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Shinji Toda

Shinji Toda

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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
7279
World Ranking
7458
National Ranking
212

Overview

Shinji Toda is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has an extensive research record in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on earthquake and tectonic studies. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The main topics in Toda's work encompass earthquake and tectonic studies, seismology and earthquake studies, geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, landslides and related hazards, geology and paleoclimatology research, and high-pressure geophysics and materials.

Toda has published numerous papers, including the following recent works:

  • Long- and Short-Term Stress Interaction of the 2019 Ridgecrest Sequence and Coulomb-Based Earthquake Forecasts, 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Surface faulting earthquake clustering controlled by fault and shear-zone interactions, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Central shutdown and surrounding activation of aftershocks from megathrust earthquake stress transfer, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Landscape changes caused by the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan, 2024, Science Advances
  • The Role of Stress Transfer in Rupture Nucleation and Inhibition in the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, Sequence, and a One-Year Earthquake Forecast, 2024, Seismological Research Letters

The frequent co-authors with whom Toda has collaborated include Ross S. Stein, Naoya Takahashi, Volkan Sevilgen, Hiroyuki Tsutsumi, and Daisuke Ishimura.

Toda's research appears in several publication venues, with multiple publications in Temblor, Earth Planets and Space, Seismological Research Letters, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, and the Journal of Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Forecasting the evolution of seismicity in southern California: Animations built on earthquake stress transfer

    Shinji Toda;Ross S. Stein;Keith Richards-Dinger;Serkan B. Bozkurt

  • Stress transferred by the 1995 Mw = 6.9 Kobe, Japan, shock: Effect on aftershocks and future earthquake probabilities

    Shinji Toda;Ross S. Stein;Paul A. Reasenberg;James H. Dieterich

  • Heightened Odds of Large Earthquakes Near Istanbul: An Interaction-Based Probability Calculation

    Tom Parsons;Shinji Toda;Ross S. Stein;Aykut Barka

  • Evidence from the ad 2000 Izu islands earthquake swarm that stressing rate governs seismicity

    Shinji Toda;Ross S. Stein;Takeshi Sagiya

  • 12 May 2008 M = 7.9 Wenchuan, China, earthquake calculated to increase failure stress and seismicity rate on three major fault systems

    Shinji Toda;Jian Lin;Mustapha Meghraoui;Ross S. Stein

  • Widespread seismicity excitation throughout central Japan following the 2011 M=9.0 Tohoku earthquake and its interpretation by Coulomb stress transfer

    Shinji Toda;Ross S. Stein;Jian Lin

  • Response of the San Andreas fault to the 1983 Coalinga-Nuñez earthquakes: An application of interaction-based probabilities for Parkfield

    Shinji Toda;Ross S. Stein

  • Toggling of seismicity by the 1997 Kagoshima earthquake couplet: A demonstration of time-dependent stress transfer

    Shinji Toda;Ross Stein

  • Using the 2011 M w 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake to test the Coulomb stress triggering hypothesis and to calculate faults brought closer to failure

    Shinji Toda;Jian Lin;Ross S. Stein

  • Case studies of electrical and electromagnetic methods applied to mapping active faults beneath the thick quaternary

    Koichi Suzuki;Shinji Toda;Kenichiro Kusunoki;Yasuhiro Fujimitsu

  • Aftershocks halted by static stress shadows

    Shinji Toda;Ross S. Stein;Gregory C. Beroza;David Marsan

  • Decay of aftershock density with distance does not indicate triggering by dynamic stress

    Keith Richards-Dinger;Ross S. Stein;Shinji Toda

  • When and where the aftershock activity was depressed: Contrasting decay patterns of the proximate large earthquakes in southern California

    Yosihiko Ogata;Lucile M. Jones;Shinji Toda

  • Simultaneous Reactivation of Two, Subparallel, Inland Normal Faults during the Mw 6.6 11 April 2011 Iwaki Earthquake Triggered by the Mw 9.0 Tohoku‐oki, Japan, Earthquake

    S. Toda;H. Tsutsumi

  • Mapping active fault associated with the 2003 Mw 6.6 Bam (SE Iran) earthquake with ASTER 3D images

    Bihong Fu;Yoshiki Ninomiya;Xinglin Lei;Shinji Toda

  • Slip-partitioned surface ruptures for the Mw 7.0 16 April 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, earthquake

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  • A slab fragment wedged under Tokyo and its tectonic and seismic implications

    Shinji Toda;Ross S. Stein;Stephen H. Kirby;Serkan B. Bozkurt

  • Rate/state Coulomb stress transfer model for the CSEP Japan seismicity forecast

    Shinji Toda;Bogdan Enescu

  • Evaluating models of Coulomb stress transfer: Is variable fault geometry important?

    Zoe K. Mildon;Shinji Toda;Joanna P. Faure Walker;Gerald P. Roberts

  • Coulomb pre-stress and fault bends are ignored yet vital factors for earthquake triggering and hazard

    Z. Mildon;Z. Mildon;Gerald P. Roberts;J. Faure Walker;S. Toda

  • A fault scarp in an urban area identified by LiDAR survey: A Case study on the Itoigawa–Shizuoka Tectonic Line, central Japan

    H. Kondo;S. Toda;K. Okumura;K. Takada

  • Stress transfer among en echelon and opposing thrusts and tear faults: Triggering caused by the 2003 Mw = 6.9 Zemmouri, Algeria, earthquake

    Jian Lin;Ross S. Stein;Mustapha Meghraoui;Shinji Toda

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross S. Stein
Ross S. Stein United States Geological Survey
Jian Lin
Jian Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mustapha Meghraoui
Mustapha Meghraoui University of Strasbourg
Yosihiko Ogata
Yosihiko Ogata The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Gerald P. Roberts
Gerald P. Roberts Birkbeck, University of London
Tom Parsons
Tom Parsons United States Geological Survey
James H. Dieterich
James H. Dieterich University of California, Riverside
Alessandro Maria Michetti
Alessandro Maria Michetti University of Insubria
Stephen H. Kirby
Stephen H. Kirby United States Geological Survey
Toru Matsuzawa
Toru Matsuzawa Tohoku University

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