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Fumihiko Imamura

Fumihiko Imamura

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Earth Science

D-Index
72
Citations
15006
World Ranking
886
National Ranking
14

Overview

Fumihiko Imamura is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has a significant publication record focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their expertise is particularly concentrated within the subfields of Geophysics, Civil and Structural Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, Atmospheric Science, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research spans a variety of topics including:

  • earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Earthquake and Tsunami Effects
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Imamura include:

  • "Mental Health and Physical Activity among Children and Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic", 2021, The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • "Cascading disasters triggered by tsunami hazards: A perspective for critical infrastructure resilience and disaster risk reduction", 2021, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • "Early forecasting of tsunami inundation from tsunami and geodetic observation data with convolutional neural networks", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Long waves in two layers: governing equations and numerical model", 2024, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • "Tsunami evacuation processes based on human behaviour in past earthquakes and tsunamis: A literature review", 2020, Progress in Disaster Science

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Anawat Suppasri
  • Kwanchai Pakoksung
  • Shuji Seto
  • Shosuke Sato
  • Kiyoshi Ito

Imamura has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B2 (Coastal Engineering)
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Journal of Disaster Research
  • Japanese Journal of JSCE
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • DEVELOPING FRAGILITY FUNCTIONS FOR TSUNAMI DAMAGE ESTIMATION USING NUMERICAL MODEL AND POST-TSUNAMI DATA FROM BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA

    Shunichi Koshimura;Takayuki Oie;Hideaki Yanagisawa;Fumihiko Imamura

  • The 869 Jogan tsunami deposit and recurrence interval of large-scale tsunami on the Pacific coast of northeast Japan

    K. Minoura;F. Imamura;D. Sugawara;Y. Kono

  • Review of Tsunami Simulation with a Finite Difference Method

    F. Imamura

  • Building damage characteristics based on surveyed data and fragility curves of the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami

    Anawat Suppasri;Erick Mas;Ingrid Charvet;Rashmin Gunasekera

  • Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami: Performance of Tsunami Countermeasures, Coastal Buildings, and Tsunami Evacuation in Japan

    Anawat Suppasri;Nobuo Shuto;Fumihiko Imamura;Shunichi Koshimura

  • A numerical model for the transport of a boulder by tsunami

    Fumihiko Imamura;Kazuhisa Goto;Shigeki Ohkubo

  • The reduction effects of mangrove forest on a tsunami based on field surveys at Pakarang Cape, Thailand and numerical analysis

    Hideaki Yanagisawa;Shunichi Koshimura;Kazuhisa Goto;Toyohiko Miyagi

  • Agent-based Simulation of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Evacuation: An Integrated Model of Tsunami Inundation and Evacuation

    Erick Mas;Anawat Suppasri;Fumihiko Imamura;Shunichi Koshimura

  • Distribution, origin and transport process of boulders deposited by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at Pakarang Cape, Thailand

    Kazuhisa Goto;Suchana A. Chavanich;Fumihiko Imamura;Passkorn Kunthasap

  • Historical and geological evidence of boulders deposited by tsunamis, southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan

    Kazuhisa Goto;Toshio Kawana;Fumihiko Imamura

  • Developing tsunami fragility curves based on the satellite remote sensing and the numerical modeling of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand

    A. Suppasri;S. Koshimura;F. Imamura

  • Tsunami in papua New Guinea was as intense as first thought

    Yoshiaka Kawata;Boyd C. Benson;José C. Borrero;José L. Borrero

  • Tsunamis in the Sea of Marmara - Historical documents for the past, models for the future

    Ahmet Cevdet Yalçıner;Bedri Alpar;Yıldız Altınok;İlknur Özbay

  • Giant landslides, mega-tsunamis, and paleo-sea level in the Hawaiian Islands

    G.M McMurtry;P Watts;G.J Fryer;J.R Smith

  • Characteristics and hydrodynamics of boulders transported by storm waves at Kudaka Island, Japan

    Kazuhisa Goto;Kiyohiro Okada;Fumihiko Imamura

  • The Flores Island tsunamis

    Harry Yeh;Fumihiko Imamura;Costas Synolakis;Yoshinobu Tsuji

  • Discovery of Minoan tsunami deposits

    K Minoura;F Imamura;U Kuran;T Nakamura

  • Recent occurrences of serious tsunami damage and the future challenges of tsunami disaster risk reduction

    Fumihiko Imamura;Sébastien Penmellen Boret;Anawat Suppasri;Abdul Muhari

  • Landslide Tsunamis: Recent Findings and Research Directions

    J. P. Bardet;C. E. Synolakis;H. L. Davies;F. Imamura

  • Tsunami Catalog and Zones in Indonesia

    Latief Hamzah;Nanang T. Puspito;Fumihiko Imamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Shunichi Koshimura
Shunichi Koshimura Tohoku University
Kazuhisa Goto
Kazuhisa Goto University of Tokyo
Costas E. Synolakis
Costas E. Synolakis University of Southern California
Takashi Furumura
Takashi Furumura University of Tokyo
Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos
Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos Hellenic Mediterranean University
Rui Nouchi
Rui Nouchi University of Human Environments
Kenji Satake
Kenji Satake University of Tokyo
Monzur Alam Imteaz
Monzur Alam Imteaz Swinburne University of Technology
Motoaki Sugiura
Motoaki Sugiura Tohoku University
Toshio Nakamura
Toshio Nakamura Nagoya University

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