Research Associate, Geophysics Institute, Tokyo University, 1962–65 Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1965–66 Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo University, 1966–72 Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1972-05
Doctoral students
Seth Stein
Hiroo Kanamori (金森 博雄, Kanamori Hiroo, born October 17, 1936) is a Japanese-American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them.
HirooKanamori (金森 博雄, KanamoriHiroo, born October 17, 1936) is a Japanese-American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding...
seismic moment. Mw was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and HirooKanamori. Similar to the local magnitude/Richter scale (ML ) defined by Charles...
Akihiro Kanamori (金森 晶洋, born 1948), Japanese-born American mathematician HirooKanamori (金森 博雄, born 1936), Japanese seismologist Mayu Kanamori (金森 マユ...
shorter-period seismic waves. The term was introduced by Japanese seismologist HirooKanamori in 1972. Such events are a result of relatively slow rupture velocities...
Seismic moment is the basis of the moment magnitude scale introduced by HirooKanamori, which is often used to compare the size of different earthquakes and...
inactive through the 1990s. In the 1980s, geophysicists Tom Heaton and HirooKanamori of Caltech compared the generally quiet Cascadia to more active subduction...
Francisco: W.H. Freeman. William H.K. Lee; Paul Jennings; Carl Kisslinger; HirooKanamori (27 September 2002). International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering...
characteristics of the 1906 and 1989 events were examined by seismologists HirooKanamori and Kenji Satake. The significant amount of vertical displacement in...
of 8.8. The United States Geological Survey has its estimate of 9.1. HirooKanamori of the California Institute of Technology estimates that Mw 9.2 is best...
Tatsuo Usami "Historical earthquakes in Japan", In: William H.K. Lee, HirooKanamori, Paul C. Jennings and Carl Kisslinger, (Eds.), International Geophysics...
Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (d. 2013) 1936 – HirooKanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic 1936 – Santiago Navarro...
seismic moment ( M 0 {\displaystyle M_{0}} ) 1979 – Thomas C. Hanks and HirooKanamori, Moment magnitude scale ( M W {\displaystyle M_{W}} ), it succeeds the...
magnitude scale – Mw or Mw – developed by seismologists Thomas C. Hanks and HirooKanamori, is based on an earthquake's seismic moment, M0, a measure of how much...
Geological Society, 2009 William H.K. Lee, Paul Jennings, Carl Kisslinger, HirooKanamori: International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology, Teil...
Samoa". United States Geological Survey. Thorne Lay; Charles J. Ammon; HirooKanamori; Luis Rivera; Keith D. Koper; Alexander R. Hutko (2010). "The 2009 Samoa–Tonga...
sciences 2006 Hirotsugu Akaike Japan 1927–2009 Mathematical sciences 2007 HirooKanamori Japan born 1936 Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy and astrophysics...
Fall Meet.Suppl., Abstract S12A-05 Zhongwen Zhan; Peter M. Shearer; HirooKanamori (2015). "Supershear rupture in the 24 May 2013 Mw 6.7 Okhotsk deep earthquake:...
seismologist; member of National Academy of Sciences Andrew Ingersoll HirooKanamori, Kyoto Prize laureate Heinz A. Lowenstam, former faculty Bruce C. Murray...
Villaseñor (2002). "Global Seismicity: 1900–1999". In William H.K. Lee; HirooKanamori; Paul C. Jennings; Carl Kisslinger (eds.). International handbook of...
inspired by Keiiti Aki at M.I.T. and by HirooKanamori at Caltech. Stein's doctoral dissertation, supervised by Kanamori, is entitled I. Seismological study...
0, International Seismological Centre Thorne Lay; Charles J. Ammon; HirooKanamori; Luis Rivera; Keith D. Koper; Alexander R. Hutko (2010). "The 2009 Samoa–Tonga...
Edward Bullard, Charles Francis Richter, Francis Birch, Frank Press, HirooKanamori and Walter Elsasser. One highly debated topic about Earth's interior...
contributed to rebuttal of the 'jelly sandwich' model of the crust HirooKanamori (American, 1936– ) – fundamental contributions to the physics of earthquakes;...
Geophysical Union General Assembly, pp. A-06228, Vienna. Vassiliou, Marius; Kanamori, Hiroo (1982). "The Energy Release in Earthquakes". Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am...
initial characterizations of tsunami earthquakes came from seismologist HirooKanamori in the early 1970s, and additional clarity materialized following the...
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