Zhen Liu
JIFRESSE/UCLA
Associate Project Scientist
Expertise: Space Geodesy, InSAR, GPS, geophysical modeling, seismic hazard estimation
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Bennett, A., Bock, Y., Ferreira, L., Fang, P., Liu, Z., Moore, A. W., Roberts, J. T., Hohensinn, R., & Sandwell, D. T. (2025, 09). Intra-Frame Deformation Model for the Western U.S. versus the epoch-date subnetwork approach. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14873
Shen, Z., & Liu, Z. (2025, 09). GNSS/InSAR/UAVSAR Integration for 3-D Deformation Field and fault creep rates in California. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14681
Shen, Z., & Liu, Z. (2025). GNSS and InSAR Integration for 3‐D Crustal Deformation in California and Western Nevada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB030888. SCEC Contribution 14121
Floyd, M., Tymofyeyeva, E., Materna, K., Bekaert, D., Fielding, E. J., Funning, G. J., Gonzalez-Ortega, A., Govorcin, M., Guns, K. A., Herring, T. A., Liu, Z., Sangha, S. S., Shen, Z., Wang, K., Xu, X., Su, M., & Pauk, E. (2024, 09). The Community Geodetic Model, Version 2.0.0: Current Status and Plans for Statewide. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13936
Shen, Z., & Liu, Z. (2024, 09). GNSS and InSAR integration for 3-D crustal deformation of California and western Nevada. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13885
Meng, Q., Liu, Z., & Luo, Y. (2024, 09). Investigating potential earthquake triggering and delay effects along the southern San Andreas fault by Lake Cahuilla level change. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13740
Tymofyeyeva, E., Floyd, M., Wang, K., Guns, K. A., Materna, K., Liu, Z., Funning, G. J., Fielding, E. J., Sandwell, D. T., Bekaert, D., Sangha, S. S., Govorcin, M., Gonzalez-Ortega, A., & Xu, X. (2023, 09). InSAR Community Geodetic Model Version 2: Moving beyond Ridgecrest. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13253
Tymofyeyeva, E., Floyd, M., Materna, K., Funning, G. J., Liu, Z., Guns, K. A., Xu, X., Wang, K., Sangha, S. S., & Fielding, E. J. (2022, 09). Updates and improvements of the consensus InSAR Community Geodetic Model. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12571
Shen, Z., & Liu, Z. (2022, 09). GNSS and InSAR Integration for 3-D Deformation Field in Southwestern US. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12429
Wang, K., Bürgmann, R., Liu, Z., Fielding, E. J., Brooks, B. A., & Svarc, J. (2022, 09). Complex postseismic relaxation following the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence illuminated by high-resolution geodetic observations . Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12136
Tymofyeyeva, E., Floyd, M., Bekaert, D., Funning, G. J., Guns, K. A., Liu, Z., Materna, K., Sandwell, D. T., Wang, K., & Xu, X. (2021, 08). Community Geodetic Model: Current status of the consensus InSAR model for deformation time series and velocities in Southern California. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11641
Tung, S., Shirzaei, M., Ojha, C., Pepe, A., & Liu, Z. (2021, 08). Structural Controls Over the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Investigated by High-Fidelity Elastic Models of 3D Velocity Structures. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11599
Bock, Y., Moore, A. W., Fang, P., Golriz, D., Argus, D. F., Liu, Z., Guns, K. A., Xu, X., Sandwell, D. T., Sullivan, A., Jiang, S., & Knox, A. (2021, 08). Geodetic Data, Data Products and Displacement Time Series Portal. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11552
Shen, Z., & Liu, Z. (2021, 08). Resolve 3-dimensional deformation field in southern California using GNSS and InSAR data. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11473
Tung, S., Shirzaei, M., Ojha, C., Pepe, A., & Liu, Z. (2021). Structural Controls Over the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Investigated by High‐Fidelity Elastic Models of 3D Velocity Structures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(7). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021124. SCEC Contribution 10973
Gualandi, A., & Liu, Z. (2021). Variational Bayesian Independent Component Analysis for InSAR Displacement Time‐Series With Application to Central California, USA. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020845. SCEC Contribution 10964
Shen, Z., & Liu, Z. (2020). Integration of GPS and InSAR Data for Resolving 3‐Dimensional Crustal Deformation. Earth and Space Science, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA001036. SCEC Contribution 9994
Tymofyeyeva, E., Sandwell, D. T., Xu, X., Liu, Z., Materna, K., Wang, K., Funning, G. J., Bekaert, D., & Floyd, M. (2020, 08). Current status and future plans for the Community Geodetic Model (InSAR) products. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10713
