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Kazuki Koketsu

Kazuki Koketsu

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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
5152
World Ranking
7206
National Ranking
204

Overview

Kazuki Koketsu is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics, supported by publications in related subfields such as Civil and Structural Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Mechanical Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Seismic Performance and Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

Koketsu has multiple recent publications, including:

  • "Three-dimensional velocity structure models in and around the Kathmandu Valley, Central Nepal," 2024, Earth Planets and Space
  • "A future scenario earthquake and ground motion hazards for Kathmandu, Nepal," 2024, Earth Planets and Space
  • "Similarities and Differences in the Rupture Processes of the 1952 and 2003 Tokachi-Oki Earthquakes," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • H. Miyake
  • Hiroaki Kobayashi
  • Haruhiko Suzuki
  • Hiroo Kanamori
  • Yujia Guo

Koketsu's research has been disseminated through various publication venues, notably:

  • Earth Planets and Space
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Zisin (Journal of the Seismological Society of Japan 2nd ser )
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Journal of Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering

In addition to journal articles, Koketsu has contributed to book publications, including the work "Ground Motion Seismology," published by Springer Nature in 2021.

Best Publications

  • A unified source model for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

    Kazuki Koketsu;Yusuke Yokota;Naoki Nishimura;Yuji Yagi

  • Joint Inversion of Near- and Far-field Waveforms and Geodetic Data for the Rupture Process of the 1995 Kobe Earthquake

    Shingo Yoshida;Kazuki Koketsu;Bunichiro Shibazaki;Takeshi Sagiya

  • Joint inversion of strong motion, teleseismic, geodetic, and tsunami datasets for the rupture process of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

    Yusuke Yokota;Kazuki Koketsu;Yushiro Fujii;Kenji Satake

  • A seismological overview of long-period ground motion

    Kazuki Koketsu;Hiroe Miyake

  • Modeling the rupture process of the 2003 September 25 Tokachi‐Oki (Hokkaido) earthquake using 1‐Hz GPS data

    Shin'ichi Miyazaki;Shin'ichi Miyazaki;Kristine M. Larson;Kyuhong Choi;Kazuhito Hikima

  • Earthquake source fault beneath Tokyo.

    Hiroshi Sato;Naoshi Hirata;Kazuki Koketsu;David Okaya

  • Pseudo-bending method for three-dimensional seismic ray tracing in a spherical earth with discontinuities

    Kazuki Koketsu;Shutaro Sekine

  • An empirical spectral ground-motion model for Iran

    H. Ghasemi;H. Ghasemi;M. Zare;Y. Fukushima;K. Koketsu

  • Joint inversion of strong motion and geodetic data for the source process of the 2003 Tokachi-oki, Hokkaido, earthquake

    Kazuki Koketsu;Kazuhito Hikima;Shin’ichi Miyazaki;Shin’ichi Miyazaki;Satoshi Ide

  • Damaging Long-period Ground Motions from the 2003 Mw 8.3 Tokachi-oki, Japan Earthquake

    Kazuki Koketsu;Ken Hatayama;Takashi Furumura;Yasushi Ikegami

  • Scaling of characterized slip models for plate-boundary earthquakes

    Satoko Murotani;Hiroe Miyake;Kazuki Koketsu

  • Rupture processes of the 2004 Chuetsu (mid‐Niigata prefecture) earthquake, Japan: A series of events in a complex fault system

    Kazuhito Hikima;Kazuki Koketsu

  • Propagation of Seismic Ground Motion in the Kanto Basin, Japan

    Kazuki Koketsu;Masayuki Kikuchi

  • A proposal for a standard procedure of modeling 3-D velocity structures and its application to the Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan

    Kazuki Koketsu;Hiroe Miyake;Afnimar;Yasuhisa Tanaka

  • Three-dimensional topography of the sediment/basement interface in the Tokyo metropolitan area, central Japan

    Kazuki Koketsu;Sadanori Higashi

  • Finite-element simulation of seismic ground motion with a voxel mesh

    Kazuki Koketsu;Hiroyuki Fujiwara;Yasushi Ikegami

  • Simultaneous inversion of waveform and geodetic data for the rupture process of the 1984 Naganoken–Seibu, Japan, earthquake

    Shingo Yoshida;Kazuki Koketsu

  • Joint inversion of refraction and gravity data for the three-dimensional topography of a sediment–basement interface

    Afnimar;Kazuki Koketsu;Koichi Nakagawa

  • Specific distribution of ground motion during the 1995 Kobe Earthquake and its generation mechanism

    T. Furumura;K. Koketsu

  • A very long-term transient event preceding the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

    Yusuke Yokota;Kazuki Koketsu

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Furumura
Takashi Furumura University of Tokyo
Naoshi Hirata
Naoshi Hirata University of Tokyo
Shin'ichi Miyazaki
Shin'ichi Miyazaki Kyoto University
Brian Kennett
Brian Kennett Australian National University
Kenji Satake
Kenji Satake University of Tokyo
Takaya Iwasaki
Takaya Iwasaki University of Tokyo
Toshihiko Kanazawa
Toshihiko Kanazawa University of Tokyo
Masanao Shinohara
Masanao Shinohara University of Tokyo
Takeshi Sagiya
Takeshi Sagiya Nagoya University
Jim Mori
Jim Mori Kyoto University

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