Agenda


Venue: 3F, International Conference Hall, Humanities and Social Science Building, Academia Sinica

Time Topic / Speaker
08:00 – 08:30 Registration
08:30 – 09:00 Opening + Group Photo

Plenary I: Earthquake cycle deformation and related hazard

Convener: Ya-Ju Hsu, Kuo-En Ching

09:00 – 09:30
INVITED

Shallow Locking on the Cascadia Subduction Zone Constrained by Seafloor Geodetic Data

David Schmidt
College of Environment, University of Washington, United States
09:30 – 09:45

Near-trench rupture mechanics of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake revealed by in-situ tsunami data and 3-D subsurface structure: Along-strike stress segmentation

Tatsuya Kubota
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan
09:45 – 10:00

Spatial and Temporal Relationships of Large Magnitude Earthquakes and Upper-Plate Faults and the Plate Interface in a Synthetic Seismicity Catalogue for Central Aotearoa-New Zealand

Jade Humphrey
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
10:00 – 10:30
INVITED

History of Giant Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the World

Kenji Satake
National Central University, Taiwan
10:30 – 11:30 Poster Break A
11:30 – 12:00
INVITED

Understanding subduction zone earthquake cycles in a viscoelastic Earth

Kelin Wang
Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada
12:00 – 12:15

New Constraints on Shallow Coupling at the Mentawai Seismic Gap, Sumatra

Mason Perry
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
12:15 – 12:30

Mapping Deep Inelastic Strain in the Shear Zone of Kyushu, Japan, and Its Strain Transfer into the Seismogenic Zone

Angela Meneses-Gutierrez
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Keynote I

13:30 – 14:20
KEYNOTE

Pre-earthquake preparation processes (natural and societal)

Yehuda Ben-Zion
Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, United States
Statewide California Earthquake Center, United States
14:20 – 14:30 break

Plenary I: Earthquake cycle deformation and related hazard

Convener: Ya-Ju Hsu, Kuo-En Ching

14:30 – 15:00
INVITED

Decadal Creep Acceleration and Asperity Erosion on the Hayward Fault

Manoochehr Shirzaei
Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences, United States
United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada
15:00 – 15:15

A Catalog of Slow Slip Events at the Hikurangi Subduction Margin, New Zealand, from 2006 to 2016

Charles A Williams
GNS Science, New Zealand
15:15 – 15:30

Creeping but Capable: Locking and Seismic Hazard Along the Central Philippine Fault

Yogendra Sharma
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
15:30 – 16:30 Poster Break B
16:30 – 17:00
INVITED

Seafloor deformation with ocean-bottom instrumentation in Taiwan

Ya-Ju Hsu
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
17:00 – 17:15

Slip Deficit Rates of Major Faults in Taiwan Inferred from Geodetic Data and Their Implications for Seismic Potential

Kuo-En Ching
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
17:30 – 19:30 Ice Breaking

Venue: 3F, International Conference Hall, Humanities and Social Science Building, Academia Sinica

Time Topic / Speaker

Plenary II: Next-generation approaches/technologies in earthquake science

Convener: Hsin-Hua Huang, Justin Yen-Ting Ko

09:00 – 09:30
INVITED

Seafloor fiber optic strain observation in search of slow and fast earthquakes in the Nankai Trough megathrust

Eiichiro Araki
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan
09:30 – 09:45

Distributed acoustic sensing reveals dynamic ocean-to-Earth energy coupling efficiency in the intertidal zone

Justin Yen-Ting Ko
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
09:45 – 10:00

Precise phase-velocity estimation of Rayleigh waves by the spatial autocorrelation method using distributed acoustic sensing and vertical seismic data

Fukushima Shun
Hokkaido University, Japan
10:00 – 10:15

Using Ocean-Bottom Seismic Waveforms to Investigate Turbidity Currents and Tsunami Potential

Wu-Cheng Chi
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
10:15 – 11:15 Poster Break C
11:15 – 11:45
INVITED

Using Fibre-Optic Sensing for Earthquake Early Warning

Martijn van den Ende
Université Côte d'Azur, France
11:45 – 12:00

Improving shallow seismic structure from the analysis of atmospheric pressure wave data that deform the solid Earth

