Publications
1. Wang, J. H., T. L. Teng and K.-F. Ma, 1989, Temporal Variation of Coda Q During Hualien Earthquake of 1986 in Eastern Taiwan, Pure Apply Geophysics, v.130, no.4, pp.617-634.
2. Ma, K.-F. and H. Kanamori, 1991, Aftershock Sequence of the December 3, 1988 Pasadena Earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. of Am., v.81, no.6, pp.2310-2319.
3. Ma, K.-F., K. Satake and H. Kanamori, 1991, The Origin of the Tsunami Excited by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. of Am., v.81, no.4, pp.1396-1397.
4. Ma, K.-F., K. Satake and H. Kanamori, 1991, The Origin of the Tsunami Excited by the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, -Faulting or Slumping, Geophy. Res. Lett., v.180, no.4, pp.637-640.
5. Ma, K.-F., M. Kikuchi, 1994, Initial Investigating of the May 24, 1994 Hualien and June 5, 1994 Nanao Earthquake, Terr. Atm. Ocean., v.5, 611-624, 1994.
6. Ma, K.-F. and H. Kanamori, 1994, Broadband Waveform Obervation of the June 28, 1991, Sierra Madre Earthquake Sequence, Bull. Seism. Soc. of Am., v.84, 1994.
7. Ma, K.-F., K. Satake and H. Kanamori, 1994, Tsunami Excited by the Earthquake, Hydrologic Disturbances, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of Oct. 17, 1989, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Parper, E3-E8.
8. Ma, K.-F., J-H Wang and D. Zhao, 1996, 3-D Seismic Velocity Structure of the Crust and Uppermost Mantle beneath Taiwan, Jour. of Phy. Earth, 44, 85-105.
9. Ma, K. -F. and M.-F. Lee, 1997. Simulation of Historical Tsunamis in Taiwan Region, TAO. 8, 13-30.
10. Ma, K.-F. and D.-R. Song, 1997. Pn analysis and Moho Structure Investigation in Taiwan Region, Jour. Geol. China. 40, 167-184.
11. Ma, K.-F. and N.-J. Liu, 1997, Subduction Slabs in Taiwan Region, Jour. Geol. China, 40, 653-670.
12. Honn Kao, S.-S. Jack Shen and K.-F. Ma, 1998, Transition from Oblique Subduction to Collision: Earthquakes in the Southern Most Ryukyu Arc-Taiwan Region, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 7211-7229.
13. Honn Kao, P.-R. Jian, K.-F. Ma, B.-S. Huang and C.-C. Liu, 1998, Moment-tensor Inversion for offshore earthquakes east of Taiwan and their implications to regionnal collision, Geoph. Res. Lett., 3619-3622.
14. Ma, K.-F. and H. Kanamori and K. Satake, 1999. Mechanism of the 1975 Kalapana, Hawaii, Earthquake, Inferred from Tsunami Data , J. Geoph. Res., 104,13153-13167.
15. Ma, K.-F. and R.-Y. Chen, 1999. Focal Mechanism Determination of the 1991 Chaili Earthquake (ML=5.7) sequence, TAO, 10,447-470.
16. Ma, K.-F. C.T. Lee, Y.B. Tsai, T.C. Shin and J. Mori, 1999. The 1999 ChiChi, Taiwan (ML=7.3, Mw=7.7) Earthquake – Large Surface Displacement on an Inland Thrust-fault, EOS, Transactions, 80, 605-611.
17. Ma, K.-F. C.T. Lee, Y.B. Tsai, T.C. Shin and J. Mori, 1999. Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake Reveals Complex Faulting, Earth in Space, 12, 9-12.
18. Ma, K.-F., T.-R. Song, S.J. Lee and S.I. Wu, 2000. Spatial Slip Distribution of the September 20, 1999, Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake --Inverted from Teleseismic Data, Geoph. Res. Let. , 27, 3417-3420.
19. Lee, S.-J. and K.-F. Ma, 2000. Rupture Process of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake from the Inversion of Teleseismic Data, TAO, 11, 591-608.
20. Ma, K.-F., J. Mori, S.-J. Lee and S. B. Yu, 2001. Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Slip for the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake, Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., 91, 1069-1087.
21. Ma, K.-F., Mori, J., S.-J. Lee and S.-B. Yu , 2001.Data file from “Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Slip for the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake” , Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 91, 1381-1382.
22. Ma, K.-F. and S.-I. Wu, 2001. Quick slip distribution determination of moderate to large inland earthquakes using near-source strong motion waveforms, Earthquake Engineering and Earthquake Seismology, 3, 1-10.
23. Ji, C., D. V. Helmberger, T.-R. A. Song, K.-F. Ma and D. J. Wald, 2001. The 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake: a massive wedge-shaped heave, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4379-4382.
24. Hsu, Y. J., N. Bechor, P. Segall, S. B. Yu, and K. F. Ma, 2002. Rapid afterslip following the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4379-4382.
25. Lee, M., T.-K. Liu, K.-F. Ma, and Y.-M. Chang, 2002. Coseismic hydrological change associated with disloation of the September 21, 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake, Taiwan. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29,1824,doi: 10.1029/2002 GL 015116.
