Francis T. Wu

      Professor of Geophysics
     PhD (1966) California Institute of Technology

     Science 1, Room G-60A
     (607) 777-2512
     francis@binghamton.edu
    

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Research Interests:

  • Seismology
  • Tectonophysics

Current Research Projects:

  • TAIGER, Young Orogeny in Taiwan
  • Crust/Upper Mantle Structures and Tectonics of Tibet
  • Crustal and Upper Mantle Structures around New Zealand
  • Crust/Upper Mantle Structures of Eurasia
  • Crust/Upper Mantle Structures of Changbai Mountain, China

Teaching Activities:

Other Professional Activities:

  • Program Co-chair, 1998 Western Pacific Geophysical Meeting
  • Corresponding Reseach Fellow/Advisor, IES, Academia Sinia, Nankang, Taipei
  • Lecturer, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Recent Manuscript:

Paper on displacements derived from accelerograms for the 9/20/99 Chi-Chi earthquake

Recent Publications:

  • Wu, F.T., and Wang, P.D., 1988, Tectonics of western Yunnan, Geology, 16, 153-157.
  • Wu, F.T., Chen, K.C., Wang, J.H., McCaffrey, R., Salzberg, D., 1989, Focal mechanisms of recent large earthquakes and the nature of faulting in the Longitudinal Valley of eastern Taiwan, Bull. Geol. Soc. China (Taipei) 1989, 157-177.
  • Hutchings, L., And Francis Wu, Empirical Greens functions from small earthquakes: A waveform study of locally recorded aftershocks ofthe 1971 San Fernando earthquakes, Jour. Geophys. Res, 95, p.1187-1214, 1990.
  • T. J. Owens, G. E. Randall, and F. T. Wu, PASSCAL instrument performance during the Tibetan Plateau passive seismic experiment, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 83, 1959-1970, 1993.
    Wu, F. T. and A. Levshin, Surface wave group velocity tomography of East Asia, Physics of Earth and Planetary Interior, 84, 59-77, 1994.

    Rau, R. J., and F. T. Wu, Tomographic imaging of lithospheric structures under Taiwan, Earth and Planetary Letters, 133, 517-532, 1995.

    Yu, Y., J. Park and F. Wu, Mantle anisotropy beneath the Tibetan plateau: evidence from long-period surface waves, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 87, 231-246, 1995.

    Wu, F.T., Estimation of rupture velocity of the 1989 Loma Prieta mainsock from love wave group velocity, The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989: Earthquake Occurrence, Mainshock Characteristics, USGS Spec. Pap. on Loma Prieta, A, 279-288, 1996.

    Kao, H., and F. T. Wu, The 16 September 1994 Earthquake (mb=6.5) in the Taiwan Strait and its Tectonic Implications, in Press, Terrestrial, Atmosphere and Ocean (TAO), Vol. 7, No. 1, 13-29, 1996.

    Wang, C.Y., A. Ellwood, F. T. Wu, R.J. Rau, Y.H. Yen, Mountain building in Taiwan and the critical wedge model, in Subduction: Top to Bottom, Geophysical Monograph 96, eds. D. Scholl and G. Bebout, AGU, 49-55, 1996.

    Rau, R. J., F. T. Wu, and . T.C. Shin, Regional Network Focal Mechanism Determination Using 3-D velocity Model and SH/P Amplitude Ratio, BSSA, 86, 1270-1283, 1996.

    Wu, F. T., A. L. Levshin, and V. M. Kozhevnikov, Rayleigh wave group velocity tomography of Siberia, China and the vicinity, Accepted for publication, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 149,447-473, 1997.

    Wu, F.T., R.J. Rau and D. Salzberg, Taiwan Orogeny: thin-skinned or lithospheric collision? Tectonophysics, 274,191-220, 1997.

    Hetland, E., and Wu, F.T., Deformation of the Philippine Sea Plate under the Coastal Range, Taiwan: Results from an Offshore-Onshore Seismic Experiment, TAO, Vol. 9, 363-378, 1998.

    Klosko, Wu, Anderson, Eberhart-Phillips, McEvilly, Audoine, Savage, Gledhill, Upper mantle anisotropy in the new zealand region, Geophysical Research Lett., Vol. 26, 1497-1500, 1999.
  • Molnar, P., H.J. Anderson, E. Audoine, D. Eberhart-Philips, K. Gledhill, E. Klosko, T. McEvilly, D. Okaya, M. Savage, T. Stern, and F. T. Wu, 1999. Continuous deformation vs Faulting through the continental lithosphere of New Zealand, Science, v. 286, 516-519.
Questions or comments:

francis@binghamton.edu

Last modified: January 15, 2008 (adh)