Wu Zhongliang

Wu Zhongliang(Z. L. Wu)

Education:

B. Sc. Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing (1985)

M. Sc. Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing (1988)

Ph. D. Geology and Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing (1991)


Employment:

Post-doc, Institute of Geophysics, State Seismological Bureau, Beijing (1991~1993)

Associate Research Scientist, Institute of Geophysics, State Seismological Bureau, Beijing (1993~1995)

Research Scientist, Institute of Geophysics, China Seismological Bureau, Beijing (1996~2002; 2008~2017)

Professor, College of Earth Science, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (2002~2007)

Research Scientist, Institute of Earthquake Forecasting, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing (2017~2023)


Positions Held:

Deputy Director, Institute of Geophysics, China Seismological Bureau, Beijing (1996~2002)

Adjunct Deputy Director, Center for Analysis and Prediction, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing (2002~2004)

Vice Dean, College of Earth Science, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (2003~2007)

Director, Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing (2004~2017)

Director, Institute of Earthquake Forecasting, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing (2017~2021)


Professional Memberships and Honors:

Member of Board of Directors, The Seismological Society of China (1994~2002; 2010~2015)

Member of Executive Committee, International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI, 1999~2003; 2011~2015)

Chairman, IASPEI Commission on Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Strong Ground Motion (SHR, 2001~2007)

Vice President, The Seismological Society of China (2002~2010, 2015~2025)

Member of and IASPEI Representative to the Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability (GRC, 2003~2007; 2015~2019) of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)

First Vice-President, IASPEI (2003~2007)

President of IASPEI and member of Executive Committee, IUGG (2007~2011)

Member of Board of Directors, Chinese Geophysical Society (2008~2017)

IUGG Fellow/Honorary Member (2015) ‘for exceptional research contributions and international cooperation’

Honorary Member of Board of Directors, Chinese Geophysical Society (2017)

Visiting Professor, Hanyang University, Ahnsan, Korea (1995~1996)

Adjunct Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia University, New York, USA (1999~2005)

Associate, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy (2003~2008)

International Advisor, Kyoto University Educational Initiative Inter-Graduate School Program for Sustainable Development and Survivable Societies Global Survivability Studies Program (GSS, 2012~2016)


Professional Service:

Vice Chief, Sino-US Cooperative China Digital Seismograph Network (CDSN, 1993~1995)

Associate Editor-in-Chief, Acta Seismologica Sinica, Chinese and English Edition, Beijing (1998~2008)

Group Leader, National Coordination Group for Seismological Observation and Interpretation, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing (1998~2018)

Director, Beijing National Earth Observatory (NEOBJI, 2000~2010)

Editor (2002~2016) and Member of Advisory Board (2016~2019), Earth, Planets and Space

Topic Coordinator for Seismological Monitoring, CTBTO_PrepComm/PTS International Scientific Assessment of the Implementation of the CTBT Verification System (ISS, 2008~2009)

Co-chairman of Aftershock Working Group, National Expert Committee for the Wenchuan Earthquake (2008)

Co-PI, The Wenchuan earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling (WFSD) Project (2008~2016)

Coordinator, The ChinArray Project (Phase I and Phase II, 2010~2016)

Vice Chairman, Committee for Science and Technology of the China Earthquake Administration (2010~2022)

Team Leader and PI, Scientific Field Investigation of the April 20, 2013, Lushan, Sichuan, MS7.0 Earthquake (2013~2014)

Team Leader and PI, Scientific Field Investigation of the August 3, 2014, Ludian, Yunnan, MS6.5 Earthquake (2014~2015)

Coordinator, China Seismic Experimental Site (CSES) -Phase I (2018~2020)

Chief Scientist, China Seismic Experimental Site (CSES) -Phase II (2020~2022)

Associate Editor, Natural Hazards (2021~2023)


Selected Publications:

Wu, Z. L. and Y. Gao, 1994. Scaling law of earthquake energy: a modification in the view of broad frequency band. Fractals, 2(4): 583~588.

Wu, Z. L., 1995. Geometry of seismic moment tensor representations for underground nuclear explosions. In: Console, R. and A. Nikolaev (eds.), Earthquakes Induced by Underground Nuclear Explosions: Environmental and Ecological Problems, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 333~344.

Wu, Z. L., Y. T. Chen and S. G. Kim, 1996. Physical significance of earthquake quanta. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 86(5): 1623~1626.