26. Song, T.-R. and K.-F. Ma, 2002. Estimation of Thermal Structure for Young-Orogenic Belt.-Central Range of Taiwan. Geological Society of Am., 358,121-136
27. Ma, K.-F., E. E. Brodsky, J. Mori, C. Ji, T.-R. A. Song and H. Kanamori, 2003. Evidence for Fault Lubrication during the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake (Mw7.6). Geophys. Res. Lett., 30,1244,doi: 10.1029/2002 GL 015380
28. Ma, K.-F. and L.-Y. Chiao, 2003. Rupture Behavior of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake associated with background seismicity and tectonics, Engineering Geology, 71, 1-11.
29. Ji, C., D. V. Helmerger, D. J. Wald, K.-F. Ma, 2003. Slip history and dynamic implications of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake. J. Geophys. Res.,108, 2412.
30. Ma, K.-F., 2003. Taiwan Chelungpu-fault Drilling Project (TCDP): Investigating Physics of Faulting for a Recent Large Earthquake, Newsletter, International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, 5, 4-10.
31. Ma, K.-F. and T.-R. A. Song, 2004. Thermomechanical struture beneath young orogenic belt of Taiwan, Tectonophysics, 388, 21-31.
32. Chang, C.-H. and K.-F. Ma, 2004. Association of five moderate to large earthquake in Taiwan to the faults, TAO, 15, 97-110.
33. Ma, K.-F., 2004. Taiwan Chelungpu-fault Drilling Project (TCDP): Investigating Physics of Faulting for a Recent Large Earthquake, Newsletter, International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, 6, 5-6.
35. Chang, C.-H. and K.-F. Ma, 2005. Possibility on forecasting aftershock distribution from the stress changes: case study of inland Taiwan earthquakes, TAO, 16.
36. Ma, K.-F., C.-H. Chang, and R. Stein, 2005. Response of seismicity to Coulomb stress triggers and shadows of the 1999 Mw7.6 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. 110, B05S19, doi:10.1029/2004, JB003389.
37. Huang, M.-W., J.-H. Wang, H.-H. Hsieh, K.-L. Wen, and K.-F. Ma, 2005. Frequency-dependent sites amplifications evaluated from well-logging data in central Taiwan, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, I.21302, doi:10.1029/2005GL023527.
38. Lee, S.-J., K.-F. Ma, and H.-W. Chen, 2006. Effects of fault geometry and slip style on near-fault static displacements caused by the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Let. , 241, 336-350.
39. Liu, J.Y., Y.-B. Tsai, K.-F. Ma, Y.-I. Chen, H.F. Tsai, C.-H. Lin, M. Kamogawa, C.-P. Lee, 2006. Inospheric GPS total electron content (TEC) disturbances triggered by the 26 December 2004 India Ocean tsunami, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A05303, doi: 10.1029/2005JA011200.
40. Tsai, Y.B., J.-Y. Liu, K.-F. Ma, H.-Y. Yen, K.-S. Chen, Y.-I. Chen, and C.-P. Lee, 2006. Precursory phenomena associated with the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan as identified under the iSTEP program, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 31, 365-377.
41. Ma, K.-F., H. Tanaka, S.-R. Song, C.-Y. Wang, J.-H. Hung, Y.-B. Tsai, J. Mori, Y.-F. Song, E.-C. Yeh, H. Sone, L.-W. Kuo, and H.-Y. Wu, (2006). Slip Zone and Energetics of a Large Earthquake from the Taiwan Chelungpu-fault Drilling Project, Nature, 444, doi:10.1038/nature05253.
42. Kano, Y., J. Mori, R. Fujio, H. Ito, T. Yanagidani, S. Nakao, and K.-F. Ma, 2006. Heat Signature on the Chelunpu fault associated with the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L14306, doi:10.1029/2006GL026733.
43. Tanaka, H., W.-M. Chen, C.-Y. Wang, K.-F. Ma, N. Urata, J. Mori, and M. Ando, 2006. Frictional heat from faulting of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L16316, 10.1029/2006GL026673.
44. Doan, M.L., E.E. Brodsky, Y. Kano, and K.-F. Ma, 2006. In situ meaqsurement of the hydraulic diffusivity of the active Chelungpu Fault, Taiwan, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L16317, 10.1029/2006GL026889.
45. Hirono, T., W. Lin, E.-C. Yeh, W. Soh, Y. Hashimoto, H. Sone, O. Matsubayashi, K. Aoike, H. Ito, M. Kinoshita, M. Murayama, S.-R. Song, K.-F. Ma, J.-H. Hung, C.-Y. Wang and Y.-B. Tsai, 2006. High magnetic susceptibility of fault gouge within Taiwan Chelungpu fault: Nondestructive continuous measurements of physical and chemical properties in fault rocks recovered from Hole B, TCDP, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L15303, 10.1029/2006GL026133.
46. *Lee, S.-J., K.-F. Ma, and H.-W. Chen, 2006. Three Dimensional Dense Strong Motion Waveform Inversion for the Rupture Process of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. 111, B11308, doi:10.1029/2005, JB004097. (*advised student paper)
47. *Lin, T.-W., R.-D. Hwang, K.-F. Ma, and Y.-B. Tsai, 2006. Simultaneous Determination of Earthquake Source Parameters Using Far-Field P Waves: Focal Mechanism, Seismic Moment, Rupture Length and Rupture Velocity, TAO, 17, 463-488. (*advised student paper)
48. *Wu, H.-Y., K.-F. Ma, M. Zoback, N. Boness, H. Ito, J.-H. Hung, and S. Hickman, 2006. Stress orientations of Taiwan Chelungpu-Fault Project (TCDP) hole-A as observed from geophysical logs, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2006GL028050. (*advised student paper)