Kerry Sieh

Professor Kerry Sieh is a seismologist and the Founding Director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore. He is openly gay and married to his same-sex partner. Gay marriage is illegal in Singapore but Sieh was headhunted by the Singapore government for his technical expertise and his husband given a special pass to live with him in the republic. 

=Research=

Sieh studies the geological record to understand the geometries of active faults, the earthquakes they generate, and the crustal deformation their movements produce. His early work studying geological layers and landforms along the San Andreas fault led to the discovery of how often and how regularly it produces large earthquakes in southern California. A few years ago, he investigated Taiwan's multitude of active faults and figured out how their earthquakes are continuously creating that mountainous island. Currently, he and his colleagues are studying the active faults Myanmar and the surrounding region.

One of Sieh’s long-standing research interests is the subduction megathrust that has been producing great earthquakes offshore Sumatra throughout the past decade. His and his students' and colleagues' paleoseismic work has led to an understanding of the repeating nature of such earthquakes. He also instigated the creation of the Sumatran GPS Array, a network of continuously recording GPS stations, to record deformations during and in between large earthquakes.

=Contact=
 * Telephone: (+65) 6513 8093
 * Email: Sieh@ntu.edu.sg
 * Office Location: N2-01a-09d



=Academic Degrees = Fault" =Professional positions =
 * Ph.D. (Geology), Stanford University, 1977: “Late Holocene Displacement History along the South-Central Reach of the San Andreas
 * A.B. with highest honors (Geology), University of California, Riverside, 1972

Nanyang Technological University

 * AXA-Nanyang Chair in Natural Hazards, 2012-present
 * Professor, Nanyang Technological University, 2008-present
 * Director, Earth Observatory of Singapore, 2008-present

California Institute of Technology
Principal Research Activities Distinctions and Awards Yule and Sieh, 2003) of America (for Sieh 1978) Curriculum Vitae – Kerry Sieh 2 | P a g e =Selected Recent Service=
 * Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology, 2003-2008
 * Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Caltech, 1977-2009
 * Earthquake geology (neotectonics and paleoseismology)
 * Tsunami geology
 * Extraterrestrial impact geology
 * Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017
 * Harry Fielding Reid Medal, 2013, Seismological Society of America (SSA)
 * Best Paper Award, 2012, Geological Society of America, Structural Geology Division (for
 * Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2001
 * Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1999
 * Fellow, Geological Society of America, 1996
 * National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research, 1982
 * E.B. Burwell, Jr., Memorial Award of the Engineering Geology Division, Geological Society

Singapore
Singapore (CCRS) (1 October 2011 - September 2015) School of the Environment (13 February 2015) 2012– May 2014)
 * Member, Scientific Advisory Board, CENSAM (February 2013 - 2017)
 * Member, Committee on Sustainable Earth, NTU (21 Dec 2009 - present)
 * Member, International Scientific Advisory Panel (ISAP), Centre for Climate Research
 * Member, School Review Committee for Promotion and Tenure (SRCPT) in the Asian
 * Member, Local Evaluation Panel (LEP) for Singapore NRF Fellowship Award (June

International

 * Member, Advisory Panel, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2000 – 2013)
 * Member, Centre for Tropical Environmental & Sustainability Science (TESS) Scientific Advisory Board (2014)

Professional Societies
=Publications=
 * American Association for the Advancement of Science
 * American Geophysical Union (Fellow)
 * Geological Society of America (Fellow)
 * Seismological Society of America
 * National Academy of Sciences

2018
Xuhua, S., S. Kerry, W. Ray, Z. Chengnan, H. Yuan, Y. Jiwu and R. S. W. (2018). "Slip Rate and Rare Large Prehistoric Earthquakes of the Red River Fault, Southwestern China." Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems: doi:10.1029/2017GC007420.

2017
Rubin, C. M., B. P. Horton, K. Sieh, J. E. Pilarczyk, P. Daly, N. Ismail and A. C. Parnell (2017). "Highly variable recurrence of tsunamis in the 7,400 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami." 8: 16019; doi: 16010.11038/ncomms16019 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms16019#supplementary-information. Shi, X., Y. Wang, J. Liu Zeng, R. Weldon, S. Wei, T. Wang and K. Sieh (2017). "How complex is the 2016 M w 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, South Island, New Zealand?" Science Bulletin 62(5): 309-311. Bradley, K. E., L. Feng, E. M. Hill, D. H. Natawidjaja and K. Sieh (2017). "Implications of the diffuse deformation of the Indian Ocean lithosphere for slip partitioning of oblique plate convergence in Sumatra." Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 122(1): 572-591. Philibosian, B., K. Sieh, J.-P. Avouac, D. H. Natawidjaja, H.-W. Chiang, C.-C. Wu, C.-C. Shen, M. R. Daryono, H. Perfettini, B. W. Suwargadi, Y. Lu and X. Wang (2017). "Earthquake supercycles on the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust in the seventeenth century and earlier." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 122(1): 642-676; doi: 610.1002/2016JB013560. Singh, S. C., N. Hananto, Y. Qin, F. Leclerc, P. Avianto, P. E. Tapponnier, H. Carton, S. Wei, A. B. Nugroho, W. A. Gemilang, K. Sieh and S. Barbot (2017). "The discovery of a conjugate system of faults in the Wharton Basin intraplate deformation zone." Science Advances 3(1).

