Talent details

Name:Ling Bai
Title & Affiliation:Ph.D, Professor
Tel:010-84097035
Email:bailing@itpcas.ac.cn
Homepage in Chinese:http://sourcedb.itpcas.cas.cn/cn/expert/201204/t20120405_3550426.html
Address:Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China

Education and Appointments

Education

2003-2007 Ph.D, Kyoto University, Japan

1999-2003 M.S. and Ph.D, Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration

1992-1996 B.S., China University of Petroleum

Research

2012-, Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2017-2018, Visiting Professor, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, USA

2009-2012, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, USA

2007-2009, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan

Research Interest

Earthquake source physics, Deep structure of the Tibetan plateau

Selected Publications

1. Bai, L., Li H., Chen, Z., Zhan, H., Li, G., Mori, J. Ding, L., 2025. Low-angle subduction of the Indian plate and megathrust geometry below the eastern Himalaya, National Science Review 12. Nwaf460. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf460

2. Dhakal, S., Bai, L.*, Song, B., Li, G., Rahman, M.M., Su, H., Chen, Z., Wang, S., Li, H., Li, L., 2026. Source parameters of the 2023 ML 6.4 Jajarkot earthquake in the western Nepal seismic gap zone. Earthquake Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eqs.2026.03.003

3. Wibowo, B.A., Li, H., Rahayu, A.N., Bai, L.*, Rohadi, S., Widyadharma, P.H., Arimuko, A., Adi, S.P., 2026. Source process of the 2021 Mw6.6 outer rise earthquake off the west coast of northern Sumatra. Reviews of Geophysics and Planetary Physics 57, 51-61. 10.19975/j.dqyxx.2025-024

4. Rahman, M.M., Bai, L.*, Li, H., Liu, C., 2025. Probabilistic seismic hazard map for Bangladesh including the smoothed background seismicity and local site effects. Pure and Applied Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-025-03894-w

5. Wang, S., Bai, L.*, Liu, C., 2025. Coseismic Rupture and Postseismic Afterslip of the 2020 Nima Mw6.4 Earthquake. Remote Sensing 17, 1389. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17081389

6. Wibowo, B.A, Bai, L.*, Rohadi, S., Sahara, D.P., Chen, Z., Karyono, K., Setiawan, Y., Widyadharma, P.H., Arimuko, A., Rahayu, A.N., Adi, S.P., Karnawati, D., 2025. Slab morphology and associated seismic and volcanic activities beneath Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 465, 108352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108352

7. Bai, L. 2025. Temporal Variation of Large Outer Rise Earthquakes at the Circum-Pacific Subduction Zones. GSRIDRR 2023. Disaster and Risk Research: GADRI Book Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-6609-6_29

8. Liu, C., Li, H., Zhan, H., Wang, S., Bai, L., 2025. Coseismic and Postseismic Deformations of the 2023 Turkey Earthquake Doublet. Remote Sensing 17, 3573. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17213573

9. Hossain, M.A., Rahman, M.M., Hasan, S.S., Mahmud, A., Bai, L., 2025. Analysis and forecasting of meteorological drought using PROPHET and SARIMA models deploying machine learning technique for southwestern region of Bangladesh. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators 27, 100761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2025.100761

10. Zhan, H., Bai, L.*, Wibowo, B. A., Liu, C., Oike, K., Ishikawa, Y., 2024. The 2023 Turkey earthquake doublet: Earthquake relocation, seismic tomography, and stress field inversion. Earth Planetary Physics 8(3), 535-548. http://dx.doi.org/10.26464/epp2024022

11. Ishikawa, Y., Bai, L., 2024. The 2024 Mj 7.6 Noto Peninsula, Japan earthquake caused by the fluid flow in the crust, Earthquake Research Advances 4, 100292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eqrea.2024.100292

12. Rahman, M.M., Bai, L.*, 2024. Seismic hazard maps of the eastern Himalaya syntaxis by integrating the surface topography and site effects. Pure and Applied Geophysics 181, 409-432. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-023-03396-7

13. Bai, L., Jiang, Y., Mori, J., 2023. Source processes associated with the 2021 glacier collapse in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Landslides 20, 421-426. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-022-02002-6

14. Bai, L., Liu, C., Ji, Y. Zhu, W., 2023. Infrasound waves and sulfur dioxide emissions caused by the 2022 Hunga volcanic eruption, Tonga. Frontiers in Earth Science 11, 1144496. 10.3389/feart.2023.1144496

