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詹忠翰 Chung-Han Chan

TEL+886-2-3366-4956#309

FAX+886-2-2364-4625

E-Mailcchan@ntu.edu.tw

Research Interests : Earth Sciences

Education

Ph. D, Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, 2006;

M. Sc., Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, 2002; and

B. Sc., Department of Earth Science, National Central University, 2000.

Acadeic/Teaching Experience

Assistant Research Fellow, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan   August 2013 – present

Stress state evaluation in Taiwan

Seismic hazard assessments in Taiwan

Seismic risk assessment in Taiwan

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan   July 2010 – July 2013

Participation the Taiwan Earthquake Model (TEM) and Global Earthquake Model (GEM) projects

Seismic hazard assessments in Taiwan

Seismic hazard assessment in Christchurch, New Zealand

Earthquake forecasting in Taiwan

Earthquake precursor in Taiwan

Stress state evaluation in central Taiwan, Nankai Trough, and the Japan Trench

Visitor, Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Secretariat, Pavia, Italy   December 2012

Study on OpenQuake software

Seismic hazards in Taiwan

Visiting Researcher, Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan   April 2012 – June 2012

Earthquake forecasting in Kanto, Japan

Postdoctoral Fellow, GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany   March 2007 – May 2010

Participation the NERIES project

Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment in EURO-MED

Improvement of the Coulomb stress change calculation

Earthquake forecasting in Italy

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan   August 2006 – February 2007

Fluid injection in the TCDP drill sites

Exchange Visitor, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA   March 2005 – February 2006

Stress evolution after the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake

Stress evolution in Alaska, US

Exchange Visitor, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA July – September, 2003

3-D wave propagation

Exchange Visitor, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA July – September, 2002

1-D wave propagation

Ray tracing

Teaching Assistant, Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan   September 2000 – June 2002

Assistance in courses of seismology and structural geology

Publications in the past five years

1. Chan, Chung-Han and Yih-Min Wu, 2013: Maximum magnitudes in aftershock sequences in Taiwan, J. of Asian Earth Sciences, 73, 409–418, doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.05.006.

2. Chan, Chung-Han, Yih-Min Wu, Chin-Tung Cheng, Po-Shen Lin, and Yuan-Chieh Wu, 2013: Scenario for a short-term probabilistic seismic hazards assessment (PSHA) in Chiayi, Taiwan, Terr., Atmo. and Ocea. Scie., 24(4), Part II, 671-683, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2013.01.22.01(T).

3. Wu, Hung-Yu, Chung-Han Chan*, Masataka Kinoshita, and Saneatsu Saito, 2013: Stress field observation and modeling from the NanTroSEIZE scientific drillings in the Nankai Trough system, SW Japan, Tectonophys., 600, 99–107, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.04.009.  *Corresponding author

4. Chan, Chung-Han, Yih-Min Wu, Chin-Tung Cheng, Po-Shen Lin, and Yuan-Chieh Wu, 2013: Time-dependent probabilistic seismic hazard assessment and its application to Hualien City, Taiwan, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.., 13, 1-16, doi:10.5194/nhess-13-1-2013.

5. Chen, Chi-Hsuan, Jui-Pin Wang, Yih-Min Wu, Chung-Han Chan, and Chien-Hsin Chang, 2012: A study of earthquake inter-occurrence times distribution models in Taiwan, Nat. Hazards, doi:10.1007/s11069-012-0496-7.

6. Chan, Chung-Han, Yih-Min Wu, and Jui-Pin Wang, 2012: Earthquake forecasting through a smoothing Kernel and the rate-and-state friction law: Application to the Taiwan region, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 1–13, doi:10.5194/nhess-12-1-2012.

7. *Chan, Chung-Han, and Yih-Min Wu, 2012: A seismicity burst following the 2010 M 6.4 Jiashian earthquake – implications for short-term seismic hazards in southern Taiwan, J. of Asian Earth Sciences, 51, 231-239, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.08.011. *The Best Postdoctoral Paper Award by National Science Council in 2013.

8. Chan, Chung-Han, Ya-Ju Hsu, and Yih-Min Wu, 2012: Possible stress states adjacent to the rupture zone of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake, Tectonophys., 541-543, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.031.

9. Chan, Chung-Han, Yih-Min Wu, Tai-Lin Tseng, Ting-Li Lin, and Chien-Chih Chen, 2012: Spatial and temporal evolution of b-values before large earthquakes in Taiwan, Tectonophys., 532–535, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2012.02.004.

10. Catalli, Flaminia and Chung-Han Chan, 2012: New insights into the application of the Coulomb model in real-time, Geo. J. Int.. 188(2), 583-599, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05276.x.

11. Chan, Chung-Han, Yih-Min Wu, and Ting-Li Lin, 2012: A Short Term Seismic Hazard Assessment in Christchurch, New Zealand, After the M 7.1, 4 September 2010 Darfield Earthquake: An Application of a Smoothing Kernel and Rate-and-State Friction Model, Terr., Atmo. and Ocea. Scie.. 23(2), 231-236, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2011.09.23.02(T).

12. Wang, Jui-Pin, Chung-Han Chan, and Yih-Min Wu, 2011: The Distribution of Annual Maximum Earthquake Magnitude around Taiwan and its Application in Estimation of Catastrophic Earthquake Recurrence Probability, Natural Hazards., 59(1), 553-570, DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9776-x.

13. Huang, Hsin-Hua, Yih-Min Wu, Ting-Li Lin, Wei-An Chao, J. Bruce H. Shyu, Chung-Han Chan, and Chien-Hsin Chang, 2011: The Preliminary Study of the 4 March 2010 Mw 6.3 Jiasian, Taiwan Earthquake Sequence, Terr., Atmo. and Ocea. Scie., 22(3), 283-290, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2010.12.13.01(T).

14. Chan, Chung-Han, Mathilde B. Sørensen, Dietrich Stromeyer, Gottfried Grünthal, Oliver Heidbach, Amir Hakimhashemi, and Flaminia Catalli, 2010: Forecasting Italian seismicity through a spatio-temporal physical model:  importance of considering time-dependency and reliability of the forecast, Annu of Geophy., 53(3), 129-140, doi: 10.4401/ag-4761.

15. Chan, Chung-Han and Ross S. Stein, 2009: Stress evolution following the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake: Consequences for afterslip, relaxation, aftershocks, and departures from Omori decay, Geo. J. Int., 177, 179-192, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04069.x.