Department of Earth Sciences
and
Institute of Geophysics

 

List of Faculty Members
Professors:
 

Yi-Ben Tsai(蔡義本)

Chien-Ying Wang (王乾盈)

Chow-Son Chen (
陳洲生)

Kuo-Fong Ma (
馬國鳳)

Associate Professors:
  Wei-Min Chen (陳維民)

Ping-Hu Chen (
陳平護)

Jih-Hau Hung (
洪日豪)

Rong-Kuan Yang (
楊榮堃)

Horng-
Yuan Yen (顏宏元)

Shu-Kun Hsu (許樹坤)
Assistant Professor:
Chien-Chih Chen(陳建志)

 TIEN-SHUN LIN (林殿順)

Hsin-Hung Wu (吳幸鴻)

 

 

YI-BEN TSAI蔡義本
Highest EducationPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Present PositionProfessor1995---
Joined NCU Faculty1995.8
Research Speciality
Strong Motion Seismology, Geophysics, Earth Science Education

E-mail: ybtsai@geps.gep.ncu.edu.tw

 

Refereed Papers

Ma,Kuo-Fong,Chyi-Tyi Lee, Yi-Ben Tsai,Tzay-Chyn Shin, and Jim Mori

The Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake: Large Surface Displacements on an Inland Thrust Fault.

EOS, Trans. AGU vol.80, no. 50, (1999),p.605,611(SCI).

 

Wu,Y.M., J.K. Chung, T.C. Shin, N.C. Hsiao, Y.B. Tsai, William H.K. Lee and T.L. Teng

Development of an Integrated Earthquake Early Warning System in Taiwan Case for the Hualien Area Earthquakes.

TAO, vol.10,no.4, (1999),719-736.

 

Liu, K. S., T. C. Shin and Y. B. Tsai

A free-field strong motion network in Taiwan : TSMIP,

TAO, vol.10, no.2, (1999), 377-396.

 

蔡義本, 黃明偉, 趙曉玲

1999921日台灣集集大地震的震源與強地動特性初步分析結果,

中國土木水利工程學會會刊, 第二十六卷, 第三期(1999), 5-18

 

陳斐卿, 蔡義本

高中地球科學學習環境之研究與發展,

科學發展月刊, 27, 9(1999),1054-1065.

 

Y.B.Tsai. and Ming-Wey Huang

Strong Ground Motion Characteristics of the Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake of September 21,1999.

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Volume 2, Number 1, March 2000, pp.1-21. (2000).

 

Shin, T.C., K.W.Kuo, W.H.K.Lee, T.L.Teng, Y.B.Tsai

A Preliminary Report on the 1999 Chi-Chi (Taiwan) Earthquake.

Seismological Research Letters, Vol.71, no 1, (2000),25-30(SCI).

 

Tsai, Y. B. and H. H. Wu

S-wave velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle under southeastern China by surface wave dispersion analysis

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v.18, n.3, (2000), pt.0, pp255-266(SCI).

 

Naoshi Hirata, Shin’ichi Sakai, Zen-sen Liaw, Yi-Ben Tsai and Shui-Beih Yu

Aftershock Observations of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake

Bull. Earthq. Res. Inst., Univ. Tokyo, Vol. 75(2000) pp.33-46.

 

Liu, J.Y., Y.I. Chen, S.A. Pulinets, Y.B. Tsai and Y.J. Chuo

Seismo-ionospheric signatures prior to M6.0 Taiwan earthquakes

Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No.19, P.3113-3116, October 1, 2000.

