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Yan Yang
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Imaging the Garlock Fault Zone With a Fiber: A Limited Damage Zone and Hidden Bimaterial Contrast
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
23 july 2024
James Atterholt, Yan Yang, Zhongwen Zhan, Weiqiang...

The structure of fault zones and the ruptures they host are inextricably linked. Fault zones are narrow, which has made imaging their structure at ...

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Characterizing South Pole Firn Structure With Fiber Optic Sensing
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
08 july 2024
Yan Yang, Richard C. Aster, Ettore Biondi, Martin ...

The firn layer covers 98% of Antarctica's ice sheets, protecting underlying glacial ice from the external environment. Accurate measurement of firn...

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The Top-to-Bottom Structure of the Garlock Fault Zone Uncovered with Fiber Sensing
CONTROL OF FAULT ZONE HETEROGENEITY AND FAULT ROUGHNESS ON MULTISCALE DEFORMATION AT INTER- AND INTRAPLATE FAULT ZONES IV ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2023
James Atterholt, Zhongwen Zhan, Yan Yang, Weiqiang...
The structure of fault zones and the ruptures they host are inextricably linked. Fault zones are narrow, which has made imaging their structure at sei...
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Rupture Imaging of Firn Quakes with Distributed Acoustic Sensing
INNOVATIONS AND APPLICATIONS IN FIBER-OPTIC SENSING III ORAL
seismology | 15 december 2023
Jiaxuan Li, Yan Yang, Ettore Biondi, Auden Reid-Mc...
A firn quake is an unusual earthquake-like phenomenon observed in snowfields. It is typically felt with an audible whumpf sound, sometimes followed by...
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Refining Firn Density Estimations at the South Pole using Distributed Acoustic Sensing
OBSERVING WAVE FIELD GRADIENTS IN SEISMOLOGY: APPLICATIONS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND THEORY II ORAL
seismology | 15 december 2023
Yan Yang, Zhongwen Zhan, Auden Reid-McLaughlin, Et...
The study of firn density structure is critical for ice sheet mass balance estimations, and traditional ice core drilling methods present financial an...
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DAS Thermometry: Estimating Subglacial Temperature from Active Source Seismic Data
INNOVATIONS AND APPLICATIONS IN FIBER-OPTIC SENSING II POSTER
seismology | 14 december 2023
Auden Reid-McLaughlin, Zhongwen Zhan, Martin Karre...
While radar surveys have identified subglacial lakes in Antarctica, better resolved methods are required to confirm the geometry and specific hydro an...
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A long-term DAS array at the South Pole
ENVIRONMENTAL SEISMOLOGY: A GEOPHYSICAL TOOL TO STUDY SURFACE AND NEAR-SURFACE PROCESSES I ORAL
seismology | 14 december 2023
Zhongwen Zhan, Martin H. Karrenbach, Yan Yang, Aud...
Our understanding of Antarctic seismicity and firn/ice sheet structural variability is still limited, partly due to the lack of dense, continuous seis...
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Joint Inversion for Shallow Subsurface Velocity Structure near Bishop, CA
INNOVATIONS AND APPLICATIONS IN FIBER-OPTIC SENSING II POSTER
seismology | 14 december 2023
Eli Bird, James Atterholt, Yan Yang, Ettore Biondi...
Owens Valley sits on the western edge of the Basin and Range province, to the southeast of Long Valley Caldera. The valley has been the site extensive...
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