Haiyang Kehoe
Seismologist

About Me

Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Oregon

I am a seismologist broadly interested in tectonic controls on seismic hazard. I investigate the physical mechanisms controlling earthquake nucleation, rupture, and arrest across a variety of depths, from shallow earthquakes to Earth’s deepest tremors. I explore Earth's interior across a variety of scales, from shallow crustal heterogeneities that impact hazard estimates to subduction zone systems that inform our understanding of plate tectonics.

I'm actively recruiting students and post-docs to join my research group. Please reach out if you're interested in exploring our planet with seismology.

Publications

8. Boyd, O. S., E. Bozdağ, H. L. Kehoe, & M. P. Moschetti (2026). Ground-Motion Simulations for the 2024 Mw 4.8 Tewksbury, New Jersey, Earthquake, Seismological Research Letters, XX, 1–12.

7. Kiser, E., K. M. Ward, C. Koch, E. E. Rodríguez, H. L. Kehoe, A. Dunham, & P. Blake (2025). Persistent Deep Long-Period Seismicity Near the Lassen Volcanic Center Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (23), e2025GL118945.

6. Goldberg, D. E., W. L. Yeck, C. Hanagan, J. Atterholt, H. L. Kehoe, N. G. Reitman, W. D. Barnhart, D. R. Shelly, A. E. Hatem, D. J. Wald, & P. S. Earle (2025). Ultralong, Supershear Rupture of the 202 Myanmar Earthquake Reveals Unaccounted Hazard. Science, 390 (6772), 458-462.

5. Kehoe, H. L. & E. D. Kiser (2024). Moment-dependent rupture properties of deep-focus earthquakes in the Izu-Bonin subduction zone. Geophysical Journal International, 237 (2), 663–678.

4. Kiser, E. D. & H. L. Kehoe (2021). The hazard of coseismic gaps: the 2021 Fukushima earthquake. Geophysical Journal International, 227 (1), 54–57.

3. Kiser, E. D., H. L. Kehoe, M. Chen, & A. N. Hughes (2021). Lower Mantle Seismicity Following the 2015 Mw 7.9 Bonin Islands Deep‐Focus Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (13), e2021GL093111.

2. Kehoe, H. L. & E. D. Kiser (2020). Evidence of a Supershear Transition Across a Fault Stepover. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (10), e2020GL087400.

1. Kehoe, H. L., E. D. Kiser, & P. G. Okubo (2019). The Rupture Process of the 2018 Mw 6.9 Hawai‘i Earthquake as Imaged by a Genetic Algorithm-Based Back-Projection Technique. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (5), 2467–2474.

Curriculum Vitae