针对国家防震减灾的重大需求和地球动力学研究需要，中科院测地所开展了中国大陆地壳运动及其动力学机制研究。主要内容包括：基于现代大地测量技术，结合地震等其它观测技术和数值模拟技术，研究中国大陆地壳运动及其动力学机制和地震孕震机理，发展大地测量和地震资料联合反演震源破裂过程技术，探究地震相互作用机制等
关于汶川地震应急响应研究的结果在国家抗震救灾指挥部第十次会议上向温家宝总理作了汇报，为中国地震局震情会商、余震范围圈定和未来震情发展评估提供了重要的参考依据，受到国家领导人和国家抗震救灾指挥部的高度重视。熊熊研究员入选国家科技部—国家减灾委科技抗震救灾专家组，倪四道主任和熊熊研究员入选国家汶川地震专家委员会。熊熊研究员被授予“中国科学院抗震救灾先进个人”荣誉称号。在中国地震局、中国地震学会联合举办的纪念汶川地震一周年的地震预报发展论坛上，许厚泽院士、熊熊研究员和倪四道主任被邀请作大会报告，占大会总共9个特邀报告中的三分之一。这些体现了中科院测地所相关研究工作的影响。
基于以上研究结果，发表学术论文17篇，其中SCI论文11篇。同时，培养了一支既能开展创新研究工作，又可执行艰苦野外应急观测任务的年轻团队。2010年4月14号玉树强震发生后，我们不仅在第一时间计算了玉树地震所导致的同震应力变化，圈定4个地震危险区，而且迅即组织地震现场监测队伍，与中国地震局野外队组成联合应急监测队，急赴玉树灾区开展GPS和地震监测，野外队克服了重重困难，圆满完成监测任务，取得宝贵的早期余震波形资料，获得“中国科学院青海玉树地震科技救灾先进集体”的光荣称号。
以下为近五年代表性论文：
1) Bin Shan, Xiong Xiong, Yong Zheng, Hsu Houtse, Analysis of the thermal structure of lithospheric mantle and lithospheric isostasy in China continent, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2008, 51(4): 744~752.
2) Bin Shan, Xiong Xiong, Yong Zheng, Faqi Diao, Stress changes on major faults caused by Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, May 12, 2008, Science in China(Series D:Earth Sciences), 2009, 52(5): 593~601.
3) Yong Zheng, Hongsheng Ma, Jian Lv, et al, Source mechanism of strong aftershocks (Ms≥5.6) of the 2008/05/12 Wenchuan earthquake and the implication for seismotectonics, Science in China(Series D:Earth Sciences), 2009, 52(6): 739~753.
4) Xiong Xiong, Bin Shan, Yong Zheng, Rongjiang Wang, Stress transfer and its implication for earthquake hazard on the Kunlun Fault, Tibet, Tectonophysics, 2010, 482: 216~225.
5) Xiong Xiong, Bin Shan, Jiye Wang, Yong Zheng, Small-scale upper mantle convection beneath the Mongolia-Baikal rift zone and its geodynamic signification, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2010, 53(4): 529~541.
6) Yingjie Yang, Yong Zheng, John Chen, Shiyong Zhou, et al, Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps in Tibet and the surrounding regions from ambient seismic noise tomography, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 2010, Q08010, doi:10.1029/2010GC003119.
7) Yong Zheng, Sidao Ni, Zujun Xie, Jian Lv, Hongsheng Ma, and Paul Sommerville. Strong aftershocks in the northern segment of the Wenchuan earthquake rupture zone and their seismotectonic implications, Earth Planets Space, 2010, 62:1~6.
8) Hongsheng Ma, Yong Zheng, Zhigang Shao, et al, Simulation on seismogenic environment of strong earthquakes in Sichuan-Yunnan region, China. Concurrency Computat: Pract. Exper. 2010, 22: 1626~1643.
9) Yong Zheng, Yingjie Yang, Michael H Ritzwoller, Xiufen Zheng, Xiong Xiong, Zuning Li, Crustal structure of the northeastern Tibetan plateau, the Ordos block and the Sichuan basin from ambient noise tomography, Earthquake Science, 2010, 23:465~476.
10) Faqi Diao, Xiong Xiong, Rongjiang Wang, Yong Zheng, Hsu Houtse, Slip model of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan (China) earthquake derived from co-seismic GPS data, Earth Planets Space, 2010, doi:10.5047/eps.2009.05.003.
11) Faqi Diao, Xiong Xiong, Rongjiang Wang, Mechnisms of transient postseismic deformation following the 2001 Mw 7.8 Kunlun (China) earthquake, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2010. doi: 10.1007/s00024-010-0154-5.