 

Teng, Louis S., C. T. Lee, Y. B. Tsai and Li-Yuan Hsiao

“Slab breakoff as a mechanism for flipping of subduction polarity in Taiwan”

Geology, 20(2), (2000), 155-158

蔡義本,王乾盈,秦葆珩, 吳健富,陳榮裕

自由場強震資料之工程應用

中央氣象局地震技術報告,25(2000)

 

陳慶林, 陳萬成, 葉義雄, 林正洪, 劉啟清, 顏宏元, 劉忠智, 蔡龍珆 ,郭坤土, 蔡義本

大屯火山群火山活動性監測

台電工程月刊 635117-139,20017

 

Teng, Ta-Liang and Tsai, Yi-Ben

Preface to the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake Special Issue,

In Special Issue on 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am..91,893-894 (2001).

 

Wen, Kou-Liang, Peng, Han-Yih, Tsai, Yi-Ben, Chen, Kou-Chang

Why 1g was recorded at TCU129 site during the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake?

In Special Issue on 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am.91,1255-1266 (2001)

 

Lee, Chyi-Tyi, Cheng, Chin-Tung, Liao, Chi-Wen and Tsai, Yi-Ben

Site classification of Taiwan Free-field strong-motion stations

In Special Issue on 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am.91,1283-1297 (2001).

 

Tsai, Yi-Ben, Yu, Tsung-Ming, Chao, Hsiao-Ling, and Lee, Chien-Ping

Spatial and age dependence of fatality rate from the Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake of September 21, 1999,

In Special Issue on 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am.91,1298-1309 (2001).

 

S. Lallemand, C. S. Liu , J. Angelier, Y. B. Tsai

Active subduction and collision in Southeast Asia.

Tectonophysics. Vol.333, no. 1-2, pp.1-7. (2001),

 

Benoit Deffontaines, Char-Shine Liu, Jacques Angelier, Chyi-Tyi Lee, Jean-Claude Sibuet, Yi-Ben Tsai, Serge Lallemand, Chia-Yu Lu, Chao-Shing Lee, Shu-Kun Hsu, Hao-Tsu Chu, Jian-Cheng Lee, Erwan Pathier, Rou-Fei Chen, Chin-Tung Cheng, Chi-Wen Liao, Chun-Chia Lin, and Hsi-Hao Hsu,

Preliminary Neotectonic Map of Onshore-offshore Taiwan,

TAO, Supplementary Issue,339-349,May (2001)

 

Jacques Angelier, Jian-Cheng Lee, Hao-Tsu Chu, Jyr-Ching Hu, Chia-Yu Lu, Yu-Chang Chan, Lin Tin-Jai, Yvonne Font, Benoit Deffontaines, Yi-Ben Tsai

The Chichi earthquake, 1999, and its role in the Taiwan orogen. Earth and Planetary Sciences, 333, 5-21. (2001)

 

Yi-Ben Tsai

Some Observations about the Chi-Chi, Taiwan

Earthquake of September 21,1999, Seismotectonics in Convergent Plate Boundary, Eds. Y. Fujinawa and A. Yoshida, PP. 325-366.(2002)

 

Chung-Hsiung Sui, Ching-Yuang Huang, Yi-Ben Tsai, Ching-Sen Chen, Pay-Liam Lin, Shinn-Liang Shieh, Ming-Hsu Li, Yuei-An Liou, Tai-Chi Chen Wang, Ray-Shyan Wu, Gin-Rong Liu, and Yen-Hsyang Chu 

Meteorology-Hydrology Study Targets Typhoon Nari and Taipei Flood

EOS, Trans. AGU vol.83, no. 24, p.265,270. (2002)

 

溫國樑, 羅俊雄, 蔡義本, 張道明

核二廠耐震安全評估

台電工程月刊 65347-65,20031

 

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CHIEN-YING WANG (王乾盈)
Highest Education: Ph.D., Saint Louis University
Present Position: Professor (1989--)
Joined NCU Faculty: 1985.8 

Research Speciality: Seismic methods, Seismology

E-mail: wangcy@cc.ncu.edu.tw

 

Refereed Papers

王乾盈,孫志財

台北盆地震測地層解釋

中央地調所特刊,第十一號(1999)273-292.

