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Kenji Satake

Kenji Satake

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Earth Science
Japan
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
76
Citations
21001
World Ranking
667
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Kenji Satake is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scientific contributions focus primarily on geophysics, with significant work in earthquake and tectonic studies, earthquake detection and analysis, and seismology and earthquake studies. Their research extends to related fields such as high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, geological and geophysical studies, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Satake's recent published papers include:

  • "The 22 December 2018 tsunami from flank collapse of Anak Krakatau volcano during eruption" (2020), Science Advances
  • "Slip distribution of the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake (MJMA 7.6) estimated from tsunami waveforms and GNSS data" (2024), Earth Planets and Space
  • "Regional probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment associated with active faults along the eastern margin of the Sea of Japan" (2020), Earth Planets and Space
  • "Effects of uncertainty in fault parameters on deterministic tsunami hazard assessment: examples for active faults along the eastern margin of the Sea of Japan" (2022), Earth Planets and Space
  • "History and features of trans-oceanic tsunamis and implications for paleo-tsunami studies" (2020), Earth-Science Reviews

Frequent co-authors in Satake's work include:

  • Shingo Watada
  • Iyan E. Mulia
  • Hiroo Kanamori
  • Osamu Sandanbata
  • Luis Rivera

The principal venues where Satake has published are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth Planets and Space
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Pure and Applied Geophysics

Satake's research topics concentrate around:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

They have contributed extensively to the subfields of Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geology, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry, with a predominant number of publications in Geophysics.

Kenji Satake was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004

    Thorne Lay;Thorne Lay;Hiroo Kanamori;Charles J. Ammon;Meredith Nettles

  • Time and size of a giant earthquake in Cascadia inferred from Japanese tsunami records of January 1700

    K. Satake;K. Shimazaki;Y. Tsuji;K. Ueda

  • Tsunami source of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

    Yushiro Fujii;Kenji Satake;Shin’ichi Sakai;Masanao Shinohara

  • Tsunami generation by horizontal displacement of ocean bottom

    Yuichiro Tanioka;Kenji Satake

  • Unusually large earthquakes inferred from tsunami deposits along the Kuril trench

    Futoshi Nanayama;Kenji Satake;Ryuta Furukawa;Koichi Shimokawa

  • Time and Space Distribution of Coseismic Slip of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake as Inferred from Tsunami Waveform Data

    Kenji Satake;Yushiro Fujii;Tomoya Harada;Yuichi Namegaya

  • The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America

    Brian F. Atwater;Satoko Musumi-Rokkaku;Kenji Satake;Yoshinobu Tsuji

  • Fault slip and seismic moment of the 1700 Cascadia earthquake inferred from Japanese tsunami descriptions

    Kenji Satake;Kelin Wang;Brian F. Atwater

  • Sedimentary differences between the 1993 Hokkaido-nansei-oki tsunami and the 1959 Miyakojima typhoon at Taisei, southwestern Hokkaido, northern Japan

    F Nanayama;K Shigeno;K Satake;K Shimokawa

  • Long-Term Perspectives on Giant Earthquakes and Tsunamis at Subduction

    Kenji Satake;Brian F. Atwater

  • Tsunami Source of the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman Earthquake Inferred from Tide Gauge and Satellite Data

    Yushiro Fujii;Kenji Satake

  • A unified source model for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

    Kazuki Koketsu;Yusuke Yokota;Naoki Nishimura;Yuji Yagi

  • Challenges of anticipating the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami using coastal geology

    Yuki Sawai;Yuichi Namegaya;Yukinobu Okamura;Kenji Satake;Kenji Satake

  • Linear and Nonlinear Computations of the 1992 Nicaragua Earthquake Tsunami

    Kenji Satake

  • Sources of Tsunami and Tsunamigenic Earthquakes in Subduction Zones

    K. Satake;Y. Tanioka

  • Logic-tree Approach for Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis and its Applications to the Japanese Coasts

    Tadashi Annaka;Kenji Satake;Tsutomu Sakakiyama;Ken Yanagisawa

  • The 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake: Joint inversion of tsunami and geodetic data

    Jean M. Johnson;Kenji Satake;Sanford R. Holdahl;Jeanne Sauber

  • 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

  • Inversion of tsunami waveforms for the estimation of a fault heterogeneity: Method and numerical experiments.

    Kenji Satake

  • Scaling relations of seismic moment, rupture area, average slip, and asperity size for M~9 subduction‐zone earthquakes

    Satoko Murotani;Kenji Satake;Yushiro Fujii

  • Depth distribution of coseismic slip along the Nankai Trough, Japan, from joint inversion of geodetic and tsunami data

    Kenji Satake

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohammad Heidarzadeh
Mohammad Heidarzadeh University of Bath
Hiroo Kanamori
Hiroo Kanamori California Institute of Technology
Takuto Maeda
Takuto Maeda Hirosaki University
Yuki Sawai
Yuki Sawai National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Larry J. Ruff
Larry J. Ruff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Takashi Furumura
Takashi Furumura University of Tokyo
Kunihiko Shimazaki
Kunihiko Shimazaki University of Tokyo
Anne F. Sheehan
Anne F. Sheehan University of Colorado Boulder
Brian F. Atwater
Brian F. Atwater University of Washington
Phil R. Cummins
Phil R. Cummins Australian National University

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