Crustal Deformation Research Division

Japanese

• Fukushima Hamadori, Japan Earthquake in 2011
• Off Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake in 2011 [Revised Coseismic Slip Distribution Model]
• Off Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake in 2011 [Postseismic Slip Distribution Model]
• Off Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake in 2011 [Preliminary Coseismic Slip Distribution Model]
• Off Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake in 2011 [Rectangular Fault Model]
• South Island, New Zealand Earthquake in 2010
• Southern Qinghai, China Earthquake in 2010
• Simeulue Earthquake in 2008
• Crustal Movements of Tokai Province (in Japanese)
• GEONET

• TOBITA, Mikio : Director of Crustal Deformation Research Division
• OZAWA, Shinzaburo : Chief Researcher
• NISHIMURA, Takuya : Chief Researcher
• SUITO, Hisashi : Researcher
• KOBAYASHI, Tomokazu : Researcher

• Study on the characteristics of crustal deformation in a strain concentration zone
  (2010-2014)
• Research on detectability for crustal activity events based on geodetic observations
  (2011-2013)
• Study on estimation of interplate coupling and its temporal change
  (2011-2013)

FY2011 NEW!!

• Suito, H., T. Nishimura, S. Ozawa, T. Kobayashi, M. Tobita, T. Imakiire, S. Hara, H. Yarai, T. Yahagi, H. Kimura, and S. Kawamoto (2011), Coseismic Deformation and Fault Model of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, Based on GEONET, Journal of Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, 122, 29-37. (in Japanese)
• Suito, H., T. Nishimura, S. Ozawa, M. Tobita, S. Hara, H. Yarai, T. Yahagi, H. Kimura, and S. Kawamoto (2011), Postseismic Deformation and Postseismic Slip Model Following the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, Based on GEONET, Journal of Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, 122, 39-46. (in Japanese)
• Kobayashi, T., M. Tobita, M. Koarai, K. Otoi, and T. Nakano (2011), Liquefaction Area Associated with the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, Inferred from Interferometric SAR Coherence Change, Journal of Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, 122, 143-151. (in Japanese)
• Kobayashi, T., M. Tobita, A. Suzuki, and Y. Noguchi (2011), InSAR Analysis of the 2010 Fukushima-ken Nakadori Earthquake (M5.7), Journal of Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, 121, 165-169. (in Japanese)
• Kobayashi, T., M. Tobita, T. Imakiire, A. Suzuki, Y. Noguchi, and M. Ishihara (2011), Estimate of Crustal Deformation and Pressure Sources of Mt. Kirishima (Shinmoedake) Volcanic Activity, Derived from InSAR Analysis Using Daichi SAR Data, Journal of Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, 121, 195-201. (in Japanese)
• Nishimura, T. (2011), Back-arc spreading of the northern Izu-Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands arc clarified by GPS data, Tectonophysics, 512, 60-67, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.09.022.
• Suito, H., T. Nishimura, M. Tobita, T. Imakiire, and S. Ozawa (2011), Interplate fault slip along the Japan Trench before the occurrence of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake as inferred from GPS data , Earth Planets Space, 63, 615-619, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.06.053.
• Kobayashi, T., M. Tobita, T. Nishimura, A. Suzuki, Y. Noguchi, and M. Yamanka (2011), Crustal deformation map for the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, detected by InSAR analysis combined with GEONET data, Earth Planets Space, 63, 621-625, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.06.043.
• Nishimura, T., H. Munekane, and H. Yarai (2011), The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake and its aftershocks observed by GEONET, Earth Planets Space, 63, 631-636, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.06.025.
• Kobayashi T., M. Tobita, and M. Murakami (2011), Pixel Offset Technique for Measuring Local Large Ground Surface Displacement, J. Goed. Soc. Jpn., 57, 71-81. (in Japanese with English abstract)
• Ozawa, S., T. Nishimura, H. Suito, T. Kobayashi, M. Tobita, and T. Imakiire (2011), Coseismic and postseismic slip of the 2011 maginutde-9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Nature, 475, 373-376, doi:10.1038/nature10227.
• Tobita, M., T. Nishimura, T. Kobayashi, K.X. Hao, and Y. Shindo (2011), Estimation of coseismic deformation and a fault model of the 2010 Yushu earthquake using PALSAR interferometry data, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 307, 430-438, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.017.
• Nishimura, T. (2011), Elucidation of interplate coupling based on geodetic data, J. Geod. Soc. Jpn., 57, 1-14. (in Japanese with English abstract)

FY2010

• Nishimura, T., M. Tobita, T. Imakiire (2010), Development on the Rapid Estimation for an Earthquake Fault Model Using Real-time 1-second Sampling GPS Data, Journal of Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, 120, 63-73. (in Japanese)
• Nishimura, T. (2010), Crustal deformation of the Niigataken Chuetsu-oki earthquake in 2007 and coincident growth of active fold clarified by geodetic measurements, Active Fault Research, 32, 41-48. (in Japanese with English abstract)
• Nishimura, T., M. Tobita, M. Murakami, T. Kanazawa, and M. Shinohara (2010), Fault Model of 2007 M = 6.8 Chuetsu-oki earthquake, central Japan, constructed using geodetic data, In Advance in Geoscience, Vol. 20, 165-178, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore.

FY2009

• Suito, H., and J.T. Freymuller, (2009), A viscoelastic and afterslip postseismic deformation model for the 1964 Alaska earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B11404, doi:10.1029/2008JB005954.
• Nishimura, T. (2009), Slip distribution of the 1973 Nemuro-oki earthquake estimated from the re-examined geodetic data, Earth Planets Space, 61, 1203-1214.
• Suito, H. and S. Ozawa, Transient crustal deformation in the Tokai District -The Tokai Slow Slip Event and Postseismic deformation caused by the 2004 off southeast Kii Peninsula earthquake, Zishin 2 (J. Seismol. Soc. Jpn.), 61, 113-135. (in Japanese with English abstract)
• Tobita, M., PatchJGD, Software for Correcting Geodetic Coordinates for Coseismic Displacements, J. Geod. Soc. Jpn., 55, 355-367. (in Japanese with English abstract)
• Tobita, M., K. Kawase, and H. Masaharu (2009), Comaprison of Equations for Meridional Distance from the Equator, J. Geod. Soc. Jpn., 55, 315-324. (in Japanese with English abstract)
• Nishimura, T. (2009), Recent Observation for Crustal Deformation on Land, Zishin (J. Seismol. Soc. Jpn.) Ser. 2, 61 Special Issue, S35-S43. (in Japanese with English abstract)

FY2008

• Nishimura, T., M. Tobita, H. Yarai, S. Ozawa, M. Murakami, T. Yutsudo, M. Ishimoto, T. Umesawa, T. Toyofuku, S. Kawamoto, T. Amagai, M. Fujiwara, A. Suzuki, S. Enya, T. Sasaki, M. Yokokawa, S. Oomori, S. Tanoue, H. Ikeda, M. Nemoto, H. Suito, F. Hayashi, H. Une, M. Koarai, and M. Tsuzawa (2008), Crustal deformation and a preliminary fault model of the 2007 Chuetsu-oki earthquake observed by GPS, InSAR, and leveling, Earth Planets Space, 60, 1093-1098.
• Nishimura, T., M. Tobita, H. Yarai, T. Amagai, M. Fujiwara, H. Une, and M. Koarai (2008), Episodic growth of fault related fold in northern Japan observed by SAR interferometry, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L13301, doi:10.1029/2008GL034337.