2015
Tsang, L. L. H., Meltzner, A. J., Hill, E. M., Freymueller, J. T., and Sieh, K., (2015), A paleogeodetic record of variable interseismic rates and megathrust coupling at Simeulue Island, Sumatra: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 42, no. 24, p. 10, doi: 10.1002/2015gl066366. Gagan, M. K., Sosdian, S. M., Scott-Gagan, H., Sieh, K., Hantoro, W. S., Natawidjaja, D. H., Briggs, R. W., Suwargadi, B. W., and Rifai, H., (2015), Coral C-13/C-12 records of vertical seafloor displacement during megathrust earthquakes west of Sumatra: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 432, p. 461-471, doi: 410.1016/j.epsl.2015.1010.1002. Feng, L., Hill, E. M., Elósegui, P., Qiu, Q., Hermawan, I., Banerjee, P., & Sieh, K. 2015. Hunt for slow slip events along the Sumatran subduction zone in a decade of continuous GPS data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(12), 8623–8632. doi:10.1002/2015JB012503 Tsang, L. L. H., Meltzner, A. J., Philibosian, B., Hill, E. M., Freymueller, J. T., and Sieh, K., 2015, A 15 year slow-slip event on the Sunda megathrust offshore Sumatra: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 42, no. 16, p. 6630-6638; doi: 6610.1002/2015gl064928. Meltzner, A. J., Sieh, K., Chiang, H. W., Wu, C. C., Tsang, L. L. H., Shen, C. C., Hill, E. M., Suwargadi, B. W., Natawidjaja, D. H., Philibosian, B., and Briggs, R. W., 2015, Time-varying interseismic strain rates and similar seismic ruptures on the Nias-Simeulue patch of the Sunda megathrust: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 122, p. 258-281; doi: 210.1016/j.quascirev.2015.1006.1003. Feng, L., Hill, E. M., Banerjee, P., Hermawan, I., Tsang, L. L. H., Natawidjaja, D. H., Suwargadi, B. W., and Sieh, K., 2015, A unified GPS-based earthquake catalog for the Sumatran plate boundary between 2002 and 2013: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 120, no. 5, p. 3566-3598, doi: 3510.1002/2014JB011661. Hill, E. M., Yue, H., Barbot, S., Lay, T., Tapponnier, P., Hermawan, I., Hubbard, J., Banerjee, P., Feng, L., Natawidjaja, D., and Sieh, K., (2015), The 2012 M(w)8.6 Wharton Basin sequence: A cascade of great earthquakes generated by near-orthogonal, young, oceanic mantle faults: Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 120, no. 5, p. 3723-3747; doi: 3710.1002/2014jb011703.

Yue, H., Lay, T., Li, L. Y., Yamazaki, Y., Cheung, K. F., Rivera, L., Hill, E. M., Sieh, K., Kongko, W., and Muhari, A., (2015), Validation of linearity assumptions for using tsunami waveforms in joint inversion of kinematic rupture models: Application to the 2010 Mentawai M-w 7.8 tsunami earthquake: Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 120, no. 3, p. 1728-1747; doi: 1710.1002/2014jb011721. Sieh, K., Daly, P., McKinnon, E. E., Pilarczyk, J. E., Chiang, H.-W., Horton, B., Rubin, C. M., Shen, C.-C., Ismail, N., Vane, C. H., and Feener, R. M., (2015), Penultimate predecessors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Sumatra: Stratigraphic, archeological, and historical evidence: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, p. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014JB011538.

2014
Tun, S. T., Wang, Y., Khaing, S. N., Thant, M., Htay, N., Htwe, Y. M. M., & Sieh, K. (2014). Surface ruptures of the Mw 6.8 March 2011 Tarlay earthquake, eastern Myanmar. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 104(6), 2915-2932. Fujino, S., K. Sieh, A. J. Meltzner, E. Yulianto and H.-W. Chiang (2014). "Ambiguous correlation of precisely dated coral detritus with the tsunamis of 1861 and 1907 at Simeulue Island, Aceh Province, Indonesia." Marine Geology 357(0): 384-391, doi: http://dx.doi.org/310.1016/j.margeo.2014.1009.1047. Philibosian, B., K. Sieh, J.-P. Avouac, D. H. Natawidjaja, H.-W. Chiang, C.-C. Wu, H. Perfettini, C.-C. Shen, M. R. Daryono and B. W. Suwargadi (2014). "Rupture and variable coupling behavior of the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust during the supercycle culmination of 1797 to 1833. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 119(9): 2014JB011200, doi: 011210.011002/012014jb011200 Yue, H., Lay, T., Rivera, L., Bai, Y., Yamazaki, Y., Cheung, K. F., Hill, E. M., Sieh, K., Kongko, W., and Muhari, A. (2014). Rupture process of the 2010 Mw 7.8 Mentawai tsunami earthquake from joint  inversion  of  near-field  hr-GPS and  teleseismic  body  wave  recordings constrained  by tsunami observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 2014JB011082, doi: 10.1002/2014jb011082. Wang, Y., Sieh, K., Tun, S. T., Lai, K.-Y., and Myint, T. (2014).  Active tectonics and earthquake potential of the Myanmar region.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 119, 2013JB010762, doi: 10.1002/2013jb010762. Bursik, M., Sieh, K., and Meltzner, A. (2014). Deposits of the most recent eruption in the Southern Mono Craters, California: Description, interpretation and implications for regional marker tephras. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 275, 114-131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.02.015. Bursik, M., Sieh, K., and Meltzner, A., (2014), Deposits of the most recent eruption in the Southern Mono Craters, California: Description, interpretation and implications for regional marker tephras: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 275, p. 114-131; doi: 110.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.1002.1015.

