Professor
　Research Center for Urban Safety and Security & Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science

• e-mail： yoshioka(at)port.kobe-u.ac.jp
• Office: The Graduate School of Science and Technology Bldg 3, room 615
• Solid Geophysics Laboratory WEB

主な研究テーマ

• Numerical simulations of displacement, strain and stress fields associated with megathrust earthquakes occurring in and around the Japanese islands　
• Interplate coupling in subduction zones in the circum-Pacific regions (inversion analysis of GPS data, numerical simulations of temperature field)
• Generation mechanism of deep low-frequency earthquakes and SSEs
• Numerical simulations of deeper portions of slabs (stress field, temperature field, flow pattern, deformation, seismic wave propagation)
• Numerical simulations of dynamic fault rupture process
• Numerical simulations of tsunamis
  

Recent Publications:　

• Rui Qu, Ye Zhu, Yingfeng Ji, Lijun Liu, Weiling Zhu, Chaodi Xie, Haris Faheem and Shoichi Yoshioka,Mantle flows driving tectonic escape around eastern Himalaya syntaxis, Scientific Reports, 15, 14693(2025)
• Erika Jessenia Moreno, Shoichi Yoshioka, Vlad Constantin Manea, Marina Manea and Nobuaki Suenaga,2D visco-elasto-plastic subduction models in the presence of a high density and viscosity continental block: a case study for the slab geometry beneath the Kii Peninsula, southwest Japan, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 12, 28 (2025)
• Hiroki Kawabata and Shoichi Yoshioka,Spatiotemporal changes in the strain field in the Niigata-Kobe Tectonic Zone: long-term analysis using GNSS time series data, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 12, 22 (2025)
• Nobuaki Suenaga, Shoichi Yoshioka, Vlad Constantin Manea, Marina Manea, Erika Jessenia Moreno and Yingfeng Ji,Three-dimensional thermomechanical modelling beneath Guerrero, Mexico, and its relation to the occurrence of interplate seismic phenomena, Scientific Reports, 15, 7513 (2025)
• Natsuki Kozai, Nobuaki Suenaga, Shoichi Yoshioka and Vlad Constantin Manea, Effects of hot plumes and slab rheology on the bending of the Philippine Sea slab at shallow depths beneath the Kyushu region, southwest Japan, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 182, 1861-1888 (2025)
• Haris Faheem, YingFeng Ji, WeiLing Zhu, Rui Qu, Ye Zhu and Shoichi Yoshioka,Subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismicity in the Makran subduction zone, Earth and Planetary Physics, 9, 1-13 (2024)
• Vlad Constantin Manea, E.G. Sewell, Marina Manea, Shoichi Yoshioka, Nobuaki Suenaga and Erika Jessenia Moreno,Finite element software for calculating fluid flow and heat transport for seamounts, Environmental Modelling and Software, 179, 106129 (2024)
• Hiroki Kawabata, Yukinari Seshimo, Shoichi Yoshioka and Francisco Ortega-Culaciati,Detection of a recent large Hyuga-nada long-term slow slip event and estimation of its spatiotemporal slip distributions, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 11, 24 (2024)
• Kaya Iwamoto, Nobuaki Suenaga, Shoichi Yoshioka and Francisco Ortega-Culaciati,3D thermal structural and dehydration modeling in the southern Chile subduction zone and its relationship to interplate earthquakes and the volcanic chain, Geoscience Letters, 11, 3 (2024)
• Yukinari Seshimo, Hiroki Kawabata, Shoichi Yoshioka and Francisco Ortega-Culaciati,Spatiotemporal slip distribution associated with the 2012-2016 Tokai long-term slow slip event inverted from GNSS data, Geoscience Letters, 10, 61 (2023)

Academic Associations:　

• Seismological Society of Japan (Japanese)
• American Geophysical Union

UPDATE: 02/04/2018