Research fields

Rupture dynamics

Education

2004-2008 University of Science and Technology of China, Geophysics, BA

2008-2014 University of Science and Technology of China, Geophysics, Ph.D.

Employment

2021-present Associate Professor

            School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China

2016-2021 Associate Researcher

          School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China

2014-2016 Postdoc Researcher working with Prof. Xiaofei Chen

          School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China

2018-2019 Visiting Researcher working with Prof. David Oglesby

          Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside

Major publications

1) Hu, F., Oglesby, D. D., & Chen, X. (2021). The Effect of Depth-Dependent Stress in Controlling Free-Surface-Induced Supershear Rupture on Strike-Slip Faults. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(5), e2020JB021459. doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021459

2）Hu, F., Oglesby, D. D., Wu, B., & Chen, X. (2021). Supershear Rupture, Daughter Cracks, and the Definition of Rupture Velocity. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(10), e2021GL092832. doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092832

3) Hu, F. Oglesby D., & Chen X. (2020) The near-fault ground motion characteristics of sustained and unsustained free-surface-induced supershear rupture on strike-slip faults, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth,125(5).

4) Hu, F., Zhang, Y., Xu X., & Chen X. (2020) Dynamic rupture simulations with heterogeneous initial stresses inversed from a given slip distribution: A case study of the 2017 Mw 6.5 Jiuzhaigou earthquake, Tectonophysics, 784, 228441.

5) Hu, F., Oglesby, D. & Chen, X. (2019). The sustainability of Free-surface-induced Supershear Rupture on Strike-slip faults., Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 9537-9543, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084318

6)  Xu, X., Zhang, Z., Hu, F. & Chen, X. (2019). Dynamic rupture simulations of the 1920 Ms 8.5 Haiyuan Earthquake in China, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2019) 109 (5): 2009-2020, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120190061

7)   Hu, F., Wen, J., & Chen, X. (2018). High Frequency near-field ground motion excited by strike-slip step overs., J. Geophys. Res., 123(3), 2303-2317, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB015027

8) Hu, F., Huang, H., & Chen, X. (2017). Effect of the time-weakening friction law during the nucleation process. Earthquake Science,30(2), 91-96, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-017-0183-6

9) Hu, F., et al. (2016). Supershear transition mechanism induced by step over geometry. J. Geophys. Res., 121(12), 8738-8749. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013333

10) Hu, F., Zhang, Z. G., & Chen, X. F. (2016). Investigation of earthquake jump distance for strike-slip step overs based on 3-D dynamic rupture simulations in an elastic half-space. J. Geophys. Res., 121(2), 994-1006. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012696

11) Hu, F., et al. (2014). Construction of equivalent single planar fault model for strike-slip stepovers. Tectonophysics, 632, 244-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2014.06.025