Tun, S. T., Wang, Y., Khaing, S. N., Thant, M., Htay, N., Htwe, Y. M. M., Myint, T., and Sieh, K., (2014), Surface ruptures of the Mw 6.8 March 2011 Tarlay earthquake, eastern Myanmar: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 104, no. 6, p. 2915-2932.

2013
Wang, Y., Shyu, J. B. H., Sieh, K., Chiang, H.-W., Wang, C.-C., Aung, T., Lin, Y.-n. N., Shen, C.-C., Min, S., Than, O., Lin, K. K., and Tun, S. T. (2013). Permanent upper plate deformation in western Myanmar during the great 1762 earthquake: Implications for neotectonic behavior of the northern Sunda megathrust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 118, 1277-1303, doi: 10.1002/jgrb.50121 2012 Daryono, M. R., Natawidjaja, D. H., and Sieh, K. (2012) Twin-Surface Ruptures of the March 2007 M > 6 Earthquake Doublet on the Sumatran Fault: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 102, p. 2356-2367. Wiseman, K., Banerjee, P., Burgmann, R., Sieh, K., Dreger, D. S., and Hermawan, I. (2012) Source model of the 2009 Mw 7.6 Padang intraslab earthquake and its effect on the Sunda megathrust. Geophysical Journal International 190, 1710-1722. Chuang, R. Y., Miller, M. M., Chen, Y. G., Chen, H. Y., Shyu, J. B. H., Yu, S. B., Rubin, C. M., Sieh, K., and Chung, L. H. (2012). Interseismic Deformation and Earthquake Hazard along the Southernmost Longitudinal Valley  Fault,  Eastern Taiwan. Bulletin of  the Seismological  Society of America 102, 1569-1582. Hill, E. M., Borrero, J. C., Huang, Z., Qiu, Q., Banerjee, P., Natawidjaja, D. H., Elosegui, P., Fritz, H. M., Suwargadi, B. W., Pranantyo, I. R., Li, L., Macpherson, K. A., Skanavis, V., Synolakis, C. E., and Sieh, K. (2012) The 2010 Mw 7.8 Mentawai earthquake: Very shallow source of a rare tsunami earthquake determined from tsunami field survey and near-field GPS data. J. Geophys. Res. 117, B06402. 10.1029/2012JB009159 Philibosian, B., Sieh, K., Natawidjaja, D. H., Chiang, H.-W., Shen, C.-C., Suwargadi, B. W., Hill, E. M., and Edwards, R. L. (2012) An ancient shallow slip event on the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust, Sumatra. J. Geophys. Res. 117, B05401. Meltzner, A. J., Sieh, K., Chiang, H.-W., Shen, C.-C., Suwargadi, B. W., Natawidjaja, D. H., Philibosian, B., and Briggs, R. W. (2012). Persistent termini of 2004- and 2005-like ruptures of the Sunda megathrust. J. Geophys. Res. 117, B04405, DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008888 Li, L. L., Huang, Z. H., Qiu, Q., Natawidjaja, D. H., and Sieh, K. (2012) Tsunami-induced coastal change: scenario studies for Painan, West Sumatra, Indonesia: Earth Planets and Space, v. 64, p. 799-816.

2011
Wiseman, K., Banerjee, P., Sieh, K., Bürgmann, R., and Natawidjaja, D. H. (2011) Another potential source of destructive earthquakes and tsunami offshore of Sumatra. Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L10311 Wang, Y., Sieh, K., Aung, T., Min, S., Khaing, S. N., and Tun, S. T. (2011). Earthquakes and slip rate of the southern Sagaing fault: insights from an offset ancient fort wall, lower Burma (Myanmar). Geophysical Journal International 185, 49-64, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04918.x. 2010 Yu-nung Nina Lin,Kerry Sieh,and Joann Stock, (2010) "Submarine landslides along the Malacca Strait-Mergui Basin shelf". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.115, Issue B12102, 5, 10.1029/2009JB007050 Meltzner, A. J., K. Sieh, H.-W. Chiang, C.-C. Shen, B. W. Suwargadi, D. H. Natawidjaja, B. E. Philibosian, R. W. Briggs, and J. Galetzka,, (2010) "Coral evidence for earthquake recurrence and an A.D. 1390–1455 cluster at the south end of the 2004 Aceh–Andaman rupture". J. Geophys. Res.,Vol. 115, B10402, 10.1029/2010JB007499 2009 Mériaux, A.-S., Sieh, K., Finkel, R. C., Rubin, C. M., Taylor, M. H., Meltzner, A. J., and Ryerson, F. J., (2009) "Kinematic behavior of southern Alaska constrained by westward decreasing postglacial slip rates on the Denali Fault, Alaska". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.114, B03404. 10.1029/2007JB005053 Megawati, K., Shaw, F., Sieh, K., Huang, Z., Wu, T.-R., Lin, Y., Tan, S. K., and Pan, T.-C., (2009) "Tsunami hazard from the subduction megathrust of the South China Sea: Part I. Source characterization and the resulting tsunami". J. Asian Earth Sciences, Vol.36, p.13-20. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2008.11.012

