Kenji Satake

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Kenji Satake
NationalityJapanese
Alma materHokkaido University
University of Tokyo
Scientific career
FieldsSeismology
InstitutionsUniversity of Tokyo

Kenji Satake is a Japanese seismologist who has made significant contributions to subduction and tsunami research. Along with Brian Atwater and David Yamaguchi, Satake assembled disparate pieces of information regarding a Japanese tsunami that had no known origin. The three scientists worked together to pinpoint a date, time, and location for the 1700 Cascadia earthquake – 9 p.m. on January 26, 1700 – on the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Satake, K.; Shimazaki, K.; Tsuji, Y.; Ueda, K. (18 January 1996). "Time and size of a giant earthquake in Cascadia inferred from Japanese tsunami records of January 1700". Nature. Nature Publishing Group. 379 (6562): 246–249. Bibcode:1996Natur.379..246S. doi:10.1038/379246a0. S2CID 8305522.
  2. ^ Thompson, J. (2012), Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America, Counterpoint, pp. 200–211, ISBN 978-1582438245

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