 

Chien-Ying Wang, Chien-Hsin Chang and Horng-Yuen Yen

“An Interpretation of the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthqeake in Taiwan Based on the Thin-Skinned Thrust Model”

TAO (2000), Vol. 11, No. 3, p.609-630.

 

Chien-Hsin Chang, Yih-Min Wu, Tzay-Chyn Shin and Chien-Ying Wang

“Relocation of the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake in Taiwan”

TAO (2000), Vol. 11, No. 3, p.581-590.

 

Chien-Ying Wang

“Data Files on the Chi-Chi Earthquake from the Six-Channel Station MTN015”

Bull. Seis. Soc. Am. (2001), Vol. 91, No. 4, p.781-782.

 

Chien-Ying Wang, Jin-Dar Chiu and Liang-An Lin

“The Detection of Three Active Faults on the Taoyuan Terrace, Northwestern Taiwan by the Shallow Reflection Seismic Method”

TAO (2001), Vol. 12, No. 4, p.599-614.

 

王乾盈

以淺層反射震測剖面輔助地質鑽井

地工技術,第86(2001), p.53-62.

 

Zong-Jin Ma, Chien-Ying Wang, Cheun Shyu and Chang Jong

“A Comparison of the East-west Trending Structures on two sides of the Taiwan Strait”

Science in China (2001), Vol. 32, No. 6, p.441-451.

 

Chien-Ying Wang

“The Detection of a Recent Earthquake Fault by the Shallow Reflection Seismic Method”

Geophysics (2002), Vol. 67, No. 5, p.1465-1473.

 

Chien-Ying Wang, Chien-Li Lee and Horng-Yuan Yen

“Mapping the Northern Portion of the Chelungpu Fault, Taiwan by Shallow Reflection Seismics”

Geoph. Res. Letter (2002), Vol. 29, No. 6, p.951-954.

 

Chien-Ying Wang, Hidemi Tanaka, Jinder Chow, Chuan-Chen Chen and Ju-Hsueng Hong

“Shallow Reflection Seismics Aiding Geologic Drilling into the Chelungpu Fault of the 1999 Chi-Chi

Earthquake, Taiwan”

TAO (2002), Vol. 13, NO. 2, p.153-170.

 

Chien-Ying Wang, Chien-Li Lee, Fu-Ching Su, Ming-Dar Lee, Ming-Shen Wu, Chao-Huey Lai and Chi-Cheng Chen

“Structural Mapping of the 1999 Taiwan Earthquake Fault by Seismic Reflection Methods”

TAO (2002), Vol. 13 , No. 3, p.211-226.

 

Hidemi Tanaka, Chien-Ying Wang, Wei-Min Chen, Arito Sakaguchi, Kotaro Ujiie, Hisao Ito and

Masataka Ando

“Initial Science Report of Shallow Drilling Penetrating into Chelungpu Fault Zone, Taiwan ”

TAO (2002), Vol. 13, No. 3, p.227-252.

Mori, James, Hisao Ito, Chien-Ying Wang

“Chelungpu fault drilling could resolve seismological issues”

EOS (2003), Vol.83, No.23, p.255.

 

Chien-Ying Wang, Shan-You Kuo, Wen-Li Shyu, Jui-Wen Hsiao

“Investigating near-surface structures under the Changhua fault, west-central Taiwan by the reflection seismic method”

TAO (2003), Vol. 14, NO. 3, p.271-293.

 

王乾盈

以反射震測法偵測鐵砧山斷層

活動斷層調查研究專刊2003in press

 

Chien-Li Lee, Chien-Ying Wang, Hsiang-Chun Lee

“Shallow reflection seismic structural mapping to investigate the causes of abnormally large ruptures in the northern portion of the Chelungpu fault, 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan”

W. Pac. Geol. J. (2003) (in press)

 

 

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CHOW-SON CHEN (陳洲生)
Highest Education: Ph.D., National Central University
Present Position: Professor (1998--)
Joined NCU Faculty: 1984.2
Research Speciality: Electric methods, Geophysics

E-mail: chusen@earth.ncu.edu.tw

 

Refereed Papers

Chen, Chow-Son

Recent MT surveying supports the thin-skinned structures in the orogen,

Journal of the Geological Society of China 42,(1999) 43-52.

