The three largest of these earthquakes (the Mw 8.5 Sumatra earthquake, the Mw 9.0Tohoku earthquake, and the Mw 8.6 Sumatra earthquake), occurred far from the groundwater monitoring network in China, with epicenter distances beyond the near-field, i.e., greater than one rupture length. The Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake occurred at epicenter distances from one to several fault rupture lengths to these wells. In order to be consistent in comparing the water level response following different earthquakes and to avoid the complexity introduced by details of the fault rupture, we exclude water level responses that occurred in the near-field of the Wenchuan earthquake in this study. Thus, all of the water level responses we consider occurred beyond the near-field, i.e., at epicentral distances greater than one rupture fault length