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Scientific publications, software, and presentations

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1 under review, 1 submitted, and 2 in preparation

Peer-reviewed scientific articles

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  1. 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, e2024JB030233. (in press)
  2. Sawaki, Y.*, Y. Ito, E. S. M. Garcia, A. Miyakawa, and T. Shibutani (2024). Deep plutonic bodies over low-frequency earthquakes revealed from receiver-side Green's functions. Tectonophysics, 892, 230536. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230536 (Open Access). [For preprint v1]
  3. Ruan, Y.*, Y. Ito, and Y. 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 (Open Access)
  4. Akuhara, T.*, Y. Yamashita, S. Ohyanagi, Y. Sawaki, T. Yamada, and M. Shinohara (2023). Shallow low-velocity layer in the Hyuga-nada accretionary prism and its hydrological implications: Insights from a passive seismic array. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB026298. doi: 10.1029/2022JB026298 (Open Access)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)

Software

  1. Sawaki, Y., Y. Sato, and T. Uchide (2025). FaultNVC: Earthquake Fault Plane Extractor through Point-Cloud Normal Vector Clustering for Hypocenter Distributions [Software]. Open-File Report of Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, no. 759. https://www.gsj.jp/publications/pub/openfile/openfile0759.html
  2. Sawaki, Y. (2022). yasuit21/AzimPy [Software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6972713

International conferences (presenter only)

  1. Sawaki, Y., T. Shiina, K. Sagae, Y. Sato, H. Horikawa, A. Miyakawa, K. Imanishi, and T. Uchide. Fault Geometries of the 2024 Mw 7.5 Noto Peninsula Earthquake from Hypocenter Clustering. 22nd Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, SE10-A003, Singapore, July 2025
  2. Sawaki, Y., K. Sagae, T. Shiina, K. Imanishi and T. Uchide. Mutsu Bay Seismic Cluster along the Volcanic Front in November 2024, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2025, SSS06-P01, Chiba, May 2025
  3. Sawaki, Y., T. Shiina, K. Sagae, Y. Sato, H. Horikawa, A. Miyakawa, K. Imanishi, and T. Uchide. Fault Geometries of the 2024 Mw 7.5 Noto Peninsula Earthquake from Hypocenter-Based Hierarchical Clustering. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2024, NH51B-08 (oral), Washington D.C., December 2024
  4. Sawaki, Y., Y. Ito, S. Ohyanagi, and Y. Yamashita. Preliminary Study of Seismic Structures in the Guerrero Seismic Gap, Mexico. International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes 2024, P105, Beppu, September 2024
  5. Sawaki, Y., Y. Sato, T. Uchide, H. Horikawa, T. Shiina, and Y. Amezawa, Hypocenter-based Visualization of Multiscale Earthquake Faults: Application to Crustal Earthquakes in Japan Islands. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023, S31F-0406, San Francisco, December 2023
  6. Sawaki, Y., Y. Yamashita, S. Ohyanagi, E. S. Garcia, A. Ito, H. Sugioka, T. Takahashi, M. Shinohara, and Y. Ito, Heterogeneous seismic structure at Hyuga-nada from receiver-side Green's functions. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2023, SSS04-01 (invited), Chiba, May 2023
  7. Sawaki, Y., Y. Yamashita, S. Ohyanagi, E. S. Garcia, A. Ito, H. Sugioka, T. Takahashi, M. Shinohara, and Y. Ito, Impedance contrast in the Nankai subduction zone. Slow-to-Fast Earthquake Workshop in Taiwan, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, March 2023
  8. Sawaki, Y., Y. Yamashita, S. Ohyanagi, E. S. Garcia, A. Ito, H. Sugioka, T. Takahashi, M. Shinohara, and Y. Ito, Spatial Relationship of Shallow Slow Earthquake and Strong Negative Velocity Impedance in the Western Nankai Subduction Zone. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022, T31A-13, Online, December 2022
  9. Sawaki, Y., Y. Yamashita, S. Ohyanagi, E. S. Garcia, A. Ito, H. Sugioka, T. Takahashi, M. Shinohara, and Y. Ito, Spatial Relationship of Shallow Slow Earthquake and Strong Negative Velocity Impedance at Hyuga-nada. International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes 2022, P080, Nara, September 2022
  10. Sawaki, Y., Y. Yamashita, S. Ohyanagi, E. S. Garcia, A. Ito, H. Sugioka, T. Takahashi, M. Shinohara, and Y. Ito, Seismological Property and Structure beneath the Seafloor at the Hyuga-nada, Estimated Using Ocean Bottom Seismographs. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2022, SSS03-P04, Chiba, May 2022
  11. Sawaki, Y., Y. Yamashita, S. Ohyanagi, and Y. Ito, Ocean-depth dependence of correction precision for OBS misorientation, deployed at the Hyuga-nada region of the Nankai subduction zone. Workshop on Slow Earthquakes 2021, P29, Online, September 2021
  12. Sawaki, Y., Y. Ito, K. Ohta, T. Shibutani, and T. Iwata, Multi-band Receiver Function Analysis Including Local Deep-focus Events in Northeastern Kii, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2020, SCG58-14, online, July 2020
  13. Sawaki, Y., Y. Ito, K. Ohta, T. Shibutani, and T. Iwata, A New Approach to Clarify Slow Earthquake Source Regions: Multi-band Receiver Function Analysis Including Local Deep-focus Events, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2020, EGU2020-4921, online, May 2020
  14. Sawaki, Y., M. Uemura, I. Katayama, and Y. Ito, Seismological Structural Changes during Bi-axial Experiments Inferred from Receiver Functions, International Joint Workshop on Slow Earthquakes 2019, P3-15, Sendai, September 2019
  15. Sawaki, Y., Y. Ito, K. Ohta, T. Shibutani, and T. Iwata, Seismological structural changes around source regions of slow earthquakes in Nankai subduction zone inferred from broadband receiver functions, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2019, SCG48-19, Chiba, May 2019
  16. Sawaki, Y., Y. Ito, K. Ohta, T. Shibutani, and T. Iwata, Detection of the structural variation around regions with slow earthquakes in southwestern Japan using the receiver function method, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2018, T51G-0251, Washington D.C., December 2018
  17. Sawaki, Y., Y. Ito, K. Ohta, T. Shibutani and T. Iwata, Detection of the structural variation around regions with slow earthquakes in southwest Japan using receiver function method, International Joint Workshop on Slow Earthquakes 2018, P29, Fukuoka, September 2018