Kenji Satake
Kenji Satake | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Hokkaido University University of Tokyo |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Seismology |
| Institutions | University 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]
References
- ^ 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 (379). Nature Publishing Group: 246–249. doi:10.1038/379246a0.
- ^ Thompson, J. (2012), Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America, Counterpoint, pp. 200–211, ISBN 978-1582438245