Visiting Researchers
Institute |
Cornell University |
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Title |
Associate Professor | ||
Country |
USA | ||
Period of Stay |
2020/01/01 – 2020/05/31 | ||
Research Theme |
Characterizing earthquake triggering, upper-plate faults, and fault-volcano interactions using seismicity recorded on dense arrays |
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Host Researcher |
Aitaro KATO |
Self-Introduction
I am an associate professor at Cornell University in the U.S. I use a range
of seismic methods to study deformation in the Earth’s crust, including
local seismicity, multi-channel active-source imaging, and passive source
structural methods such as receiver functions and tomography. My research
is focused on actively deforming regions including extension in the East
African Rift System and the western US, subduction megathrust behavior
in Alaska and Cascadia, and upper plate faulting in Cascadia and Chile.
In the last 10 years my work has expanded to include seismicity in the
previously quiet region of Oklahoma, in the central United States, related
to industrial operations. I use this frequent and well-monitored seismicity
dataset from Oklahoma to study fault structures and earthquake nucleation
patterns. In each of these regions, I am interested in understanding the
interplay between deformation and aqueous or magmatic fluids.