Shen, Z., & Liu, Z. (2020, 08). Resolve 3-Dimensional dimensional Crustal Deformation Field using GNSS and InSAR data. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10696
Ross, Z. E., Idini, B., Jia, Z., Stephenson, O., Zhong, M., Wang, X., Zhan, Z., Simons, M., Fielding, E. J., Yun, S., Hauksson, E., Moore, A. W., Liu, Z., & Jung, J. (2019). Hierarchical interlocked orthogonal faulting in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Science, 366(6463), 346-351. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz0109. SCEC Contribution 9956
Liu, Z., Lundgren, P., & Liang, C. (2019, 08). Imaging tectonic and anthropogenic processes using ALOS-2 and Sentinel-1 InSAR. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9905
Idini, B., Simons, M., Zhong, M., Stephenson, O., Ross, Z. E., Fielding, E. J., Yun, S., Hauksson, E., Milliner, C., Moore, A. W., & Liu, Z. (2019, 08). The first few days of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9884
Fielding, E. J., Stephenson, O., Zhong, M., Sangha, S. S., Liang, C., Huang, M., Liu, Z., Yun, S., Simons, M., & Brooks, B. A. (2019, 08). SAR Imaging of the Coseismic and Early Postseismic Deformation from the 2019 Mw 7.1 and Mw 6.4 Ridgecrest Earthquakes in California. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9883
Gualandi, A., & Liu, Z. (2019, 08). Variational Bayesian Independent Component Analysis for InSAR displacement time series with application to Central Valley, California. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9464
Luo, Y., & Liu, Z. (2019, 08). Slip transient pattern changes: external perturbation or intrinsic interaction with earthquakes. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9437
Ahn, D., & Liu, Z. (2019, 08). Mitigation of atmosphere noise in satellite interferometry through machine learning. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9385
Chen, K., Smith, J., Avouac, J., Liu, Z., & Y. Tony, S. (2018, 08). Magma movement from Nāpau down to Leilani Triggered the 4th May 2018 Mw 7.0 Hawaii earthquake. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8664
Gualandi, A., & Liu, Z. (2018, 08). Afterslip and Viscoelastic Processes and Their Relation with Seismic Activity: An Example from the Study of the Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake (Mexico). Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8565
Liu, Z., Shen, Z., Liang, C., & Lundgren, P. (2017, 08). Integration of InSAR and GPS data for 3-dimensional crustal deformation mapping. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7766
Chen, K., Liu, Z., & Song, T. (2017, 07). Toward a more robust tsunami early warning system: integration of real-time GPS, strong motion and teleseismic data for fast seismic source inversion. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7363
Daout, S. D., Barbot, S. D., Peltzer, G., Doin, M. P., Liu, Z., & Jolivet, R. (2016). Geophysical Research Letter. Constraining the Kinematics of Metropolitan Los Angeles Faults 1 with a Slip-Partitioning Model, 43(21), 11,192-11,201. SCEC Contribution 7112
Liu, Z., Shen, Z., & Liang, C. (2016, 08). Combination of GPS and InSAR Data for Crustal Deformation Mapping. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7011
Crowell, B. W., Bock, Y., & Liu, Z. (2016, 08). Single station automated detection of transient deformation in GPS time series with the relative strength index: A case study of Cascadian slow-slip. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6637
Liu, Z., Lundgren, P., & Shen, Z. (2014, 9). Improved imaging of Southern California crustal deformation using InSAR and GPS. Poster Presentation at SCEC Annual Meeting 2014. SCEC Contribution 2038
Liu, Z., Lundgren, P., & Shen, Z. (2013, 9). Southern California crustal deformation map and long-term transient from InSAR time series analysis. Poster Presentation at SCEC Annual Meeting 2013. SCEC Contribution 2051
Liu, Z., & Bird, P. (2008). Kinematic modelling of neotectonics in the Persia-Tibet-Burma Orogen. Geophysical Journal International, 172(2), 779-797. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03640.x. SCEC Contribution 9097
Bird, P., & Liu, Z. (2007). Seismic Hazard Inferred from Tectonics: California. Seismological Research Letters, 78(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.78.1.37. SCEC Contribution 926
Kagan, Y. Y., Jackson, D. D., & Liu, Z. (2005). Stress and earthquakes in southern California, 1850-2004. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110(B05S14). https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JB003313. SCEC Contribution 822
Last updated Mar 17, 2026.
