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	Hiroo Kanamori
		Kanamori, H., and J. Mori, Harmonic Excitation of Mantle Rayleigh Waves by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, Geophys.
		Kanamori, H., 1967c, Spectrum of P and PcP in relation to the mantle-core boundary and attenuation in the mantle: Jour.
		Kanamori, H., and Mori, J., 1992, Harmonic excitation of mantle Rayleigh waves by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines: Geophys.
	www.gps.caltech.edu /faculty/kanamori/kanamori.html (7573 words)

	hiroo kanamori - Mixcat Interactive
		Hiroo Kanamori (金森博雄 Kanamori Hiroo; October 17, 1936—) is a seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that...
		Physics of Earthquakes Kanamori Symposium A one and a half day symposium in honor of Professor Hiroo Kanamori's recent retirement will be held on Thursday, February 23 and Friday, February 24...
		For example, Hiroo Kanamori used seismograms recorded at Debilt, the Netherlands to demonstrate that the 1960 Chile and the 1964 Alaskan earthquakes are indeed "Great...
	www.mixcat.com /search.php?q=hiroo+kanamori&override= (335 words)

	Caltech Press Release, 7/21/2004, Hiroo Kanamori
		Kanamori sees this as a career award for his body of research since, as he puts it, "Research is different from running a 100-meter dash in nine seconds." The Academy recognized him for his work on the physics of earthquakes.
		Kanamori was one of nine awardees to be honored with the Japan Academy Prize, and accepted his award, consisting of a medal and $9,000, at a ceremony in Japan on June 14.
		Kanamori says he was especially honored because the emperor and empress of Japan attended the ceremony.
	pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR12559.html (384 words)

	Kanamori
		Professor Kanamori is the John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology.
		Kanamori served as director of the university's Seismological Laboratory.
		Kanamori has received numerous awards, including the Medal of the Seismological Society of America, the Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship from the U.S. National Academy of Science, the California Scientist of the Year Award, the Asahi Prize, and the Walter H. Bucher Medal from the American Geophysical Union.
	www.nd.edu /~linbeck/kanamori.htm (404 words)

	Kanamori Receives the Bucher Medal
		Hiroo Kanamori was awarded the Walter H. Bucher Medal at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony on December 17, 1996, in San Francisco, California.
		Kanamori also showed that some large earthquakes indicate internal failure of the subducting slab under its own weight.
		Hiroo has been one of the leaders in showing how during earthquakes the amount of slip varies significantly in space and time along faults.
	www.agu.org /inside/awards/bios/kanamori_hiroo.html (1612 words)

	Mindlin Lecture - Kanamori
		Hiroo Kanamori, the John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics at Caltech, one of the most respected seismologists in the world, will be visiting the UW campus March 12-15 to present the 2002 Mindlin Lecture.
		Kanamori is a proponent of some new and innovative techniques for doing this, utilizing real-time seismological methods combined with structural control technology.
		Kanamori’s research accomplishments are most impressive, with fundamental contributions to our understanding of earthquake source processes, the nature of subduction zone earthquakes, the production of tsunamis by earthquakes and slow earth movements, earth movement generated by volcanic eruptions, and the interaction of the solid earth and the atmosphere.
	www.geophys.washington.edu /mindlin/kanamori_lecture.html (558 words)

	Slow-motion slip may drive tsunami surprise - earthquakes Science News - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kanamori also proposed a possible explanation for the phenomenon, but the technical limitations of 1970s seismometers denied him compelling proof.
		Kanamori, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and Kikuchi, of Yokohama City University in Japan, report their findings in the Feb. 25 NATURE.
		Kanamori and others argue that use of long-period waves to calculate seismic moment, a task made quick and easy by modern technology, can provide an accurate determination of an earthquake's tsunami potential and perhaps offer sufficient warning to coastal communities at risk.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n9_v143/ai_13534241 (655 words)