2008
Shyu, J. B. H., Sieh, K., Chen, Y.-G., Chuang, R. Y., Wang, Y., and Chung, L.-H., (2008) "Geomorphology of the Southernmost Longitudinal Valley fault: Implications for evolution of the active suture of eastern Taiwan". Tectonics, Vol.27, p.TC1019. doi:10.1029/2006TC002060 Shen, C.-C., Li, K.-S., Sieh, K., Natawidjaja, D., Cheng, H., Wang, X., and Kilbourne, K.H., (2008) "Variation of initial 230Th/232Th and limits of high precision U-Th dating of shallow-water corals". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol.72, Issue 17, p.4201-4223. 10.1016/j.gca.2008.06.011 Briggs, R. W., Sieh, K., Amidon, W. H., Galetzka, J., Prayudi, D., Suprihanto, I., and Farr, T. G., (2008) "Persistent elastic behavior above a megathrust rupture patch: Nias island, West Sumatra". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.113, p.B12406. doi:10.1029/2008JB005684 Konca, A. O., Avouac, J.-P., Sladen, A., Meltzner, A. J., Sieh, K., Fang, P., and Helmberger, D. V., (2008) "Partial rupture of a locked patch of the Sumatra megathrust during the 2007 earthquake sequence". Nature, Vol.456, p.631-635. 10.1038/nature07572 Sieh, K., Natawidjaja, D. H., Meltzner, A. J., Shen, C.-C., Cheng, H., Li, K.-S., and Edwards, R. L., (2008) "Earthquake Supercycles Inferred from Sea-Level Changes Recorded in the Corals of West Sumatra". Science, Vol.322, p.1674-1678. 10.1126/science.1163589 Taylor, M. H., Leprince, S., Avouac, J.-P., and Sieh, K., (2008) "Detecting co-seismic displacements in glaciated regions: An example from the great November 2002 Denali earthquake using SPOT horizontal offsets". Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol.270,, p.209-220.

2008
Chlieh M., Avouac, J. -P., Sieh, K., Natawidjaja, D.H., and Galetzka, J., (2008) "Heterogeneous coupling of the Sumatran megathrust constrained by geodetic and paleogeodetic measurements". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.113, p.B05305. doi:10.1029/2007JB004981

2007
Bilek, S.L., Satake, K., and Sieh, K., (2007) "Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and the Indian Ocean Tsunami". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.97, Issue 1A, p.S1-S5. doi:10.1785/0120050633 Konca, A. O., Hjorleifsdottir, V., Song, T-R. A., J-P. Avouac, Helmberger, D. V., Chen, J., Sieh, K. Briggs, R., and Meltzner, A., (2007) "Rupture Kinematics of the 2005, Mw 8.6, Nias- Simeulue Earthquake from the Joint Inversion of Seismic and Geodetic data". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.98, Issue 1A, p.S307-S322. 10.1785/0120050632 Chlieh, M., Avouac, J-P., Hjorleifsdottir, V., Song, T-R. A., Chen, J., Sieh, K., and Galetzka, J., (2007) "Coseismic Slip and Afterslip of the Great (Mw9.15) Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 2004". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.97, Issue 1A, p.S152-S173. 10.1785/0120050631 Natawidjaja, D.H., Sieh, K., Galetzka, J., Suwargadi, B., Cheng, H., and Edwards, R.L., (2007) "Interseismic deformation above the Sunda megathrust recorded in coral microatolls of the Mentawai islands, West Sumatra". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.112, p.B02404. doi:10.1029/2006JB004450 McClosky, J., Antonioli, A., Piatanesi, A., Sieh, K., Steacy, S., Nalbant, S., Cocco, M., Giunchi, C., Huang, J.D., Dunlop, P., (2007) "Near-field propagation of tsunamis from megathrust earthquakes". Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol.34, p.I4316. doi:10.1029/2007GL030494 Shyu, J.B.H., Chung, L.-H., Chen, Y.-G., Lee, J.-C. and Sieh, K., (2007) "Re-evaluation of the surface ruptures of the November 1951 earthquake series in eastern Taiwan, and its neotectonic implications.". J. Asian Earth Sciences, Vol.31,, p.317-331. Sieh, K., (2007) "The Sunda megathrust - Past, present and future". Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, Vol.1, p.1-19.

2006
Meltzner, A.J., K. Sieh, M. Abrams, D.C. Agnew, K.W. Hudnut, J.-P. Avouac, and D.H. Natawidjaja, (2006) "Uplift and subsidence associated with the great Aceh-Andaman earthquake of 2004". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.111, p.B02407. doi:10.1029/2005JB003891 Subarya, C., Chlieh, M., Prawirodirdjo, L., Avouac, J.-P., McCaffrey, R., Bock, Y., and Sieh, K., (2006) "Plate boundary deformation associated with the great Aceh-Andaman earthquake.". Nature, Vol.440,, p.46-51. 10.1038/nature04522 Briggs, R., Sieh, K., Meltzner, A., Natawidjaja, D., Galetzka, J., Suwargadi, B., and Bock, Y., (2006) "Deformation and slip along the Sunda megathrust in the Great 2005 Nias-Simeulue Earthquake". Science, Vol.311, p.1897-1901. 10.1126/science.1122602 Natawidjaja, D., Sieh, K., Chlieh, M., Galetzka, J., Suwargadi, B., Cheng, H., and Ward, S., (2006) "Source parameters of the great Sumatran megathrust earthquakes of 1797 and 1833 inferred from coral microatolls". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.111, p.B06403. doi:10.1029/2005JB004025

