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Toshihiko Kanazawa

Toshihiko Kanazawa

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Earth Science

D-Index
46
Citations
8368
World Ranking
4195
National Ranking
95

Overview

Toshihiko Kanazawa is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and works primarily within the fields of Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses on several specialized subfields, including Ocean Engineering, Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The main topics covered in Kanazawa's body of work include Drilling and Well Engineering, Offshore Engineering and Technologies, earthquake and tectonic studies, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Seismology and Earthquake Studies, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

Kanazawa's recent publications reflect a diverse range of interests in geophysics, environmental science, and materials chemistry. Notable recent papers include:

  • Seismic velocity structure along the Sea of Japan with large events derived from seismic tomography for whole Japanese Islands including reflection survey data and NIED MOWLAS Hi-net and S-net data, 2022, Earth Planets and Space
  • Development and Operation of an Ocean Bottom Cable Seismic and Tsunami (OBCST) Observation System in the Source Region of the Tohoku-oki Earthquake, 2021, Earth and Space Science
  • Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution over Crystalline Cu2Sn0.38Ge0.62S3 Particles Grown from LiCl-RbCl Flux, 2025, ACS Catalysis
  • ODP Leg 191, Hole 1179D - Well Logging Data, 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 136, Hole 843B - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Kanazawa collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors who contribute across multiple projects. These frequent collaborators include Masanao Shinohara, Adam M. Dziewoński, Roy H Wilkens, John V. Firth, and D. James Jr. Baker.

Publications by Kanazawa appear in several specialized venues. The most frequent publication venues are Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), Earth Planets and Space, Earth and Space Science, and ACS Catalysis. The diversity of venues illustrates the interdisciplinary nature of Kanazawa's research.

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

  • Stagnant slab : A review

    Yoshio Fukao;Tomoeki Nakakuki;Hisashi Utada;Daisuke Suetsugu

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE CENTRAL PART OF THE VORING BASIN, MID-NORWAY MARGIN, FROM OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPHS

    R. Mjelde;S. Kodaira;H. Shimamura;T. Kanazawa

  • The Japan Trench and its juncture with the Kuril Trench: cruise results of the Kaiko project, Leg 3

    Jean-Paul Cadet;Kazuo Kobayashi;Jean Aubouin;Jacques Boulègue

  • Japan Trench earthquake and tsunami monitoring network of cable-linked 150 ocean bottom observatories and its impact to earth disaster science

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Normal faulting of the Daiichi-Kashima Seamount in the Japan Trench revealed by the Kaiko I cruise, Leg 3

    Kazuo Kobayashi;Jean-Paul Cadet;Jean Aubouin;Jacques Boulègue

  • Lower crustal seismic velocity-anomalies; magmatic underplating or serpentinized peridotite? Evidence from the Vøring Margin, NE Atlantic

    Rolf Mjelde;Rolf Mjelde;Junzo Kasahara;Hideki Shimamura;Aya Kamimura

  • 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

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

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

  • Slip distribution of the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake estimated from tsunami waveform inversion

    Yuichiro Tanioka;Kenji Hirata;Ryota Hino;Toshihiko Kanazawa

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Masanao Shinohara
Masanao Shinohara University of Tokyo
Ryota Hino
Ryota Hino Tohoku University
Kiyoshi Suyehiro
Kiyoshi Suyehiro Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Naoshi Hirata
Naoshi Hirata University of Tokyo
Rolf Mjelde
Rolf Mjelde University of Bergen
Takaya Iwasaki
Takaya Iwasaki University of Tokyo
Shuichi Kodaira
Shuichi Kodaira Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hajime Shiobara
Hajime Shiobara University of Tokyo
Hisashi Utada
Hisashi Utada University of Tokyo
Yoshiyuki Kaneda
Yoshiyuki Kaneda Nagoya University

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