Sun, T., K. Wang, and J. He (2024), Geodetic signature of a weak Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary in postseismic deformation of large subduction earthquakes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 630, 118619, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118619.

Wang, K., M. Carvajal, Y. Zhu, T. Sun, J. He, and M. Sypus (2024), Informing megathrust tsunami souce models with knowledge of tectonics and fault mechanics, in K. Goda (Eds.), Probabilistic Tsunami Hazards and Risk Analysis – Towards Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (Chapter 8). Elsevier book project (in press).

Davis, E., T. Sun, M. Heesemann, K. Becker, and A. Schlesinger (2023), Long-Term offshore borehole fluid-pressure monitoring at the Northern Cascadia subduction zone and inferences regarding the state of megathrust locking. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, doi:10.1029/2023GC010910.

Sun, T., and E. Davis (2022), Monitoring the 2021 Mw 8.2 Alaska earthquake by an offshore seismic and fluid pressure observation network and implications for ocean-crust dynamic coupling. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, doi:10.1029/2022GC010540. *Selected for featuring as an Editor’s Highlight by AGU Eos.

Carvajal, M., T. Sun, K. Wang, H. Luo, and Y. Zhu (2022), Evaluating the tsunamigenic potential of buried versus trench-breaching megathrust slip. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2021JB023722.

Sun, T., E. Davis, and M. Heesemann (2021), Seismic formation fluid pressure observations reveal high anisotropy of oceanic crust, Geophysical Research Letters, 48(20), doi:10.1029/e2021GL095347.  *Selected for featuring as a Research Spotlight by AGU Eos.

Sun, T., S. Ellis, and D. Saffer (2020), Coupled evolution of deformation, pore pressure, and fluid flow in shallow subduction forearcs, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2019JB019101.

Sun, T., D. Saffer, and S. Ellis (2020), Mechanical and hydrological effects of seamount subduction on megathrust stress and slip, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/s41561-020-0542-0.

Brodsky, E. E., et al. (including T. Sun) (2019), The state of stress on the fault before, during, and after a major earthquake, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-053018-060507.

Wang, K., L. Brown, Y. Hu, K. Yoshida, J. He, and T. Sun (2019), Stable forearc stressed by a weak megathrust: Mechanical and geodynamic implications of stress changes caused by the M=9 Tohoku-oki Earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2018JB017043.

Sun, T., K. Wang, and J. He (2018), Crustal deformation following great subduction earthquakes controlled by earthquake size and mantle rheology, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi:10.1029/2017JB015242.

Gao, D., K. Wang, T. L. Insua, M. Riedel, M. Sypus, and T. Sun (2018), Defining megathrust tsunami sources at Northernmost Cascadia, Natural Hazards, doi:10.1007/s11069-018-3397-6.

Wang, K., T. Sun, L. Brown, R. Hino, T. Iinuma, S. Kodaira, and T. Fujiwara, Learning from crustal deformation associated with the M=9 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake (2018), Geosphere, Thematic Issue: Subduction from Top to Bottom II, doi:10.1130/GES01531.1.

Sun, T., E. Davis, K.Wang, and Y. Jiang (2017), Trench-breaching afterslip following deeper coseismic slip of the 2012 Mw 7.6 Costa Rica earthquake constrained by near-trench pressure and land-based geodetic observations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.021.

Sun, T., K. Wang, T. Fujiwara, S. Kodaira, and J. He (2017), Large fault slip peaking at trench in the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/ncomms14044.

Fujiwara, T., C. S. Ferreira, A. K. Bachmann, M. Strasser, G. Wefer, T. Sun, T. Kanamatsu, and S. Kodaira (2017), Seafloor displacement after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake in the Northern Japan Trench examined by repeated bathymetric surveys, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2017GL075839.

Sun, T. and K. Wang (2015), Viscoelastic relaxation following subduction earthquakes and its effects on afterslip determination, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi:10.1002/2014JB011707.

Brown, L., K. Wang, and T. Sun (2015), Static stress drop in the Mw 9 Tohoku-oki earthquake: Heterogeneous distribution and low average value, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2015GL066361.

Davis, E. E., H. Villinger, and T. Sun (2015), Slow and delayed deformation and uplift of the outermost subduction prism following ETS and seismogenic slip events beneath Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.11.015.

Sun, T., K. Wang, T. Iinuma, R. Hino, J. He, H. Fujimoto, M. Kido, Y. Osada, S. Muira, Y. Ohta, and Y. Hu (2014), Prevalence of viscoelastic relaxation after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature13778.

Sun, T., M. Xue, K. P. Le, Y. Zhang, and H. Xu (2013), Signatures of ocean storms on seismic records in South China Sea and East China Sea. Marine Geophysical Research, doi:10.1007/s11001-013-9204-6.

Lin, W. et al. (including T. Sun.) (2013), Stress state in the largest displacement area of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, Science, doi:10.1126/science.1229379.

* Co-authoring the following publications, as a member of author group “IODP Expedition 343 Scientists”:

Fulton, P. M. et al. (2013), Low coseismic friction on the Tohoku-oki fault determined from temperature measurements, Science, doi:10.1126/science.1243641.

Chester, F. M. et al. (2013), Structure and composition of the plate-boundary slip zone for the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, Science, doi:10.1126/science.1243719.

Ujiie, K. et al. (2013), Low coseismic shear stress on the Tohoku-oki megathrust determined from laboratory experiments, Science, doi:10.1126/science.1243485.

Rowe, C. D. et al. (2013), The thickness of subduction plate boundary faults from the seafloor into the seismogenic zone, Geology, doi:10.1130/G34556.1.

Yang, T. et al. (2013), Strain decoupling across the décollement in the region of large slip during the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.045.