Recent news

We have a new preprint on the seismic structure beneath the Kii Peninsula, southwestern Japan, available on SSRN. While it’s not yet peer-reviewed, feel free to check it out if you’re interested!

Sawaki, Y., Y. Ito, E. S. M. Garcia, A. Miyakawa, and T. Shibutani. Deep Plutonic Bodies Over Low-Frequency Earthquakes Revealed from Receiver-Side Green’s Functions. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4793654

SF-A03 Group Workshop at Toyama was held from Feb. 08–10, 2024. I gave a talk about “Hypocenter-based Visualization of Multiscale Earthquake Faults”.

The presentations on geology related to the mechanism of tectonic tremors were interesting to me. As a research collaborator of group A03, I would like to contribute to the comparative subduction zone studies of Slow-to-Fast earthquakes!

Happy New Year! I hope you all have a great year!

I participated in the AGU Fall Meeting 2023 held at San Francisco during December 11–15. We had a good poster presentation with lively discussions with worldwide researchers. I can’t wait the next opportunity to interact with you all!

I visited the United States Geological Survey in Golden, CO for a month and conducted collaborative studies with Dr. David Shelly. It was a fantastic stay and a good opportunity to proceed my research.

I’m going to San Francisco for the upcoming meeting of American Geophysical Union. I have a poster presentation related to my current study .

Our new paper is publishded! We analyzed shear wave splitting from receiver functions in Shikoku Island, SW Japan, and along-dip variation of fast axes is clarified. Check it out!

Ruan, Yihuan, Yoshihiro Ito, and Yasunori Sawaki, (2023). Anisotropic Velocity Structure Beneath Shikoku, Japan: Insights From Receiver Function and Shear Wave Splitting Analyses Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB027178. doi: 10.1029/2023JB027178

I joined the 2023 SSJ Fall Meeting held in Yokohama and made a poster presentation.

I earned Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity start-up, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant Number 23K19077).

I visited Tohoku University Aobayama Campus for a scientific meeting. This made me feel nostalgic.

I visited the University of Tsukuba and National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) for scientific meetings. I made a presentation about my PhD thesis in NIED.