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Overview

Kazuro Hirahara is affiliated with the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project in Japan. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Computer Science, with a focus on Geophysics and Artificial Intelligence.

The primary topics of their work include:

  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis

Their recent publications cover a range of subjects related to crustal deformation, fault slip monitoring, and earthquake data assimilation. Selected recent papers include:

  • Fault geometry invariance and dislocation potential in antiplane crustal deformation: physics-informed simultaneous solutions, 2024, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Fault Slip Monitoring: Simulation, Frictional Parameter Estimation, and Prediction on Slow Slip Events in a Spring-Slider System, 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Physics-informed deep learning approach for modeling crustal deformation, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Spatio-temporal clustering of earthquakes based on distribution of magnitudes, 2021, Applied Network Science
  • Adjoint-based direct data assimilation of GNSS time series for optimizing frictional parameters and predicting postseismic deformation following the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake, 2020, Earth Planets and Space

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include:

  • Naonori Ueda
  • Masayuki Kano
  • Tomohisa Okazaki
  • Yuki Yamagishi
  • Kazumi Saito

Key venues where their research has been published include:

  • Research Square
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Applied Network Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth Planets and Space

Best Publications

  • A slow thrust slip event following the two 1996 Hyuganada Earthquakes beneath the Bungo Channel, southwest Japan

    Hitoshi Hirose;Kazuro Hirahara;Fumiaki Kimata;Naoyuki Fujii

  • A numerical simulation of earthquake cycles along the Nankai Trough in southwest Japan: lateral variation in frictional property due to the slab geometry controls the nucleation position

    Takane Hori;Naoyuki Kato;Kazuro Hirahara;Toshitaka Baba

  • Three-dimensional seismic structure beneath southwest Japan: The subducting Philippine Sea Plate

    Kazuro Hirahara

  • Afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation following the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake (Mw9.0) inferred from inland GPS and seafloor GPS/Acoustic data

    Shuji Yamagiwa;Shin'ichi Miyazaki;Kazuro Hirahara;Yukitoshi Fukahata

  • Local GPS tropospheric tomography

    Kazuro Hirahara

  • A LARGE-SCALE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEISMIC STRUCTURE UNDER THE JAPAN ISLANDS AND THE SEA OF JAPAN

    Kazuro Hirahara

  • High resolution receiver function imaging of the seismic velocity discontinuities in the crust and the uppermost mantle beneath southwest Japan

    Makiko Yamauchi;Kazuro Hirahara;Takuo Shibutani

  • Initial results from WING, the continuous GPS network in the western Pacific area

    Teruyuki Kato;Yoshiko Kotake;Shigeru Nakao;John Beavan

  • Three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure beneath Central Japan: low-velocity bodies in the wedge portion of the upper mantle above high-velocity subducting plates

    K. Hirahara;A. Ikami;M. Ishida;T. Mikumo

  • Large surface wave of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake captured by the very long baseline kinematic analysis of 1-Hz GPS data

    Yusaku Ohta;Irwan Meilano;Takeshi Sagiya;Fumiaki Kimata

  • How deep can we see the high velocity anomalies beneath the Japan Islands

    Shin'ichiro Kamiya;Takashi Miyatake;Kazuro Hirahara

  • the thickness of upper mantle discontinuities, as inferred from short‐period J‐array data

    Akira Yamazaki;Kazuro Hirahara

  • The horizontally lying slab

    Kyoko Okino;Masataka Ando;Satoshi Kaneshima;Kazuro Hirahara

  • Temporal variations of crustal structure in the source region of the 2007 Noto Hanto Earthquake, central Japan, with passive image interferometry

    Shiro Ohmi;Kazuro Hirahara;Hiroo Wada;Kiyoshi Ito

  • Simulation of postseismic deformations caused by the 1896 Riku‐u Earthquake, northeast Japan: Re‐evaluation of the viscosity in the upper mantle

    Hisashi Suito;Kazuro Hirahara

  • Dynamical fault rupture processes in heterogeneous media

    Takeshi Mikumo;Kazuro Hirahara;Takashi Miyatake

  • Simultaneous inversion of geodetic and strong-motion data for the source process of the Hyogo-ken Nanbu, Japan, earthquake

    Haruo Horikawa;Kazuro Hirahara;Yasuhiro Umeda;Manabu Hashimoto

  • TRAVEL TIME INVERSION FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL P-WAVE VELOCITY ANISOTROPY

    Kazuro Hirahara;Yuzo Ishikawa

  • Three-dimensional seismic structure of subducting lithospheric plates under the Japan islands

    Kazuro Hirahara;Takeshi Mikumo

  • Three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure beneath the Indonesian region

    Nanang T. Puspito;Yoshiko Yamanaka;Takashi Miyatake;Kunihiko Shimazaki

  • Water flow to the mantle transition zone inferred from a receiver function image of the Pacific slab

    Takashi Tonegawa;Kazuro Hirahara;Takuo Shibutani;Hikaru Iwamori

Frequent Co-Authors

Shin'ichi Miyazaki
Shin'ichi Miyazaki Kyoto University
Teruyuki Kato
Teruyuki Kato University of Tokyo
Takeshi Sagiya
Takeshi Sagiya Nagoya University
Toshitaka Tsuda
Toshitaka Tsuda Kyoto University
Yoshiyuki Kaneda
Yoshiyuki Kaneda Nagoya University
Hiroyuki Kumagai
Hiroyuki Kumagai Nagoya University
Akira Hasegawa
Akira Hasegawa Tohoku University
Naoshi Hirata
Naoshi Hirata University of Tokyo
Toru Matsuzawa
Toru Matsuzawa Tohoku University
Satoshi Kaneshima
Satoshi Kaneshima Kyushu University

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