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Overview

Jim Mori is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and specializes primarily in the Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Geophysics and Geology. Their research contributions extend into subfields such as Artificial Intelligence and Oceanography, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to earth science studies.

The main topics of Mori's work include earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, as well as geological and geophysical studies. Additional areas of interest identified in their work encompass earthquake detection and analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, and seismology and earthquake studies.

Mori's recent scholarly output includes several research papers published in diverse scientific venues. Notable papers are:

  • "Implications for megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis from seismic gaps south of Java Indonesia," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Tsunami Triggered by the Lamb Wave From the 2022 Tonga Volcanic Eruption and Transition in the Offshore Japan Region," 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Mechanism for Deep Crustal Seismicity: Insight From Modeling of Deformation Processes at the Main Ethiopian Rift," 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Shallow Subsurface Structure in the Hualien Basin and Relevance to the Damage Pattern and Fault Rupture during the 2018 Hualien Earthquake," 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • "Two-Staged Rupture of the 19 October 2020 Mw 7.6 Strike-Slip Earthquake Illuminated the Boundary of Coupling Variation in the Shumagin Islands, Alaska," 2022, Seismological Research Letters

The primary publication venues where Mori's work appears include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Collaboration is a key feature of Mori's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Sri Widiyantoro
  • E. Gunawan
  • Abdul Muhari
  • Nicholas Rawlinson
  • Nuraini Rahma Hanifa

Best Publications

  • Near-Field Investigations of the Landers Earthquake Sequence, April to July 1992

    Kerry Sieh;Lucile M Jones;Egill Hauksson;Kenneth W Hudnut

  • Determination of earthquake energy release and ML using TERRAscope

    Hiroo Kanamori;Jim Mori;Egill Hauksson;Thomas H. Heaton

  • Depth dependence of earthquake frequency‐magnitude distributions in California: Implications for rupture initiation

    Jim Mori;Rachel E. Abercrombie

  • Low Coseismic Friction on the Tohoku-Oki Fault Determined from Temperature Measurements

    P. M. Fulton;E. E. Brodsky;Y. Kano;J. Mori

  • Structure and composition of the plate-boundary slip zone for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake.

    Frederick M. Chester;Christie Rowe;Kohtaro Ujiie;James Kirkpatrick

  • Continuous permeability measurements record healing inside the Wenchuan earthquake fault zone.

    Lian Xue;Hai-Bing Li;Emily E. Brodsky;Zhi-Qing Xu

  • Low Coseismic Shear Stress on the Tohoku-Oki Megathrust Determined from Laboratory Experiments

    Kohtaro Ujiie;Kohtaro Ujiie;Hanae Tanaka;Tsubasa Saito;Akito Tsutsumi

  • Slip zone and energetics of a large earthquake from the Taiwan Chelungpu-fault Drilling Project

    Kuo Fong Ma;Hidemi Tanaka;Sheng Rong Song;Chien Ying Wang

  • Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Slip for the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, Earthquake

    Kuo Fong Ma;Jim Mori;Shiann Jong Lee;S. B. Yu

  • The Chi‐Chi, Taiwan earthquake: Large surface displacements on an inland thrust fault

    Kuo Fong Ma;Chyi Tyi Lee;Yi Ben Tsai;Tzay Chyn Shin

  • Attenuation of high‐frequency shear waves in the crust: Measurements from New York State, South Africa, and southern California

    Arthur Frankel;Art McGarr;John Bicknell;Jim Mori

  • Source parameters for small events associated with the 1986 North Palm Springs, California, earthquake determined using empirical Green functions

    Jim Mori;Arthur Frankel

  • Occurrence patterns of foreshocks to large earthquakes in the western United States

    Rachel E. Abercrombie;Rachel E. Abercrombie;Jim Mori

  • Heat signature on the Chelungpu fault associated with the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake

    Yasuyuki Kano;Jim Mori;Ryo Fujio;Hisao Ito

  • Localized boundary layer below the mid-Pacific velocity anomaly identified from a PcP precursor

    Jim Mori;Donald V. Helmberger

  • Stress state in the largest displacement area of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

    Weiren Lin;Weiren Lin;Weiren Lin;Marianne Conin;Marianne Conin;J. Casey Moore;Frederick M. Chester

  • Excitation of atmospheric oscillations by volcanic eruptions

    Hiroo Kanamori;Jim Mori;David G. Harkrider

  • Source inversion of the 1988 Upland, California, earthquake: Determination of a fault plane for a small event

    Jim Mori;Stephen Hartzell

  • A review of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (Mw 9.0): Large-scale rupture across heterogeneous plate coupling

    Fumiko Tajima;Jim Mori;Brian L.N. Kennett

  • Outward-Dipping Ring-Fault Structure at Rabaul Caldera as Shown by Earthquake Locations

    Jim Mori;Chris Mckee

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroo Kanamori
Hiroo Kanamori California Institute of Technology
Emily E. Brodsky
Emily E. Brodsky University of California, Santa Cruz
Kohtaro Ujiie
Kohtaro Ujiie University of Tsukuba
Weiren Lin
Weiren Lin Kyoto University
Kuo-Fong Ma
Kuo-Fong Ma National Central University
Thomas H. Heaton
Thomas H. Heaton California Institute of Technology
Egill Hauksson
Egill Hauksson California Institute of Technology
Rachel E. Abercrombie
Rachel E. Abercrombie Boston University
Shuichi Kodaira
Shuichi Kodaira Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Lucile M. Jones
Lucile M. Jones United States Geological Survey

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