The 12 September 2016 ML5.8 midcrustal earthquake in the Korean Peninsula and its seismic implications

TK Hong, J Lee, W Kim, IK Hahm… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The seismicity in the Korean Peninsula has increased since the 2011 Mw9. 0 Tohoku‐Oki
megathrust earthquake. Two strike‐slip earthquakes with magnitudes of ML5. 1 and 5.8 …

Seismic hazard assessment for the Korean Peninsula

S Park, TK Hong, G Rah - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Korean Peninsula is located in a stable intraplate region with low‐
seismicity rates and long recurrence intervals of major earthquakes. Recent moderate‐size …

Unravelling a midcrustal seismogenic fault structure from a seismic sequence and geophysical data: application to the 28 October 2022 ML 4.1 Goesan earthquake …

TK Hong, J Lee, J Lee, S Park, B Kim… - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY Earthquakes in the Korean Peninsula often occur in subsurface hidden faults
that are hardly identified before the seismic activity. We investigate a midcrustal subsurface …

Seismic evidence for reverse activation of a paleo-rifting system in the East Sea (Sea of Japan)

H Choi, TK Hong, X He, CE Baag - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
The Japanese Islands were separated from the Eurasian plate due to continental rifting
during the Oligocene to mid-Miocene, which caused the opening of the East Sea (Sea of …

Correlation between ambient seismic noises and economic growth

TK Hong, J Lee, G Lee, J Lee… - Seismological …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Human activity is a major source of high‐frequency seismic noise. Long‐term ambient
seismic noise levels and their influencing factors are investigated. The diurnal seismic noise …

Spatiotemporal seismicity evolution and seismic hazard potentials in the western East Sea (Sea of Japan)

TK Hong, S Park, J Lee, W Kim - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2020 - Springer
The earthquakes in the western East Sea (Sea of Japan) mostly occur in the continental
margin off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula. The seismic hazard potentials in and …

Lateral variation of crustal Lg attenuation in eastern North America

LF Zhao, SM Mousavi - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
We perform Q Lg tomography for the northeastern part of North America. Vertical broadband
seismograms of 473 crustal earthquakes recorded by 302 stations are processed to extract …

Probabilistic analysis of the Korean historical earthquake records

SE Houng, TK Hong - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Seismic‐hazard assessment for earthquakes with long recurrence intervals requires long
earthquake records. Historical records for seismic damage can complement instrumental …

One-off deep crustal earthquake swarm in a stable intracontinental region of the southwestern Korean Peninsula

TK Hong, S Park, J Lee, D Chung, W Kim - Physics of the Earth and …, 2020 - Elsevier
A deep crustal strike-slip earthquake swarm that occurred in the intracontinental region of
the southwestern Korean Peninsula is investigated. The earthquakes are detected using …

Long-term evolution of intraplate seismicity in stress shadows after a megathrust

TK Hong, J Lee, SE Houng - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2015 - Elsevier
Megathrusts produce large permanent lithospheric displacements as well as strong transient
ground shaking up to regional distances. The influence of the 2011 M9. 0 Tohoku-Oki …