Kim, S. G. and Z. L. Wu, 1996. Empirical analysis of digital seismograms from a cluster of explosions at regional distances for characterizing multiple explosions. Geophys. J. Int., 125(2): 491~503.

Wu, Z. L. and Y. T. Chen, 1996. Decomposition of seismic moment tensors for underground nuclear explosions. PAGEOPH, 147(2): 357~366.

Wu, Z. L., 1998. Implications of a percolation model for earthquake ‘nucleation’. Geophys. J. Int., 133(1): 104~110.

Wu, Z. L. and Y. T. Chen, 1998. Solitary wave in a Burridge-Knopoff model with slip-dependent friction as a clue to understanding the mechanism of the self-healing slip pulse in an earthquake rupture process. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 5(2): 121~125.

Wu, Z. L., 2000. Frequency-size distribution of global seismicity seen from broadband radiated energy. Geophys. J. Int., 142(1): 59~66.

Gao, Y., Z. L. Wu, Z. Liu and H. L. Zhou, 2000. Seismic source characteristics of nine strong earthquakes from 1988 to 1990 and earthquake activity since 1970 in the Sichuan-Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) zone of China. PAGEOPH, 157(9): 1423~1443.

Wu, Z. L. and Y. T. Chen, 2000. Potential impact of ‘Digital Earth’ on seismological monitoring. Seism. Res. Lett., 71(5): 548~552.

Wu, Z. L., 2001. Scaling of apparent stress from broadband radiated energy catalogue and seismic moment catalogue and its focal mechanism dependence. Earth, Planets and Space, 53(10): 943~948.

Chen, Y. T., Z. L. Wu and L. L. Xie, 2003. Centennial national and institutional reports: seismology and physics of the Earth’s interior – China (Beijing). In: Lee, W. H. K., H. Kanamori, P. C. Jennings and C. Kisslinger (eds.), International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, Part B, Amsterdam: Academic Press, 1317~1321.

Wu, Z. L. and Y. T. Chen, 2003. Definition of seismic moment at a discontinuity interface. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 93(4): 1832~1834.

Wu, Z. L., 2004. Scaling law of SARS onset. International Journal of Modern Physics B, 18(17~19): 2559~2563.

Wu, Z. L., Y. G. Wan and G. W. Zhou, 2004. Focal mechanism dependence of a few seismic phenomena and its implications for the physics of earthquakes. PAGEOPH, 161(9/10): 1969~1978.

Wan, Y. G., Z. L. Wu* and G. W. Zhou, 2004. Focal mechanism dependence of static stress triggering of earthquakes. Tectonophysics, 390(1~4): 235~243.

Jiang, C. S. and Z. L. Wu†, 2005. Test of the preshock accelerating moment release (AMR) in the case of the 26 December 2004 MW9.0 Indonesia earthquake. Bull. Seism. Soc. Amer., 95(5): 2016~2025.

Bai, L., Z. L. Wu, T. Z. Zhang and I. Kawasaki, 2006. The effect of distribution of stations upon location error: statistical tests based on the double-difference earthquake location algorithm and the bootstrap method. Earth, Planets and Space, 58(2): e9~e12.

Xie, J.†, Z. Wu†, R. Liu, D. Schaff, Y. Liu† and J. Liang, 2006. Tomographic regionalization of crustal Lg Q in eastern Eurasia. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(3), L03315, doi:10.1029/2005GL024410.

Jiang, C. S. and Z. L. Wu†, 2006. Benioff strain release before earthquakes in China: Accelerating or not? PAGEOPH, 163(9): 1965~1976, doi:10.1007/s00024-006-0107-1.

Jiang, C. S. and Z. L. Wu*, 2006. Pre-shock seismic moment release in different segments of an earthquake fault: the case of the December 26, 2004 Indonesia MW9.0 earthquake. Advances in Geosciences, Vol.1 (Solid Earth): 17~25.

Zhao, Y. Z. and Z. L. Wu*, 2008. Mapping the b-values along the Longmenshan fault zone before and after the 12 May 2008, Wenchuan, China, MS8.0 earthquake. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 8(suppl.): 1375~1385.

Peng, H. S., Z. L. Wu* and C. S. Jiang, 2010. Pre-seismic changes of noise correlation function (NCF) before the Wenchuan earthquake? Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper., 22(12): 1774~1783.

