Research Report

Research Article on the Short-term interaction between silent and devastating earthquakes in Mexico

Associate Professor Yoshihiro Ito, Associate Professor Takuya Nishimura, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University and their colleagues in National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Rhode Island, and University of California, Santa Cruz, analyzed crustal deformation from GNSS stations in Mexico, as an international collaborative research project to identify slip distribution of slow slip events and interpolate coupling on the plate interface between Cocos and North America plates. As a result, it was clarified that an interaction among three large earthquakes with magnitude larger than 7 and slow slip events occurred in Mexico from 2017 to 2019. These results were published in Nature Communications on 12 April 2021.

Event

70th Anniversary of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University

We take pleasure in sharing with you that the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) of Kyoto University will be celebrating the 70th Anniversary since its inception in 1951. We take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude for your significant contributions towards our research activities, and thereby helping us in our endeavor to be a Centre of Excellence in research for multidisciplinary disaster prevention study for the past 70 years. Without your generous support and trust in our research activities, we could not have achieved this milestone. To celebrate this momentous juncture of 70-years, we are planning a commemorative ceremony to be held on Saturday, 27th November 2021 at the Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto. In conjunction with the event, there will be other events which will be held on the 25th and the 26th November 2021.

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Research Paper on Identifying landslides from continuous seismic surface waves: a case study of multiple small-scale landslides triggered by Typhoon Talas, 2011

Prof. Masumi Yamada et.al. published a research paper on “Identifying Landslides from Continuous Seismic Surface Waves: A Case Study of Multiple Small-scale Landslides Triggered by Typhoon Talas, 2011” in the Geophysical Journal International (Oxford Academic) on 1st April 2021. Our observations show that attributes of small and large landslides may follow the same empirical scaling relationships, indicating possible invariant failure mechanisms. Our results also suggest an alerting technology to detect and locate landslides with a sparse seismic network.

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Scientific Report on Consecutive ruptures on a complex conjugate fault system during the 2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake

Prof. Yukitoshi Fukahata et.al. published a paper on the “Consecutive ruptures on a complex conjugate fault system during the 2018 Gulf of Alaska Earthquake” in the Scientific Reports volume 11 on 16 March 2021. The obtained source model, which successfully explained the complex teleseismic P waveforms, shows that the 2018 earthquake ruptured a conjugate system of N-S and E-W faults. The spatiotemporal rupture evolution indicates irregular rupture behavior involving a multiple-shock sequence, which is likely associated with discontinuities in the fault geometry that originated from E-W sea-floor fracture zones and N-S plate-bending faults.

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5th Global Summit of GADRI: Engaging Science with Action

5th Global Summit of GADRI: Engaging Science with Action The 5th Global Summit of GADRI will take place virtually from 31st August to 1 September 2021. The GADRI 2021 conference aims at stock taking of progress in DRR research from its Members towards targets of the Sendai Science and Technology Roadmap. The programme will communicate academic science across scientific disciplines to policy makers and practitioners. It is an important aspect for academics to be aware how science can directly contribute to national and local disasters, for example, a dam break or an epidemic outbreak, etc. Such situations prompt scientists’ interventions, expertise, and experience and to share them with emergency managers in crisis situations.

Disaster Report

2020 Typhoon no. 10 – Disaster Report

DPRI has begun the disaster investigations on Typhoon No. 10 that occurred in September 2020. The survey report (in Japanese) will be posted on the link below (disaster survey report page).

Award

Professor Hirokazu Tatano received the Sir Richard Stone Prize of the International Input-Output Association

Professor Hirokazu Tatano, DPRI, Kyoto University and Prof. Yoshio Kajitani, Kagawa University received the Sir Richard Stone Prize from the International Input-Output Association, Austria for the following paper in August 2020:

Award

Prof. Andrew Collins, Northumbria University, UK – Recipient of the 6th DPRI Award

Prof. Andrew Collins, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK was honoured with the 6th DPRI Award for international research recognition. The Award was presented by Prof. Manabu Hashimoto, Director, DPRI, Kyoto University to Prof. Andrew Collins on 20th February 2020 during the DPRI Annual Meeting held at DPRI, Obaku Plaza, Kyoto, Japan from 20th to 21st of February 2020.

Research

Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI)

This page captures the DPRI research activities at a glance.
　GADRI WebSite Link: [　https://gadri.net　] 　One outcome was the establishment of the "Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI)." GADRI is a forum for sharing knowledge and promoting collaboration on topics related to disaster risk reduction and resilience to disasters.

Research

Disaster Prevention Research Institute Research launches site for "Our research activities at a glance" (Japanese only)

This page captures the DPRI research activities at a glance.
The site is easily navigated, though only in Japanese, and expressed in easy to understand words.
Come and visit us!