2006
Sieh, K., (2006) "Sumatran Megathrust Earthquakes - From Science to Saving Lives". Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London, Vol.364, Issue 1845, p.1947 - 1963. 10.1098/rsta.2006.1807 Hsu, Y.-J., Simons, M., Avouac, J.-P., Galetzka, J., Sieh, K., Chlieh, M., Natawidjaja, D.H., Prawirodirdjo, L., Bock, L., (2006) "Frictional afterslip following the Mw 8.7, 2005 Nias-Simeulue earthquake, Sumatra". Science, Vol.312, p.1921-1926. 10.1126/science.1126960 Van der Woerd J., Klinger, Y., Sieh, K., Tapponnier, P., Ryerson, F. J., Mériaux, A.-S., (2006) "Long-term slip rate of the southern San Andreas Fault from 10 Be- 26 Al surface exposure dating of an offset alluvial fan". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.111, p.B04407. doi:10.1029/2004JB003559 Shyu, J.B.H., Sieh, K., Chen, Y.-G., and Chung, L.-H., (2006) "Geomorphic analysis of the Central Range fault, the second major active structure of the Longitudinal Valley suture, eastern Taiwan". Geol. Soc. America Bull., Vol.118, p.1447-1462. Borrero, J., Sieh, K., Chlieh, M., Synolakis, C., (2006) "Tsunami forecasts for Western Sumatra". PNAS, Vol.103, Issue 52, p.19673-19677. National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1073/pnas.0604069103

2005
Shyu, B., Sieh, K., Chen, Y.-G., and Liu, C.-S., (2005) "Neotectonic architecture of Taiwan and its implications for future large earthquakes". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.110, p.B08402. doi:10.1029/2004JB003251 Nalbant, S., Steacy, S., Sieh, K., Natawidjaja, D., and McCloskey, J., (2005) "Earthquake risk on the Sunda trench.". Nature, Vol.435,, p.756-757. 10.1038/nature435756a Shyu, B., Sieh, K., and Chen, Y.G., (2005) "Tandem suturing and disarticulation of the Taiwan orogen revealed  by  its  neotectonic  elements.". Earth and  Planetary  Science  Letters,  Vol.233,, p.167-177. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.018 Sieh, K., (2005) "Aceh-Andaman earthquake: What happened and what's next?". Nature, Vol.434, p.573-574. 10.1038/434573a Shyu, J.B.H., Sieh, K., Avouac, J.-P., Chen, W.-S., and Chen, Y.-G., (2005) "Millennial slip rate of the Longitudinal Valley fault from river terraces: Implications for convergence across the active suture of eastern Taiwan". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.111, p.B08403. doi:10.1029/2005JB003971, 2006 Sieh, K., (2005) "How Science Can Save Lives: Special Report". Time Asia Magazine.

2004
Natawidjaja, D., Sieh, K., Ward, S., Edwards, R.L., Galetzka, J., and Suwargadi, B., (2004) "Paleogeodetic records of seismic and aseismic subduction from central Sumatran microatolls". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.109, Issue B4, p.B04306. doi:10.1029/2003JB002398 Friedrich, A. M., Lee, J., Wernicke, B.P., and Sieh, K., (2004) "Geologic context of geodetic data across a Basin and Range normal fault, Crescent Valley, Nevada". Tectonics, Vol.23, p.TC2015. doi:10.1029/2003TC001528. Lee, J.C., Rubin, C., Mueller, K., Chen, Y.G., Chan, Y.C., Sieh, K., Chu, H.T., and Chen, W.S., (2004) "Quantitative analysis of movement along an earthquake thrust scarp: a case study of a vertical exposure of the 1999 surface rupture of the Chelungpu fault at Wufeng, Western Taiwan". J. Asian Earth Sciences,, Vol. 23, Issue 2,, p.263-273. Liu, J, Klinger, y., Sieh, K., Rubin, C., (2004) "Six Similar sequential ruptures of the San Andreas fault, Carrizo Plain, California". Geology, Vol.32, Issue 8, p.649-652. Liu-Zeng, J., Klinger, Y., Sieh, K., Rubin, C., and Seitz, G., (2004) "Serial ruptures of the San Andreas fault, Carrizo Plain, California, revealed by three-dimensional excavations". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.111, p.B02306. doi:10.1029/2004JB003601

2003
Liu, J., Sieh, K., and Hauksson, E., (2003) "A structural interpretation of the aftershock cloud of the 1992 Mw7.3 Landers earthquake". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.93, Issue 3 (Erratum: 93, no 4, 1873), p.1333-1344. Seismological Society of America Yule, D., and Sieh, K., (2003) "Complexities of the San Andreas fault near San Gorgonio pass: Implications for large earthquakes". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.109, Issue B11, p.2548, ETG 9. 10.1029/2001JB000451 Klinger, Y., Sieh, K., Altunel, E., Akoglu, A., Barka, A., Dawson, T., Gonzalez, T., Meltzner, A., and Rockwell, T., (2003) "Paleoseismic evidence of characteristic slip on the western segment of the North Anatolian fault, Turkey". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.93, Issue 6, p.2317–2332. Eberhardt-Phillips, D., Haeussler, P., Freymueller, J., Frankel, A., Rubin, C., Craw, P., Ratchkovski, N., Anderson, G., Carver, G., Crone, A., Dawson, T., Fletcher, H., Hansen, R., Harp, E., Harris, R., Hill, D., Hreinsdottir, S., Jibson, R., Jones,, (2003) "The 2002 Denali Fault earthquake, Alaska: A large magnitude, slip-partitioned event". Science, Vol.300, p.1113-1118.

2002
Rivera, L., Sieh, K., Helmberger, D., and Natawidjaja, D., (2002) "A comparative study of the Sumatran subduction-zone earthquakes of 1935 and 1984". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.92, Issue 5, p.1721-1736.