Jiang, C. S. and Z. L. Wu*, 2010. Seismic moment release before the May 12, 2008, Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan of southwest China. Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper., 22(12): 1784~1795.

Zhao, Y. Z., Z. L. Wu†, C. S. Jiang and C. Z. Zhu, 2010. Is the deformation rate of the Longmenshan fault zone really small? Insight from seismic data at the two-decade time scale. Earth, Planets and Space, 62(11): 887-891.

Jiang, C. S. and Z. L. Wu†, 2010. PI Forecast for the Sichuan-Yunnan region: Retrospective test after the May 12, 2008, Wenchuan earthquake. PAGEOPH, 167(6/7): 751~761, doi: 10.1007/s00024-010-0070-8.

Zhao, Y. Z., Z. L. Wu†, C. S. Jiang and C. Z. Zhu, 2010. Reverse tracing of precursors applied to the annual earthquake forecast: Retrospective test of the Annual Consultation in the Sichuan-Yunnan Region of southwest China. PAGEOPH, 167(6/7): 783~800, doi: 10.1007/s00024-010-0077-1.

Yang, X. L., Z. L. Wu* and Y. C. Li, 2011. Using Internet reports for early estimates of the final death toll of earthquake-generated tsunami: the March 11, 2011, Tohoku, Japan, earthquake. Annals of Geophysics, 54(6): 674~679, doi: 10.4401/ag-5169.

Richards, P. G. and Z. L. Wu, 2011. Seismic monitoring of nuclear explosions. In: Gupta, H. K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics, 2nd Edition, Amsterdam: Springer, 1144~1156. Updated: Richards, P. G., Z. L. Wu, W.-Y. Kim and D. P. Schaff, 2020. Seismic monitoring of nuclear explosions. ibid. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_8-1.

Wu, Z. L. and P. G. Richards, 2011. Seismology, Monitoring of CTBT - Scientific and technical advances in seismology and their relevance. In: Gupta, H. K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics, 2nd Edition, Amsterdam: Springer, 1340~1344. Updated: Wu, Z. L. and P. G. Richards, 2020. Seismology, Monitoring of CTBT - Scientific and technical advances in seismology and their relevance to CTBT. ibid. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_163-1.

Li, Y. C., Z. L. Wu* and Y. Z. Zhao, 2011. Estimating the number of casualties in earthquakes from early field reports and improving the estimate with time. Nat. Hazards, 56(3): 699~708, doi: 10.1007/s11069-010-9583-9.

Jiang, C. S. and Z. L. Wu*, 2011. PI forecast with or without de-clustering: an experiment for the Sichuan-Yunnan region. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 11(3): 697~706, doi: 10.5194/nhess-11-697-2011.

Li, Y. T., Z. L. Wu*, H. S. Peng, C. S. Jiang and G. P. Li, 2011. Time-lapse slip variation associated with a medium-size earthquake revealed by “repeating” micro-earthquakes: the 1999 Xiuyan, Liaoning, MS=5.4 earthquake. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 11(7): 1969~1981, doi: 10.5194/nhess-11-1969-2011.

Yang, X. L., Z. L. Wu†, C. S. Jiang and M. Xia, 2011. Estimating intensities and/or strong motion parameters using civilian monitoring videos: The May 12, 2008, Wenchuan earthquake. PAGEOPH, 168(5): 753~766, doi: 10.1007/s00024-010-0168-z.

Yang, X. L., Z. L. Wu* and Y. C. Li, 2011. Difference between real-life escape panic and mimic exercises in simulated situation with implications to the statistical physics models of emergency evacuation: The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 390(12): 2375~2380, doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.10.019.

Peng, H. S., Z. L. Wu, Y.-M. Wu, S. M. Yu, D. N. Zhang and W. H. Huang, 2011. Developing a prototype earthquake early warning system in the Beijing capital region. Seism. Res. Lett., 82(3): 394~403, doi: 10.1785/gssrl.82.3.394.

Ma, X. J., Z. L. Wu*, H. S. Peng and T. F. Ma, 2011. Challenging the limit of EEW: a scenario of EEWS application based on the lessons of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Advances in Geosciences, Vol. 31 (Solid Earth Science): 11~22.

Jiang, C. S. and Z. L. Wu†, 2012. Insights into the long-to-intermediate-term pre-shock accelerating moment release (AMR) from the March 11, 2011, off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan, M 9 earthquake. Earth, Planets and Space64(9): 765~769.

