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Yajing Liu

Associate Editor of JGR: Solid Earth
Orcid ID: 0000-0002-5323-8077

Photos of a rock outcrop and maps of the fault surface.
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Multi-Scale Fault Roughness Encapsulated in a Friction Law

by Yajing Liu 11 June 202611 June 2026

A new rate- and roughness-dependent friction law incorporates multi-scale fault processes to reproduce earthquake fracture energy scaling.

Two diagrams from the paper.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Rewinding the Fault: Stress Perturbations Promote Back-Propagating Ruptures

by Yajing Liu 20 December 202419 December 2024

Free surface reflection and fault geometric asperities can excite backward propagation in the form of an interface wave or high-order re-rupture.

Sketch showing induced seismicity on critically stressed faults as a consequence of changes in pore pressure and related changes in stress due to anthropogenic activities
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Understanding and Anticipating Induced Seismicity

by B. Müller, M.-L. Doan, T. H. Goebel, Yajing Liu, Patricia Martínez-Garzón, T. Mitchell and I. Zaliapin 30 July 20218 February 2023

A new special collection in JGR: Solid Earth and Earth and Space Science seeks papers from across disciplines that provide insights into induced seismicity at different spatial and temporal scales.

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