Name
Lin, Cheng-Horng 
Tel
886-2-2783-9910 ext. 521
Fax
886-2-2783-9871
E-mail
lin@earth.sinica.edu.tw
Specialty
Tectonics, Seismology, Gravity

 

 
Education 
Ph.D. Dept. Earth & Environmental Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA  1993 
M.S.         Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, Taiwan, ROC 1982 
B.S. Dept. Geophysics, National Central University, Taiwan, ROC 1980 

Professional Experiences
Employer  Position  Period of Employment 
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica Research Fellow 2003/10 -- present
Research Center for Seismology and Volcanology, Nagoya University, Japan Invited Visiting Professor 2001/12 -- 2002/12
Dept. of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, ROC Adjunct Professor 2000/02 -- present
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica Associate Research Fellow 1998/05 -- 2003/9
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica  Assistant Research Fellow  1994/05 -- 1998/04
Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica  Research Assistant  1985/07 --1994/05

Professional Affiliations
American Geophysical Union
Chinese Geophysical Union


Professional Activities
Colloquium Organizer, IES, Academia Sinica 1998 -
Member of Editorial Board of "Ti-Chih" 1997 -
Academic Organizer, Geophysical Society of China 1996 -
Member of the Board of Directors of Geophysical Society of China 1996 -

 



Awards
Wang's Medal, Geological Society of China 2004
Outstanding paper,  Geophysical Society of China 1998
Research Award, National Sciences Council, ROC 1993 - 1998

 


Journal Papers:

1.   Lin, C.H., Y.H. Yeh and Y.B. Tsai (1985). Determination of regional principal stress directions in Taiwan from fault plane solutions, Bull. Inst. Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Vol. 5, 67-86.

2.   Yen, H.Y., Y.H. Yeh and C.H. Lin (1986). Repeat measurement of gravity in Taiwan: Anomalous gravity related with the May 20, 1986 Haulien earthquake, Bull. Inst. Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Vol. 6, 65-72.

3.   Lin, C.H., Y.H. Yeh and S.W. Roecker (1989). Seismic velocity structures beneath the Sanyi-Fengyuan area, Central Taiwan and their tectonic implications, Proc. Geol. Soc. China, Vol. 32, No. 1, 101-120.

4.   Chen, K.J., Y.H. Yeh, C.H. Lin and H.Y. Yen (1989). The possibility of westward extension of the Meishan fault, Proc. Geol. Soc. China, Vol. 32, No. 1, 63-78.

5.   Yeh, Y.H., C.H. Lin and S.W. Roecker (1989). A study of crustal structures beneath northeastern Taiwan: Possible evidence of the western extension of Okinawa Trough, Proc. Geol. Soc. China, Vol. 32, No. 2, 139-156.

6.  Yen, H.Y., Y.H. Yeh, C.H. Lin, G.K. Yu and Y.B. Tsai (1990). Free-air gravity map of Taiwan and its applications, Terr. Atm. Ocean., Vol. 1, No. 2, 143-155.

7.   Yeh, Y.H., E. Barrier, C.H. Lin and J. Angiler (1991). Stress tensor analysis in the Taiwan area from focal mechanism of earthquakes, Tectonophysics, 200, 267-280. (SCI)

8.   Lin, C.H. and S.W. Roecker (1993). Deep earthquakes beneath central Taiwan: Mantle shearing in an arc-continent collision, Tectonics, Vol. 12, No. 3, 745-755. (SCI)

9.   Lin, C.H. (1995). A review of receiver function techniques for estimation of one-dimensional velocity structures, Terr. Atm. Ocean., Vol. 6, No. 2, 167-181.

10   Yen, H.Y., Y.H. Yeh, C.H. Lin, K.J. Chen and Y.B. Tsai (1995). Gravity survey of Taiwan, J. of Physical Earth, Vol. 43, 683-696. (SCI)

11. Lin, C.H. (1995). Epicenter location capability of a small aperture array, Terr. Atm. Ocean., Vol. 6, No. 4, 541-552.