Ma, T. F. and Z. L. Wu*, 2012. Precursor-like anomalies prior to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: a critical-but-constructive review. Review Article, International Journal of Geophysics, vol. 2012, Article ID 583097, doi:10.1155/2012/583097. 

Jiang, C. S. and Z. L. Wu*, 2012. Testing the forecast of aftershocks: a simple method with an example of application. Research in Geophysics, 2012; 2(e5): 29~33, doi:10.4081/rg.2012.e5.

Yang, X. L. and Z. L. Wu*, 2013. Civilian monitoring video records for earthquake intensity: a potentially unbiased online information source of macro-seismology. Nat. Hazards, 65(3): 1765~1781, doi: 10.1007/s11069-012-0447-3.

Jiang, C. S. and Z. L. Wu†, 2013. Intermediate-term medium-range precursory accelerating seismicity prior to the 12 May 2008, Wenchuan earthquake. PAGEOPH, 170(1): 209~219, doi: 10.1007/s00024-011-0413-0.

Wu, Z. L., T. F. Ma, H. Jiang and C. S. Jiang, 2013. Multi-scale seismic hazard and risk in the China mainland with implication for the preparedness, mitigation, and management of earthquake disasters: An overview. Review Article, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 4: 21~33. Included in: Elsevier Virtual Special Issue on the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/tectonophysics/virtual-special-issues/virtual-special-issue-on-the-2008-wenchuan-earthquake/.

Ma, X. J. and Z. L. Wu, 2013. ‘Negative repeating doublets’ in an aftershock sequence. Earth, Planets and Space, 65(8): 923~927, doi:10.5047/eps.2013.01.006.

Wu, Z. L. and T. F. Ma, 2014. Chapter 23: The 2008 Wenchuan, China, earthquake. In: Ismail-Zadeh, A., J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi, A. Kijko, K. Takeuchi and I. Zaliapin (eds.) Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 301~309.

Wu, Z. L., 2014. Chapter 16: Duties of earthquake forecast: cases and lessons in China. In: Wyss, M. (eds.) Earthquake Hazard, Risk, and Disasters, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 431~448.

Wyss, M.† and Z. L. Wu†, 2014. How many lives were saved by the evacuation before the M7.3 Haicheng earthquake of 1975? Seism. Res. Lett., 85(1): 126~129.

Jiang, C. S., Z. L. Wu†, Y. T. Li and T. F. Ma, 2014. ‘Repeating events’ as estimator of location precision: the China National Seismograph Network. PAGEOPH, 171(3): 413~423, doi: 10.1007/s00024-012-0508-2.

Han, L. B., Z. L. Wu†, Y. T. Li and C. S. Jiang, 2014. Cross-correlation coefficients for the study of repeating earthquakes: an investigation of two empirical assumptions/conventions in seismological interpretation practice. PAGEOPH, 171(3): 425~437, doi: 10.1007/s00024-012-0515-3.

Ma, X. J., Z. L. Wu* and C. S. Jiang*, 2014. ‘Repeating earthquakes’ associated with the WFSD-1 drilling site. Tectonophysics, 619/620: 44~50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2013.07.017.

Wu, Z. L., C. S. Jiang, X. J. Li, G. J. Li and Z. F. Ding, 2014. Earthquake Phenomenology from the Field: The April 20, 2013, Lushan Earthquake. Singapore: Springer, doi: 10.1007/978-981-4585-15-6.

Wu, Z. L., 2015. Chapter 25: Ethical issues in the decision-making for earthquake preparedness, prediction, and early warning: A discussion in the perspective of game theory. In: Wyss, M. and S. Peppoloni (eds.) Geoethics: Ethical Challenges and Case Studies in Earth Sciences, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 313~321.

Cheng, J., Z. L. Wu, J. Liu, C. S. Jiang, X. W. Xu, L. H. Fang, X. Zhao, W. Feng, R. F. Liu, J. H. Liang and T. Q. Yang, 2015. Preliminary report on the 3 August 2014, MW6.2/MS6.5 Ludian, Yunnan-Sichuan border, southwest China, earthquake. Seism. Res. Lett., 86(3): 750~763, doi: 10.1785/0220140208.

Zhang, S. F., Z. L. Wu† and C. S. Jiang, 2016. Signature of fault healing in an aftershock sequence? The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. PAGEOPH, 173(1): 73~84, doi: 10.1007/s00024-015-1086-x.

