My research is focused on the generation mechanisms of earthquakes and
related phenomena, especially "slow earthquakes" and the relation
among them through the data analysis obtained with seismic and geodetic
observation networks.
Recent Publications:
Okada, Y., Nishimura, T., Tabei, T., Matsushima, T., Hirose, H. (2022), Development of a detection method for short-term slow slip events using GNSS data and its application to the Nankai subduction zone,Earth Planets Space,74, 18, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-022-01576-8
Hitoshi Hirose and Takeshi Kimura (2020), Slip distributions of short-term slow slip events in Shikoku, southwest Japan from 2001 to 2019 based on tilt change measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 125, e2020JB019601. doi:10.1029/2020JB019601
Asano, Y., K. Obara, T. Matsuzawa, H. Hirose, and Y. Ito (2015), Possible shallow slow slip events in Hyuga-nada, Nankai subduction zone, inferred from migration of very low frequency earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 331-338, doi:10.1002/2014GL062165
Hirose, H., T. Matsuzawa, T. Kimura, and H. Kimura (2014), The Boso slow slip events in 2007 and 2011 as a driving process for the accompanying earthquake swarm, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 2778-2785, doi:10.1002/2014GL059791
Shibazaki, B., K. Obara, T. Matsuzawa, and H. Hirose (2012), Modeling of slow slip events along the deep subduction zone in the Kii Peninsula and Tokai regions, southwest Japan, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B06311, doi:10.1029/2011JB009083.
Hirose, H., H. Kimura, B. Enescu, and S. Aoi (2012), Recurrent slow slip event likely hastened by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 109, 38, 15157-15161.