Corresponding Author, Advised KU Students
Jaeyeon Kim, and Seongryong Kim (2026), Upper Crustal Complexities Revealed by Ambient Noise Eikonal Tomography and Their Influences on Intraplate Seismicity in the Southern Korean Peninsula, in prep.🤞
2026
Jung-Hun Song, Seongryong Kim, Benoît Tauzin, and Junkee Rhie (2026), Continuous nonthermal slab gap formed by progressive tearing beneath Northeast Asia, Nature Communications, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-75246-8. [Open access]
So-Young Baag, Junkee Rhie, Seongryong Kim, Tae-Seob Kang, and Changsoo Cho (2026), Seismic rupture parameters based on the source directivity analysis of the broadband teleseismic P-waves for deep earthquakes in the NW Japan subduction zone, Geosciences Journal, 30, 451–469, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-026-00093-0. [Open access]
Youngjun Jeon, Seongryong Kim, Lav Joshi, and Hyeong-Soo Kim (2026), Probabilistic estimation of shear wave velocity profiles and site classes from surface wave surveys for accelerometer stations in the southern Korean Peninsula, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 24, 1853–1881, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-026-02364-5. [Open access]
2025
Jongwon Han, and Seongryong Kim (2025), The 2024 ML 4.8 Buan earthquake sequence and aligned multiple clusters in the southwestern Korean Peninsula, Geosciences Journal, 29, 727–741, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-025-00048-x. [Open access]
Yeonjoo Lim, and Seongryong Kim (2025), Crustal structures beneath Mt. Baekdu (Changbai) volcano from receiver function and surface wave dispersion data, Geosciences Journal, 29, 579–595, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-025-00046-z. [Open access]
Jongwon Han, Seongryong Kim, and Dong-Hoon Sheen (2025), RPNet: Robust P-wave first-motion polarity determination using deep learning, Seismological Research Letters, 96(4), 2405–2417, doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240384.
Hyejeong Cho, Sang-Jun Lee, Seongryong Kim, Junkee Rhie, and Tae-Seob Kang (2025), Imaging the 3D basin structure of the Santa Clara Valley by ambient noise tomography, Geosciences Journal, 29, 87–101, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-025-00005-8. [Open access]
2024
Thanh-Son Phạm, Hrvoje Tkalčić, Jinyin Hu, and Seongryong Kim (2024), Towards a new standard for seismic moment tensor inversion containing 3-D earth structure uncertainty, Geophysical Journal International, 238(3), 1840–1853, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae256.
Keunsuk Cho, Jeongun Ha, Jihun Lim, Jongwon Han, Seongryong Kim, and Donghun Lee (2024), PPSD GAN: PPSD-informed Generative Model for Ambient Seismic Noise Synthesizing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 21, 300415, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2024.3433377.
Jaeseoung Han, Jongwon Han, Dabeen Heo, Seongryong Kim, Sujin Lee, Min Hyug Koh, Jaeyeon Kim, Ki Baek Kwon, Byeong Seok Ahn, Youngjun Jeon, Kyeongjun Jo, Yeonjoo Lim, Sang-Jun Lee, Tae-Seob Kang, Junkee Rhie, and Ungsan Ahn (2024), Data and early results from temporary seismic arrays for monitoring and investigating magmatic processes beneath Mt. Halla and Ulleung Island volcanoes, South Korea, Geosciences Journal, 28, 761–780, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-024-0027-z.
Jongwon Han, Keun Joo Seo, Seongryong Kim, Dong-Hoon Sheen, Donghun Lee, and Ah-Hyun Byun (2024), Research catalog of inland seismicity in the southern Korean Peninsula from 2012 to 2021 using deep learning techniques, Seismological Research Letters, 95, 952–968, doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230246.
2023
Yoontaek Hong, Ah-Hyun Byun, Seongryong Kim, and Dong-Hoon Sheen (2023), Customization of a deep neural network using local data for seismic phase picking, Frontiers in Earth Science, 11:1306488, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1306488.
Sisay Alemayehu, Abdelkrim Aoudia, Atalay Ayele, Surya Pachhai, Hari Ram Thapa, Cynthia J. Ebinger, Radia Kherchouche, Mariangela Guidarelli, and Seongryong Kim (2023), Structure of the crust-uppermost mantle beneath the Ethiopian volcanic province using ambient seismic noise and teleseismic P wave coda autocorrelation, Tectonophysics, 869, 230092, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230092.
