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Takaya Iwasaki

Takaya Iwasaki

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Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
5111
World Ranking
6227
National Ranking
169

Overview

Takaya Iwasaki is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on geophysics and the application of artificial intelligence techniques within this domain.

Their work extensively covers topics related to earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, seismology and earthquake studies, as well as seismic waves and their analysis.

Takaya Iwasaki has published in several scientific venues, most frequently in:

  • Earth Planets and Space
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Eiji Kurashimo
  • Yusuke Yamashita
  • Takashi Iidaka
  • Hiroshi Katao
  • Yoshiko Teguri

Some of the recent papers showcasing the range of their research are:

  • Upper Plate Heterogeneity Along the Southern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Stress relaxation arrested the mainshock rupture of the 2016 Central Tottori earthquake, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Stationarity of aftershock activities of the 2016 Central Tottori Prefecture earthquake revealed by dense seismic observation, 2020, Earth Planets and Space
  • The Role of Fluid-Related Heterogeneous Structures in Controlling the Fault Slip Behavior in the Slow-Earthquake Source Region Along the Nankai Subduction Zone, Southwest Japan, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Spatial change in differential stress magnitudes around the source fault before intraplate earthquakes, 2022, Geophysical Journal International

Best Publications

  • High Pore Fluid Pressure May Cause Silent Slip in the Nankai Trough

    Shuichi Kodaira;Takashi Iidaka;Aitaro Kato;Jin-Oh Park

  • Variations of fluid pressure within the subducting oceanic crust and slow earthquakes

    Aitaro Kato;Takashi Iidaka;Ryoya Ikuta;Yasuhiro Yoshida

  • Earthquake source fault beneath Tokyo.

    Hiroshi Sato;Naoshi Hirata;Kazuki Koketsu;David Okaya

  • Structural factors controlling the rupture process of a megathrust earthquake at the Nankai trough seismogenic zone

    S. Kodaira;E. Kurashimo;J.-O. Park;N. Takahashi

  • Crustal structure across the coseismic rupture zone of the 1944 Tonankai earthquake, the central Nankai Trough seismogenic zone

    Ayako Nakanishi;Narumi Takahashi;Jin-Oh Park;Seiichi Miura

  • Crustal and upper mantle structure in the Ryukyu Island Arc deduced from deep seismic sounding

    T. Iwasaki;N. Hirata;T. Kanazawa;J. Melles

  • Statical and dynamical study on faulting mechanism of the 1923 Kanto earthquake.

    Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura;Takaya Iwasaki;Yasunori Suzuki;Ryosuke Sato

  • Extensional structure in Northern Honshu Arc as inferred from seismic refraction/wide‐angle reflection profiling

    Takaya Iwasaki;Wataru Kato;Takeo Moriya;Akiko Hasemi

  • Crustal structure of southwest Japan, revealed by the integrated seismic experiment Southwest Japan 2002

    Tanio Ito;Yuji Kojima;Shuichi Kodaira;Hiroshi Sato

  • Crustal Structure Beneath Lofoten, N. Norway, From Vertical Incidence and Wide-Angle Seismic Data

    R. Mjelde;M. A. Sellevoll;H. Shimamura;T. Iwasaki

  • Imaging the source region of the 2004 mid-Niigata prefecture earthquake and the evolution of a seismogenic thrust-related fold

    Aitaro Kato;Eiji Kurashimo;Naoshi Hirata;Shinichi Sakai

  • A detailed subduction structure in the Kuril trench deduced from ocean bottom seismographic refraction studies

    Takaya Iwasaki;Hajime Shiobara;Azusa Nishizawa;Toshihiko Kanazawa

  • A crustal study off Lofoten, N. Norway, by use of 3-component Ocean Bottom Seismographs

    R Mjelde;M.A Sellevoll;H Shimamura;T Iwasaki

  • Quasi-static displacements due to faulting in a layered half-space with an intervenient viscoelastic layer.

    Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura;Toshiro Tanimoto;Takaya Iwasaki

  • Imaging the seismic structure and stress field in the source region of the 2004 mid‐Niigata prefecture earthquake: Structural zones of weakness and seismogenic stress concentration by ductile flow

    Aitaro Kato;Shin'ichi Sakai;Naoshi Hirata;Eiji Kurashimo

  • Precise P and S wave velocity structures in the Kitakami Massif, Northern Honshu, Japan, from a seismic refraction experiment

    Takaya Iwasaki;Toshikatsu Yoshii;Takeo Moriya;Akio Kobayashi

  • Upper and middle crustal deformation of an arc - Arc collision across Hokkaido, Japan, inferred from seismic refraction/wide-angle reflection experiments

    Takaya Iwasaki;Keiji Adachi;Takeo Moriya;Hiroki Miyamachi

  • Study on coseismic and postseismic crustal movements associated with the 1923 Kanto earthquake

    Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura;Takaya Iwasaki

  • SAHKE geophysical transect reveals crustal and subduction zone structure at the southern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

    S. Henrys;A. Wech;R. Sutherland;T. Stern

  • Hypocenter migration and crustal seismic velocity distribution observed for the inland earthquake swarms induced by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake in NE Japan: Implications for crustal fluid distribution and crustal permeability

    Tomomi Okada;Toru Matsuzawa;Norihito Umino;Keisuke Yoshida

  • Deep seismic reflection profiling across the Ou Backbone range, northern Honshu Island, Japan

    Hiroshi Sato;Naoshi Hirata;Takaya Iwasaki;Makoto Matsubara

Frequent Co-Authors

Naoshi Hirata
Naoshi Hirata University of Tokyo
Aitaro Kato
Aitaro Kato University of Tokyo
Toshihiko Kanazawa
Toshihiko Kanazawa University of Tokyo
Shuichi Kodaira
Shuichi Kodaira Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Yoshiyuki Kaneda
Yoshiyuki Kaneda Nagoya University
Masanao Shinohara
Masanao Shinohara University of Tokyo
Rupert Sutherland
Rupert Sutherland Victoria University of Wellington
Stuart Henrys
Stuart Henrys University of Auckland
Tomomi Okada
Tomomi Okada Tohoku University
Kazushige Obara
Kazushige Obara University of Tokyo

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