@article {gong_machine_2023,
	title = {Machine Learning-Based New Earthquake Catalog Illuminates On-Fault and Off-Fault Seismicity Patterns at the Discovery Transform Fault, East Pacific Rise},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {24},
	number = {9},
	year = {2023},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2023GC011043},
	pages = {e2023GC011043},
	abstract = {Oceanic transform faults connect spreading centers and are imprinted with previous tectonic events. However, their tectonic interactions are not well understood due to limited observations. The Discovery transform fault system at 4{\textdegree}S, East Pacific Rise (EPR), represents a young transform system, offering a unique opportunity to study the interplay between faulting and other tectonic events at an early phases of an oceanic transform system. Discovery regularly hosts M5{\textendash}6 characteristic earthquakes, and the seafloor north of Discovery includes a 35 km-long rift zone that records a complex history of rifting, faulting and volcanism, suggesting that the transform faults likely interact with regional tectonic activity. We apply a machine-learning enabled workflow to locate 21,391 earthquakes recorded during a 1-year ocean bottom seismometer experiment in 2008. Our results indicate that seismicity on the western Discovery fault is separated into seven patches with distinct aseismic and seismic slip modes. Additionally, we observe a patch of off-fault seismicity near where seafloor abyssal hills intersect the rift zone. This seismicity may have been caused by varying opening rates as spreading rate decreases from north to south in the rift zone. Our findings suggest that the Discovery system is still evolving, and that system equilibrium has not been reached between rifting and faulting. These results reflect the complex yet rarely observed interactions between fault slip, plate rotation, and rifting which are likely ubiquitous at oceanic transform systems.},
	keywords = {fault segmentation, microseismicity, oceanic transform fault, rifting},
	issn = {1525-2027},
	doi = {10.1029/2023GC011043},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2023GC011043},
	author = {Gong, Jianhua and Fan, Wenyuan and Parnell-Turner, Ross}
}
@article {gong_seismicity_2022,
	title = {Seismicity, fault architecture, and slip mode of the westernmost Gofar transform fault},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	year = {2022},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2022JB024918},
	month = {10/2022},
	pages = {e2022JB024918},
	abstract = {Oceanic transform faults accommodate plate motions through both seismic and aseismic slips. However, deformation partition and slip mode interaction at these faults remain elusive mainly limited by rare observations. We use one-year ocean bottom seismometer data collected in 2008 to detect and locate earthquakes at the westernmost Gofar transform fault. The ultra-fast slipping rate of Gofar results in \~{}30,000 earthquakes during the observational period, providing an excellent opportunity to investigate interrelations between the slip mode, seismicity, and fault architecture at an unprecedented resolution. Earthquake distribution indicates that the \~{}100 km long Gofar transform fault is distinctly segmented into five zones, including one zone contouring a M6 earthquake that was captured by the experiment. Further, a barrier zone east of the M6 earthquake hosted abundant foreshocks preceding the M6 event and halted its active seismicity afterwards. The barrier zone has two layers of earthquakes at depth, and they responded to the M6 earthquake differently. Additionally, a zone connecting to the East Pacific Rise had quasi-periodic earthquake swarms. The seismicity segmentation suggests that the Gofar fault has multiple slip modes occurring in adjacent fault patches. Spatiotemporal characteristics of the earthquakes suggest that complex fault architecture and fluid-rock interaction play primary roles in modulating the slip modes at Gofar, possibly involving multiple concurrent physical processes.},
	keywords = {fault slip, fluid-rock interaction, fluid{\textendash}rock interaction, microseismicity, miroseismicity, oceanic transform faults},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2022JB024918},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JB024918},
	author = {Gong, Jianhua and Fan, Wenyuan}
}
@article {alongi_probing_2021,
	title = {Probing the Southern Cascadia Plate Interface With the Dense Amphibious Cascadia Initiative Seismic Array},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {126},
	number = {7},
	year = {2021},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2021JB022180},
	month = {06/2021},
	pages = {e2021JB022180},
	abstract = {Fault coupling is vital in determining the amount of strain that is accumulated along faults. The magnitude and location of stored elastic strain energy in highly coupled regions has important implications for understanding the full range of slip behavior at plate boundary faults, as well as earthquake and tsunami hazards. We use the temporary dense amphibious array of seismometers offered by the Cascadia Initiative to create a high-resolution catalog of events to examine the spatio-temporal behavior of earthquakes near the plate interface. The data show that in southern Cascadia the plate interface updip of the geodetically locked region is nearly devoid of seismicity, therefore likely highly coupled and accumulating strain. The catalog reveals events that are clustered at the downdip edge of the highly coupled megathrust that correlate in time with nearby strain transient observations. Template matching of events in the cluster using permanent stations of the Northern California Seismic Network over a 10-year period between 2010 and 2020 indicates that this cluster is unique in space and time. Its activity only during the strain transient provides support for the utility of seismic observations in the identification of strain transients.},
	keywords = {microseismicity, ocean bottom seismometers, plate interface, seismology, strain transient, template matching},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2021JB022180},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2021JB022180},
	author = {Alongi, T. and Schwartz, S. Y. and Shaddox, H. R. and Small, D. T.}
}
