Last Update 07/08 2015
Research: Study of crustal deformation using GPS - Tectonics in Asia and western Pacific - Crustal deformation of Japanese Islands based on GEONET data - Mechanism of plate interaction and inland earthquake based on dense GPS array - Development of tsunami early warning system using GPS buoy Publications: Kato, T., Y. Kotake, T. Chachin, Y. Iimura, S. Miyazaki, T. Kanazawa and K. Suyehiro, An estimate of the Philippine Sea plate motion derived from the Global Positioning System observation at Okino Torishima, Japan, J. Geod. Soc. Jap., 42, 233--243, 1996. Kato, T., Tectonics of the eastern Asia and the western Pacific as seen by GPS observations, Geosciences Journal, 7, 1, 1--8, 2003. Kato, T., J. Beavan, T. Matsushima, Y. Kotake, J. T. Camacho, and S. Nakao, Geodetic evidence of back-arc spreading in the Mariana Trough, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 12, 1625, doi:, , 2003. Kato, T., Y. Terada, K. Ito, R. Hattori, T. Abe, T. Miyake, S. Koshimura, and T. Nagai, Tsunami due to the 2004 September 5th off the Kii peninsula earthquake, Japan, recorded by a new GPS buoy, Earth Planets Space, 57, 297--301, 2005. Kato, T., Y. Terada, T. Nagai, K. Shimizu, T. Tomida and S. Koshimura, Development of a new tsunami monitoring system using a GPS buoy, Proc. Int. Symp. on GPS/GNSS, 846--851, 2008. Kato, T., Y. Terada, H. Nishimura, T. Nagai, and S. Koshimura, Tsunami records due to the 2010 Chile Earthquake observed by GPS buoys established along the Pacific coast of Japan, Earth Planets Space, 63, e5--e8, 2011. Ebinuma, T., and T. Kato, Dynamic characteristics of high-rate GPS observations for seismology, Earth Planets Space, 64, 369--377, 2012. Ochi, T. and T. Kato, Depth extent of the long-term slow slip event in the Tokai district, central Japan: A new insight, J. Geophys. Res., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50355, , 2013. Kato, T., K. Satake and F. Imamura, Restoration programme from giant earthquakes and tsunamis, RISK WISE, 37--40, 2008. |