	Hiroo Kanamori, Ph.D. California Scientist of the Year 1993
		When Dr. Kanamori was nominated for the California Scientist of the Year award in the early 1990s, he was most known for developing TERRAscope, a network of seismometers that measures ground motion and earthquakes all over Southern California.
		Kanamori's research continues to have an effect on earthquake science, especially in California.
		Kanamori's site features more specific details on his work, including references to many articles he has published.
	www.californiasciencecenter.org /GenInfo/NewsAndEvents/SpecialPrograms/ScientistOfTheYear/PastSotY/Bios/Kanamori.php (259 words)

	Physics Today June 2001
		Kanamori, T. Heaton, in GeoComplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes, J. Rundle, D. Turcotte, W. Klein, eds., Geophysical monograph no. 120, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC (2000), p.
		Kanamori, J. Mori, in Problems in Geophysics for the New Millennium: A Collection of Papers in Honor of Adam M. iewonski, E. Bochi, G. Ekström, A. Morelli eds., Compositori, Bologna, Italy (2000), p.
		Hiroo Kanamori is the John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics at the Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
	www.aip.org /pt/vol-54/iss-6/p34.html (3433 words)

	1906 Home Page
		The Wood-Anderson response is most appropriate for quantifying the nature of strong ground motions, since its period and damping are such that it is sensitive to motions in the frequency range of most interest to earthquake engineering.
		Considering the uncertainties involved, Jennings and Kanamori assigned a Ml range of 6 3/4 to 7 1/4, though analysis of the Carson City recording, deemed to be most reliable, gave a Ml=7.2.
		Kanamori, H. in Lee, W. K., Meyers, Importance of historical seismograms for geophysical research, H.
	pasadena.wr.usgs.gov /wald/1906/1906.html (10121 words)

	Shaking up system of quake predictions / Pair's alarm could save people, buildings
		The system that Allen and Kanamori have devised is based on one of the two principal seismic waves that shake the ground and move in all directions when an earthquake strikes.
		Allen and Kanamori's system is based partially on a somewhat similar Japanese early-warning method that has been used successfully to stop Japan's famed bullet trains safely before running into quake-damaged ground.
		Kanamori and Allen concede that their system would require elaborate and expensive hardware to link all the state's emergency services to the ElarmS system and that specialized personnel would have to be trained to respond instantly.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/05/MN82287.DTL (1053 words)

	Research on Sumatran Earthquakes Uncovers New Mysteries about Workings of Earth
		In the past, seismic deformation was treated as instantaneous uplift of the sea floor, but because of the extremely long rupture length (1200 km), slow deformation, and the large horizontal displacements as well as vertical deformation, the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake forced tsunami experts to rethink their traditional approach.
		The second paper is "Rupture Process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake." The Caltech co-authors are Ji Chen, Sidao Ni, Vala Hjorleifsdottir, Hiroo Kanamori, and Donald Helmberger, the Smits Family Professor of Geological and Planetary Sciences.
		The other authors are Charles Ammon (the lead author) of Penn State; David Robinson and Shamita Das of the University of Oxford; Thorne Lay of UC Santa Cruz; Hong-Kie Thio and Gene Ichinose of URS Corporation; Jascha Polet of the Institute for Crustal Studies; and David Wald of the National Earthquake Information Center.
	physorg.com /news4161.html (1420 words)

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		MJ: Professor Hiroo Kanamori, you're the director at the Seismological Laboratory here at Caltech.
		Kanamori: Well, a seismological laboratory has quite a few students, professors and secreta ries and techinical staff, and we have been conducting reserach on earthquakes and provide information to tehepublic.
		So we need to operate as a group and the director has a rather important function in managing the laboratory so that we can function in an orderly fashion.
	www.mjmgroup.com /Transcripts/Hiroo_Kanamori.htm (4176 words)

