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1.    Maguire, R.*, B. Schmandt, R. Wang, Q. Kong, and P. Sanchez (2024), Transportability of deep learning models for classification of local distance earthquakes and explosions. Seismol. Res. Lett.

2.    Moein, M. J., C. Langenbruch, R. Schultz, F. Grigoli, W. Ellsworth, R. Wang, A. P. Rinaldi, and S. Shapiro (2023). The Physical mechanisms of induced earthquakes Nature Reviews Earth & Environment https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00497-8

3.    Wang, R.*, D. Yang, and Y. Chen. and C. Ren (2023), Lighting up a 1-km fault near a hydraulic fracturing well using machine-learning based picker. Seismol. Res. Lett.  https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220340

4.    Stairs, R. K.*, B. Schmandt, J. P. Townsend, and R. Wang (2023), The seismic signature of a high-energy density physics laboratory and its potential for measuring time-dependent velocity structure. Seismol. Res. Lett.  https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220283

5.    Zhang, F.#, R. Wang*, Y. Chen*, and Y. Chen (2022), Spatiotemporal variations in earthquake triggering mechanisms during multistage hydraulic fracturing in Western Canada. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth. 127(8), https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024744

6.    Jiang, C., C. Jiang*, X. Yin, R. Wang, H. Zhai, Y. Zhang, G. Lai, and F. Yin (2022), Spatiotemporal heterogeneity and application of b values in hydraulic fracturing induced seismicity (in Chinese). Seismology & Geology 44(5), https://doi:10.3969/j.issn.0253-4967.2022.0

7.    Kong, Q.*, R. Wang, W. R. Walter, M. Pyle, K. Koper, and B. Schmandt (2022), Combining deep learning with physics extracted features in explosion-earthquake discrimination. Geophys. Res. Lett. 49(13), https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098645

8.    Zhang, M.*, M. Liu, T. Tian, R. Wang, and W. Zhu (2022), LOC-FLOW: An end-to-end machine-learning-based high-precision earthquake location workflow. Seismol. Res. Lett. 93 (5), 2426–2438 https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220019

9.    Zhou, WY.*, M. Hao, J. S. Zhang*, B. Chen, R. Wang, and B. Schmandt (2022), Constraining composition and temperature variations in the mantle transition zone. Nature Comm. 13, 1094. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28709-7

10.  Li, T., Y. J. Gu, J. Wang, R. Wang*, J. Yusifbayov, M. Canales, and T. Shipman (2021), Earthquakes induced by wastewater disposal near Musreau Lake, Alberta, 2018–2020. Seismol. Res. Lett. 93 (2A), 727–738. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210139

11.  Wang, R.*, B. Schmandt, M. Holt, and K. Koper (2021), Advancing Local Distance Discrimination of Explosions and Earthquakes with Joint P/S and ML-MC Classification. Geophys. Res. Lett. 48(23), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095721

12.  Glasgow, M.*, B. Schmandt, R. Wang, M. Zhang, S. L. Bilek, and E. Kiser (2021), Raton Basin induced seismicity is hosted by networks of short basement faults and mimics tectonic earthquake statistics. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth. 126(11), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022839

13.  Shen, L. W.*, D. R. Schmitt, R. Wang, and T. E. Hauck (2021), States of in-situ stress in the Duvernay East Shale Basin and Willesden Green of Alberta, Canada: variable in-situ stress states effect fault stability, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth. 126(6), https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021221

14.  Qiu, Y., L. Fang*, R. Wang, and C. Jiang (2021), “Traffic light" system and its application in induced earthquake monitoring (in Chinese), Earthquake Research in China. 37(2), 1–24.

15.  Zhang, M.*, M. Liu, A. Plourde, F. Bao, R. Wang, and J. Gosse (2021), Source characterization for two small earthquakes in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada: pushing the limit of single station, Seismol. Res. Lett. 92 (4): 2540–2550. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200297

16.  Chen, Y.*, Y. J. Gu, F. Mohammed, J. Wang, M. D. Sacchi, R. Wang, and B. Nguyen (2021), Crustal attenuation beneath western North America: Implications for slab subduction, terrane accretion and arc magmatism of the Cascades, Earth and Planetary Sci. Lett. 560(15), 116783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116783

17.  Koper, K.*, M. Holt, J. Voyles, R. Burlacu, M. Pyle, R. Wang, and B. Schmandt (2021), Discrimination of small earthquakes and buried single-fired chemical explosions at local distances (<150 km) in the western U. S. from comparison of local magnitude (M­L) and coda duration magnitude (MC), Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 111(1), 558–570. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120200188

18.  Wang, R.*, B. Schmandt, and E. Kiser (2020), Seismic discrimination of controlled explosions and earthquakes near Mount St. Helens using P/S ratios, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth. 125(10), https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020338

19.  Wang, R.*, B. Schmandt, M. Zhang, M. Glasgow, and E. Kiser (2020), Injection-induced earthquakes on complex fault zones of the Raton Basin illuminated by machine-learning phase picker and dense nodal array, Geophys. Res. Lett. 47(14), https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088168

20.  Schultz, R.* & R. Wang (2020), Newly emerging cases of hydraulic fracturing induced seismicity in the Duvernay East Shale Basin, Tectonophysics 779, 228393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228393

21.  Li, T., Y. J. Gu*, Z. Wang*, R. Wang, Y. Chen, T. Song, and R. Wang (2019), Spatiotemporal Variations in Crustal Seismic Anisotropy Surrounding the Induced Earthquakes near Fox Creek. Geophys. Res. Lett. 46(10), 5180–5189. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081766

22.  Wang, R.*, Y. J. Gu, R. Schultz, and Y. Chen (2018), Faults and non-double-couple components for induced earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett. 45(17), 8966–8975. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079027

23.  Gu, Y.J., Y. Chen*, R. Dokht, and R. Wang (2018), Precambrian tectonic discontinuities in western Laurentia: a broadband seismological perspective on the Snowbird and Great Falls Tectonic Zones, Tectonics 37(5), 1411–1434. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017TC004843

24.  Wang, R.*, Y. J. Gu, R. Schultz, M. Zhang, and A. Kim (2017), Source characteristics and geological implications of a M4.1 induced earthquake near Crooked Lake, Alberta, Geophys. J. Int. 210(2), 979–988, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx204

25.  Schultz, R.*, R. Wang, Y. J. Gu, and G. Atkinson (2017), A seismological overview of the induced earthquakes in the Duvernay play near Fox Creek, Alberta, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 22(1), 492–505, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013570

26.  Wang, R.*, Y. J. Gu, R. Schultz, A. Kim, and G. Atkinson (2016), Source analysis of a potential hydraulic-fracturing-induced earthquake near Fox Creek, Alberta, Geophys. Res. Lett. 43(2), 564–573, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066917

27.  Wang, X*, Y. Guo, S. Guo, R. Wang, Diagenesis features and favorable reservoir prediction of FI1 oil layer in north Qijia (in Chinese), Petroleum Geology and Oilfield Development in Daqing. 31(4), 1–6.

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28.  Wang, R.*, M. Weingarten, C. Langenbruch, and H. R. DeShon (2020), Introduction to special issue on the observations, mechanisms and hazards of induced seismicity, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 110(5), 1999–2004, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120200236

Extended conference abstract

29.  Wang, R.*, Y. J. Gu, and M. Zhang (2017), Hydraulic fracturing induced seismicity in western Canada: insights from focal mechanism and swarm analysis, SEG 2017 Workshop: Microseismic Technologies and Applications, Hefei, China, 4–6 June 2017: pp. 42-45, https://doi.org/10.1190/Microseismic2017-011