Name: SHIMAZAKI, Kunihiko
Position:Professor
Division/Center: Division of Earth Mechanics
Research Area: Seismology
URL: http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/nikosh/nikosh.html

Last Update 01/05 2009

Research:

Long-term forecast of Japanese large earthquakes

Publications:

Shimazaki, K., and T. Nakata, Time-predictable recurrence model for large earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 7, 4, 279--282, 1980.

Wesnousky, S. G., C. H. Scholz, K. Shimazaki, and T. Matsuda, Earthquake frequency-distribution and the mechanics of faulting, J. Geophys. Res., 88, NB11, 9331--9340, 1983.

Nakamura, K., K. Shimazaki, and N. Yonekura, Subduction, bending and eduction - present and Quaternary tectonics of the northern border of the Philippine Sea plate, Bull. Soc. Geol. France, 26, 2, 221--243, 1984.

Satake, K., K. Shimazaki, Y. Tsuji, and K. Ueda, Time and size of a giant earthquake in Cascadia inferred from Japanese tsunami records of January 1700, Nature, 379, 246--249, 1996.

Shimazaki, K., and Y. Zhao, Dislocation model for strain accumulation in a plate collision zone, Earth Planets Space, 52, 1091--1094, 2000.

Shimazaki, K., Long-term probabilistic forecast in Japan and time-predictable behavior of earthquake recurrence, In Fujinawa, Y., and A. Yoshida (ed.) \'Seismotectonics in Convergent Plate Boundary\', TERRAPUB, 37--43, 2002.

Tsukakoshi, Y., and K. Shimazaki, Temporal behavior of the background seismicity rate in central Japan, 1998 to mid-2003, Tectonophysics, 417, 155--168, 2006.

Shimazaki, K., The Almighty Earthquake, Seismol. Res. Lett., 70, 147--148, 1999.