Prof. TAN Yen Joe

• Marine geophysics
• Volcano seismology
• Earthquake processes
• Environmental seismology
• Machine learning applications in geophysics

Morningside College 

• Zhong, Y. and Tan, Y.J.* (2024), Deep-learning-based phase picking for volcano-tectonic and long-period earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, 51.
• Zhang, Z., Liu, M., Tan, Y.J.*, Walter, F., He, S., Chmiel, M., and Su, J. (2024), Landslide hazard cascades can trigger earthquakes, Nature Communications, 15, 2878.
• Lee, M.K., Tan, Y.J.*, Russell, J.B., Tolstoy, M., and Waldhauser, F. (2024), Relative seismic velocity variations at Axial Seamount observed with ambient seismic noise capture transition point in volcanic inflation, Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL108883.
• Barkat, A., Tan, Y.J.*, Xu, G., Waldhauser, F., Tolstoy, M., and Wilcock, W.S.D. (2024), Permeability and seismicity rate changes at an inflating submarine volcano caused by dynamic stresses, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 632, 118625.
• Liu, M., Tan, Y.J.*, Lei, X., Li, H., Zhang, Y., and Wang, W. (2024), Intersection between tectonic faults and magmatic systems promotes swarms with large-magnitude earthquakes around the Tengchong volcanic field, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, Geology, 52(4), 302-307.
• Song, Z., Tan, Y.J.*, and Roman, D.C. (2023), Deep long-period earthquakes at Akutan Volcano from 2005-2017 better track magma influxes than volcano-tectonic earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101987.
• Tan, Y.J.* and Marsan, D. (2020), Connecting a broad spectrum of transient slip on the San Andreas fault, Science Advances, 6, eabb2489.

Before joining CUHK:

• Scholz, C.H., Tan, Y.J.*, and Albino, F. (2019), The mechanism of tidal triggering of earthquakes at mid-ocean ridges, Nature Communications, 10(1), 2526.
• Tan, Y.J.*, Waldhauser, F., Tolstoy, M., and Wilcock, W.S.D. (2019), Axial Seamount: Periodic tidal loading reveals stress dependence of the earthquake size distribution (b value), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 512, 39-45.
• Tan, Y.J.*, Tolstoy, M., Waldhauser, F., and Bohnenstiehl, D.R. (2018), Tidal triggering of microearthquakes over an eruption cycle at 9°50’N East Pacific Rise, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 1825–1831.
• Tan, Y.J.*, Tolstoy, M., Waldhauser, F., and Wilcock, W.S.D. (2016), Dynamics of a seafloor spreading episode at the East Pacific Rise, Nature, 540, 261-265.

• Tracking Deep Long-Period Volcanic Earthquakes (PI, RGC GRF), 2023 – present  

• Probing Earthquake and Volcanic Processes on the Seafloor (PI, Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award), 2022 – present  

• Oceanic Transform Fault Behavior and Properties (PI, NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund 優秀青年科學基金), 2022 – present  

• Earthquakes and Slow Slips on the Blanco Oceanic Transform Fault (PI, RGC ECS), 2022 – present  

• Collaborative Research: Caldera Dynamics and Eruption Cycles at Axial Seamount (Co-I, NSF Division of Ocean Sciences), 2020 – present