Toshiro Tanimoto
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
12:00 – 12:15

A 2D P wave model of the subduction zone across south-central Mexico derived from teleseismic full waveform inversion

Mauricio del-Valle Rosales
Pukyong National University, Korea
12:15 – 12:30

Generation of gouge particles in nanoscale during high-speed shear loading

Eiichi Fukuyama
Kyoto University, Japan
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Keynote II

13:30 – 14:20
KEYNOTE

Geophysical Observations and Modeling of Earthquake Fault Zone Behavior

Kuo-Fong Ma
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Earthquake-Disaster and Risk Management (E-DREaM) Center, National Central University, Taiwan
14:20 – 14:30 break

Plenary III: Fluids & earthquake interaction

Convener: Yen-Yu Lin, Shih-Jung Wang

14:30 – 15:00
INVITED

Case studies on induced seismicity related to industrial-scale CO2 storage

Volker Oye
Department Applied Seismology, NORSAR, Norway
15:00 – 15:15

Depth-Dependent Controls on Aseismic Slip in the Collision Zone of Taiwan

Kate Huihsuan Chen
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
15:15 – 15:30

Effects of Pore Fluid Properties on Fault Weakening in Groningen Sandstone-Derived Fault Gouges

Chien-Cheng Hung
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
15:30 – 16:30 Poster Break D
16:30 – 17:00
INVITED

Earthquake Interaction During Swarms Through a Modified ETAS Model

Naofumi Aso
Tokyo University of Science, Japan
17:00 – 17:15

Fluid–tremor interactions: insights from exhumed subduction shear zones

Kohtaro Ujiie
University of Tsukuba, Japan
17:15 – 17:30

200 Hz Groundwater Pressure Variations Induced by the 0403 Taiwan Hualien Earthquake in Milun Fault Groundwater Observation System

Shih-Jung Wang
National Central University, Taiwan
18:30 Banquet

Venue: 3F, The 1st and 2nd Conference Room, Humanities and Social Science Building, Academia Sinica

Time Topic / Speaker

Plenary IV: Earthquake and rupture dynamic

Convener: Yi-Ying Wen, Chun-Yu Ke

09:00 – 09:30
INVITED

Bimaterial Effect and Favorable Energy Ratio Enable Supershear Rupture in the 2025 Myanmar Quake

Lingsen Meng
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, UCLA, United States
09:30 – 09:45

Rupture propagation and arrest in global large continental earthquakes constrained by direct on-fault and near-fault seismic observations

Jesse Kearse
Kyoto University, Japan
09:45 – 10:00

Ground acceleration with deterministic and stochastic source models for the 2025 Mandalay earthquake in Myanmar

Shiro Hirano
Hirosaki University, Japan
10:00 – 11:00 Exhibition
11:00 – 11:30
INVITED

What Slows and Stops an Earthquake Rupture? Insights from Large-Scale Laboratory Earthquake Experiments and Stochastic Earthquake Mechanics

Greg McLaskey
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, United States
11:30 – 11:45

Unloading as a Mechanism for Breakdown Work Scaling in Laboratory Earthquakes

Chun-Yu Ke
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
11:45 – 12:00

Fracture energy evaluation based on optimized estimation of rupture velocity on a 6-meter laboratory fault

Kurama Okubo
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan
12:00 – 12:15

Regularity within complexity: Earthquake dynamics on geometrically complex faults

Ryosuke Ando
University of Tokyo, Japan
12:15 – 12:30

Modeling Seismic Source Directivity Effects from Apparent Source Spectra: A GIT-Based Approach for Small Earthquakes in Central Italy

Edlira Xhafaj
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Keynote III

13:30 – 14:20
KEYNOTE

Next Generation Seismic Networks: Preparing for the Next Big Earthquake

Zhongwen Zhan
Geophysics, Caltech, United States
Caltech Seismological Laboratory, United States
14:20 – 14:30 Break

Plenary V: Earthquake early warning and forecast

Convener: Da-Yi Chen, Guan-Yi Song

14:30 – 15:00
INVITED

Development of the Nationwide Wavefield-Based Earthquake Early Warning System in Japan and Future Prospects