Nita Sebastian, Hrvoje Tkalčić, Christian Sippl, Seongryong Kim, Anya M. Reading, Youlin Chen, and Fabrice R. Fontaine (2023), The crust-mantle transition beneath Northeast China from P-wave receiver functions, Frontiers in Earth Science, 11:1144819, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1144819.
Jongwon Han, Seongryong Kim, Dong-Hoon Sheen, Donghun Lee, Sang-Jun Lee, Seung-Hoon Yoo, and Donghee Park (2023), Seismic event and phase detection using deep learning for 2016 Gyeongju earthquake sequence, Geosciences Journal, 27, 285–295, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-023-0004-y.
2022
Dahyun Kwak, Seongjin Kim, Dong-Hoon Sheen, and Seongryong Kim (2022), Seismological characteristics of the recent Suncheon microearthquake sequence, Geosciences Journal, 26(5), 609–620, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-022-0010-5.
Jung-Hun Song, Seongryong Kim, Junkee Rhie, and Donghee Park (2022), Determination of moment tensor solutions for the earthquakes in the southern Korean Peninsula using three-dimensional seismic waveform simulations, Frontiers in Earth Science, 10:945022, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.945022.
Jaeseok Lee, Jung-Hun Song, Seongryong Kim, Junkee Rhie, and Seok Goo Song (2022), Three-dimensional seismic wave propagations in the southern Korean Peninsula using pseudo-dynamic rupture models, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 112(2), 939–960, doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120210172.
Youngjun Jeon, Sang-Jun Lee, Seongryong Kim, and Seung-Sep Kim (2022), Estimation of shallow S-wave structure from Quasi Transfer Spectrum and Bayesian inversion using microarray data at a deep drilling site in Chungnam National University, Korea, Geosciences Journal, 26(3), 367–383, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-021-0034-2.
2021
Yizhuo Sun, Saswata Hier-Majumder, Benoît Tauzin, Michael Walter, Maxim D. Ballmer, Yigang Xu, and Seongryong Kim (2021), Evidence of volatile-induced melting in the Northeast Asian upper mantle, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(10), e2021JB022167, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022167.
Seongryong Kim, and Sang-Jun Lee (2021), Assessment of historical earthquake magnitudes and epicenters using ground motion simulations, Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea, 25(2), 59–69, doi: https://doi.org/10.5000/EESK.2021.25.2.059. (in Korean with English abstract)
Sang-Jun Lee, Seongryong Kim, Junkee Rhie, Tae-Seob Kang, and YoungHee Kim (2021), Upper crustal shear wave velocity and radial anisotropy beneath Jeju Island volcanoes from ambient noise tomography, Geophysical Journal International, 225(2), 1332–1348, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab026. [Open access]
2020
Minkyung Son, Changsoo Cho, Hyunkyung Lee, Minhui Han, Jin Soo Shin, K. Kim, and Seongryong Kim (2020), Partitioned fault movement and aftershock triggering: Evidence for fault interactions during the 2017 Mw 5.4 Pohang earthquake, South Korea, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(11), e2020JB020005, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020005.
Hwa Sung Cheon, Junkee Rhie, and Seongryong Kim (2020), Groundwork on Did You Feel It (DYFI) in the Korean Peninsula toward a new generation system of earthquake intensity estimations, Journal of the Geological Society of Korea, 56(4), 469–480, doi: https://doi.org/10.14770/jgsk.2020.56.4.469. (in Korean with English abstract)
Jung-Hun Song, Seongryong Kim, and Junkee Rhie (2020), Heterogeneous modification and reactivation of cratonic margin beneath the Korean Peninsula from teleseismic travel time tomography, Gondwana Research, 81, 475–489, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.11.016. [Open access]
Marija Mustać, Babak Hejrani, Hrvoje Tkalčić, Seongryong Kim, Sang-Jun Lee, and Changsoo Cho (2020), Large isotropic component in the source mechanism of the 2013 Democratic People's Republic of Korea nuclear test revealed via a hierarchical Bayesian inversion, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 110(1), 166–177, doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120190062.