2001
Lee, J.-C., Chen, Y.-G., Sieh, K., Mueller, K., Chen, W.-S., Chu, H.-T., and Yeats, R., (2001) "A vertical exposure of the 1999 surface rupture of the Chelungpu fault at Wufeng, western Taiwan: Structural and paleoseismic implications for an active thrust fault". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.91, Issue 5, p.914-929. Rubin, C., Sieh, K., Chen, Y-G., Lee, J-C., Chu, H.-T., Yeats, R., and Chan, Y-C., (2001) "Surface rupture and behavior of thrust faults probed in Taiwan". Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. U., Vol.82, Issue 47, p.565-567. 2000 Oskin, M., Sieh, K., Rockwell, T., Guptill, P., Miller, G., Curtis, M., Payne, M., McArdle, S., and Elliot, P., (2000) "Active parasitic folds on the Elysian Park anticline: Implications for seismic hazard in central Los Angeles, California". Geol. Soc. America Bull., Vol.112, p.693-707.

2000
Zachariasen, J., Sieh, K., Taylor, F., and Hantoro, W., (2000) "Modern vertical deformation above the  Sumatran  subduction  zone:  Paleogeodetic  insights from coral  microatolls". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America,, Vol.90,, p.897-913. Dolan, J., Sieh, K., and Rockwell, T., (2000) "Late Quaternary activity and seismic potential of the Santa Monica fault system, Los Angeles, California". Geol. Soc. America Bull., Vol.112, p.1559-1581. Spotila, J., and Sieh, K., (2000) "Architecture of transpressional thrust faulting in the San Bernardino Mountains, southern California, from deformation of a deeply weathered surface". Tectonics, Vol.19, p.589-615. Sieh, K., and Natawidjaja, D., (2000) "Neotectonics of the Sumatran fault, Indonesia.". J. Geophys. Res.,, Vol.Vol 105, Issue Issue B12, p.28295-28326. 10.1029/2000JB900120 Sieh, K., (2000) "Acts of God, acts of man: How humans turn natural hazards into disasters". Engineering and Science, Vol.63, Issue 4, p.8-17. California Institute of Technology

1999
Zachariasen, J., Sieh, K., Taylor, F., Edwards, R., and Hantoro, W., (1999) "Submergence and uplift associated with the giant 1833 Sumatran subduction earthquake: Evidence from coral microatolls". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.104, p.895-919. Sieh, K., Ward, S., Natawidjaja, D., and Suwargadi, B., (1999) "Crustal deformation at the Sumatran subduction zone revealed by coral rings.". Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol.26,, p.pp.3141- 3144. 1998 Spotila, J., Farley, K., and Sieh, K., (1998) "Uplift and erosion of the San Bernardino Mountains associated with transpression along the San Andreas fault, California, as constrained by radiogenic helium thermochronometry". Tectonics, Vol.17, p.360-378.

1997
Dolan, J., Sieh, K., Rockwell, T., Guptill, P., and Miller, G., (1997) "Active tectonics, paleoseismology and seismic hazards of the Hollywood fault, southern California". Geol. Soc. America Bull., Vol.109, p.1595-1616. Rubin, C., and Sieh, K., (1997) "Long Dormancy, Low Slip Rate and Similar Slip-per-event for the Emerson Fault, Eastern California Shear Zone". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.102, p.15319-15335. Sieh, K., (1997) "Statement, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program". Hearing before the Subcommittee on Basic Research of the Committee on Science, U. S. House of Representatives, 105th Congress, First Session, April 24th, p.101-122. Washington, D.C. U. S. Government Printing Office

1996
Sieh, K., (1996) "The repetition of large-earthquake ruptures". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol.93, Issue 9, p.3764-3771.

1995
Dolan, J., Sieh, K., Rockwell, T., Yeats, R., Shaw, J. Suppe, J., Huftile, G., and Gath, E., (1995) "Prospects for larger and more frequent earthquakes in the Los Angeles metropolitan region." Science, Vol.267,, p.199-205. Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities, (1995) "Seismic hazards in southern California: Probable earthquakes, 1994-2024". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.85, p.379-439. Zachariasen, J., and Sieh, K., (1995) "The transfer of slip between two en echelon strike-slip faults: A case study from the 1992 Landers earthquake, southern California". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.100, p.15281-15302. Spotila, J. A., and Sieh, K., (1995) "Geologic investigations of a slip gap in the surficial ruptures of the 1992 Landers earthquake, southern California". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.100, p.543-559.

1994
Grant, L. B., and Sieh, K., (1994) "Paleoseismic Evidence of Clustered Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, CA". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.99, p.6819-6842. Hummon, C, Schneider, C., Yeats, R., Dolan, J., Sieh, K., and Huftile, G., (1994) "Wilshire fault. Earthquakes in Hollywood?". Geology, Vol.22, p.291-294. Rubin, C., and Sieh, K., (1994) "Geomorphic evidence for active faulting  along the southern margin of the central Transverse Ranges, southern California". Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, Vol.30, p.521-523.