 

Chen, Chow-Son

TEM investigations of aquifers in the Ilan delta, Taiwan

Journal of the Geological Society of China 42,(1999) p.669-683.

Chen, Chow-Son

TEM investigations of aquifers in the southwest coast of Taiwan

Ground Water 37(1999), No. 6, 890-896. (SCI)

 

Chen, Chow-Son

Magnetotelluric soundings of the source area of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan: Evidence of

fluid at the hypocenter

TAO 11(2000), No. 3, 679-688.

 

Chen, Chien-Chih and Chow-Son Chen

Preliminary report on the Sanyi-Puli seismic zone conductivity anomaly and its correlation with

velocity structure and seismicity in the Northwestern Taiwan

Earth Planets Space(2000), 52, 377-381 (SCI)

 

Chow-Son Chen and Tsao, Shuhjong

Time-domain spectral IP and its applications in the southern Chinkuashih area, northern Taiwan

TAO 12(2001), No. 4, 583-598.

 

Chow-Son Chen and Chen, Chien-Chih

Deep electromagnetic images of seismogenic zone in the Chi-Chi (Taiwan) Earthquake

Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers (2002), 25, 483-490.

 

Chen, Chien-Chih and Chen, Chow-Son

Sanyi-Puli conductivity anomaly in NW Taiwan and its implication for the tectonics of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, GRL(2002), 29, 8, 71-73(SCI).

 

Chen, Chien-Chih and Chen, Chow-Son

Crustal electrical conductors, crustal fluids and Chi-Chi Taiwan earthquake, 

TAO(2002), 13, 367-374.

 

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KUO-FONG MA (馬國鳳)
Highest Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Present Position: Professor (1999--)
Joined NCU Faculty: 1993.3
Research Specialty: Seismology, Tectonics

E-mail: fong@earth.ncu.edu.tw

 

Refereed Papers

Ma, K.-F. and H. Kanamori and K. Satake, 1999.

Mechanism of the 1975 Kalapana, Hawaii, Erthquake, Inferred from Tsunami Data ,

J. Geoph. Res., 104,13153-13167.

 

Ma, K.-F. and R.-Y. Chen, 1999.

Focal Mechanism Determination of the 1991 Chaili Earthquake (ML=5.7) sequence,

TAO, 10,447-470.

 

Ma, K.-F. C.T. Lee, Y.B. Tsai, T.C. Shin and J. Mori, 1999.

The 1999 ChiChi, Taiwan (ML=7.3, Mw=7.7) Earthquake – Large Surface Displacement on an Inland Thrust-fault,

EOS, Transactions, 80, 605,611.

 

Ma, K.-F. C.T. Lee, Y.B. Tsai, T.C. Shin and J. Mori, 1999.

Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake Reveals Complex Faulting,

Earth in Space, 12, 9-12.

 

Ma, K.-F., T.-R. Song, S.J. Lee and S.I. Wu, 2000.

Spatial Slip Distribution of the September 20, 1999, Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake --Inverted from Teleseismic Data,

Geoph. Res. Let. , 27, 3417-3420.

 

Lee, S.-J. and K.-F. Ma, 2000.

Rupture Process of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake from the Inversion of Teleseismic Data, TAO, 11, 591-608.

 

Ma, K.-F., J. Mori, S.-J. Lee and S. B. Yu, 2000.

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

Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., 91, 1069-1087.

 

Ma, K.-F., Mori, J., S.-J. Lee and S.-B. Yu , 2001.

Data file from “Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Slip for the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake” , Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 91, 1381-1382.