15. Rahman, M.M., Haque, T., Mahmud, A., Amin, M.A, Hossain, M.S., Hasan, M.Y., Shaibur, M.R., Hossain, S., Hossain, M.A., Bai, L.*, 2023. Drinking water quality assessment based on index values incorporating WHO guidelines and Bangladesh standards. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 129, 103353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2022.103353

16. Li, G., Zhou, Y., Bai, L., Gao, Y., Li, Y., 2023. Upper mantle melt caused by a subducted slab in the Indian-Eurasian continental subduction zone. Communications Nature and Environment 4, 455. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01132-6

17. Rahman, M.M., Mahmud, A., Amin, M.A., Hossain, M.S., Bai, L., Shaibur, M.R., Rahman, M.A., Khan, A.S., 2023. Hydrogeochemical facies analysis of groundwater at parts of southwestern Bangladesh: a case study. Arabian Journal of Geoscience 16, 644. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-023-11731-4

18. Li., G., Bai, L.*, Zhang, H., Xu, Q., Zhou, Y., Gao, Y., 2022. Velocity anomalies around the mantle transition zone beneath the Qiangtang terrane, central Tibetan plateau from triplicated P waveforms. Earth and Space Science 9, e2021EA002060. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA002060

19. Li, G., Zhou, Y., Ding, L., Gao, Y., Bai, L., Zhang, H., Hu, L., Pan, Z., Ju, C., Zhang, D., 2022. A partial molten low-velocity layer atop the mantle transition zone beneath the western Junggar: implication for the formation of subduction-induced sub-slab mantle plume. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23, e2021GC010150. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010150

20. Bai, L., Fang, L., 2021. Preface to the special issue on M6.4 Yangbi, Yunnan and M7.4 Maduo, Qinghai earthquakes. Earthquake Science 34, 387-389. https://doi.org/10.29382/eqs-2021-0084

21. Liu, C., Bai, L. *, Hong, S., Dong, Y., Jiang, Y., Li, H., Zhan, H., Chen, Z., 2021. Coseismic deformation of the 2021 Mw7.4 Maduo earthquake from joint inversion of InSAR, GPS and teleseismic data. Earthquake Science 34, 436-446. https://doi.org/10.29382/eqs-2021-0050

22. An, B., Wang, W., Yang, W., Wu, G., Guo, Y., Zhu, H., Gao, Y., Bai, L., Zhang, F., Zeng C., Wang, L., Zhou, J., Li, X., Li, J., Zhao, Z., Chen Y., Liu, J., Li, J., Wang, Z., Chen, W., Yao, T., 2021. Process, mechanisms, and early warning of glacier collapse-induced river blocking disasters in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, Science of the Total Environment 816, 151652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151652.

23. Bai, L., Su, H., Zhou, Y., 2021. A reappraisal of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in the northwestern Himalaya syntaxis. Acta Geologica Sinica 95: 22-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-6724.14821

24. Li, G., Bai, L.*, Ritsema, J. 2020. Lateral variation of shear-wave velocity in the D” layer beneath the Indian-Eurasian plate collision zone. Geophysical Research Letters 47, e2019GL086856. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086856

25. Jagirani, S.S., Bai, L.*, Jagirani, M.D., et al., 2020. Sedimentological Study of Manchar Formation, Kari Buthi Section, Northern Laki Range. Southern Indus Basin, Pakistan. International Research Journal of Earth Sciences 8, 9-21.

26. Bai, L., Klemperer, S.L. Mori, J., Karplus, M.S., Ding, L., Liu, H., Li, G., Song, B., Dhakal, S., 2019. Lateral variation of the Main Himalayan Thrust controls the rupture length of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal. Science Advances 5, eaav0723. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav0723

27. Dhakal, S. Bai, L.*, Neupane, B., Li, L., Song, B., 2019. Review of earthquake activity and faulting structure in Nepal Himalaya. Bulletin Nepal Geological Society 36, 259-266.

28. Li, G., Li, Y.E., Zhang, H., Bai, L., Ding, L., Li, W., Cui, Q., Zhou, Y., 2019. Detection of a thick and weak low-velocity layer atop the mantle transition zone beneath the northeastern South China Sea from triplicated P-wave waveform modeling. Bulletin Seismological Society America 109(4), 1181-1193. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120180318

29. Rahman, M.M. Bai, L.*, 2018. Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of Nepal using multiple seismic source models. Earth Planetary Physics 2, 327-341. https://doi.org/10.26464/epp2018030

30. Rahman, M.M. Bai, L.*, Khan, N.G., Li, G., 2018. Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for Himalayan-Tibetan Region from Historical and Instrumental Earthquake Catalogs. Pure and Applied Geophysics 175: 685-705. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-017-1659-y