1993
Nagy, E., and Sieh, K., (1993) "The use of paleomagnetic analysis to assess non-brittle deformation within the San Andreas Fault zone". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.98, p.17965-17979. American Geophysical Union Grant, L., and Sieh, K., (1993) "Stratigraphic evidence for 7 meters of dextral slip on the San Andreas fault during the great 1857 earthquake in the Carrizo Plain". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.83, p.619-635 Sieh, K., Jones, L., Hauksson, E., Hudnut, K., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Heaton, T., and Zachariasen, J., (1993) "Near-field investigations of the Landers Earthquake sequence, April to July, 1992". Science, Vol.260, p.171-176. McGill, S., and Sieh, K., (1993) "Holocene Slip Rate of the Central Garlock Fault in Southeastern Searles Valley, California". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.98, p.14217-14231. 1992 Salyards, S., Sieh, K., and Kirschvink, J., (1992) "Paleomagnetic measurement of nonbrittle coseismic deformation across the San Andreas Fault at Pallett Creek". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.97, Issue B9, p.12457-12470. Sieh, K., Stuiver, M., and Brillinger, D., (1992) "Implications of the precise chronology of earthquakes produced by the San Andreas Fault at Pallett Creek: in Engineering Geology Practice in Southern California". Assoc. Engineering Geologists Special Publication, Vol.4, p.195-198.

Dolan, J. F., and Sieh, K., (1992) "Engineering Geology Field Trips: Orange County, Santa Monica Mountains, and Malibu, Guidebook and Volume". Tectonic geomorphology of the northern Los Angeles basin: Seismic hazards and kinematics of young fault movement, P.L. Ehlig and E.A. Steiner (Eds.), p.B20 - B26. California Association of Engineering Geologists Agnew, D., Aki, K., Cornell, C., Davis, J., Flores, P., Heaton, T., and Sieh, K., (1992) "Future Seismic Hazards in southern California: Phase I: Implications of the 1992 Landers Earthquake Sequence, California.” California Division of Mines and Geology

1991
McGill, S. F., and Sieh, K., (1991) "Surficial offsets on the central and eastern Garlock fault associated with prehistoric earthquakes". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.96, p.21597-21621. Wesnousky, S., Prentice, C. and Sieh, K., (1991) "An offset Holocene stream channel and rate of slip along the northern reach of the San Jacinto fault zone, San Bernardino Valley, California". Geol. Soc. America Bull., Vol.103, p.700-709. Jones, L., Sieh, K., Agnew, D., Allen, C., Bilham, R., Ghilarducci, M., and Sylvester, A., (1991) "Short-term Earthquake Hazard Assessment for the Southern San Andreas Fault, Southern California". Rep.(USGS Open-file Report 91-32), Reston U.S. Geological Survey

1990
Sieh, K., and Williams, P., (1990) "Behavior of the southernmost San Andreas Fault during the past 300 years". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.95, p.6629-6645. Jones, L., Sieh, K., Hauksson, E., and Hutton, K., (1990) "The 3 December 1988 Pasadena, California earthquake: Evidence for strike-slip motion on the Raymond fault". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.80, p.474-482.

1989
Sieh, K., Stuiver, M., and Brillinger, D., (1989) "A more precise chronology of earthquakes produced by the San Andreas Fault in southern California". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.94, p.603- 623. McGill, S., Allen, C., Hudnut, K., Johnson, D., Miller, W., and Sieh, K., (1989) "Slip on the Superstition Hills fault and on nearby faults associated with the 24 November 1987 Elmore Desert Ranch and Superstition Hills earthquakes, southern California". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.79, p.362-375. Bursik, M., and Sieh, K., (1989) "Range-front faulting and volcanism in the Mono Basin, Eastern California". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.94, p.15587-15609. Hudnut, K., and Sieh, K., (1989) "Behavior of the Superstition Hills fault during the past 330 years". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.79, p.304-329.

1988
Williams, P., McGill, S., Sieh, K., Allen, C., and Louie, J., (1988) "Triggered slip along the San Andreas Fault after the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.78, p.1112-1122. Jacoby, G., Sheppard,  P., and Sieh, K., (1988)  "Irregular recurrence of  large earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault in southern California -- Evidence from trees near Wrightwood". Science, Vol.241, p.196-199. Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities., (1988) "Probabilities of large earthquakes occurring in California on the San Andreas Fault". Rep.(USGS Open-file Report 88-398), Reston U.S. Geological Survey

1986
Sieh, K., and Bursik, M., (1986) "Most recent eruption of the Mono Craters, eastern central California". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.91, p.12539 - 12571. Sieh, K., (1986) "Slip rate across the San Andreas fault and prehistoric earthquakes at Indio, California ". Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. U., Vol.67, p.1200.

1985
Weldon, R. and Sieh, K., (1985) "Holocene rate of slip and tentative recurrence interval for large earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault, Cajon Pass, southern California". Geol. Soc. America Bull., Vol.96, p.793-812. Sieh, K., (1984) "Lateral offsets and revised dates of large prehistoric earthquakes at Pallett Creek, southern California". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.89, p.7641-7670.

1984
Sieh, K., and Jahns, R.H., (1984) "Holocene activity of the San Andreas Fault at Wallace Creek, California". Geol. Soc. America Bull., Vol.95, p.883-896. Sieh, K., and Dietrich, J., (1984) "Research in progress". Engineering & Science, Vol.47, Issue 4, p.29-30. California Institute of Technology Allen, C.R., Gillespie, A.R., Yuan, H., Sieh, K., Buchun, Z., and Chengnan, Z., (1984) "Study of the Quaternary activities of the Red River fault (I) -- General survey of its contemporary activities and evidence of the active faulting: in Chinese with English abstract". Journal of Seismological Research, Vol.7, Issue 1, p.39-51. Tsinghua Tongfang Knowledge Network Technology Co., Ltd Allen, C.R., Yuan, H., Sieh, K., Buchun, Z., Gillespie, A.R. and Chengnan, Z., (1984) "Study of the Quaternary activities of the Red River fault (II) -- Its features of activity, slip rate and recurrence intervals of earthquakes: in Chinese with English abstract". Journal of Seismological Research, Vol.7, Issue 2, p.171-186. Tsinghua Tongfang Knowledge Network Technology Co., Ltd Allen, C.R., Gillespie, A.R., Yuan, H., Sieh, K., Buchun, Z., and Chengnan, Z., (1984) "Red River and associated faults, Yunnan Province, China: Quaternary Geology, Slip Rate and Seismic Hazard". Geol. Soc. America Bull., Vol.95, p.686-700. Sieh, K., (1984) "Earthquake geology in Yunnan Province". China Exchange News, Vol.12, Issue 1, p.3-6. Sieh, K., (1984) "Most recent eruptions of the Mono Craters, Eastern Central California (USGS Open-File Report 84-939)". Proceedings of Workshop XIX: Active Tectonic and magmatic processes beneath Long Valley Caldera, eastern California, D.P. Hill, R.A. Bailey, A.S. Ryall (Eds.), p.96-129. Denver U.S. Geological Survey

