Fan-Chi Lin
University of Utah
Professor
Expertise: Ambient noise tomography, surface wave tomography
About Me
Publications
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SCEC Participation
SCEC Participating Institution Representative (2025 - Present)Zou, C., Ross, Z. E., Clayton, R. W., Lin, F., & Azizzadenesheli, K. (2025, 09). Ambient Noise Full Waveform Inversion with Neural Operators. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14935
Lin, F., Kim, H., Gkogkas, K., Zaldivar Andrade, G. A., Clayton, R. W., & Taira, T. (2025, 09). Validating and improving community velocity models using Rayleigh wave ellipticity. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14618
Lin, F., Clayton, R. W., Ford, H. A., Allam, A. A., Gkogkas, K., Villa, V., & Kim, H. (2025). LAB2022: A New Nodal Seismic Array Spanning the Los Angeles Basin. Seismological Research Letters,. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220250082. SCEC Contribution 14619
Lin, F., Kim, H., Pechmann, J., McKean, A., & Hardwick, C. (2024, 09). Seismic Imaging of the Salt Lake Basin through Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Rayleigh wave Ellipticity. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13899
Zaldivar Andrade, G. A., Kim, H., Lin, F., & Taira, T. (2024, 09). Determination of shallow crustal structure in Northern California and community model validation using ambient-noise-derived Rayleigh wave ellipticity and receiver functions: Preliminary results. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13896
Villa, V., Clayton, R. W., Lin, F., & Ford, H. A. (2024, 09). The Los Angeles Basin Shape and its Underlying Shallow Moho. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13758
Gkogkas, K., Lin, F., Villa, V., Clayton, R. W., Ford, H. A., & Allam, A. A. (2023, 09). Towards a better understanding of the Los Angeles basin structure using data recorded from the LAB2022 nodal array. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12950
Lin, F., Allam, A. A., Ford, H. A., & Clayton, R. W. (2022, 09). Basic Data Properties and Preliminary Results from a Dense 3C Temporary Seismic Array across the Los Angeles Basin. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12391
Gkogkas, K., Berg, E., Lin, F., Schulte-Pelkum, V., Allam, A. A., & Qiu, H. (2021, 08). Shallow crustal structure of Southern California by jointly inverting surface wave phase velocity, Rayleigh wave ellipticity, and Receiver Functions. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11575
Berg, E. M., Lin, F., Schulte‐Pelkum, V., Allam, A., Qiu, H., & Gkogkas, K. (2021). Shallow Crustal Shear Velocity and Vp/Vs Across Southern California: Joint Inversion of Short‐Period Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity, Phase Velocity, and Teleseismic Receiver Functions. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(15). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092626. SCEC Contribution 10968
Berg, E., Lin, F., Schulte-Pelkum, V., Gkogkas, K., & Qiu, H. (2020, 08). Joint MCMC Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocity, Ellipticity, and Receiver Functions: Southern California Shear Velocity Model Expanding to the Shallower and Deeper Crust. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10714
Qiu, H., Allam, A. A., Lin, F., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2020). Analysis of Fault Zone Resonance Modes Recorded by a Dense Seismic Array Across the San Jacinto Fault Zone at Blackburn Saddle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019756. SCEC Contribution 10153
Qiu, H., Allam, A. A., Lin, F., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2019, 08). Damage Zone Resonance: Observation and Analytical Fitting of Fault Zone Trapped Wave Normal Modes Using Large-N Near-fault Seismic Arrays. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9459
Li, J., Lin, F., Allam, A. A., Ben-Zion, Y., Liu, Z., & Schuster, G. (2019). Wave equation dispersion inversion of surface waves recorded on irregular topography. Geophysical Journal International, 217(1), 346-360. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz005. SCEC Contribution 9074
Qiu, H., Lin, F., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2019). Eikonal Tomography of the Southern California Plate Boundary Region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(9), 9755-9779. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017806. SCEC Contribution 10811
Wang, Y., Allam, A. A., & Lin, F. (2019). Imaging the Fault Damage Zone of the San Jacinto Fault Near Anza With Ambient Noise Tomography Using a Dense Nodal Array. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(22), 12938-12948. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084835. SCEC Contribution 10059
Share, P., Allam, A. A., Ben-Zion, Y., Lin, F., & Vernon, F. L. (2018). Structural Properties of the San Jacinto Fault Zone at Blackburn Saddle from Seismic Data of a Dense Linear Array. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 176(3), 1169-1191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-018-1988-5. SCEC Contribution 9073
Berg, E., Lin, F., Allam, A. A., Qiu, H., Shen, W., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2018). Tomography of Southern California Via Bayesian Joint Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity and Phase Velocity From Ambient Noise Cross-Correlations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016269. SCEC Contribution 8922
Bianco, M. J., Olsen, K. B., Gerstoft, P., & Lin, F. (2018, 08). Machine learning-based surface wave tomography of Long Beach, CA, USA. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8754
Qiu, H., Ben-Zion, Y., & Lin, F. (2018, 08). Eikonal Tomography of the Southern California Plate Boundary Region
. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8324
Lin, F., Berg, E., Allam, A. A., Qiu, H., Wang, Y., & Ben-Zion, Y. (2017, 08). Shallow crustal imaging in Southern California using ambient noise and fault zone trapped waves. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7764
Qiu, H., Ben-Zion, Y., & Lin, F. (2017, 08). Eikonal Tomography of the Southern California Plate Boundary Region. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7720
Clayton, R. W., Lin, F., Denolle, M. A., Persaud, P., & Polet, J. (2017, 08). Imaging the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Basins with short-term Nodal deployments. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7441
Bowden, D. C., Tsai, V. C., & Lin, F. (2016). Interpreting site amplification from surface wave tomography. Poster Presentation at Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7113
Allam, A. A., Lin, F., Share, P., Ben-Zion, Y., Vernon, F. L., Schuster, G., & Karplus, M. (2016, 08). Constraints on Fault Damage Zone Properties and Normal Modes from a Dense Linear Array Deployment along the San Jacinto Fault Zone. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6655
Berg, E., Lin, F., & Allam, A. A. (2016, 08). Rayleigh-wave ellipticity obtained from noise cross-correlations across southern California. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6646
Ben-Zion, Y., Share, P., Allam, A. A., Lin, F., & Vernon, F. L. (2016, 08). Internal structure of the San Jacinto fault zone at Blackburn Canyon from a dense linear deployment across the fault. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6526
Bowden, D. C., Tsai, V. C., & Lin, F. (2015). Site amplification, attenuation, and scattering from noise correlation amplitudes across a dense array in Long Beach, CA. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(5), 1360-1367. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062662. SCEC Contribution 6068
Lin, F., Tsai, V. C., & Schmandt, B. (2014). 3-D crustal structure of the western United States: application of Rayleigh-wave ellipticity extracted from noise cross-correlations. Geophysical Journal International, 198, 656-670. SCEC Contribution 7121
Lin, F., Tsai, V. C., & Ritzwoller, M. (2012). The local amplification of surface waves: A new observable to constrain elastic velocities, density, and anelastic attenuation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117(B6), B06302. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JB009208. SCEC Contribution 1733
Last updated Sep 07, 2025.
