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Masanao Shinohara

Masanao Shinohara

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Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
8227
World Ranking
4903
National Ranking
128

Overview

Masanao Shinohara is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and works primarily within the domain of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research contributions span multiple specialized subfields, including geophysics, artificial intelligence, ocean engineering, oceanography, and surgery. The focus of their work emphasizes earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, along with seismology and earthquake studies.

The scientist has authored numerous research papers, with recent publications addressing diverse topics in seismic observation and earthquake detection. Representative papers include:

  • Marine Sediment Characterized by Ocean-Bottom Fiber-Optic Seismology, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Subsurface Imaging With Ocean-Bottom Distributed Acoustic Sensing and Water Phases Reverberations, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Shallow slow earthquakes to decipher future catastrophic earthquakes in the Guerrero seismic gap, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Performance of Seismic Observation by Distributed Acoustic Sensing Technology Using a Seafloor Cable Off Sanriku, Japan, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Earthquake Magnitude With DAS: A Transferable Data-Based Scaling Relation, 2023, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent collaborators in Shinohara's work include Tomoaki Yamada, Takeshi Akuhara, Yusuke Yamashita, Kiwamu Nishida, and Kimihiro Mochizuki. This network of co-authors reflects a broad engagement with leading researchers in geophysics and related fields.

Publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Earth Planets and Space, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysical Research Letters, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. These journals broadly encompass geosciences, seismology, and planetary research.

The main topical concentrations of Shinohara's research include:

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

This body of work contributes to the understanding of seismic activity through innovative sensing technologies and data-based approaches, including fiber-optic sensing on the ocean bottom and distributed acoustic sensing methods.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Seismic Evidence for Sharp Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundaries of Oceanic Plates

    Hitoshi Kawakatsu;Prakash Kumar;Yasuko Takei;Masanao Shinohara

  • Continental Crust, Crustal Underplating, and Low- Q Upper Mantle Beneath an Oceanic Island Arc

    Kiyoshi Suyehiro;Narumi Takahashi;Yoshiro Ariie;Yasutaka Yokoi

  • Weak Interplate Coupling by Seamounts and Repeating M ~ 7 Earthquakes

    Kimihiro Mochizuki;Tomoaki Yamada;Masanao Shinohara;Yoshiko Yamanaka

  • Significant tsunami observed at ocean-bottom pressure gauges during the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

    Takuto Maeda;Takashi Furumura;Shin’ichi Sakai;Masanao Shinohara

  • 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

  • Tsunamigenic potential of the shallow subduction plate boundary inferred from slow seismic slip

    Hiroko Sugioka;Taro Okamoto;Takeshi Nakamura;Yasushi Ishihara

  • Migrating tremor off southern Kyushu as evidence for slow slip of a shallow subduction interface

    Y. Yamashita;H. Yakiwara;Y. Asano;Hiroshi Shimizu

  • Successive estimation of a tsunami wavefield without earthquake source data: A data assimilation approach toward real-time tsunami forecasting

    Takuto Maeda;Kazushige Obara;Masanao Shinohara;Toshihiko Kanazawa

  • Seismic record of tectonic evolution and backarc rifting in the southern Ryukyu island arc system

    Jin-Oh Park;Hidekazu Tokuyama;Masanao Shinohara;Kiyoshi Suyehiro

  • Nature and growth rate of the northern Izu-Bonin (Ogasawara) arc crust and their implications for continental crust formation

    Asahiko Taira;Saneatsu Saito;Kan Aoike;Sumito Morita

  • Seismological structure and implications of collision between the Ontong Java Plateau and Solomon Island Arc from ocean bottom seismometer-airgun data

    Seiichi Miura;Kiyoshi Suyehiro;Masanao Shinohara;Narumi Takahashi

  • Implications from the seismic crustal structure of the northern Izu–Bonin arc

    Narumi Takahashi;Kiyoshi Suyehiro;Masanao Shinohara

  • Near-field tsunami forecasting using offshore tsunami data from the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

    Hiroaki Tsushima;Kenji Hirata;Yutaka Hayashi;Yuichiro Tanioka

  • Western Nankai Trough seismogenic zone: Results from a wide‐angle ocean bottom seismic survey

    Shuichi Kodaira;Narumi Takahashi;Jin-Oh Park;Kimihiro Mochizuki

  • Normal‐faulting earthquakes beneath the outer slope of the Japan Trench after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake: Implications for the stress regime in the incoming Pacific plate

    Koichiro Obana;Gou Fujie;Tsutomu Takahashi;Yojiro Yamamoto

  • Oceanic crust in the Japan Basin of the Japan Sea by the 1990 Japan-USSR Expedition

    Naoshi Hirata;Boris Ya. Karp;Takashi Yamaguchi;Toshihiko Kanazawa

  • Marine Sediment Characterized by Ocean‐Bottom Fiber‐Optic Seismology

    Zack J. Spica;Zack J. Spica;Kiwamu Nishida;Takeshi Akuhara;François Pétrélis;François Pétrélis

  • Upper mantle and crustal seismic structure beneath the Northwestern Pacific Basin using a seafloor borehole broadband seismometer and ocean bottom seismometers

    Masanao Shinohara;Tetsuo Fukano;Toshihiko Kanazawa;Eiichiro Araki

  • Practical application of a sea-water battery in deep-sea basin and its performance

    Masanao Shinohara;Eiichiro Araki;Masashi Mochizuki;Toshihiko Kanazawa

  • Crustal structure study at the Izu-Bonin subduction zone around 31°N: implications of serpentinized materials along the subduction plate boundary

    Aya Kamimura;Junzo Kasahara;Masanao Shinohara;Ryota Hino

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshihiko Kanazawa
Toshihiko Kanazawa University of Tokyo
Ryota Hino
Ryota Hino Tohoku University
Kiyoshi Suyehiro
Kiyoshi Suyehiro Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Shuichi Kodaira
Shuichi Kodaira Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Naoshi Hirata
Naoshi Hirata University of Tokyo
Yoshiyuki Kaneda
Yoshiyuki Kaneda Nagoya University
Narumi Takahashi
Narumi Takahashi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Takaya Iwasaki
Takaya Iwasaki University of Tokyo
Hisashi Utada
Hisashi Utada University of Tokyo

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