Member Since 1962
Hiroo Kanamori
Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, California Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
California Institute of Technology
Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus
1972 - Present
Education
Doctorate
1964
Tokyo University
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Publications
Rupture Directivity of the 2021 MW 6.0 Yangbi, Yunnan Earthquake
The 2021 MW 6.0 Yangbi, Yunnan strike‐slip earthquake occurred on an unmapped crustal fault near the Weixi‐Qiaoho‐Weishan Fault a...
September 18, 2022
Sub‐Decadal Volcanic Tsunamis Due To Submarine Trapdoor Faul...
September 12, 2022
The 2021 South Sandwich Island Mw 8.2 Earthquake: A Slow Eve...
February 08, 2022
AGU Abstracts
The Near-Source ScS Phase from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake Might Have Triggered a Relatively Slow Slip on the Megathrust Boundaries Beneath the Broad Area of Japan
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, AND NUMERICAL MODELING I ORAL
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Sunyoung Park, Hiroo Kanamori, Luis A. Rivera
The MW 9.0 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake generated a strong ScS phase with a peak-to-peak amplitude larger than 1 cm in Japan. This near-source ScS phase...
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Step-Like Motion Associated with the Near-Source ScS Phase from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
PLATE MOTION, CONTINENTAL DEFORMATION, AND INTERSEISMIC STRAIN ACCUMULATION II ORAL
geodesy | 13 december 2022
Sunyoung Park, Hiroo Kanamori, Luis A. Rivera
The Mw 9.0 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake generated a strong ScS phase with the peak-to-peak amplitude larger than 1 cm in Japan. This near-source ScS pha...
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Rupture Directivity of the May 21, 2021 MW 6.0 Yangbi, Yunnan Earthquake
STATE-OF-THE-ART OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING OF EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PROCESSES VIII POSTER
seismology | 17 december 2021
Wenzheng Gong, Lingling Ye, Thorne Lay, Hiroo Kana...
The 2021 Yangbi, Yunnan earthquake (MS 6.4) occurred in the northern portion of the Red River fault zone, along the southeast margin of the Tibetan Pl...
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