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Tomomi Okada

Tomomi Okada

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Overview

Tomomi Okada is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans mainly the subfields of Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography, with a predominant focus on earthquake and tectonic studies as well as high-pressure geophysics and materials.

The scientist's work covers several main topics that include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Frequent coauthors in Okada's publications include:

  • Keisuke Yoshida
  • Satoshi Hirahara
  • Naoki Uchida
  • Satoshi Matsumoto
  • Yoshihisa Iio

They often publish in venues such as:

  • Earth Planets and Space
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Tectonophysics

Selected recent papers by Tomomi Okada include:

  • "Updip Fluid Flow in the Crust of the Northeastern Noto Peninsula, Japan, Triggered the 2023 Mw 6.2 Suzu Earthquake During Swarm Activity" (2023), Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Focal mechanisms and the stress field in the aftershock area of the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake (MJMA = 6.7)" (2021), Earth Planets and Space
  • "Stagnant forearc mantle wedge inferred from mapping of shear-wave anisotropy using S-net seafloor seismometers" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Simultaneous Analysis of Seismic Velocity and Electrical Conductivity in the Crust and the Uppermost Mantle: A Forward Model and Inversion Test Based on Grid Search" (2021), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Spatio-temporal analysis of seismic anisotropy associated with the Cook Strait and Kaikōura earthquake sequences in New Zealand" (2020), Geophysical Journal International

Okada's research includes extensive studies on seismic velocity, seismic anisotropy, focal mechanisms, and the fluid dynamics related to earthquake activity. The scientist applies advanced modeling and inversion techniques to analyze the earth's crust and mantles, particularly concerning earthquake aftershock zones and mantle wedge dynamics.

Best Publications

  • A unified source model for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

    Kazuki Koketsu;Yusuke Yokota;Naoki Nishimura;Yuji Yagi

  • Nearly complete stress drop in the 2011 M w 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

    Akira Hasegawa;Keisuke Yoshida;Tomomi Okada

  • Anomalous deepening of a seismic belt in the upper-plane of the double seismic zone in the Pacific slab beneath the Hokkaido corner: Possible evidence for thermal shielding caused by subducted forearc crust materials

    Saeko Kita;Tomomi Okada;Akira Hasegawa;Junichi Nakajima

  • Change in stress field after the 2011 great Tohoku-Oki earthquake

    Akira Hasegawa;Keisuke Yoshida;Youichi Asano;Tomomi Okada

  • Stress before and after the 2011 great Tohoku‐oki earthquake and induced earthquakes in inland areas of eastern Japan

    Keisuke Yoshida;Akira Hasegawa;Tomomi Okada;Takeshi Iinuma

  • Temporal Stress Changes Caused by Earthquakes: A Review

    Jeanne L. Hardebeck;Tomomi Okada

  • Existence of a seismic belt in the upper plane of the double seismic zone extending in the along-arc direction at depths of 70–100 km beneath NE Japan

    Saeko Kita;Tomomi Okada;Junichi Nakajima;Toru Matsuzawa

  • Plate subduction, and generation of earthquakes and magmas in Japan as inferred from seismic observations: An overview

    Akira Hasegawa;Junichi Nakajima;Naoki Uchida;Tomomi Okada

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

    Takaya Iwasaki;Wataru Kato;Takeo Moriya;Akiko Hasemi

  • Repeating earthquakes and quasi-static slip on the plate boundary east off northern Honshu, Japan

    Toru Matsuzawa;Naoki Uchida;Toshihiro Igarashi;Tomomi Okada

  • Source parameters of a M4.8 and its accompanying repeating earthquakes off Kamaishi, NE Japan: Implications for the hierarchical structure of asperities and earthquake cycle

    Naoki Uchida;Toru Matsuzawa;William L. Ellsworth;Kazutoshi Imanishi

  • Existence of interplane earthquakes and neutral stress boundary between the upper and lower planes of the double seismic zone beneath Tohoku and Hokkaido, northeastern Japan

    Saeko Kita;Tomomi Okada;Akira Hasegawa;Junichi Nakajima

  • Tomographic imaging of hydrated crust and mantle in the subducting Pacific slab beneath Hokkaido, Japan: Evidence for dehydration embrittlement as a cause of intraslab earthquakes

    Junichi Nakajima;Yusuke Tsuji;Akira Hasegawa;Saeko Kita

  • Lateral variation of the cutoff depth of shallow earthquakes beneath the Japan Islands and its implications for seismogenesis

    Aiymjan M. Omuralieva;Akira Hasegawa;Toru Matsuzawa;Junichi Nakajima

  • Evolution of late Cenozoic magmatism and the crust-mantle structure in the NE Japan Arc

    Takeyoshi Yoshida;Jun Ichi Kimura;Ryoichi Yamada;Valerio Acocella

  • Shear‐wave polarization anisotropy beneath the north‐eastern part of Honshu, Japan

    Tomomi Okada;Toru Matsuzawa;Akira Hasegawa

  • Comparison of source areas of M4.8±0.1 repeating earthquakes off Kamaishi, NE Japan: are asperities persistent features?

    Tomomi Okada;Toru Matsuzawa;Akira Hasegawa

  • 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

  • Estimation of the Orientations of the S‐net Cabled Ocean‐Bottom Sensors

    Ryota Takagi;Naoki Uchida;Takashi Nakayama;Ryosuke Azuma

  • Prestate of Stress and Fault Behavior During the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake (M7.3)

    Satoshi Matsumoto;Yusuke Yamashita;Manami Nakamoto;Masahiro Miyazaki

  • High-resolution seismic velocity structure beneath the Hokkaido corner, northern Japan: Arc-arc collision and origins of the 1970 M 6.7 Hidaka and 1982 M 7.1 Urakawa-oki earthquakes

    Saeko Kita;Akira Hasegawa;Junichi Nakajima;Tomomi Okada

  • The 2005 M7.2 MIYAGI-OKI earthquake, NE Japan: Possible rerupturing of one of asperities that caused the previous M7.4 earthquake

    Tomomi Okada;Tadashi Yaginuma;Norihito Umino;Toshio Kono

Frequent Co-Authors

Toru Matsuzawa
Toru Matsuzawa Tohoku University
Akira Hasegawa
Akira Hasegawa Tohoku University
Naoki Uchida
Naoki Uchida Tohoku University
Norihito Umino
Norihito Umino Tohoku University
Junichi Nakajima
Junichi Nakajima Tokyo Institute of Technology
Martha K. Savage
Martha K. Savage Victoria University of Wellington
Clifford H. Thurber
Clifford H. Thurber University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dapeng Zhao
Dapeng Zhao Tohoku University
Takaya Iwasaki
Takaya Iwasaki University of Tokyo

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