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Christy ChiuChristy Chiu

Research Associate II

B.S. in Physics, National Taiwan Normal University, 1971
M.S. in Physics, Texas Christian University, 1977
M.S. in Geophysics, Cornell University, 1982


As a Research Associate at CERI, Christy Chiu's current research concentrates on a study of the seismotectonics of the southeastern Reelfoot rift boundary in the Mississippi Embayment, and a study of the 3-D tomographic inversion of crustal structure in the Mississippi Embayment and the central U.S., using earthquake data collected by regional seismic networks and the portable array for numerical data acquisition (PANDA) She is also working on a project relocating events in the New Madrid seismic zone, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey. Additionally, Chiu is an active member of the CERI Network Response Team.

Chiu's publications and abstracts include submissions to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, and the Eastern Section Seismological Society of America, the Ceri Quarterly Seismological Bulletin, and Ceri Weekly Earthquake Bulletin.

chi@ceri.memphis.edu

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