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Zhongwen Zhan is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a total of 171 publications, and Engineering, with 53 publications. The focus within these broad areas includes significant contributions to Geophysics (148 publications), Artificial Intelligence (26 publications), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (25 publications), Ocean Engineering (15 publications), and Oceanography (9 publications).

The scientist's work prominently addresses topics such as Seismic Waves and Analysis, with 106 publications; earthquake and tectonic studies, with 70 publications; and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, represented in 48 publications. Other main topics include Seismology and Earthquake Studies (40 publications), High-pressure geophysics and materials (34 publications), Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (30 publications), and Geophysics and Sensor Technology (20 publications).

Zhan has published research in a range of scientific venues, notably:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (14 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (13 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (7 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (7 publications)
  • Geophysical Journal International (6 publications)

Frequent collaboration partners include Ethan Williams (14 joint publications), Ettore Biondi (13), Valey Kamalov (11), Hiroo Kanamori (11), and Luís Costa (10).

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhongwen Zhan include:

  • Optical polarization-based seismic and water wave sensing on transoceanic cables, 2021, Science
  • Distributed acoustic sensing for seismic activity monitoring, 2020, APL Photonics
  • Polarization sensing using submarine optical cables, 2021, Optica
  • Seismic Monitoring With Distributed Acoustic Sensing From the Near-Surface to the Deep Oceans, 2021, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Rapid Response to the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake With Distributed Acoustic Sensing, 2021, AGU Advances

Best Publications

  • Distributed sensing of microseisms and teleseisms with submarine dark fibers.

    Ethan F. Williams;María R. Fernández-Ruiz;Regina Magalhaes;Roel Vanthillo

  • Hierarchical interlocked orthogonal faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence.

    Zachary E. Ross;Benjamín Idini;Zhe Jia;Oliver L. Stephenson

  • Distributed Acoustic Sensing Turns Fiber‐Optic Cables into Sensitive Seismic Antennas

    Zhongwen Zhan

  • Machine Learning Seismic Wave Discrimination: Application to Earthquake Early Warning

    Zefeng Li;Men-Andrin Meier;Egill Hauksson;Zhongwen Zhan

  • Optical polarization–based seismic and water wave sensing on transoceanic cables

    Zhongwen Zhan;Mattia Cantono;Valey Kamalov;Antonio Mecozzi

  • Retrieval of Moho‐reflected shear wave arrivals from ambient seismic noise

    Zhongwen Zhan;Zhongwen Zhan;Sidao Ni;Don V. Helmberger;Robert W. Clayton

  • Distributed acoustic sensing for seismic activity monitoring

    María R. Fernández-Ruiz;Marcelo A. Soto;Ethan F. Williams;Sonia Martin-Lopez

  • Extracting seismic core phases with array interferometry

    Fan Chi Lin;Victor C. Tsai;Brandon Schmandt;Zacharie Duputel

  • Spurious velocity changes caused by temporal variations in ambient noise frequency content

    Zhongwen Zhan;Victor C. Tsai;Robert W. Clayton

  • The Pawnee earthquake as a result of the interplay among injection, faults and foreshocks.

    Xiaowei Chen;Nori Nakata;Colin Pennington;Jackson Haffener

  • Rupture complexity of the 1994 Bolivia and 2013 Sea of Okhotsk deep earthquakes

    Zhongwen Zhan;Hiroo Kanamori;Victor C. Tsai;Donald V. Helmberger

  • The Potential of DAS in Teleseismic Studies: Insights From the Goldstone Experiment

    Chunquan Yu;Chunquan Yu;Zhongwen Zhan;Nathaniel J. Lindsey;Nathaniel J. Lindsey;Jonathan B. Ajo‐Franklin

  • Mechanisms and Implications of Deep Earthquakes

    Zhongwen Zhan

  • Sub‐Kilometer Correlation Between Near‐Surface Structure and Ground Motion Measured With Distributed Acoustic Sensing

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  • Polarization sensing using submarine optical cables

    Antonio Mecozzi;Mattia Cantono;Jorge C. Castellanos;Valey Kamalov

  • Seismic Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Sensing from the Near-surface to the Deep Oceans

    Maria Rosario Fernandez-Ruiz;Hugo F. Martins;Ethan Williams;Carlos Becerril

  • Pushing the limit of earthquake detection with distributed acoustic sensing and template matching: a case study at the Brady geothermal field

    Zefeng Li;Zhongwen Zhan

  • Seismic arrival-time picking on distributed acoustic sensing data using semi-supervised learning

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  • The break of earthquake asperities imaged by distributed acoustic sensing

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  • Rapid Response to the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake With Distributed Acoustic Sensing

    Zefeng Li;Zefeng Li;Zhichao Shen;Yan Yang;Ethan Williams

  • Rupture complexity of the Mw 8.3 sea of okhotsk earthquake: Rapid triggering of complementary earthquakes?

    Shengji Wei;Don V Helmberger;Zhongwen Zhan;Robert W Graves

  • Initiation of the great Mw 9.0 Tohoku–Oki earthquake

    Risheng Chu;Shengji Wei;Don V. Helmberger;Zhongwen Zhan

  • Seismic ocean thermometry.

    Wenbo Wu;Zhongwen Zhan;Shirui Peng;Sidao Ni

  • Supershear rupture in a Mw 6.7 aftershock of the 2013 Sea of Okhotsk earthquake

    Zhongwen Zhan;Zhongwen Zhan;Donald V. Helmberger;Hiroo Kanamori;Peter M. Shearer

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald V. Helmberger
Donald V. Helmberger California Institute of Technology
Hiroo Kanamori
Hiroo Kanamori California Institute of Technology
Sidao Ni
Sidao Ni Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shengji Wei
Shengji Wei Nanyang Technological University
Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez
Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez University of Alcalá
Victor C. Tsai
Victor C. Tsai Brown University
Sonia Martin-Lopez
Sonia Martin-Lopez University of Alcalá
Jennifer M. Jackson
Jennifer M. Jackson California Institute of Technology
Egill Hauksson
Egill Hauksson California Institute of Technology
Mark Simons
Mark Simons California Institute of Technology

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