Jeong-Ung Woo

Observational Seismologist • Induced & Intraplate Seismicity

Publications

  1. Jeong-Ung Woo, and Ting Chen (2025). Mantle Earthquakes: Deep Quakes Beneath the Moho in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming. The Seismic Record (in review).
  2. Jeong-Ung Woo, and Ting Chen (2025). Crustal Seismicity Across the Wyoming Craton: Earthquakes Extending to the Moho Along Laramide Structures. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth (in reivew).
  3. Jeong-Ung Woo, and William L. Ellsworth (2023). Reactivation of Precambrian Faults by Deep Wastewater Injection in Midland Basin, Texas, and Performance Evaluation of Seismic Response Areas. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 113(6), 2543–2566.
  4. Ryan Schultz, Jeong-Ung Woo, Karissa Pepin, William L. Ellsworth, Howard Zebkar, Paul Segall, Yu Jeffrey Gu, and Sergey Samsonov (2023). Disposal from in situ bitumen recovery induced the ML 5.6 Peace River earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(6), e2023GL102940.
  5. Sungho Lee, Jeong-Ung Woo, and Junkee Rhie (2023). Classification of transient triggering mechanisms of aftershocks in the postseismic phase of the 2017 Pohang earthquake, South Korea. Geophysical Journal International, 233(3), 2215–2232.
  6. Eunbyeol Cho, Jeong-Ung Woo, and Junkee Rhie, Tae-Seob Kang, and So-Young Baag (2022). Rupture process of the 2017 Mw 5.5 Pohang, South Korea earthquake via an empirical Green’s function method. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 113(2), 592–603.
  7. Yunsun Jung, Jeong-Ung Woo, and Junkee Rhie (2022). Enhanced hypocenter determination of the 2017 Pohang earthquake sequence, South Korea, using a 3-D velocity model. Geosciences Journal, 1–13.
  8. Dugin Kaown, Kang-Kun Lee, Jaeyeon Kim, Jeong-Ung Woo, Sanghoon Lee, In-Woo Park, Daeha Lee, Jin-Yong Lee, Heejung Kim, Shemin Ge and In-Wook Yeo (2021). Earthquakes and very deep groundwater perturbation mutually induced, Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1–13.
  9. Jeong-Ung Woo, Minook Kim, Junkee Rhie, and Tae-Seob Kang (2020). Aftershock sequence and statistics of Mw 5.5 Pohang earthquake, South Korea: Implication of fault heterogeneity and post-seismic relaxation, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 110(5), 2031–2046.
  10. Cornelius Langenbruch, William L. Ellsworth, Jeong-Ung Woo, and David J. Wald (2020). Value at induced risk: Injection‐induced seismic risk from low‐probability, high‐impact events. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(2), e2019GL085878.
  11. Jeong-Ung Woo, Minook Kim, Dong-Hoon Sheen, Tae-Seob Kang, Junkee Rhie, Francesco Grigoli, William L. Ellsworth, and Domenico Giardini (2019). An in-depth seismological analysis revealing a causal link between the 2017 Mw 5.5 Pohang earthquake and EGS project, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 124(12), 13060–13078.
  12. Kang-Kun Lee, William L. Ellsworth, Domenico Giardini, John Townend, Shemin Ge, Toshihoko Shimamoto, In-Wook Yeo, Tae-Seob Kang, Junkee Rhie, Dong-Hoon Sheen, Chandong Chang, Jeong-Ung Woo, and Cornelius Langenbruch, Managing injection-induced seismic risks, Science, 364(6442), 730–732.
  13. Jeong-Ung Woo, Junkee Rhie, Seongryong Kim, Tae-Seob Kang, Kwang-Hee Kim, and YoungHee Kim, The 2016 Gyeongju earthquake sequence revisited: Aftershock interactions within a complex fault system, Geophysical Journal International, 217(1), 58–74.
  14. Juhwan Kim, Jeong-Ung Woo, Junkee Rhie, and Tae-Seob Kang (2017). Automatic determination of first-motion polarity and its application to focal mechanism analysis of microseismic events. Geosciences Journal, 21(5), 695–702.
  15. Jeong-Ung Woo, Juhwan Kim, Junkee Rhie, and Tae-Seob Kang (2017), Characteristics in hypocenters of microseismic events due to hydraulic fracturing and natural faults: A case study in the Horn River Basin, Canada. Geosciences Journal, 21(5), 683–694.
  16. Kwang-Hee Kim, Tae-Seob Kang, Junkee Rhie, YoungHee Kim, Yongcheol Park, Su Young Kang, Minhui Han, Jeongmu Kim, Jechan Park, Minook Kim, ChangHwan Kong, Dabeen Heo, Heekyoung Lee, Euna Park, Hyejin Park, Sang-Jun Lee, Sungwon Cho, Jeong-Ung Woo, Sang-Hyun Lee, and Juhwan Kim (2016). The 12 September 2016 Gyeongju earthquakes: 2. Temporary seismic network for monitoring aftershocks. Geosciences Journal, 20(6), 753–757.
  17. Jeong-Ung Woo, Junkee Rhie, and Tae-Seob Kang (2016). Performance Test of Hypocenter Determination Methods under the Assumption of Inaccurate Velocity Models: A case of surface microseismic monitoring (in Korean). Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration, 19(1), 1–10.