Last Update 12/27 2005
Research: Geometry of source faults is significant for better estimation of strong ground motions and long-term evaluation of active faults. I am investigating geometry of acitve-seismogenic source fault systems using seismic reflection profiling and methods of structural geology. Publications: Sato, H., The relationship between late Cenozoic tectonic events and stress field and basin development in northeast Japan, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 22261--22274, 1994. Sato, H., T. Shimamoto, A. Tsutsumi, and E. Kawamoto, Onshore tsunami deposits caused by the 1993 southwest Hokkaido and 1983 Japan Sea earthqukakes, Pure and Applied Geophys., 145, 693--717, 1995. Sato, H., Hirata, N., Ito, T., Tsumura, N. and Ikawa, T., Seismic reflection profiling across the seismogenic fault of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, southwestern Japan, Tectonophysics, 286, 19--30, 1998. Sato, H., Hirata, N., Iwasaki, T., Matsubara, M. and Ikawa, T., Deep Seismic Reflection Profiling across the Ou Backbone Range, Northern Honshu Island, Japan. , Tectonophysics, 355, 41--52, 2002. H. Sato, T. Imaizumi, T. Yoshida, H. Ito and A. Hasegawa, Tectonic evolution and deep to shallow geometry of Nagamachi-Rifu active fault system, Earth Planets Space, 54, 1039--1043, 2002. Sato, H., Iwasaki, T., Kawasaki, S., Ikeda, Y., Matsuta, N., Takeda, T., Hirata, N. and Kawanaka,T., Formation and Shortening Deformation of a Back-arc Rift Basin revealed by Deep Seismic Profiling, Central Japan, Tectonophysics, 388, 47--58, 2004. Kato, N., Sato, H., Imaizumi, T., Ikeda, Y., Okada, S., Kagohara, K., Kawanaka, T. and Kasahara, K., Seismic reflection profiling across the source fault of the 2003 Northern Miyagi earthquake (Mj 6.4), NE Japan: basin inversion of Miocene back-arc rift, Earth Planets Space, 56, 1255--1261, 2004. Hiroshi Sato, Takaya Iwasaki, Yasutaka Ikeda, Tetsuya Takeda, Nobuhisa Matsuta, Tomoko Imai, Eiji Kurashimo, Naoshi Hirata, Sin'ichi Sakai, Driss Elouai, Taku Kawanaka, Shinji Kawasaki, Susumu Abe, Takeshi Kozawa, Takeshi Ikawa, Yoshimasa Arai and Naoko Kato, Seismological and geological characterization of the crust in the southern part of northern Fossa Magna, central Japan, Earth Planets Space, 56, 1253--1259, 2004. H. Sato, N. Hirata, K. Koketsu, D. Okaya, T. Iwasaki, T. Ito, K. Kasahara, T. Ikawa, S. Abe, T. Kawanaka, M. Matsubara, R. Kobayashi, S. Harder, Earthquake source fault beneath the Tokyo, Science, 309, 5735, 462--464, 2005. |
