Name: Katsumata, Kei
Position:Associate Professor
Division/Center: Earthquake Prediction Research Center
Research Area: Seismology
URL: http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kkatsu/

Last Update 02/25 2009

Research:

Earthquake prediction, Microearthquake seismicity, Stress tensor inversion

Publications:

Katsumata, K., M. Kasahara, M. Ichiyanagi, M. Kikuchi, R. Sen, C. Kim, A. Ivaschenko and R. Tatevossian, The 27 May 1995 Ms7.6 northern Sakhalin earthquake: an earthquake on an uncertain plate boundary, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 94, 117--130, 2004.

Katsumata, K., Imaging the high b-value anomalies within the subducting Pacific plate in the Hokkaido corner , Earth Planets Space, 58, 11, e49--e52, 2006.

Katsumata, K., N. Wada, and M. Kasahara, Three-dimensional P and S wave velocity structures beneath the Hokkaido corner, Japan-Kurile arc-arc junction, Earth Planets Space, 58, e37--e40, 2006.

Ghimire, S., K. Katsumata, and M. Kasahara, Spatio-temporal evolution of Coulomb stress in the Pacific slab inverted from the seismicity rate change and its tectonic interpretation in Hokkaido, Northern Japan, Tectonophysics, 455, 25--42, 2008.