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Kelin Wang
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Research
Latest papers
Pacific tsunami records suggest similar rupture locations of two great Kamchatka earthquakes only 73 years apart.
Science advances · 2026
Seismic imaging reveals a strain-partitioned sliver and nascent megathrust at an incipient subduction zone in the northeast Pacific.
Science advances · 2025
Tectonic evolution of the Nootka fault zone and deformation of the shallow subducted Explorer plate in northern Cascadia as revealed by earthquake distributions and seismic tomography.
Scientific reports · 2023
Latest funding
- $129,000
Geodynamics and earthquakes in subduction zones and lithosphere
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $216,000
Subduction zone geodynamics and earthquake processes
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
- $278,000
Tsunami technology project
NSERC · 2015 · Co-investigator
8 publications.
Pacific tsunami records suggest similar rupture locations of two great Kamchatka earthquakes only 73 years apart.
Carvajal M, Wang K, Gubler A, Sun T, Araya C
Seismic imaging reveals a strain-partitioned sliver and nascent megathrust at an incipient subduction zone in the northeast Pacific.
Brandl CC, Worthington LL, Roland EC, Walton MAL, Nedimović MR, Gase AC, Adedeji O, Castellanos JC, Phrampus BJ, Bostock MG, Wang K, Oliva SJ
Tectonic evolution of the Nootka fault zone and deformation of the shallow subducted Explorer plate in northern Cascadia as revealed by earthquake distributions and seismic tomography.
Hutchinson J, Kao H, Riedel M, Obana K, Wang K, Kodaira S, Takahashi T, Yamamoto Y
Metamorphism-facilitated faulting in deforming orthopyroxene: Implications for global intermediate-depth seismicity.
Shi F, Wang Y, Wen J, Yu T, Zhu L, Huang T, Wang K
Rheological separation of the megathrust seismogenic zone and episodic tremor and slip.
Gao X, Wang K
Large fault slip peaking at trench in the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake.
Sun T, Wang K, Fujiwara T, Kodaira S, He J
Prevalence of viscoelastic relaxation after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake.
Sun T, Wang K, Iinuma T, Hino R, He J, Fujimoto H, Kido M, Osada Y, Miura S, Ohta Y, Hu Y
Strength of stick-slip and creeping subduction megathrusts from heat flow observations.
Gao X, Wang K
Geodynamics and earthquakes in subduction zones and lithosphere
Principal investigators: Wang, Kelin
Keywords: subduction zones; plate tectonics; earthquakes; geodynamics; fault mechanics; earth rheology; lithospheric stress; crustal deformation; computer modelling
Subduction zone geodynamics and earthquake processes
Principal investigators: Wang, Kelin
Tsunami technology project
Principal investigators: Coady, Yvonne
Geodynamics and earthquakes of subduction zones
Principal investigators: Wang, Kelin
Subduction zone thermal and mechanical processes
Principal investigators: Wang, Kelin
Thermal and mechanical studies of subduction zones
Principal investigators: Wang, Kelin
CASSIS: The Cascadia Collaborative Seismic Experiment
Principal investigators: Spence, George
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Kelin Wang and Tianhaozhe Sun: 3 shared papers
- Honn Kao and Kelin Wang: 1 shared paper
- School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
- Geological Survey of Canada
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