Nishida Prize

Naoki Uchida

・Commendation

Study on applications of repeating earthquakes analysis to seismology

・A list of five major papers

Uchida, N., T. Matsuzawa, T. Igarashi and A. Hasegawa, Interplate quasi-static slip off Sanriku, NE Japan, estimated from repeating earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 10.1029/2003GL017452, 2003.

Uchida, N., T. Matsuzawa, W. L. Ellsworth, K. Imanishi, T. Okada, and A. Hasegawa, Source parameters of a M4.8 and its accompanying repeating earthquakes off Kamaishi, NE Japan – implications for the hierarchical structure of asperities and earthquake cycle, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL031263, 2007.

Uchida, N., J. Nakajima, A. Hasegawa, and T. Matsuzawa, What controls interplate coupling?: Evidence for abrupt change in coupling across a border between two overlying plates in the NE Japan subduction zone, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 283, 111-121, 2009.

Uchida, N., and T. Matsuzawa, Pre- and post-seismic slow slip surrounding the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake rupture, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 374, 81-91, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.021, 2013.

Uchida, N., T. Iinuma, R. M. Nadeau, R. Bürgmann, and R. Hino, Periodic slow slip triggers megathrust zone earthquakes in northeastern Japan, Science, 351(6272), 488-492, doi:10.1126/science.aad3108, 2016.

・Nominator

Akira Hasegawa