Zhang, S. F., Z. L. Wu† and C. S. Jiang, 2016. The central China north-south seismic belt: seismicity, ergodicity, and five-year PI forecast in testing. PAGEOPH, 173(1): 245~254, doi: 10.1007/s00024-015-1123-9.

Wu, Z. L., C. S. Jiang and S. F. Zhang, 2017. Can apparent stress be used to time-dependent seismic hazard assessment or earthquake forecast? An ongoing approach in China. PAGEOPH, 174(6): 2371~2380, DOI 10.1007/s00024-016-1359-z.

Zhang, S. F., Z. L. Wu† and C. S. Jiang, 2017. Reducing false alarms of annual forecast in the central China north–south seismic belt by reverse tracing of precursors (RTP) using the pattern informatics (PI) ‘hotspots’. PAGEOPH, 174(6): 2401~2410, DOI 10.1007/s00024-016-1318-8.

Fang, L. H., Z. L. Wu† and K. Song, 2017. SeismOlympics. Seism. Res. Lett., 88(6):1429~1430.

Wu, Z. L., 2018. Chapter 17: Multi-scale seismic hazard in the context of the reduction of earthquake disaster risk: A case study on the earthquake forecast practice in China. In: Madu, C. R. and C.-H. Kuei (eds.) Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction & Management, New Jersey: World Scientific, 433~449.

Li, J. W., Z. L. Wu†, C. S. Jiang, S. Y. Zhou and Y. Zhang, 2020. Simple models of complex slip distribution? A case study of the 2011 MW7.1 Van (eastern Turkey) earthquake. PAGEOPH, 177(1): 387~395, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02167-7.

Wu, Z. L., 2020. Seismic experimental sites: challenges and opportunities. Editorial, Jour. Geol. Soc. India, 95(2), 113~116, DOI: 10.1007/s12594-020-1400-9.

Wu, Z. L., 2020. Time-dependent seismic hazard assessment. In: Gupta, H. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics, Amsterdam: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_256-1.

Wu, Z. L. and Y. X. Zhang, 2021. Community/public approach to earthquake forecast in the era of big data: an on-going endeavor in China. Surveys in Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-021-09661-5. 

Zhang, Y., Z. L. Wu, F. Romanelli, F. Vaccari, C. S. Jiang, S. H. Gao, J. W. Li, V. G. Kossobokov and G. F. Panza, 2021. Next-generation EEW empowered by NDSHA: from concept to implementation. Geosciences11, 473. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11110473.

Zhu, C. Z., Z. L. Wu and L. Li, 2021. Making of the Asian Seismological Commission (ASC): A Chinese perspective. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, 97(12): 1483~1488, DOI: 10.1007/s12594-021-1901-1.  

Wu, Z. L., C. Z. Zhu and L. Li, 2021. Modern seismology in China: Centennial retrospect. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, 97(12): 1498~1503, DOI: 10.1007/s12594-021-1904-y.

Wu, Z. L., C. Z. Hu, L. Wang, Y. X. Zhang and Z. G. Shao, 2021. Tectonic block model of continental earthquakes in China: Twenty-years retrospective. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, 97(12): 1520~1524, DOI: 10.1007/s12594-021-1908-7. 

Wu, Z. L. and L. Li, 2021. China Seismic Experimental Site (CSES): A system science perspective. Jour. Geol. Soc. India, 97(12): 1551~1555, DOI: 10.1007/s12594-021-1912-y.


Keynote/Invited/Plenary Session Presentations and Lectures:

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Inducing of Earthquakes by Underground Nuclear Explosions: Environmental and Ecological Problems, Moscow, 1994, Key Speech: Wu, Z. L., Geometry of seismic moment tensor representations for underground nuclear explosions

The 4th Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission (ASC), Kathmandu, 2002, Invited: Wu, Z. L., C. Z. Zhu, G. M. Zhang and Z. L. Chen, Earthquake catalogues in the era of digital seismology: the state-of-the-art and future prospective

The 4th Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission (ASC), Kathmandu, 2002, Invited: Zhu, C. Z. and Z. L. Wu, Introducing more degrees-of-freedom in the analysis of seismicity: review of the recent approaches to earthquake prediction in China

The 1st Assembly of the Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Singapore, 2004, Session Invited: Wu, Z. L. and G. M. Zhang, Estimating future earthquake tendency based on the present knowledge of seismology: redefining earthquake prediction for the management of seismic disasters, presented by Zhang, G. M.