Yuki Kodera
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
15:00 – 15:15

Online testing of the IPFx method for the strong motion network in Taiwan

Masumi Yamada
Kyoto University, Japan
15:15 – 15:30

Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Observation-Field Earthquake Early Warning

Da-Yi Chen
Central Weather Administration, Taiwan
15:30 – 15:45

Global investigation of foreshock acceleration prior to large earthquakes

Kai Koyama
Kyoto University, Japan
15:45 – 16:00 Tea Time
16:00 – 16:30
INVITED

Real-time prediction of impending shaking: wavefield-based method using data assimilation

Mitsuyuki Hoshiba
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
16:30 – 16:45

Earthquake predictability and probability forecast

Jiancang Zhuang
Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
16:45 – 17:00

Application of the ETAS Model for Operational Earthquake and Ground-Shaking Forecasting in Taiwan

Ming-Che Hsieh
National Central University, Taiwan
17:30 Closing Ceremony (4F Recreation Room)
Poster Break A (Display Time: 09:00 – 17:30 / Presentation: 10:30 – 11:30)

November 4, 2025 (Tuesday)

Chair: Ya-Ju Hsu, Kuo-En Ching, Yen-Yu Lin, Shih-Jung Wang
Venue: 3F, Humanities and Social Science Building, Academia Sinica

Number Topic / Speaker
D1-01

Investigate the 2010 Jiashian earthquake sequence from deep-learning enhanced earthquake catalog, seismic tomography, and focal mechanism inversion

Cong-Nghia Nguyen
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
D1-02

Spatiotemporal characteristics and focal mechanisms of tremor clusters along the mountain range of Taiwan

Yi-Chu Hua
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
D1-03

Revisiting Rapid Tectonic Deformations in Southwestern Taiwan Using GNSS and ALOS InSAR Data: Case Study in Chungliao Tunnel

I-Ting Wang
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D1-05

Physics-Based Modeling of Geodetic Strain Rates Across the Himalayan Arc and Their Role in Time-Independent Seismic Hazard Assessment

Neha Choudhary
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D1-06

GNSS Monitoring at Gede Volcano, Indonesia: A 10-Year Overview of Network Development and Preliminary Findings

Nurdin bin Elon Dahlan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
D1-07

Long geodetic records reveal a weak asthenosphere beneath the Sumatran backarc

Grace Ng
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
D1-09

Co-seismic recrystallization of calcite at shallow depths: insights from the active Yonabaru Fault, Miyako Island, southern Ryukyu Arc

Thomas Yeo
University of Tsukuba, Japan
D1-10

Geometric Sensitivity of Synthetic Earthquake Catalogues: Insights from the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand

Avinash Gupta
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
D1-11

Slip evolution of a triggered SSE on the Hengchun fault: insights from quasi-dynamic simulations

Shih-Han Hsiao
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
D1-12

Revealing seismicity patterns along the Manila trench in the Philippines

Yu Yang Sim
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
D1-13

First Observation of a Lightning-Induced Isotropic Microseismic Event at Depth: Evidence from the MiDAS Seismic Monitoring System, Taiwan

Yen-Yu Lin
National Central University, Taiwan
D1-14

Detection of earthquake swarms and investigation of their relationship with slow earthquakes in the Hyuga-nada Region, Japan

Ryo Yoshimura
Kyoto University, Japan
D1-15

Persistent Thermal Anomalies beneath the Milun Fault Using Borehole Optical Fiber Sensing

Hsuan-Ting Lai
National Central University, Taiwan
D1-16

Seismicity of Slow and Fast Earthquakes at Mt. Aso

Haruka Kuroiwa
Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Poster Break B (Display Time: 09:00 – 17:30 / Presentation: 15:30 – 16:30)

November 4, 2025 (Tuesday)

Chair: Chun-Yu Ke, Edlira Xhafaj, Jesse Kearse
Venue: 3F, Humanities and Social Science Building, Academia Sinica

Number Topic / Speaker
D1-18

Hydro‑Mechanical Modeling of Accretionary Wedge Deformation and Fluid Flow Controls on Megathrust Slip Behavior

Chia-Hsun Lin
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
D1-19

Intraslab stress heterogeneity revealed by the earthquake doublet in the northern Manila subduction zone: implications for continental lithospheric mantle rheology

