Welcome to Yasunori Sawaki’s homepage!
My name is Yasunori Sawaki (Ph.D., he/him), an assistant professor at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. I am an early-career researcher in seismology (a study of earthquakes and interior strucure of the Earth), who earned a Ph.D. (Science) from Kyoto University (in Japan) in March 2023. My current work is to estimate the detailed geometry of crustal faults and the seismological heterogeneity in crusts and subducting slabs, with the aim of advancing our understanding of seismotectonics.
Download the latest CV (last updated on 02 July 2025)
Major papers:
- Sawaki, Y., Y. Ito, K. Ohta, T. Shibutani, and T. Iwata (2021). Seismological structures on bimodal distribution of deep tectonic tremor. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL092183.
doi: 10.1029/2020GL092183
(Open Access)
- Sawaki, Y., Y. Yamashita, S. Ohyanagi, E. S. M. Garcia, A. Ito, H. Sugioka, T. Takahashi, M. Shinohara, and Y. Ito (2023). Seafloor depth controls seismograph orientation uncertainty. Geophysical Journal International, 232(2), 1376–1392,
doi: 10.1093/gji/ggac397
(Open Access)
- Sawaki, Y., T. Shiina, K. Sagae, Y. Sato, H. Horikawa, A. Miyakawa, K. Imanishi, and T. Uchide (2025). Fault Geometries of the 2024 Mw 7.5 Noto Peninsula Earthquake from Hypocenter-Based Hierarchical Clustering of Point-Cloud Normal Vectors. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(4), e2024JB030233.
doi: 10.1029/2024JB030233
(Open Access)
Upcoming Schedule
| Period |
Place |
Event |
| 20–22 Oct 2025 |
Fukuoka, JP |
SSJ Fall Meeting 2025 |
| 14–19 Dec 2025 |
New Orleans, LA |
AGU25 |
Recent News & Posts
The defense of my PhD thesis was held on Jan. 16, 2023. It was the greatest moment ever in my research life.
This is the first post. I’m testing the English page.