	DJC.COM: Design Detailings: Quake experts speak tonight at UW, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
		Design Detailings: Quake experts speak tonight at UW Hiroo Kanamori, geophysics professor at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and one of the world's most highly regarded seismologists, will speak at 7 tonight in Kane Hall, Room 210, University of Washington.
		Kanamori will deliver the Mindlin Lecture just weeks after the first anniversary of the Nisqually earthquake that shook western Washington.
		Though it registered at magnitude 6.8, the effects of the Nisqually earthquake were relatively modest by comparison to what could happen in a quake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which lies off the coast of Washington, Oregon and northern California.
	www.djc.com /news/ae/11131345.html (616 words)

	Caltech Press Release, 3/18/2004, Dr. Ares Rosakis, Dr. Hiroo Kanamori
		Large earthquakes along the San Andreas tend to be at least this large if not larger, typically involving rupture lengths of about 300 to 400 kilometers.
		According to Kanamori, the human impact of the finding is still debatable.
		The most damaging effect of a strike-slip earthquake is believed to be caused by a pulse-like motion normal to the fault caused by the combined effect of the rupture and shear wave.
	pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR12509.html (675 words)

	Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I have a three-pronged research program, which is typically funded by NSF and Department of Defense.
		My research in earthquake seismology has roots in my Ph.D. work at Caltech, where I was introduced to analysis of large earthquake ruptures using body and surface wave inversion methods developed there by Don Helmberger and Hiroo Kanamori.
		I have pursued many analyses of large earthquake rupture processes for the purpose of characterizing their spatio-temporal rupture process.
	www.es.ucsc.edu /~thorne/Research.html (479 words)

	CNN.com - Scientists: Quake may have made Earth wobble - Dec 29, 2004
		When those tiny variations accumulate, planetary scientists must add a "leap second" to the end of a year, something that has not been done in many years, Gross said.
		Scientists have long theorized that changes on the Earth's surface such as tide and groundwater shifts and weather could affect its spin but they have not had precise measurements to prove it, Caltech seismologist Hiroo Kanamori said.
		"Even for a very large event, the effect is very small," Kanamori said.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /tsunami (333 words)

	GEM 96 Proposal to DoE
		Kanamori and Anderson (1975) estimated that the seismic efficiency h, which measures the fraction of energy in the earthquake lost to seismic radiation, is less than 5%-10%.
		Rundle's group, in collaboration with Stein, Kanamori, Minster, Jordan and Turcotte, as well as Fox and the ACL computational group, will use data plus calculations, to design and implement criteria for the construction of visualization techniques.
		Initially, in the time-independent formulation of the Traveling Density Wave Model, the stress field induced by a fault is represented by a Green's function with a long-range component, i.e., a field for which it is not mathematically permissible to neglect interactions beyond some radius.
	www.servogrid.org /Resources/gem6.html (18375 words)

	Geotimes - December 2003 - Glacial earthquakes
		Regular GPS measurements of ice sheets, which are so far lacking in Greenland and elsewhere, would help too, he noted.
		Hiroo Kanamori, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, says the observations of the slow seismic events are very interesting, considering that past results “have not been particularly convincing.” However, Kanamori says, researchers need to determine the relationship between slip, ice volume and episodic events.
		Other remaining questions, Ekström says, include why the team did not find slow earthquakes bigger than magnitude 5.0.
	www.agiweb.org /geotimes/dec03/NN_glacialeq.html (743 words)

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		L20601, 2005 Other Publications Chlieh M, Avouac J-P, Sieh K, Ji C, Hjorleifsdottir V, Song TA, Kanamori H, Herbert H, Sladen A, Natawidjaja, DH, Galetzka J, Suwargadi B “Coseismic and afterslip associated to the Mw9.14 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake” (in preparation).
		Teaching Assistant for Advanced Seismology, taught by H. Kanamori, 2002, 2003, 2005.
		Graduate Advisor: Bryndis Bransdottir (Undergraduate), Jeroen Tromp and Hiroo Kanamori (Graduate).
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /users/menke/tomography06/vala-cv.doc (183 words)