Wan-Lin Hu
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
D1-20

Broadband Calibration of Ultrasonic Transducers for Laboratory Experiments Using Generalized Ray Theory, Finite Element Method, and Laser Doppler Vibrometry in Laboratory Earthquake

Ting-Wei Liu
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D1-21

Laboratory Earthquake Dynamics in 1D and 2D PMMA Fault Systems with Controlled Seismogenic Zone Geometries

Chang Wei Zeng
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D1-22

Effects of Rupture Initiation and Fault Stress Distribution on Earthquake Source Time Functions and Stress Drop Inference

You-Shi Tsai
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D1-23

Multi-scale rate- and roughness-dependent fault constitutive law and dynamic earthquake sequence simulation

Reiju Norisugi
Kyoto University, Japan
D1-24

High Resolution Earthquake Relocation Along the Subduction Zone in Southern Sumatra: Implications of Seamount Subduction on Interface Seismicity Patterns

Yesi Januarti
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D1-26

Rupture termination induced by controlled local stress distribution on a 6-meter-long laboratory fault

Futoshi Yamashita
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan
D1-27

Relationship between Critical Nucleation Length, Static Stress Drop and Rupture Acceleration in Large-Scale Rock Friction Experiments

Yoshiaki Matsumoto
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan
D1-28

Relocation and focal mechanisms of earthquakes in the Yeongdeok offshore area, South Korea, since 2000

Suhee Park
Pukyong National University, Korea
D1-29

Cascading Fault Ruptures Drive The 2023 Afghanistan Earthquake Sequence

Bryan Marfito
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
D1-30

Dynamic Rupture Simulation of the 2022 Chihshang Earthquake: Rupture Analysis of the Central Range and Longitudinal Valley Faults

Yuan-Yi Yen
Sinotech Engineering Consultants, INC., Taiwan
D1-31

Partial ruptures, multi-fault ruptures, and aftershocks in 2D random fault network

So Ozawa
University of Tokyo, Japan
D1-32

The clock advance picture of the ETAS model

Matthias Holschneider
University of Potsdam, Germany
D1-33

Revealing the Blind Fault of the 2023 ML 3.5 Jangsu Earthquake through a Temporary Seismic Array

Yuseong Cho
Pusan National University, Korea
Poster Break C (Display Time: 09:00 – 17:30 / Presentation: 10:15 – 11:15)

November 5, 2025 (Wednesday)

Chair: Hsin-Hua Huang, Justin Yen-Ting Ko
Venue: 3F, Humanities and Social Science Building, Academia Sinica

Number Topic / Speaker
D2-01

Illuminating Earthquake Sources with Borehole Fiber Optics: Insights from the 2022 ML6.8 Chihshang, Taiwan, Earthquake

Jolan Liao
National Central University, Taiwan
D2-02

A Novel Approach to Tsunami Prediction Using Ambient Noise-Derived Green’s Functions

Kun-Chi Ho
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D2-03

An AI-driven Modular Seismic Monitoring System for Synchronous Earthquake Early Warning and Post-Event Cataloging

Wu-Yu Liao
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
D2-04

Seismic coupling estimation for Tonga and Vanuatu subduction zones using physics-based synthetic earthquake catalogues

Yi-Wun Mika Liao
Earth Sciences New Zealand / University of Canterbury, New Zealand
D2-05

Small Earthquake Monitoring in Northern Hualien, Taiwan by the Borehole Seismometer Array

Ru-Hung Tsai
National Central University, Taiwan
D2-06

Preliminary Study of Seismicity in the Hualien Area Using the MiDAS Borehole Seismic Arrays

Jing-Bei Chan
National Central University, Taiwan
D2-07

Automatic detection and extraction of later phase in S coda using machine learning for crustal heterogeneity exploration

Yuta Amezawa
Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
D2-08

A Mapping Fault Zone Attenuation Using MiDAS Downhole Optical Fiber and Borehole Seismic Arrays

Lu Hsiao
National Central University, Taiwan
D2-09

Estimation of site decay parameter (κ0) for the southern Korean Peninsula

Byeong Seok Ahn
Pukyong National University, Korea
D2-10

Crustal P-wave velocity imaging of the southern Korean Peninsula using passive source ray-traveltime forward modeling