12. Chen, K.J, Y.H. Yeh, H.Y. Yen and C.H. Lin (1995). Seismological studies in the Chinshan fault area, J. Geol. Soc. China, Vol. 38, No. 4, 335-354.

13. Lin, C.H. (1996). Crustal structures estimated from arrival differences of the first P-waves in Taiwan, J. Geol. Soc. China, Vol. 39, No. 1, 1-12.

14. Lin, C.H. and S.W. Roecker (1996). P-wave backazimuth anomalies by a small-aperture seismic array at Pinyon Flat, Southern California: implcations for structure and source location, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., Vol. 86, No. 2, 470-476. (SCI)

15. Lin, C.H. and S.W. Roecker (1997). Three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure of the Bear Valley region of central California, Pure and Applied Geophy., Vol. 149, No. 4, 667-688. (SCI)

16. Yeh, Y.H., H.Y. Yen, K.C. Chen, J.M. Chiu, C.H. Lin, W.T. Liang, B.S. Huang, C.R. Lin, and T.Y. Hou (1997). A high-resolution seismic array experiment in the Hualien area, Taiwan, Terr. Atm. Ocean., Vol. 8, No. 3, 329-344.

17. Lin, C.H., Y.H. Yeh, H.Y. Yen, K.C. Chen, B.S. Huang, S.W. Roecker and J.M. Chiu (1998). Three-dimensional elastic wave velocity structures of the Hualien region of Taiwan: Evidence of active crustal exhumation, Tectonics, Vol. 17, 89-103. (SCI) (PDF)

18. Lin, C.H. (1998). Tectonic implications of an aseismic belt beneath the eastern Central Range of Taiwan: Crust subduction and exhumation, J. of Geol. Soc. China, Vol. 41, 441-460.

19. Yeh, Y.H., R.C. Shih, C.H Lin., C.C. Liu, H.Y. Yen, B.S. Huang, C.S. Liu and F.T. Wu (1998). Onshore/offshore wide-angle deep seismic profiling in Taiwan, Terr. Atm. Ocean., Vol. 9, No. 3, 301-316.

20. Shih, R. C., C.H. Lin, H.L. Lai,Y.H. Yeh, B.S. Huang and H.Y. Yen (1998). Preliminary crustal structures across Central Taiwan from modeling of the onshore-offshore wide-angle seismic data, Terr. Atm. Ocean., Vol. 9, No. 3, 317-328.

21. Lin, C.H., B.S. Huang and R.J. Rau (1999). Seismological evidence for a low-velocity layer within the subducted slab of southern Taiwan, Earth Planetary Science Letters, 174, 231-240. (SCI) (PDF)

22. Lin, C.H.(2000), Thermal modeling of continental subduction and exhumation constrained by heat flow and seismicity in Taiwan, Tectonophysics, Vol. 324, No. 3, 189-201 (SCI) (PDF)

23. Lin, C.H. and S.W. Roecker (2000), Effects of ray tracing on the determination of earthquake hypocenters, focal mechanisms, and P-wave velocity structures in the Morgan Hill region of Central California, Terr. Atm. Ocean., Vol. 11, No. 4, 929-941.

24. Lin, C.H. and Y.H. Yeh (2001), Three-dimensional P and S wave velocity structures of the Chingshui-Tuchang geothermal area in northeastern Taiwan, Western Pacific Earth Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 1, 73-84.

25.  Lin, C.H., (2001), T-phase excited by S-waves and oscillated within the ocean above the southeastern Taiwan forearc, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 28, No. 17, 3297-3300. (SCI) (PDF)

26.  Lin, C.H. (2001), The 1999 Taiwan earthquake: a proposed stress-focusing, heel-shaped model, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., Vol. 91, No. 5, 1053-1061. (SCI) (PDF)

27.  Lin, C.H. (2001), A major earthquake in the strong crust: the 1999 Taiwan earthquake, Western Pacific Earth Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 3, 339-350.

28.    Lin, C.H. (2002), Active continental subduction and exhumation: the Taiwan orogeny, Terra Nova. Vol. 14, No. 4, 281-287. (SCI) (PDF)

29.    Chen, K.J., C.H. Lin and C.J. Hsieh (2002), Mapping seismic attenuation structures of the volcanic area in northern Taiwan, Western Pacific Earth Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 3, 273-290.

