Visiting Researchers
Taira Takaaki
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Institute |
Seismological Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley |
Title |
Assistant Research Seismologist | |
Country |
U.S.A. | |
Period of Stay |
2013/06/18 - 2013/08/16 | |
Research Theme |
Investigating Spatiotemporal Behavior of Repeating Microearthquakes and Migration of Hydrothermal Fluid at Geothermal Areas. | |
Host Researcher |
Aitaro KATO |
Self Introduction
I am an observational seismologist and my research focuses on transient stress changes at seismogenic depth, subsurface hydrothermal fluid migration, and fault-zone rheology, by making use of seismic data from characteristically repeating earthquakes and temporal evolutions of repeating earthquake activity.
At ERI, I will work with Prof. Aitaro Kato to investigate spatial variations in Vp/Vs ratio at the Geysers geothermal field, CA, using S-P differential times from similar event clusters. Another research project is to explore spatiotemporal behaviors of earthquake multiplets, especially its relationship with the geothermal production and injection well activity.