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Keiiti Aki
BornMarch 3, 1930
Yokohama, Japan
DiedMay 17, 2005(2005-05-17) (aged 75)
NationalityAmerican
Citizenshipthe United States
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Scientific career
FieldsGeophysics
InstitutionsMIT
University of Southern California
Doctoral studentsShamita Das

Keiiti Aki (安芸 敬一, Aki Keiichi, March 3, 1930 – May 17, 2005) was a Japanese-American professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and then at the University of Southern California (USC), seismologist, author and mentor. He and Paul G. Richards coauthored "Quantitative Seismology: theory and methods".[1]

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Keiiti Aki

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Keiiti Aki (安芸 敬一, Aki Keiichi, March 3, 1930 – May 17, 2005) was a Japanese-American professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

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Moment magnitude scale

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(WWSSN) permitted closer analysis of seismic waves. Notably, in 1966 Keiiti Aki showed that the seismic moment of the 1964 Niigata earthquake as calculated...

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Thorarinsson Medal

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(UK) 1993 Hans U. Schmincke (Germany) 1997 Richard V. Fisher (USA) 2000 Keiiti Aki (USA/France) 2004 Wes Hildreth (USA) 2008 Robert Stephen John Sparks (UK)...

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Seismic moment

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{2}}}(M_{ij}^{2})^{1/2}} Richter magnitude scale Moment magnitude scale Aki, Keiiti (1966), "Generation and propagation of G waves from the Niigata earthquake...

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List of Japanese Americans

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Churches of America and President of the Institute of Buddhist Studies Keiiti Aki (1930–2005), seismologist George I. Fujimoto (1920–2023), chemist Ted...

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Timeline of geology

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geomagnetic field reversals (Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis) 1966 – Keiiti Aki discovers the seismic moment ( M 0 {\displaystyle M_{0}} ) 1979 – Thomas...

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Seismic velocity structure

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interior by analyzing seismic waves, was propelled by the contributions of Keiiti Aki and Adam Dziewonski in the 1970s and 1980s, enabling a deeper understanding...

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List of geophysicists

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developing the Aliverti-Lovera method of measuring the radioactivity of water Keiiti Aki (Japanese-American, 1930–2005) – seismology; William Bowie Medal Claude...

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Southern California Earthquake Center

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and tsunami preparedness, mitigation and resiliency. Thomas H. Jordan Keiiti Aki "Breaking ground in earthquake research: NSF announces two awards through...

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Deaths in May 2005

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jiří Rubáš, 83, Czech football player and manager. Keiiti Aki, 75, Japanese seismologist. Ellis Batten Page, 81, American educational...

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San Jacinto Fault Zone

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The group consisted of more than three dozen seismologists, including Keiiti Aki and C. Allin Cornell, and was organized by the Southern California Earthquake...

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Bernard Chouet

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Paula Dickson; the couple have one son. Since 1977, Chouet’s colleague Keiiti Aki had been developing mathematical models of magma-filled fractures in volcanoes...

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Seismic interferometry

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pairs to reconstruct the impulse response of a given media. Papers by Keiiti Aki (1957), Géza Kunetz, and Jon Claerbout (1968) helped develop the technique...

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Seth Stein

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geophysics with an M.S. in 1977 and an Ph.D. in 1978. He was inspired by Keiiti Aki at M.I.T. and by Hiroo Kanamori at Caltech. Stein's doctoral dissertation...

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Bernhard Studer

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Celâl (1982). "Classical theories of orogenesis". In Miyashiro, Akiho; Aki, Keiiti; Şengör, Celâl (eds.). Orogeny. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 3–5. ISBN 0-471-103764...

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Weyl expansion

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Bibcode:1975PhRvA..11..230A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.11.230. Aki & Richards 2002, p. 189-192. Aki, Keiiti; Richards, Paul G. (2002). Quantitative Seismology (2 ed...

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Shamita Das

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of faults where high speeds of sheer will be possible. Das, Shamita; Aki, Keiiti (1977). "Fault plane with barriers: A versatile earthquake model". Journal...

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Elevation crater

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Celâl (1982). "Classical theories of orogenesis". In Miyashiro, Akiho; Aki, Keiiti; Şengör, Celâl (eds.). Orogeny. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-103764...

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Seismological Society of America

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Lloyd S. Cluff, 1982 Alan S. Ryall, Jr., 1981 Paul C. Jennings, 1980 Keiiti Aki, 1979 James C. Savage, 1978 George W. Housner, 1977 Otto W. Nuttli, 1976...

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William Bowie Medal

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2001 Dan McKenzie 2002 Adam M. Dziewonski 2003 Donald L. Turcotte 2004 Keiiti Aki 2005 Johannes Geiss(de:Johannes Geiss) 2006 Carl Wunsch 2007 Susan Solomon...

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Christian Leopold von Buch

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Celâl (1982). "Classical theories of orogenesis". In Miyashiro, Akiho; Aki, Keiiti; Şengör, Celâl (eds.). Orogeny. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 3–5. ISBN 0-471-103764...

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Stationary phase approximation

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Differential Operators, Volume 1, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-00662-6. Aki, Keiiti; & Richards, Paul G. (2002). "Quantitative Seismology" (2nd ed.), pp...

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Geosyncline

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Celâl (1982). "Classical theories of orogenesis". In Miyashiro, Akiho; Aki, Keiiti; Şengör, Celâl (eds.). Orogeny. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-103764...

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Peter Simon Pallas

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Celâl (1982). "Classical theories of orogenesis". In Miyashiro, Akiho; Aki, Keiiti; Şengör, Celâl (eds.). Orogeny. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 4–5. ISBN 0-471-103764...

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S wave

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Seismology (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-66023-8. Aki, Keiiti; Richards, Paul G. (2002). Quantitative Seismology (2nd ed.). University...

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Hans Stille

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Celâl (1982). "Classical theories of orogenesis". In Miyashiro, Akiho; Aki, Keiiti; Şengör, Celâl (eds.). Orogeny. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-103764...

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