Workshop Program


June 21 AM
10:00-10:10 Teruo Yamashita (Director of ERI)
Opening Remarks
10:10-10:20 Yoshichika Nishio (Earthquake Research Chief of MEXT)
Greetings from MEXT
Studies in Pacific Region 1 (chaired by N. Hirata)
10:20-10:50 Naoshi Hirata (ERI, Univ. Tokyo)
Overview of the Metropolitan Project: Regional characterization of the crust in metropolitan areas for prediction of strong ground motion
10:50-11:20 David A. Okaya (Univ. Southern California, USA)
Earthquake science in southern California: The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC-2)
11:20-11:50 Kuo-Liang Wen (National Central Univ., Taiwan) et al.
Ground motion responses in the Taipei urban area
11:50-12:10 Sumio Sawada (DPRI, Kyoto Univ.)
Brief introduction of Project III-3 "Development of simulation system and its applications for catastrophic earthquake and tsunami disaster response in mega-cities facing the Pacific": In terms of strong motion prediction for the Tonankai and Nankai earthquakes
12:10-12:30 Kazuyoshi Kudo (ERI, Univ. Tokyo)
Concept and design of strong-motion database: A preparatory step for specifying input motion to the E-defense (3-D shaking table)
June 21 PM
Earthquake Source Modeling 1 (chaired by J. Mori)
14:00-14:30P. Martin Mai (ETH, Switzerland) et al.
Merging dynamic rupture modeling and strong-motion prediction
14:30-14:50 Satoshi Ide (Dep. Earth Planet. Sci., Univ. Tokyo)
Scaling of fracture energy and earthquake dynamic rupture modeling
14:50-15:10 Tomotaka Iwata and Kimiyuki Asano (DPRI, Kyoto Univ.)
Construction of source and underground structure models for strong motion prediction
15:10-15:30 James J. Mori and Ahyi Kim (DPRI, Kyoto Univ.)
Scaling of radiated energy for intermediate depth earthquakes
15:30-15:50 Katsuhisa Kanda and Masayuki Takemura (Kobori Res. Complex)
Inversion analysis of historical interplate earthquakes using seismic intensity data
break (20 min.)
Site and Path Effects (chaired by S. Midorikawa)
16:10-16:40Ralph J. Archuleta (Univ. California, Santa Barbara) et al.
Predictability of site effects: Use of the Yokohama high-density seismic network
16:40-17:10 Tso-Chien Pan (Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore) et al.
Site-dependent response of Singapore buildings to long-distance Sumatra earthquakes
17:10-17:30Saburo Midorikawa (Tokyo Inst. Tech.) et al.
Evaluation of local site effects in metropolitan areas
17:30-17:50Hiroaki Yamanaka (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
Construction of 3D S-wave velocity model of the Kanto plain, Japan, for strong motion prediction
17:50-18:10 Masaki Takahashi and Yukio Yanagisawa (AIST, Tsukuba) et al.
Miocene subsurface half-grabens in the Kanto Plain, central Japan

June 22 AM
Studies in Pacific Region 2 (chaired by D. Okaya)
09:30-10:00 Thomas L. Pratt (USGS, Seattle)
Earthquake hazard studies in the U.S. Pacific northwest: From crustal models to shallow geophysics
10:00-10:30 Hiroshi Sato (ERI, Univ. Tokyo) et al.
Deep seismic profiling in the Tokyo metropolitan area for strong ground motion prediction
10:30-11:00 Kiyoshi Ito (DPRI, Kyoto Univ.)
Seismic explosion surveys of crustal structure and deep fault zone planned in the Kinki district, Japan
11:00-11:30 Mary Lou Zoback (USGS, Menlo Park)
Earthquake hazard studies in Northern California -- Probabilities to prediction
11:30-12:00 Shoji Sekiguchi (NIED, Tsukuba) et al.
Borehole drilling above the descending Philippine Sea Plate at the southern Kanto area, Japan, and the geological interpretation of the core samples
June 22 PM
Earthquake Source Modeling 2 (chaired by T. Iwata)
13:30-14:00 Paul G. Somerville (URS Corporation, Pasadena)
Characterizing earthquake rupture models for the prediction of strong ground motion
14:00-14:20 Kazuki Koketsu and Reiji Kobayashi (ERI, Univ. Tokyo)
Slip distribution of the 1923 Kanto earthquake and its relation to slab reflectivity
14:20-14:40 Kin'ya Nishigami (DPRI, Kyoto Univ.) et al.
Modeling deep structure of active faults and 3-D crustal structure in and around the Kinki district
14:40-15:00 Sou Nishimura and Manabu Hashimoto (DPRI, Kyoto Univ.)
A simultaneous estimation of rigid block rotations and slip deficits rates from the GPS-derived velocity field in and around the Kinki district
15:00-15:20 Takashi Nakata (Hiroshima Univ.) et al.
Searching geological evidence for paleoseismic events in urbanized areas
break (20 min.)
Ground Motion Simulation (chaired by K. Koketsu)
15:40-16:10 Rafael Benites (IGNS, New Zealand) and Kim B. Olsen
Modeling strong ground motion in the Wellington metropolitan area, New Zealand
16:10-16:30 Shin Aoi (NIED, Tsukuba) et al.
3-D finite difference simulation for the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake
16:30-16:50 Takashi Furumura (ERI, Univ. Tokyo)
Large-scale broadband simulation of strong ground motions from recent and historical damaging earthquakes in Japan
16:50-17:00 Mizuho Ishida (NIED, Tsukuba)
Closing Remarks