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Xiaofeng Meng
Statewide California Earthquake Center University of Southern California
Research Associate
Expertise: Seismology, Ground Motions, Data Science
About Me
Publications
Xiaofeng Meng is currently a research staff at SCEC. His work involves better understanding of the contributions from different variability components on ground motions through the removal of ergodic assumption. He uses CyberShake platform as testbed as it provides a controlled testing environment with large datasets. The results are then validated against NGA-West2 dataset and can be adopted by engineers in seismic hazard analysis applications. Xiaofeng also systematically investigates the dynamic triggering phenomenon at Cascadia volcanoes and geothermal fields in California. The project has potential to improve our understanding on key characteristics (e.g., tectonic regime, background seismicity, geothermal power production) that may control the various triggering phenomenon, such as immediate triggering, delayed triggering and non-triggering across different sites.
Xiaofeng Meng has a bachelor degree in physics from Beijing Normal University in China. Xiaofeng then earned his doctor degree in geophysics at Georgia Institute of Technology working on various earthquake triggering mechanisms. Before joining SCEC, he was a postdoc fellow at University of Washington and studied the seismicity under Mount St. Helens using an ultra-dense array.
Paton, D. M., & Meng, X. (2024, 09). The Organizational Process of the Database of Fragile Geologic Features in S.California and Nevada. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13840
Meng, X., Goulet, C. A., & Graves, R. W. (2022, 09). Computing Path Effects of A Large Magnitude Event from Path Effects of Many Small Magnitude Events on The Same Rupture Plane. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12342
Li, C., Peng, Z., Yao, D., Meng, X., & Zhai, Q. (2022). Temporal Changes of Seismicity in Salton Sea Geothermal Field due to Distant Earthquakes and Geothermal Productions. Geophysical Journal International,. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggac324. SCEC Contribution 12646
Meng, X., & Goulet, C. A. (2022). Lessons learned from applying varying coefficient model to controlled simulation datasets. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering,. doi: 10.1007/s10518-022-01512-x. SCEC Contribution 11847
Peng, Z., & Meng, X. (2015). Increasing lengths of aftershock zones with depths of moderate-size earthquakes on the San Jacinto Fault suggests triggering of deep creep in the middle crust. Geophysical Journal International, 204(1), 250-261. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv445. SCEC Contribution 6179
Meng, X., & Peng, Z. (2015). Improved understanding of moderate-size earthquake sequences on the San Jacinto Fault and their relationship with deep creep. Seismological Research Letters, 86(2B), 659. SCEC Contribution 6035
Meng, X., & Peng, Z. (2014). Seismicity rate changes in the San Jacinto Fault Zone and the Salton Sea Geothermal Field following the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake. Geophysical Journal International, 197(3), 1750-1762. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu085. SCEC Contribution 1814
Meng, X., Allman, S., Peng, Z., & Gilstrap, T. (2013). Hurricane Irene’s Impacts on the Aftershock Sequence of the 2011 Mw5.8 Virginia Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters, 84(2), 391. SCEC Contribution 1872
Meng, X., Peng, Z., Withers, K. B., Yu, X., & Hong, B. (2013). Systematic Search of Missing Earthquakes Near the Salton Sea Geothermal Field and San Jacinto Fault Around the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters, 84(2), 391. SCEC Contribution 1871
Meng, X., Yu, X., Peng, Z., & Hong, B. (2012, 6). Detecting earthquakes around Salton Sea following the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake using GPU parallel computing. Oral Presentation at International Conference on Computational Science. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.04.100. SCEC Contribution 1564