IISER MOHALI

Abstract: The Southern Array for the Lithosphere and Uplift of Taiwan Experiment (SALUTE) is a dense amphibious broadband seismic network spanning southern Taiwan and adjacent offshore regions, strategically located across the active subduction-collision transition zone between the Eurasian Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate. Since its initial deployment in 2021, SALUTE has provided unprecedented high-quality seismic observations from both land-based and ocean-bottom stations, enabling a multi-scale, multi-parameter investigation of lithospheric structure and deformation in one of the world’s most tectonically complex regions. In this presentation, I will introduce an integrated suite of seismological investigations using earthquake data and continuous ambient seismic noise recorded by SALUTE to illuminate 3-D seismic velocity and attenuation structures, undulating seismic discontinuities, and deformation patterns across this key transition zone. By combining diverse and complementary seismic methods with the dense station coverage of SALUTE, this work demonstrates the effectiveness of coordinated, multi-disciplinary approaches for unraveling lithospheric structure and tectonic evolution in active convergent margins.