1982
Sharp, R.V., Lienkaemper, J.J., Bonilla, M.G., Burke, D.B., Cox, B.F., Herd, D.G., and Sieh, K., (1982) "Surface faulting in the central Imperial Valley: in The Imperial Valley, California Earthquake of October 15, 1979". U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper, Vol.1254, p.119-144. Sieh, K., (1982) "Slip along the San Andreas fault associated with the earthquake: in The Imperial Valley, California, Earthquake of October 15, 1979". U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper, Vol.1254, p.155-160. Raleigh, C.B., Sieh, K., Sykes, L.R. and Anderson, D.L., (1982) "Forecasting southern California earthquakes". Science, Vol.217, p.1097-1104.

1981
Sieh, K., (1981)  "A review of geological evidence for recurrence times of large earthquakes: in Earthquake Prediction". An International  Review, Maurice  Ewing  Series. (Reprinted in  Chinese in Collected Translations in Seismology and Geology 6, no. 6, pp. 32-38, Seismological Press, State Seismological Bureau, Beijing, 1984), Vol.4, p.181-207. Sieh, K., (1981) "Is California "Overdue" for a great earthquake?". Engineering and Science, Vol.44, Issue 4, p.4-8. California Institute of Technology Sieh, K., (1981) "Geological studies of the Holocene behavior of the San Andreas Fault, California". Proceeding of the International Research Conference on Intraplate Earthquakes, J. Petrovski (Ed.), p.209-218. Ohrid

1980
Meisling, K.E. and Sieh, K., (1980) "Disturbance of trees by the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake, California". J. Geophys. Res., Vol.85, p.3225-3238. Sieh, K., (1980) "A search for great prehistoric earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault, California". Proceedings of the Earthquake Prediction Research Symposium, p.175-185. Tokyo Seismological Society of Japan

1978
Agnew, D. and Sieh, K., (1978) "A documentary study of the felt effects of the great California earthquake of 1857". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.68, p.1717-1729. Sieh, K., (1978) "Central California foreshocks of the great 1857 earthquake". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.68, p.1731-1749. Sieh, K., (1978) "Pre-historic large earthquakes produced by slip on the San Andreas Fault at Pallett Creek, California". J. Geophys. Res. Reprinted in: A.G. Sylvester (ed.), Wrench Fault Tectonics, American Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Reprint Series No. 28, 1984 (pp. 223-275), Vol.83, p.3907-3939. Sieh, K., (1978) "Slip along the San Andreas Fault associated with the great 1857 earthquake". Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, Vol.68, p.1421-1428.

1977
Sieh, K., (1977) "Late Holocene displacement history along the south-central reach of the San Andreas Fault (Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation)". Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

1973
Sieh, K., Cheatum, C., Dingus, L., Johnson, W. and McMurty, G., (1973) "Geological Investigations of the San Jacinto Fault Zone, and Aspects of the Socio-economic Impact of Earthquakes in the Riverside-San Bernardino area, California". Geological investigations of portions of the San Jacinto fault zone, San Bernardino, California, W.A. Elders (Ed.), p.1-49. California University of California

=Book chapter=
 * Gambling with Geohazards: Extending your horizons with science, Kerry Sieh, Title: Disrupted Balance – edited by Jan Wouter Vasbinder, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, Pages 21-27, 2018

=Books=

Living on an Active Earth: Perspectives on Earthquake Science
Committee on the Science of Earthquakes, National Research Council (Jordan, T., G. Beroza, C. Cornell, C. Crouse, J. Dieterich, A. Frankel, D. Jackson, A. Johnston, H. Kanamori, J. Langer, M. McNutt, J. Rice, B. Romanowicz, K. Sieh, P. Somerville) National Academies Press, 2003, Washington, D.C., 432 pages, 2003, ISBN 0-309-06562-3 Order from: Academy Press

The Earth in Turmoil: Earthquakes and Volcanos and Their Impact on Humankind
Kerry Sieh, Simon LeVay W. H. Freeman & Sons, 1998, 324 Pages, ISBN 0-7167-3151-7 July 2006: Authors hold the copyright; electronic file will be available at a later date

The Geology of Earthquakes
Robert S. Yeats, Kerry Sieh, Clarence R. Allen Oxford University Press, 1996, 568 Pages, ISBN 0-19-507827-6 Order from: Oxford University Press, Amazon

=See also=
 * Same-sex marriage in Singapore

=References=
 * Kerry Sieh, People, Earth Observatory of Singapore.
 * YouTube videos featuring Kerry Sieh:.

=Acknowledgements=

This article was written by Roy Tan.