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  • 1997 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Yoshio Fukao is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on earth and planetary sciences, with substantial contributions in geophysics, oceanography, nuclear and high energy physics, geology, and mechanics of materials. Within these fields, their work extensively covers earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, as well as oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

The scientist's publication record includes significant papers presented in several venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Detection of "Rapid" Aseismic Slip at the Izu-Bonin Trench, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Wave propagation of meteotsunamis and generation of free tsunamis in the sloping area of the Japan Trench for the 2022 Hunga-Tonga volcanic eruption, 2022, Earth Planets and Space
  • Earthquake Rupture and Tsunami Generation of the 2015 Mw 5.9 Bonin Event Revealed by In Situ Pressure Gauge Array Observations and Integrated Seismic and Tsunami Wave Simulation, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Mesospheric pressure source from the 2022 Hunga, Tonga eruption excites 3.6-mHz air-sea coupled waves, 2023, Science Advances
  • Weak faults at megathrust plate boundary respond to tidal stress, 2021, Earth Planets and Space

The research articles have appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • Earth Planets and Space
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Science Advances

Yoshio Fukao collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Takashi Tonegawa
  • Hiroko Sugioka
  • Tatsuya Kubota
  • Aki Ito
  • Hajime Shiobara

The scientist's main areas of study encompass:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their specified subfields include:

  • Geophysics
  • Oceanography
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Geology
  • Mechanics of Materials

Work topics predominantly cover:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis

Yoshio Fukao has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Subducting slabs stagnant in the mantle transition zone

    Yoshio Fukao;Masayuki Obayashi;Hiroshi Inoue;Masakazu Nenbai

  • Stagnant slabs in the upper and lower mantle transition region

    Yoshio Fukao;Sri Widiyantoro;Masayuki Obayashi

  • Subducted slabs stagnant above, penetrating through, and trapped below the 660 km discontinuity

    Yoshio Fukao;Masayuki Obayashi

  • Whole mantle P-wave travel time tomography

    Hiroshi Inoue;Yoshio Fukao;Kunio Tanabe;Yosihiko Ogata

  • Stagnant slab : A review

    Yoshio Fukao;Tomoeki Nakakuki;Hisashi Utada;Daisuke Suetsugu

  • Tsunami earthquakes and subduction processes near deep-sea trenches

    Yoshio Fukao

  • Mountain building in the central Andes

    Masaru Kono;Yoshio Fukao;Akihiko Yamamoto

  • Thrust faulting at a lithospheric plate boundary the Portugal earthquake of 1969

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  • Earth's Background Free Oscillations

    Naoki Suda;Naoki Suda;Kazunari Nawa;Kazunari Nawa;Yoshio Fukao;Yoshio Fukao

  • Evidence from core-reflected shear waves for anisotropy in the earth's mantle

    Yoshio Fukao

  • Finite frequency whole mantle P wave tomography: Improvement of subducted slab images

    Masayuki Obayashi;Junko Yoshimitsu;Guust Nolet;Yoshio Fukao

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

    Hiroko Sugioka;Taro Okamoto;Takeshi Nakamura;Yasushi Ishihara

  • Source process of a large deep-focus earthquake and its tectonic implications — the Western Brazil earthquake of 1963

    Yoshio Fukao

  • A seismological constraint on the depth of basalt–eclogite transition in a subducting oceanic crust

    Yoshio Fukao;Sadaki Hori;Motoo Ukawa

  • Incessant excitation of the Earth’s free oscillations

    Kazunari Nawa;Naoki Suda;Yoshio Fukao;Tadahiro Sato

  • Seismic detection of the untransformed ‘basaltic’ oceanic crust subducting into the mantle

    Sadaki Hori;Hiroshi Inoue;Yoshio Fukao;Motoo Ukawa

  • Resonant Oscillations Between the Solid Earth and the Atmosphere

    Kiwamu Nishida;Naoki Kobayashi;Yoshio Fukao

  • Mechanism of large earthquakes along the eastern margin of the Japan sea

    Yoshio Fukao;Muneyoshi Furumoto

  • Inversion of long-period P-waves from great earthquakes along subduction zones

    Masayuki Kikuchi;Yoshio Fukao

  • Shear wave splitting in the crust in North China: stress, faults and tectonic implications

    Yuan Gao;Jing Wu;Yoshio Fukao;Yutao Shi

  • Iterative deconvolution of complex body waves from great earthquakes-the Tokachi-Oki earthquake of 1968

    Masayuki Kikuchi;Yoshio Fukao

  • Signature of remnant slabs in the North Pacific from P‐wave tomography

    A. Gorbatov;S. Widiyantoro;Y. Fukao;E. Gordeev

Frequent Co-Authors

Mineo Kumazawa
Mineo Kumazawa Nagoya University
Hiroyuki Kumagai
Hiroyuki Kumagai Nagoya University
Hiroshi Shimizu
Hiroshi Shimizu Hokkaido University
Kazuro Hirahara
Kazuro Hirahara RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Yosihiko Ogata
Yosihiko Ogata The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

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