30.  Lee, J.C., H.T. Chu, J. Angelier,  J.C. Hu, S.B. Yu, H.Y. Chen, F.S. Jeng, C. H. Lin, R.J. Rau, J.D. Chow, S.H. Chang, and G.C. Jiang (2002), Crustal deformation and Active faulting in relation with seismic hazard: Study of the active Chihshang fault in Longitudinal Valley, eastern Taiwan. Tichi, 21, 2, 31-52. (in Chinese)

31.    Lin, C.H., M. Ando, N. Fujii, K. Yamaoka, K. Tadokoro, A.S. Jin, K. Obara and M. Ishida (2003), Anomalous seismograms generated by an intermediate-depth earthquake: unusually scattering sources in the upper mantle of central Japan, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 30, No. 11, 1586-1589. (SCI) (PDF)

32.    Kostantinou, K.I., H. Kao, C.H. Lin and W.T. Liang (2003), Analysis of broadband regional waveforms of the September 29, 1996 earthquake at Bardarbunga volcano, central Iceland, International Journal of Geophysics, Vol. 154, 134-145. (SCI) (PDF)

33.    Chen, K.J., K. Chao, Y. T. Tseng, C.H. Lin and C.H. Chang (2003), Temporal Change of Qs-1 in the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake fault area, Taiwan, Terr. Atm. Ocean., Vol. 14, No. 2, 101-113. (SCI)

34.    Lin, C. H., Y.I. Chen, J.Y. Liu, K.J. Chen and Y.H. Yeh (2003), Earthquake clustering relative to lunar phases in Taiwan, Terr. Atm. Ocean., Vol. 14, No. 3., 289-298. (SCI) (PDF)

35.    Lin, C. H., 安藤雅孝, 藤井直之, 山岡耕春, 田所敬一, A.S. Jin, 小原一成, 石田瑞穗(2003), 深發地震產生月震似的紡錘狀的地震波形:中部地方下地函內存在之散亂源, 地球月刊, Vol. 25, No. 7, 508-512.

36.    Konstantinou, K.I. and C. H. Lin (2004), Nonlinear time series analysis of volcanic tremor events recorded at Sangay volcano, Ecuador, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 161, No. 1, 145-163. (SCI) (PDF)

37.    Lin, C. H. and M. Ando (2004), Seismological evidence of simultaneous mountain-building and crust-thickening from the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake (Mw=7.6), Earth, Planets and Space, Vol. 56, 163-167. (SCI) (PDF)

38. Lin, C. H. (2004), Repeated foreshock sequences in the thrust faulting environment of eastern Taiwan, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 31, No. 13, L13601. (SCI) (PDF)

39.  Lin, C.H. (2004), Investigation of potential magma chambers beneath the Tatun volcanic area: preliminary results of earthquake monitoring, Bulletin of National Parks, Vol. 14, No. 2, 103-118. (in Chinese)

40. Lin, C.H. (2005), Identification of mantle reflections from a dense linear seismic array: tectonic implications to the Taiwan orogeny, Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 32, No. 6, L06315. (SCI) (PDF)

41.  Lin, C.H. K. I. Konstantinou, W.T. Liang, H.C. Pu, Y.M. Lin, S.H. You and Y.P. Huang (2005), Preliminary analysis of tectonic earthquakes and volcanoseismic signals recorded at the Tatun volcanic group, northern Taiwan, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 32, No.10, L10313. (SCI) (PDF)

42. Lin, C.H. K. I. Konstantinou, H.C. Pu, C.C. Hsu, Y.M. Lin, S.H. You and Y.P. Huang (2005), Preliminary results of seismic monitoring at Tatun volcanic area of northern Taiwan, Terr. Atm. Ocean., Vol. 16, No. 3, 563-577. (SCI) (PDF)

43. Lin, C.H. (2005), Seismicity increase after the construction of the world's tallest building: An active blind fault beneath the Taipei 101, Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 32, No. 22, L22313. (SCI) (PDF)

 

 

 

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