	SCSN - The Southern California Seismic Network
		Unlike other methods of earthquake magnitude, it is directly related to the size of rupture and the amount of slip on the rupture surface, and not based solely on empirical studies of the observed instrumental recordings.
		The concept of defining a magnitude related to the energy release, Er, of an earthquake was developed by Hiroo Kanamori in the 1970's at the Seismo Lab at Caltech.
		Er is a difficult parameter to estimate, but in general it is approximately linearly related to the Moment, M
	www.scsn.org /magnitude.html (1112 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. The Planet That Hums
		Messy because the Hum is not one note but fifty, crammed into less than two octaves.
		Imagine sitting down at a piano and slamming down every note within reach, while somebody next to you does the same thing on a piano a quarter tone out of tune.
		They are the natural tones that the Earth makes whenever something--an earthquake, a meteor, a nuclear test--sets it ringing.
	fusionanomaly.net /planetthathums.html (2231 words)

	Books by Hiroo Kanamori, compare prices
		by Paul Jennings (Editor), Hiroo Kanamori (Editor), Carl Kisslinger (Editor), William H. Lee, International Association for Earthquake Engineering, International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior
		by Paul Jennings (Editor), Hiroo Kanamori (Editor), Carl Kisslinger (Editor), William H. Lee
		by Paul Jennings, Hiroo Kanamori, Carl Kisslinger, William H. Lee, International Association for Earthquake Engineering, International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior
	www.allbookstores.com /author/Hiroo_Kanamori.html (113 words)

	SeismoArchives: Earthquakes
		possible loss and to make copies in an easily readable form." Hiroo Kanamori (1988).
		The purpose of these International Digital Earthquake Archives (IDEAs) is to preserve earthquake data, specially seismograms, for future research.
		For example, Hiroo Kanamori used seismograms recorded at Debilt, the Netherlands to demonstrate that the
	www.iris.edu /seismo/quakes (297 words)

	Hiroo Kanamori Seismology Research Fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To honor his rich and rewarding career as a scientist and teacher, a Hiroo Kanamori Seismology Research Fund has been established for students and faculty to have the resources to study and to solve some of the most pressing questions in seismology.
		Through this permanent fund he will continue to influence the accomplishments of students and faculty at Caltech.
		Those wishing to make a contribution should do so by making a check payable to Caltech and sending it to...
	www.seismolab.caltech.edu /symposium/Symposium_Research_Fund.html (89 words)

	Seismology Energy radiation from the Sumatra earthquake : Nature
		Extent, duration and speed of the 2004 Sumatra?Andaman earthquake imaged by the Hi-Net array
		Energy radiation from the Sumatra earthquake&author= Sidao Ni, Hiroo Kanamori and Don Helmberger &contentID=10.1038/434582a&publicationDate=03/31/2005&Vol=434&Issue=7033">Rights and permissions
		Energy radiation from the Sumatra earthquake&author= Sidao Ni, Hiroo Kanamori and Don Helmberger &contentID=10.1038/434582a&publicationDate=03/31/2005&volumeNum=434&issueNum=7033&numPages=1&pageNumbers=pp582&orderBeanReset=true"> Order commercial reprints
	www.nature.com /doifinder/10.1038/434582a (213 words)

	What was the magnitude?
		The magnitude of 1906 has been redetermined in two recent studies that used rather different approaches:
		David Wald, Hiroo Kanamori, Donald Helmberger, and Thomas Heaton (Cal Tech and USGS) studied recordings of the 1906 seismic waves made at 96 observatories around the world.
		Data from 12 of these observatories were of good enough quality to be digitized and modeled, and suggest a surface wave magnitude (Ms) of 7.7.
	earthquake.usgs.gov /regional/nca/1906/18april/magnitude.php (415 words)

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