Kiyoo Mogi information

Kiyoo Mogi
Kiyoo Mogi
Born	1929; Yamagata Prefecture
Died	6 June 2021
Known for	Mogi doughnut hypothesis;; Mogi model;; Former chair of the Japanese Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction
	Scientific career
Fields	Seismology; Seismotectonics
Institutions	Director, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo;; Professor, Nihon University

Kiyoo Mogi (茂木清夫, Mogi Kiyoo, 1929 in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan – 6 June 2021^[1]) was a prominent seismologist. He was regarded as Japan's foremost authority on earthquake prediction^[2] and was a chair of the Japanese Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction (CCEP).^[3] Mogi was also a director of the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute, was a professor at Nihon University^[4] and was professor emeritus at Tokyo University.^[5]^[6] Due to the seismic activity in Japan, Mogi also took an interest in safety of nuclear power in Japan.

In 1969 Mogi predicted that there was a possibility of a shallow magnitude 8.0 earthquake in the Tōkai region of Japan, an area that has experienced a number of previous large earthquakes.^[5] Following the passing of the Large-Scale Earthquake Countermeasure Act, in 1978 Mogi was appointed to the newly created Earthquake Assessment Committee (EAC) for the expected Tokai earthquake, charged with warning the government if the quake was imminent. He went on to chair the ECA from 1991 until he resigned the post in 1996 after failing to persuade the government of the need to take uncertainty into account when issuing warnings.^[5]

^ 茂木清夫氏死去（東京大名誉教授・地球物理学） (in Japanese)
^ Nuclear crisis in Japan as scientists reveal quake threat to power plants The Times, published 2007-07-19, accessed 2011-03-18
^ Quake shuts world's largest nuclear plant Nature, vol 448, 392-393, doi:10.1038/448392a, published 2007-07-25, accessed 2011-03-18
^ Japan Questions Its Costly Program to Predict Earthquakes New York Times, published 1998-01-13, accessed 2011-03-18
^ ^a ^b ^c Two grave issues concerning the expected Tokai Earthquake Kiyoo Mogi, Earth Planets Space, Vol. 56 (No. 8), pp. li-lxvi, published 2004, accessed 2011-03-11
^ Japan Holds Firm to Shaky Science Science, Vol. 264 no. 5166 pp. 1656-1658, doi:10.1126/science.264.5166.1656, published 1994-06-17, accessed 2011-03-18

[1] 茂木清夫氏死去（東京大名誉教授・地球物理学） (in Japanese)

[times-07-07-19-2] Nuclear crisis in Japan as scientists reveal quake threat to power plants The Times, published 2007-07-19, accessed 2011-03-18

[nature-07-07-25-3] Quake shuts world's largest nuclear plant Nature, vol 448, 392-393, doi:10.1038/448392a, published 2007-07-25, accessed 2011-03-18

[4] Japan Questions Its Costly Program to Predict Earthquakes New York Times, published 1998-01-13, accessed 2011-03-18

[mogi-2004-5] Two grave issues concerning the expected Tokai Earthquake Kiyoo Mogi, Earth Planets Space, Vol. 56 (No. 8), pp. li-lxvi, published 2004, accessed 2011-03-11

[6] Japan Holds Firm to Shaky Science Science, Vol. 264 no. 5166 pp. 1656-1658, doi:10.1126/science.264.5166.1656, published 1994-06-17, accessed 2011-03-18

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Kiyoo Mogi
Born	1929 Yamagata Prefecture
Died	6 June 2021
Known for	Mogi doughnut hypothesis; Mogi model; Former chair of the Japanese Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction
Scientific career
Fields	Seismology; Seismotectonics
Institutions	Director, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo; Professor, Nihon University