Development of Algorithms for Earthquake Early Warning and Their Practical Applications

    Analytical results of the large earthquakes in Japan (in Japanese)

• Latest earthquakes
• 2008/4/6 L'aquila earthquake
• 2008/9/11 Tokachi-oki earthquake
• 2008/7/24 Northern Iwate earthquake
• 2008/6/14 Iwate-Miyagi Inland earthquake
• 2008/5/12 Sicuang earthquake
• 2008/5/8 Ibaragiken-oki earthquake
• 2008/4/28 Miyakojima-oki earthquake

Earthquake Early Warning System has attracted research attention recently as a method to mitigate seismic hazard. It is a system to estimate earthquake properties in real-time and take an action before the strong shaking arrives at a site.

• Earthquake Early Warning in Japan
  
• Slides and Abstracts of the 2nd EEW workshop
  

      [References]

• Yamada, M. and T. Heaton (2008). Real-time Estimation of Fault Rupture Extent using Envelopes of Acceleration. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America，No.98-2, pp. 607-619.
  
• Yamada, M., T. Heaton, and J. Beck (2007). Real-Time Estimation of Fault Rupture Extent Using Near-Source versus Far-Source Classification. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America，No.97-6, pp.1890-1910.
  
• Yamada, M. (2007). Early Warning for Earthquakes with Large Rupture Dimension. Ph.D. thesis, California Institute of Technology.
  

Earthquake Damage Survey and Strong Motion Estimates

• 2007 Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake
  • Report of Damage Survey  (PDF)
    
  • Report of Damage Survey (Panorama photo)  (PDF)
    
• 2007 Noto Peninsula Earthquake
  • Report of Damage Survey   (PDF)
    
  • Report of Damage Survey (Panorama photo)   (PDF)
    

      [References]

• Yamada, M., S. Park, and J. Mori (2008). The 2007 Noto Peninsula, Japan Earthquake(Mw6.7): Damage to Wooden Structures. Seismological Research letters，No.79-1, pp.20-24.