Hiroo Kanamori (金森 博雄, Kanamori Hiroo, born October 17, 1936) is a Japanese-American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding...
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Moment magnitude scale (redirect from Hanks–Kanamori scale)
seismic moment. Mw was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori. Similar to the local magnitude/Richter scale (ML ) defined by Charles...
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Akihiro Kanamori (金森 晶洋, born 1948), Japanese-born American mathematician Hiroo Kanamori (金森 博雄, born 1936), Japanese seismologist Mayu Kanamori (金森 マユ...
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shorter-period seismic waves. The term was introduced by Japanese seismologist Hiroo Kanamori in 1972. Such events are a result of relatively slow rupture velocities...
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tectonic geomorphology. In 1979 the Japanese-American seismologist Hiroo Kanamori, professor of seismology at the California Institute of Technology and...
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moment magnitude scale introduced by Caltech's Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori, which is often used to compare the size of different earthquakes and...
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inactive through the 1990s. In the 1980s, geophysicists Tom Heaton and Hiroo Kanamori of Caltech compared the generally quiet Cascadia to more active subduction...
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Francisco: W.H. Freeman. William H.K. Lee; Paul Jennings; Carl Kisslinger; Hiroo Kanamori (27 September 2002). International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering...
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characteristics of the 1906 and 1989 events were examined by seismologists Hiroo Kanamori and Kenji Satake. The significant amount of vertical displacement in...
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and politician Hiroo Kanamori (金森 博雄, born 1936), Japanese seismologist Hiroo Kawai (河井 博大, born 1971), Japanese golfer Kotoryū Hiroo (琴龍 宏央, born 1972)...
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of 8.8. The United States Geological Survey has its estimate of 9.1. Hiroo Kanamori of the California Institute of Technology estimates that Mw 9.2 is best...
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Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013) 1936 – Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic 1936 – Santiago Navarro...
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magnitude scale – Mw or Mw – developed by seismologists Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori, is based on an earthquake's seismic moment, M0, a measure of how much...
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Tatsuo Usami "Historical earthquakes in Japan", In: William H.K. Lee, Hiroo Kanamori, Paul C. Jennings and Carl Kisslinger, (Eds.), International Geophysics...
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Samoa". United States Geological Survey. Thorne Lay; Charles J. Ammon; Hiroo Kanamori; Luis Rivera; Keith D. Koper; Alexander R. Hutko (2010). "The 2009 Samoa–Tonga...
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Geological Society, 2009 William H.K. Lee, Paul Jennings, Carl Kisslinger, Hiroo Kanamori: International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology, Teil...
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Fall Meet.Suppl., Abstract S12A-05 Zhongwen Zhan; Peter M. Shearer; Hiroo Kanamori (2015). "Supershear rupture in the 24 May 2013 Mw 6.7 Okhotsk deep earthquake:...
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sciences 2006 Hirotsugu Akaike Japan 1927–2009 Mathematical sciences 2007 Hiroo Kanamori Japan born 1936 Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics...
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"Eugene Newman Parker". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15. "Hiroo Kanamori". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-15. "Rashid Alievich Sunyaev"...
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Seiya Uyeda 1993 – Aleksey N. Khramov 1995 – Patrick Hurley 1996 – Hiroo Kanamori 1998 – Norman H. Sleep 2000 – James H. Dieterich 2002 – Stuart Ross...
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Villaseñor (2002). "Global Seismicity: 1900–1999". In William H.K. Lee; Hiroo Kanamori; Paul C. Jennings; Carl Kisslinger (eds.). International handbook of...
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seismic moment ( M 0 {\displaystyle M_{0}} ) 1979 – Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori, Moment magnitude scale ( M W {\displaystyle M_{W}} ), it succeeds the...
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ISBN 978-0444534569 Lee, William, Paul Jennings, Carl Kisslinger, and Hiroo Kanamori (2002). International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology...
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contributed to rebuttal of the 'jelly sandwich' model of the crust Hiroo Kanamori (American, 1936– ) – fundamental contributions to the physics of earthquakes;...
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characteristics similar to a tsunami earthquake. Initially proposed in 1972 by Hiroo Kanamori, these events release seismic energy in long periods. Such events involve...
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has plans to add 11 more to its nationwide system. William H.K. Lee; Hiroo Kanamori; Paul Jennings; Carl Kisslinger (2003). International Handbook of Earthquake...
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inspired by Keiiti Aki at M.I.T. and by Hiroo Kanamori at Caltech. Stein's doctoral dissertation, supervised by Kanamori, is entitled I. Seismological study...
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0, International Seismological Centre Thorne Lay; Charles J. Ammon; Hiroo Kanamori; Luis Rivera; Keith D. Koper; Alexander R. Hutko (2010). "The 2009 Samoa–Tonga...
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7, 2022. Lay, Thorne; Ye, Lingling; Bai, Yefei; Cheung, Kwok Fai; Kanamori, Hiroo; Freymueller, Jeffrey; Steblov, Grigory M.; Kogan, Mikhail G. (December...
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.44.2211H. doi:10.1002/2017GL072545. S2CID 132506664. Lingling Ye; Hiroo Kanamori; Jean-Philippe Avouac; Linyan Li; Kwok Fai Cheung; Thorne Lay (November...
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