Sang-Jun Lee, Junkee Rhie, Seongryong Kim, Tae-Seob Kang, and Changsoo Cho (2020), 1-D velocity model for the North Korean Peninsula from Rayleigh wave dispersion of ambient noise cross-correlations, Journal of Seismology, 24(1), 121–131, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-019-09891-6. [Open access]
2019
So-Young Baag, Junkee Rhie, Seung-Hoon Yoo, Seongryong Kim, SatByul Kim, and Tae-Seob Kang (2019), Determination of megathrust rupture processes using plate-interface-based fault models and 3D Green's functions: An application to the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 176(12), 5235–5252, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02272-7.
Seongryong Kim, and Junkee Rhie (2019), Calculation of station-representative isotropic receiver functions, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 176(6), 2367–2382, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02109-3.
Jeong-Ung Woo, Junkee Rhie, Seongryong Kim, Tae-Seob Kang, Kwang-Hee Kim, and YoungHee Kim (2019), The 2016 Gyeongju earthquake sequence revisited: Aftershock interactions within a complex fault system, Geophysical Journal International, 217(1), 58–74, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz009.
2018
Jung-Hun Song, Seongryong Kim, Junkee Rhie, Sang-Hyun Lee, Tae-Seob Kang, and YoungHee Kim (2018), Imaging of lithospheric structure beneath Jeju volcanic island by teleseismic travel time tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(8), 6784–6801, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015979. [Open access]
Benoît Tauzin, Seongryong Kim, and Juan Carlos Afonso (2018), Multiple phase changes in the mantle transition zone beneath northeast Asia: Constraints from teleseismic reflected and converted body-waves, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(8), 6636–6657, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JB015238. [Open access]
2017
Benoît Tauzin, Seongryong Kim, and Brian L. N. Kennett (2017), Pervasive seismic low-velocity zones within stagnant plates in the mantle transition zone: Thermal or compositional origin?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 477, 1–13, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.006. [Open access]
Seongryong Kim, Hrvoje Tkalčić, and Junkee Rhie (2017), Seismic constraints on magma evolution beneath Mount Baekdu (Changbai) volcano from transdimensional Bayesian inversion of ambient noise data, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(7), 5452–5473, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014105. [Open access]
2016
Seongryong Kim, Hrvoje Tkalčić, Junkee Rhie, and Youlin Chen (2016), Intraplate volcanism controlled by back-arc and continental structures in NE Asia inferred from transdimensional Bayesian ambient noise tomography, Geophysical Research Letters, 43(16), 8390–8398, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069483. [Open access]
Seongryong Kim, Jan Dettmer, Junkee Rhie, and Hrvoje Tkalčić (2016), Highly efficient Bayesian joint inversion for receiver-based data and its application to lithospheric structure beneath the southern Korean Peninsula, Geophysical Journal International, 206(1), 328–344, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw149.
Before 2015
Sang-Jun Lee, Junkee Rhie, Seongryong Kim, Tae-Seob Kang, and Gi Bom Kim (2015), Ambient seismic noise tomography of the southern East Sea (Japan Sea) and the Korea Strait, Geosciences Journal, 19(4), 709–720, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-015-0012-7.
Seongryong Kim, Andrew A. Nyblade, Junkee Rhie, Chang-Eob Baag, and Tae-Seob Kang (2012), Crustal S-wave velocity structure of the Main Ethiopian Rift from ambient noise tomography, Geophysical Journal International, 191(2), 865–878, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05664.x.
Seongryong Kim, Junkee Rhie, and Geunyoung Kim (2011), Forward waveform modelling procedure for 1-D crustal velocity structure and its application to the southern Korean Peninsula, Geophysical Journal International, 185(1), 453–468, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.04949.x.
Junkee Rhie, and Seongryong Kim (2010), Regional moment tensor determination in the southern Korean Peninsula, Geosciences Journal, 14(4), 329–333, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-010-0038-9.
Seongryong Kim, Andrew A. Nyblade, and Chang-Eob Baag (2009), Crustal velocity structure of the Rukwa Rift in the Western Branch of the East African Rift System, South African Journal of Geology, 112(3–4), 251–260, doi: https://doi.org/10.2113/gssajg.112.3-4.251.