“…In the past two decades, many seismological studies in eastern China have been done, but most of those studies have focused on the eastern NCC and revealed that the eastern NCC experienced a large‐scale lithospheric thinning due to extensive cratonic reactivation during the Late Mesozoic (e.g., Chang et al, ; Chen, ; Lü et al, ; Ouyang et al, ; P. Xu et al, ; Zhao et al, ; Zheng et al, ). Due to sparse body wave coverage in the crust and uppermost mantle and surface wave attenuation and scattering at short periods, as well as limited data availability in the SCB, a detailed 3‐D structure from the shallow crust down to the uppermost mantle and deformation in eastern China are still poorly resolved.…”