31. Bai, L., Li, G., Khan, N.G. Zhao, J., Ding, L., 2017. Focal depths and mechanisms of shallow earthquakes in the Himalayan-Tibetan region. Gondwana Research 41, 390-399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2015.07.009

32. Khan, N.G., Bai, L.*, Zhao, J., Li, G., Rahman, M.M., Cheng, C., Yang, J., 2017. Crustal structure beneath Tien Shan orogenic belt and its adjacent regions found by multi-scale seismic data. Science China: Earth Sciences 60, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-017-9068-0

33. Li, G., Bai, L., Zhou, Y., Wang, X., Cui, H., 2017. Velocity structure of the mantle transition zone beneath the southeastern edge of Tibetan Plateau. Tectonophysics 721, 349-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.08.009

34. Bai, L., Liu, H., Ritsema, J., Mori, J., Zhang T., Ishikawa, Y., Li, G., 2016. Faulting structure above the Main Himalayan Thrust as shown by relocated aftershocks of the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters 43, 637-642. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066473

35. Bai, L., Zhang, T., 2015. Complex deformation pattern of the Pamir-Hindu Kush region inferred from multi-scale double-difference earthquake relocations. Tectonophysics 638, 177-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2014.11.006

36. Pei, S., Liu, H., Bai, L., Liu, Y., Sun, Q., 2016. High-resolution seismic tomography of the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal: Evidence for the crustal tearing of the Himalayan Rift. Geophysical Research Letters 43, 9045-9052. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069808

37. Bai, L., Medina Luna, L., Hetland, E.A., Ritsema, J., 2014. Focal depths and mechanisms of Tohoku-Oki aftershocks from teleseismic P wave modeling. Earthquake Science 27, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-013-0036-x

38. Bai, L., Ritsema, J., 2013. The effect of large-scale shear-velocity heterogeneity on SS precursor amplitudes. Geophysical Research Letters 40, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058669

39. Bai, L., Zhao, J., Wu, J., 2013. Fault Heterogeneities of Moderately Large Earthquakes at Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Acta Geologica Sinica 87, 331-333.

40. Bai, L., Zhang, Y., Ritsema, J., 2012. An analysis of SS precursors using 3D spectral-element seismograms. Geophysical Journal International 188, 293-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05256.x

41. Bai, L., Ritsema, J., Zhao, J., 2012. Focal depth estimates of earthquakes in the Himalayan-Tibetan region from teleseismic waveform modeling. Earthquake Science 25, 459-468. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-012-0870-2

42. Bai, L., Tian, X., Ritsema, J., 2010. Crustal structure beneath the Indochina peninsula from teleseismic receiver functions. Geophysical Research Letters 37, L24308. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL044874

43. Bai, L., Kawakatsu, H., Morita, Y., 2010. Two anisotropic layers in central orogenic belt of North China Craton. Tectonophysics 494, 138-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2010.09.002

44. Bai, L., Iidaka, T., Kawakatsu, H., Morita, Y., Dzung, N.Q., 2009. Upper mantle anisotropy beneath Indochina block and adjacent regions from shear-wave splitting analysis of Vietnam array data. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 176, 33-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2009.03.008

45. Ishikawa, Y., Bai, L., 2008. About the earthquake intensity. Earthquake letter 10: 5-6.

46. Bai, L., 2007. The 2004 earthquake offshore of the Kii peninsula, Japan: Hypocentral relocation, source mechanism and tectonic implication. Kyoto University Ph.D Dissertation.

47. Bai, L., Bergman, E.A., Engdahl, E.R., Kawasaki, I., 2007. The 2004 earthquake offshore of the Kii peninsula, Japan: Hypocentral relocation, source mechanism and tectonic implications. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 165, 47-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2007.07.007

48. Bai, L., Kawasaki, I., Zhang, T., Ishikawa, Y., 2006. An improved double-difference earthquake location algorithm using sP phases: Application to the foreshock and aftershock sequences of the 2004 earthquake offshore of the Kii peninsula, Japan (Mw 7.5), Earth Planets Space 58, 823-830. https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03351987

49. Bai, L., Wu, Z., Zhang, T., Kawasaki, I., 2006. The effect of distribution of stations upon location error: Statistical tests based on the double-difference earthquake location algorithm and the bootstrap method. Earth Planets Space 58, e9-e12. https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03353364

50. Bai, L., Zhang, T., Zhang, H., 2003. Multiplet relative location approach and waveform correlation correction and their application. Acta Seismologica Sinica 16, 606-615. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-003-0044-3