Dept. Earth & Planet. Sci.

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English / Japanese

Katsuhiko ISHIBASHI

Professor
 Research Center for Urban Safety and Security
Graduate School of Science
Faculty of Science
URLipersonalj:
  • Office:Faculty of Science Bldg C, room 104
  • Mailing address:Department of Earth andPlanetary Sciences, Faculty of Scienc e, Kobe University, 657-8501 Japan
  • FAX:(+81)78-803-5731
  • e-mail: ishi(at)kobe-u.ac.jp
  • Seismological Laboratory URL
Research Interests:
My research interests are currently as follows:
1. Seismicity and seismotectonics in and around the Japanese Islands
2. Especially, modeling of convergence process and earthquake generation along the northern margin of the PhilippineSea plate
3. Mechanism and predictability of large and great slab earthquakes
4. Long-term earthquake forecasting
5. Renovation of historical seismology in Japan
6. Critical science for citizens with special interest in earthquake disaster mitigation
Relevant Publications:
  1. Ishibashi, K., Status of historical seismology in Japan,Annals of Geophysics , Vol.47, 339-368 (2004)
  2. Ishibashi, K., Seismotectonic modeling of the repeating M 7-class disastrous Odawara earthquake in the Izu collision zone, central Japan, Earth Planets Space, Vol.56, 843-858 (2004)
  3. Miyoshi, T. and K. Ishibashi, Geometry of the seismic Philippine Sea slab beneath the region from Ise Bay to western Shikoku, southwest Japan, Zisin (J. Seismol. Soc. Japan), Ser. 2, Vol.57, 139-152 (in Japanese with English abstract) (2004)
  4. Itani, Y. and K. Ishibashi, Horizontal crustal strain in the Izu Peninsula - Mt. Fuji region derived from GEONET data and its tectonic implication,Zisin (J. Seismol. S oc. Japan), Ser. 2, Vol.56, 231-243 (in Japanese with English abstract) (2003)
  5. Harada, T. and K. Ishibashi, The 1958 great Etorofu earthquake was a slab event: Suggestion from the mainshock-aftershock relocation, EOS, Vol.81, No.22 Suppl. WP157 (2000)
  6. Ishibashi, K., An Era of Underground Convulsions:A Seismologist Warns, Iwanami Paperbacks, Iwanami Shoten, 234pp. (in Japanese) (1994)
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updated date: 1/ 4/2007