The 3rd International Conference on Continental Earthquakes (ICCE), Beijing, 2004, Keynote: Zhang, G. M., J. Ma, Y. Chen, Z. L. Wu and P. Z. Zhang, Continental tectonics and continental earthquakes, presented by Wu, Z. L.

The 5th Assembly of ASC, Yerevan, 2004, Plenary Session Talk: Wu, Z. L., C. S. Jiang, Y. G. Wan and C. Z. Zhu, Seismological study on a dream in earthquake hazard assessment

The 5th Assembly of ASC, Yerevan, 2004, Session Invited: Zhang, Y. J. and Z. L. Wu, Scaling of source parameters from the digital imaging of earthquake source process: revisit based on recent results, presented by Wu, Z. L.

Conference “CTBT: Synergies with Science, 1996-2006 and Beyond”, Vienna, 2006, Plenary Session Talk: Wu, Z. L., Earthquake catalogues in the time of modern seismology

The 6th Assembly of ASC, Bangkok, 2006, Keynote: Wu, Z. L., C. Z. Zhu, G. M. Zhang and C. S. Jiang, The great Tangshan earthquake: thirty years after

The 28th Course of the International School of Geophysics and the 5th International Workshop on Statistical Seismology, Erice, 2007, Lecture: Wu, Z. L., J. Liu, C. Z. Zhu, C. S. Jiang and F. Q. Huang, Annual Consultation on the Likelihood of Earthquakes in Continental China: A possible arena for the predictive models of statistical seismology

Evison Symposium on Seismogenesis and Earthquake Forecasting, Willington, 2008, Plenary Talk: Wu, Z. L., C. Z. Zhu, C. S. Jiang and Y. Z. Zhao, Problems of statistical seismology: a preliminary discussion

The 5th Assembly of AOGS, Pushan, 2008, Solid Earth Science (SE) Section Lecture: Wu, Z. L. and B. Romanowicz, Evaluation of the CTBT International Monitoring System (IMS): Calling for international cooperation (cancelled due to the Wenchuan earthquake)

The 2008 Bilateral Workshop under the Sino-US Earthquake Studies Protocol, Boulder, 2008, Keynote: Chen, Y., S. Qiao, L. Tian, Z. L. Wu, D. N. Zhang, M. Zhao and the CEA Committee for Science and Technology, Earthquake science and technology in China tested by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, presented by Wu, Z. L.

The 7th Assembly of ASC and the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Japan Seismological Society (JSS), Tsukuba, 2008, Keynote: Wu, Z. L., G. X. Yi, C. S. Jiang, D. N. Zhang, G. M. Zhang and C. Z. Zhu, Impact of the May 12, 2008, Wenchuan MS8.0 earthquake on earthquake science: a preliminary and incomplete review, presented by Ding, Z. F.

Fall Meeting 2009 of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, 2009, Session Invited: Working Group on SEP Decade Plan (Group Leader Wu, Z. L.), Decade Plan (2010~2020) for the Study on Earthquake Predictability (SEP): challenges and opportunities in China, presented by Wu, Z. L.

Advanced Conference on Seismic Risk Mitigation and Sustainable Development, The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 2010, Lecture: Wu, Z. L., Designing the monitoring and modeling for the preparedness of seismic risk: Lessons learnt from the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

The 8th Assembly of ASC, Hanoi, 2010, Plenary Session Presentation: Jiang, C. S., Z. L. Wu, Y. Z. Zhao and C. Z. Zhu, Pattern Informatics (PI) algorithm for time-dependent seismic hazard applied to Sichuan-Yunnan region, presented by Wu, Z. L.

The 8th Assembly of ASC, Hanoi, 2010, Plenary Session Presentation: 2010, Plenary Session Presentation: Yang, X. L., Z. L. Wu, M. Xia, H. S. Peng and C. S. Jiang, Civilian monitoring video for earthquake studies: a new source of information in our digital time, presented by Wu, Z. L.

