of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake

    Chen Ji;Donald V. Helmberger;Teh Ru Alex Song;Kuo Fong Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroo Kanamori
Hiroo Kanamori California Institute of Technology
Jim Mori
Jim Mori Kyoto University
Sheng-Rong Song
Sheng-Rong Song National Taiwan University
Weiren Lin
Weiren Lin Kyoto University
Emily E. Brodsky
Emily E. Brodsky University of California, Santa Cruz
Yih-Min Wu
Yih-Min Wu National Taiwan University
Fabrice Cotton
Fabrice Cotton University of Potsdam
Bor-Shouh Huang
Bor-Shouh Huang Academia Sinica
Masataka Kinoshita
Masataka Kinoshita University of Tokyo
Kenji Satake
Kenji Satake University of Tokyo

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