Name : KATO,  Naoyuki
            Position : Associate Professor
            Division/Center : Earthquake Prediction Research Center
            Research Area : Simulation of crustal movement
 
 
 
 
 

Research :
 
 

Publications :

Kato, N. and T. Hirasawa, 1999a, Nonuniform and unsteady sliding of a plate boundary in a great earthquake cycle: A numerical simulation using a laborat ory-derived friction law, Pure Appl. Geophys., 155, 93-118.

 Kato, N. and T. Hirasawa, 1999b, The variation of stresses due to aseismic s liding and its effect on seismic activity, Pure Appl. Geophys., 155, 425-442. Kato, N. and T. Hirasawa, 1999c, A model for possible crustal deformation pr ior to a coming large interplate earthquake in the Tokai district, central J apan, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 89, 1401-1417.

 Matsumura, S. and N. Kato, 1999, Recognition of a locked state in plate subd uction from microearthquake seismicity, Pure Appl. Geophys., 155, 669-687. Kato, N., T. Satoh, X. Lei, K. Yamamoto, and T. Hirasawa, 1999, Effects of f ault bend on the rupture propagation process of stick-slip, Tectonophysics, 310, 81-99.

 Kato, N. and T. Hirasawa, 2000, Effect of a large outer rise earthquake on s eismic cycles of interplate earthquakes: A model study, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 653-662.

 Kato, N. and X. Lei, 2001, Interaction of parallel strike-slip faults and a characteristic distance in the spatial distribution of active faults, Geophy s. J. Int., 144, 157-164.

 Kato, N., 2001, Simulation of seismic cycles of buried intersecting reverse faults, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 4221-4232.

 Kato, N. and T. E. Tullis, 2001, A composite rate- and state-dependent law f or rock friction, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1103-1106.

 Kato, N., 2001, Effect of frictional heating on preseismic sliding: A numeri cal simulation using a rate, state, and temperature dependent friction law, Geophys. J. Int. (inpress).