The 23rd General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Melbourne, 2011, Union Session Invited: Ismail-Zadeh, A. and Z. L. Wu, Contribution of computational geophysics to the CTBT monitoring system

The 8th Assembly of AOGS, Taipei, 2011, Session Invited: Wu, Z. L., H. S. Peng and X. J. Ma, Challenging the limit of EEW: a scenario of EEWS application based on the lessons of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

The 8th Assembly of AOGS, Taipei, 2011, Session Invited: Jiang, C. S. and Z. L. Wu, Characterizing pre-shock seismic moment release: a few comments and suggestions on the analysis methods, presented by Wu, Z. L.

Seminar on East-Asia Earthquake Studies - Earthquake, Tsunami and Volcano in Northeast Asia: International Collaboration and Regional Capacity Building for the Forecast, Preparedness and Early Warning, Beijing, 2011: Keynote: Wu, Z. L. on behalf of the China Earthquake Administration, Our preparation

The 9th Assembly of AOGS and the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (WPGM), Singapore, 2012, Session Invited: Wu, Z. L., H. S. Peng, X. L. Yang, T. F. Ma and S. M. Yu, Statistical physics models of earthquake emergency evacuation: observational constraints from mimic experiments and real-life escape panic recordings, and their differences

The 2012 International Symposium on Space Geodesy and Earth System (SGES2012), Shanghai, 2012, Session Invited: Wu, Z. L., C. S. Jiang, L. B. Han, X. J. Ma and Y. T. Li, ‘Repeating earthquakes’ as measures of deformation in deep: empirical and theoretical investigation

AGU Fall Meeting 2012, 2012, Session Invited: Wu, Z. L., C. S. Jiang and T. F. Ma, Multi-scale earthquake hazard and risk in the Chinese mainland and countermeasures for the preparedness, mitigation, and management: an overview

East-Asia Earthquake Seminar 2013, Changbaishan, 2013, Keynote: Wu, Z. L., Z. F. Ding, C. F. Hu, C. S. Jiang, G. J. Li, X. J. Li, M. Li and the Team of Scientific Investigation of the Lushan Earthquake, Monitoring the ‘seismic gaps’: Field experiment in response to the April 20, 2013, Lushan earthquake

The 8th International Workshop on Statistical Seismology (StatSei8), Beijing, 2013, Session Invited: Wu, Z. L., C. S. Jiang, Y. T. Li and X. J. Ma, Kostrov method applied to repeating multiplets

The 2015 International Workshop on Earthquake and Volcanic Hazards and Risks in Asia-Pacific Region (G-EVER), Sendai, 2015, Invited: Wu, Z. L. and the Group for the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016~2020) for Earthquake Monitoring and Forecast of the CEA, Scientific products for the multi-scale seismic hazard and risk assessment in China: present status and future prospects

International Workshop on Earthquake Early Warning, Beijing, 2015, Keynote: Wu, Z. L., Seismological monitoring in the Chinese mainland with implication for earthquake emergency response and early warning

The 11th Assembly of ASC, Melbourne, 2016, Keynote: Wu, Z. L., Z. F. Ding, D. K. Yang and the ChinArray Team, ChinArray: update, on-going progress, and implication for earthquake disaster risk reduction

International Conference for the Decade Memory of the Wenchuan Earthquake, with the 4th International Conference on Continental Earthquakes (ICCE), Chengdu, 2018, Thematic Keynote/The 12th Assembly of ASC, Chengdu, 2018, Keynote: Wu, Z. L., Coordinated Distributed Experiments (CDEs) applied to earthquake forecast test sites: new challenging opportunities

International Symposium on Deep Earth Exploration and Practices 2018 (DEEP 2018), Beijing, 2018, Session Keynote: Wu, Z. L., X. D. Zhang and K. Sun, China Seismic Experiment Site: scientific challenges

The 27th General Assembly of IUGG, Montreal, 2019, Union Session Solicited: Wu, Z. L. and Y. X. Zhang, Mitigating the risk of large earthquake and landslide disasters in China: role of operational earthquake forecast and its transition, presented by Meng, G. J.

Conference “Modern methods of seismic hazard assessment and earthquake prediction”, Moscow, 2019, Plenary Session Talk: Wu, Z. L. and the Coordination Group for Earthquake Forecast of CEA_IEF, Scientific products of earthquake forecast for seismic disaster resilience: practice in China

Conference “Modern methods of seismic hazard assessment and earthquake prediction”, Moscow, 2019, Plenary Session Talk: Wu, Z. L. and the Team of the Field Investigation of the 2013 Lushan Earthquake, Ideas and spirits of forensic seismology applied to earthquake forecasting