A paper by Associate Professor Nagashima, Professor Emeritus Kawase, and Professor Matsushima received the 2025 EPS Special Award

The following paper by Associate Professor Fumiaki Nagashima, Professor Emeritus Hiroshi Kawase, Professor Shinichi Matsushima, et.al., published in the English journal Earth, Planets and Space (EPS) in 2023 was awarded the 2025 EPS Special Award.

Details are as follows:

Award Recipients: Seiji Tsuno, Fumiaki Nagashima, Hiroshi Kawase, Hiroaki Yamanaka, and Shinichi Matsushima

Award Name: The 2025 EPS Special Award

Award-Winning Paper: Predicted results of weak and strong ground motions at the target site of the blind prediction exercise as Steps 2 and 3: Report on the experiments for the 6th International Symposium on Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion (Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:130, Published on: 29 August 2023)

Award Date: 11 March 2026

• About the EPS Special Award…

“The EPS Excellent Paper Award was established in 2016 to recognize excellent papers that have been published in “Earth, Planets and Space.” The award will be presented to the authors of papers published with EPS in the last five years. One paper will be selected from each year. The award will be granted to a nominated paper selected by the EPS Excellent Paper Award Committee, which is composed of the members of the EPS editorial board. The editor-in-chief and the presidents of the five supporting societies shall award the winning paper.” (excerpt from the EPS Special Award website)

• Predicted results of weak and strong ground motions at the target site of the blind prediction exercise as steps-2 and -3, Report for the experiments for the 6th international symposium on effects of surface geology on seismic motion [Springer]
• Awards [Earth, Planets and Space]