Minog Kim
Pukyong National University, Korea
D2-11

Numerical simulations of seismic waveforms from the Martian impact event S1034a: Investigating shallow crustal heterogeneity

Hayato Hirai
Hirosaki University, Japan
D2-12

Spatio-temporal variation of seismic noise amplitude based on long-term, dense seismic observations

Aiko Ohno
Hirosaki University, Japan
D2-13

Estimation of surface wave dispersion curves from artificial events for effective determination of velocity at a local region

June Baek
Pukyong National University, Korea
D2-14

What role should physics-based simulators play in seismic hazard models? A case study from Aotearoa New Zealand

Camilla Emily Penney
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
D2-15

Depth-Dependent Co-seismic Velocity Changes During the 2024 Mw 7.4 Hualien Earthquake from Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Chaninthon Rattanavetchasit
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D2-16

Imaging the Fault Zone Structure of the Shanchio Fault in Taipei Metropolis Using Dark Fiber Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Chi-Hsian Wang
National Central University, Taiwan
Poster Break D (Display Time: 09:00 – 17:30 / Presentation: 15:30 – 16:30)

November 5, 2025 (Wednesday)

Chair: Da-Yi Chen, Guan-Yi Song
Venue: 3F, Humanities and Social Science Building, Academia Sinica

Number Topic / Speaker
D2-17

Resolving the Active Milun Fault Structure at Hualien, Taiwan using 3-D DAS Array with Local Earthquake Data

En-Shih Wu
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D2-18

Introducing Ocean Bottom Seismometer observation by quantifying improvements in earthquake locations

Yujin Sohn
Pusan National University, Korea
D2-19

Application of a deep learning CNN model to discriminate earthquakes and explosions in South Korea

Eun Jin Lee
Pusan National University, Korea
D2-20

A Deep-Learning-Based Real-Time Microearthquake Monitoring System (RT-MEMS) for Taiwan

Wei-Fang Sun
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D2-21

GFAST-NZ: Rapid geodetic inversion for finite faults in New Zealand

Emmanuel Caballero Leyva
Earth Sciences New Zealand, New Zealand
D2-22

Is it time to initiate a prediction-driven earthquake-research program?

Chi-Yu King
Earthquake-Prediction Research, Inc., United States
D2-23

Estimation of surface seismic intensity using borehole records

Tessei Tanaka
Tokyo University of Science, Japan
D2-24

Development of a Pd-Based Magnitude Estimation for Earthquake Early Warning in Western Part of Java, Indonesia

Divyana Meidita
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
D2-25

An extension of the non-stationary ETAS model to the space-time modeling

Takaki Iwata
Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan
D2-26

Towards real-time tsunami wavefield estimation using adjoint-based data assimilation

Takuto Maeda
Hirosaki University, Japan
D2-27

Enhancing Earthquake Early Warning by Assimilating Real-time Ground Motion for Rupture Directivity Effects via a Kalman Filter

Yi-Sheng Huang
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
D2-28

Development of a Forecasting System for Plate Boundary Sliding Behavior Based on Sequential Data Assimilation along the Nankai Trough Subduction Zone

Takeshi Iinuma
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan
D2-29

Pre-earthquake Awareness as a Potential Indicator of Impending Earthquakes: An Empirical Case Study in Taiwan

Ming-Ni Lee
National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
D2-30

Nonlinear Event Space Analysis of Radon and Meteorological Parameters for Seismic Anomaly Identification

Vivek Walia
National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering, NIAR, Taiwan
D2-31

SIMAP: an Automated Real-Time Seismic Intensity Information for Rapid Earthquake Impact Assessment Using Indonesian Accelerographic Sensor Networks

Rian Pratama
Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika, Indonesia

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ACES is a multi-lateral grand challenge science research cooperation of APEC, which is one of the eight scientific and technological cooperation projects under the branch of Policy Partnership on Science, Technology and Innovation of APEC.

The main goal of ACES is to develop our understanding of earthquake and tsunami science. To achieve this goal, the international workshop has been held every two years for the scientific researchers in APEC economies.

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