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Zheng-Kang Shen is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Oceanography.

The main focus of Zheng-Kang Shen's work concerns earthquake and tectonic studies, with notable topics including high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, seismic waves and analysis, seismology and earthquake studies, as well as seismic performance and analysis.

Some frequent coauthors in their publications are Lian Xue, Jianbao Sun, Min Wang, Yuehua Zeng, and E. H. Hearn.

Research by Zheng-Kang Shen has been published with regularity in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Earthquake Spectra, and Seismological Research Letters.

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Zheng-Kang Shen include:

  • Present-Day Crustal Deformation of Continental China Derived From GPS and Its Tectonic Implications, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Supershear Triggering and Cascading Fault Ruptures of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, Earthquake Doublet, 2024, Science
  • The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview and Implications, 2023, Earthquake Spectra
  • Postseismic Deformation of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake Illuminates Lithospheric Rheological Structure and Dynamics of Eastern Tibet, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Rupture Process of the 2021 M7.4 Maduo Earthquake and Implication for Deformation Mode of the Songpan-Ganzi Terrane in Tibetan Plateau, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Continuous deformation of the Tibetan Plateau from global positioning system data

    Pei-Zhen Zhang;Zhengkang Shen;Min Wang;Weijun Gan

  • Present‐day crustal motion within the Tibetan Plateau inferred from GPS measurements

    Weijun Gan;Peizhen Zhang;Zheng Kang Shen;Zheng Kang Shen;Zhijun Niu

  • Contemporary crustal deformation around the southeast borderland of the Tibetan Plateau

    Zheng-Kang Shen;Zheng-Kang Shen;Jiangning Lü;Min Wang;Roland Bürgmann

  • Present‐Day Crustal Deformation of Continental China Derived From GPS and Its Tectonic Implications

    Min Wang;Zheng Kang Shen;Zheng Kang Shen

  • Slip maxima at fault junctions and rupturing of barriers during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

    Zheng-Kang Shen;Zheng-Kang Shen;Zheng-Kang Shen;Jianbao Sun;Peizhen Zhang;Yongge Wan

  • Crustal deformation across and beyond the Los Angeles basin from geodetic measurements

    Zheng-Kang Shen;David D. Jackson;Bob X. Ge

  • Contemporary crustal deformation in east Asia constrained by Global Positioning System measurements

    Zheng-Kang Shen;Chengkun Zhao;An Yin;Yanxing Li

  • Oblique, High-Angle, Listric-Reverse Faulting and Associated Development of Strain: The Wenchuan Earthquake of May 12, 2008, Sichuan, China

    Pei-Zhen Zhang;Xue-ze Wen;Zheng-Kang Shen;Jiu-hui Chen

  • Space geodetic measurement of crustal deformation in central and southern California, 1984–1992

    Kurt L. Feigl;Duncan C. Agnew;Yehuda Bock;Danan Dong

  • Crustal deformation along the Altyn Tagh fault system, western China, from GPS

    Zheng-Kang Shen;Min Wang;Yanxing Li;David D. Jackson

  • Postseismic deformation following the Landers earthquake, California, 28 June 1992

    Zheng-Kang Shen;David D. Jackson;Yanjie Feng;Michael Cline

  • Shallow creep on the Haiyuan Fault (Gansu, China) revealed by SAR Interferometry

    R. Jolivet;R. Jolivet;C. Lasserre;M.-P. Doin;S. Guillaso

  • GPS-constrained inversion of present-day slip rates along major faults of the Sichuan-Yunnan region, China

    YanZhao Wang;EnNing Wang;ZhengKang Shen;Min Wang

  • Measurement of interseismic strain across the Haiyuan fault (Gansu, China), by InSAR

    O. Cavalié;Cécile Lasserre;M.-P. Doin;G. Peltzer;G. Peltzer

  • Optimal interpolation of spatially discretized geodetic data

    Zheng‐Kang Shen;Min Wang;Yuehua Zeng;Fan Wang

  • Continental deformation in Asia from a combined GPS solution

    E. Calais;L. Dong;M. Wang;Z. Shen

  • Co-seismic displacements of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake

    K. W. Hudnut;Z. Shen;M. Murray;S. McClusky

  • Aseismic slip and seismogenic coupling along the central San Andreas Fault

    R. Jolivet;R. Jolivet;M. Simons;P. S. Agram;Z. Duputel;Z. Duputel

  • GPS constrained coseismic source and slip distribution of the 2013 Mw6.6 Lushan, China, earthquake and its tectonic implications

    Zaisen Jiang;Min Wang;Yanzhao Wang;Yanqiang Wu

  • Co-seismic displacements of the 1992 landers earthquake sequence

    K. W. Hudnut;Y. Bock;M. Cline;P. Fang

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Bürgmann
Roland Bürgmann University of California, Berkeley
Xiwei Xu
Xiwei Xu Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Yuehua Zeng
Yuehua Zeng United States Geological Survey
David D. Jackson
David D. Jackson University of California, Los Angeles
Gilles Peltzer
Gilles Peltzer University of California, Los Angeles
Cécile Lasserre
Cécile Lasserre Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Peizhen Zhang
Peizhen Zhang Sun Yat-sen University
Romain Jolivet
Romain Jolivet École Normale Supérieure
Marie-Pierre Doin
Marie-Pierre Doin Grenoble Alpes University

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