Crustal Deformation Research Division

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• The 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2025 Myanmar Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2025 Tibet Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2024 Taiwan Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2023 Morocco Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2023 Turkey Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2022 Mexico Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2022 Taiwan Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2022 Afghanistan Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Eruption, Kingdom of Tonga: Terrain change detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2021 Haiti Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2021 Nyiragongo Eruption, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2021 Qinghai Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2020 Turkey and Greece Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2020 Taal Eruption, Philippines： Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2019 White Island Volcano Eruption, New Zealand
• The 2019 California Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2018 Krakatau Eruption, Indonesia: Geomorphic change detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2018 Sulawesi Island, Indonesia Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake: Fault model(Preliminary)
• The 2018 Lombok Island, Indonesia Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2018 Kilauea volcanic activity of Hawaii: SAR analysis result by ALOS-2 data
• The 2018 Papua New Guinea Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2018 Hualien (Taiwan)Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2017 Iran-Iraq Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2016 New ZealandEarthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The October 2016 Central Italy Earthquakes: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2016 Central Tottori Earthquake
• The August 2016 Central Italy Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake: Crustal deformation around the faults
• The 2016 Taiwan Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data
• The 2015 Tajikistan Earthquake: Crustal deformation detected by ALOS-2 data

• MUNEKANE Hiroshi : Director of Crustal Deformation Research Division
• KAWABATA Ryoji : Chief Researcher
• HIMEMATSU Yuji : Researcher
• HAYASHI Kyonosuke : Researcher

• Development of a new geodetic observation technique integrating GNSS and heterogeneous sensors
  (2024-2028) ［Proposal [PDF: 1.98MB(japanese)］

• Himematsu Y, Munekane H.(2025): Shallow segment rupture associated with the 2025 Kamchatka earthquake inferred from ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 InSAR, Earth Planets Space 78, 66, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-026-02437-4 [html].

• Ichimura M., Mikihara K., Ishimoto M., Kobayashi T., Munekane H.(2025): Ground deformation after the 2015 phreatomagmatic eruption at Kuchino-Erabujima Volcano, Japan detected by InSAR time series analysis with ALOS-2 data, Earth Planets Space 77, 155, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02293-8 [html].
• Ozawa, H., Munekane, H., Suto, H., Yarai, H. (2025) Interplate slip before, during, and after the 2024 Mw 7 Hyuga-nada earthquake, southwest Japan. Science, 388, 1401-1405, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu7076[html].
• Suito, H. Postseismic deformation model of the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, central Japan. Earth Planets Space 77, 100 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02228-3 [html].

• Himematsu, Y., Ozawa, T., Aoki, Y. (2024) Precursory crater contraction associated with the 2017 eruption of Shinmoe-dake volcano (Japan) detected by PALSAR-2 and Sentinel-1 InSAR. Earth Planets Space 76, 141 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-024-02083-8.[html]
• Munekane, H., Kobayashi T. (2025) Origin of subsidence within the Aso caldera after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake: contributions of afterslip, viscoelastic deformation and volcanic deformation, Geophysical Journal International, 240(2), 1181–1195, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae433.[html]
• Ozawa S., Munekane, H., Suito H., Kuwahara, M. (2025) Aseismicslip history after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in the Suruga Trough, Central Japan, Geophysical Journal International, 241(1), 135–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaf033.[html]

• Suito, H., Munekane, H., Kuwahara, M. (2024). Fault Model of the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Journal of Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, 138, 33--38. https://doi.org/10.57499/JOURNAL_138_05.[html]

• Ozawa, S., Munekane, H. & Suito, H. Time-dependent modeling of slow-slip events along the Nankai Trough subduction zone, Japan, within the 2018–2023 period. Earth Planets Space 76, 23 (2024), doi:10.1186/s40623-024-01970-4.[html]
• Ozawa,S.,H. Munekane, H. Suito(2023).Detection of long- and short-term slow slip events using a network inversion filter and dense global navigation satellite system network in Shikoku, Japan.Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,128,doi:10.1029/2023JB026557. [html]
• Kobayashi T., Munekane, H., Kuwahara, M., Furui, H. (2023): Insights on the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake, Turkey, from InSAR: fault locations, rupture styles and induced deformation, Geophysical Journal International, 236, (2), 1068–1088, doi:org/10.1093/gji/ggad46.[html]

• Fujiwara, S., M. Tobita, S. Ozawa (2022) Spatiotemporal functional modeling of postseismic deformations after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake.Earth Planets Space74, 13,doi:10.1186/s40623-021-01568-0. [html]

• Munekane, H. Modeling long-term volcanic deformation at Kusatsu-Shirane and Asama volcanoes, Japan, using the GNSS coordinate time series. Earth Planets Space 73, 192 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-021-01512-2 [html]

• Ozawa, S., R. Kawabata, K. Kokado, H. Yarai (2020) Long-term slow slip events along the Nankai trough delayed by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, Japan.Earth Planets Space72, 61, doi:10.1186/s40623-020-01189-z. [html]

• Ozawa, S., H. Yarai, T. Kobayashi (2019), Recovery of the recurrence interval of Boso slow slip events in Japan. Earth Planets Space, 71:78, doi:10.1186/s40623-019-1058-y.[html]
• Kobayashi, T., K. Hayashi, H. Yarai (2019), Geodetically estimated location and geometry of the fault plane involved in the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, Earth Planets Space, 71:62, doi:10.1186/s40623-019-1042-6. [html]
• Kobayashi, T.(2018), InSAR-detected local ground deformation in potential areas of phreatic eruption: Way forward to proactive monitoring for disaster risk mitigation, proceeding of 13th SEGJ Information Symposium, 186-169, 2019, doi:10.1190/SEGJ2018-050.1. [html]

• Kobayashi T., Yarai H., Kawamoto S., Morishita Y., Fujiwara S., Hiyama Y. (2018) Crustal Deformation and Fault Models of the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Sequence: Foreshocks and Main Shock. In: Freymueller J., Sánchez L. (eds) International Symposium on Advancing Geodesy in a Changing World. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol.149. Springer, Cham, doi:10.1007/1345_2018_37. [html]
• Morishita, Y., T. Kobayashi. (2018), Ground Surface Displacement of Kirishima Volcano Group Detected by ALOS-2 InSAR Time Series Analysis and Effect of Atmospheric Noise Reduction, J. Geod. Soc. Jpn.,64, 28-38, doi:10.11366/sokuchi.64.28. (in Japanese with English abstract) [html]
• Morishita, Y., T. Kobayashi, S. Fujiwara, and H. Yarai (2018), Complex crustal deformation of the 2016 Kaikoura, New Zealand, earthquake revealed by ALOS‐2, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 108(3B), 1746-1756, doi:10.1785/0120180070. [html]
• Suito, H. (2018), Current Status of Postseismic Deformation Following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake, J. Disaster Res.., 13(3), 503-510, doi:10.20965/jdr.2018.p0503. [html]
• Kobayashi, T. (2018), Locally distributed ground deformation in an area of potential phreatic eruption, Midagahara volcano, Jpana, detected by single-look-based InSAR time series analysis, J. Volcanology and Geothermal Res., 357, 213-223, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2018.04.023. [html]
• Kobayashi, T., Y. Morishita, and H. Munekane (2018), First detection of precursory ground inflation of a small phreatic eruption by InSAR, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 491, 244-254, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.041. [html] （article in Physics Today [Online] [Text]

• Kobayashi, T., Y. Morishita, S. Yamada (2018), A Prototype System for InSAR time series analysis, Journal of Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, 130. [PDF: 2.01MB]