2004 Petit Print & Namazu Club
Time: Every Tuesday afternoon
Place: Rigaku-bu 2-gokan Room 509

Dec 21 (Start at 14:00)
Okaue-san's interim report of research for Bachelor degree

This is the last meeting in the academic year.

* This is Seminar on Solid Geophysics III (4 units per year).


Nov 30
Fenglin Niu, Sean C. Solomon, Paul G. Silver, D. Suetsugu, H. Inoue "Mantle transition-zone structure beneath the South Pacific Superswell and evidence for a mantle plume underlying the Society hotspot" Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 198, 371-380, 2002
(presented by Okaue)

Nov 16
van Gerven, L., F. Deschamps, and R. D. van der Hilst "Geophysical evidence for chemical variations in the Australian Continental Mantle" GRL, 31, doi:10.1029/2004GL020307, 2004
(presented by Kuge)

Nov 9
Yamashita, F., E. Fukuyama and K. Omura "Estimation of Fault Strength: Reconstruction of Stress Before the 1995 Kobe Earthquake" Science Vol 306, 261-263 October 2004
(presented by Janette)

Nov 2
M.-P.Bouin, M.Bouchon, H.Karabulut and M.Aktar "Rupture process of the 1999 November 12 Duzce(Turkey) earthquake deduced from strong motion and Global Positioning System measurements" GJI, vol.159, 207-211, 2004
(presented by Igarashi)

Oct 26
D. Suetsugu, T. Saita, H. Takenaka, and F. Niu, "Thickness of the mantle transition zone beneath the South Pacific as inferred from analyses of ScS reverberated and Ps converted waves" Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, Vol. 146, Issue 1-2, Pages 35-46, 2004
(presented by Okaue)

Oct 19
Rhie, J. and B. Romanowicz "Excitation of Earth's continuous free oscillations by atmosphere-ocean-seafloor coupling" Science, 431, 552-556, 2004
(presented by Kuge)

Oct 12
S.K. Singh, J.F. Pacheco, B.K. Bansal, X. Perez-Campos, R.S. Dattatrayam and G. Suresh "A Source Study of the Bhuj, India, Earthquake of 26 January 2001 (Mw 7.6)" BSSA, Vol 94, No 4, pp.1195-1206, August 2004
(presented by Janette)

Oct 5
Eiichi Fukuyama, William L. Ellsworth, Felix Waldhauser, and Atsuki Kubo "Detailed Fault Structure of the 2000 Western Tottori, Japan, Earthquake Sequence" BSSA, vol.93, 1468-1478, 2003
(presented by Igarashi)

July 20
Saltzer, R. L., E. Stutsmann, and R. D. van der Hilst "Poisson's ratio in the lower mantle beneath Alaska: Evidence for compositional heterogeneity" JGR, 109, doi:10.1029/2003JB002712, 2004
(presented by Kuge)

July 13
Hiroyuki Kumagai, Koji Miyakawa, Hiroaki Negishi, Hiroshi Inoue, Kazushige Obara, and Daisuke Suetsugu "Magmatic Dike Resonances Inferred from Very-Long-Period Seismic Signals" Science, vol.299, 2058-2061, 2003
(presented by Igarashi)

July 6
Michael Manga "Interactions between mantle diapirs" Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 24, No.15, Pages 1871-1874, 1997
(presented by Okaue)

June 29
Kaiwen Xia, Ares Rosakis, Hiroo Kanamori "Laboratory Earthquakes: The Sub-Rayleigh-to-Supershear Rupture Transition" Science, 303, 1859-1861, 2004
(presented by Janette)

June 22
Panning, M. and B. Romanowicz "Inferences on flow at the base of Earth's mantle based on seismic anisotropy" Science, 303, 351-353, 2004
Murakami et al. "Post-perovskite phase transition in MgSiO3" Science, 304, 855-858, 2004
(presented by Kuge)

June 15
Amanda Kelly and David Bercovici "The clustering of rising diapirs and plume heads" Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 24, Pages 201-204, 1997
(presented by Okaue)

June 8
Jeffrey J. McGuire "Estimating Finite Source Properties of Small Earthquake Ruptures" BSSA, 94, 377-393, April 2004
(presented by Janette)

June 1
Changyuan Qin, Constanntinos Papazachos, Eleftheria Papadimitriou "Velocity field for crustal deformation in China derived from seismic moment tensor summation of earthquakes" Tectonophysics, 359, 29-46, 2002
(presented by Igarashi)

May 25
Sanshadokoro, H. and S. Yoshioka "Numerical Simulations of Temperature Distribution and P-wave Velocity Anomalies in Horizontally Lying Slabs" Zisin, 53, 25-35, 2000
(presented by Okaue)

May 18
Tseng, T.-L. and W.-P. Chen "Contrasts in seismic wave speeds and density across the 660-km discontinuity beneath the Philippine and the Japan Seas" JGR, 109, doi:10.1029/2003JB002613, 2004
(presented by Kuge)

April 27
Yuji Yagi "Source rupture process of the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake determined by joint inversion of teleseismic body wave and strong ground motion data" Earth Planets Space, 56, 311-316, 2004
(presented by Janette)

April 20
Masaru Nakano, Hiroyuki Kumagai, Bernard A. Chouet "Source mechanism of long-period events at Kusatsu-Shirane Volcano, Japan, inferred from waveform inversion of the effective excitation functions" Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 122, 149-164, 2003
(presented by Igarashi)

Club meeting in 2003
Club meeting in 2002