2022.06.17 A paper on the velocity structure modeling in the Hakodate Plain, Hokkaido, was published in EPS 2021.10.14-16 Seismological Society of Japan 2021 Fall Meeting (Online) 2021.9.27-10.2 The 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (Sendai, Japan) 2021.8.30-9.1 6TH IASPEI / IAEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM :THE EFFECTS OF SURFACE GEOLOGY ON SEISMIC MOTION 2021.07.20 A paper on the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake was published in BSSA 2021.5.30-6.6 JpGU Meeting 2021 2020.7.12-16 JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020 Virtual Meeting 2019.12.06 A paper titled Denoising ambient seismic field correlation functions with convolutional autoencoders was published in GJI (Viens and Van Houtte, 2020, GJI) 2019.12.04 A paper on the source model of the 2016 Meinong, Taiwan, earthquake was published in JGR (Chen et al., 2019, JGR) 2019.10.20 A paper on ground motion modeling in the Kachchh rift zone was published in PEPI (Mandal and Asano, 2019, PEPI) 2019.09.30 Special Lecture by Prof. Hiroe Miyake (University of Tokyo) 2019.9.18 A paper on the source process of the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake was published in EPS (Asano and Iwata, EPS) 2019.09.16-18 SSJ 2019 Fall Meeting in Kyoto 2019.3.27 A paper on the seismotectonics of the 2018 northern Osaka earthquake was published in EPS (Hallo et al., EPS)

2018

2018.10.2 The 29th DPRI Public Lecture at ACROS Fukuoka
2018.09.27 Special Lecture by Prof. Hiroe Miyake (University of Tokyo)
2018.06.18 Information on the Northern Osaka earthquake on June 18, 2018
2018.6.2 A paper on the source model of an Mw 5.9 earthquake in the Nankai Trough in 2016 is published on BSSA (Asano, BSSA)

2017

2017.09.21 Special Lecture by Prof. Hiroe Miyake (University of Tokyo)
2017.9.25 A paper on the Bayesian CMT inversion of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence is published on Earth, Planets and Space (Hallo et al., EPS)
2017.8.15 A paper on the seismic interferometry and the group velocity tomography in the Osaka sedimentary basin is published on Earth, Planets and Space (Asano et al., EPS)
2017.4.7 Announcement of SSJ Best Paper Award (Tanaka et al., 2014, EPS)

2016

2016.10.20 Special Seminar by Dr. Prantik Mandal (NGRI, India)
2016.09.01-02 Special Lecture by Prof. Hisashi Nakahara (Tohoku University)
2016.8.31 A paper on the source rupture process of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence is published as a frontier letter on Earth, Planets and Space (Asano and Iwata, EPS)
2016.08.15-17 The 5th International Symposium: Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion (Taipei)
2016.6.9 Seminar by Prof. Shuo Ma (SDSU)
2016.04.15 Information on the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence
2016.2.2 A paper on ground motion simulations in the Osaka sedimentary basin during the 2013 Awaji Island earthquake is published on Geophysical Journal International (Asano et al., GJI)
2016.1.29 A paper on developement of fully Bayeisan source inversion method is published on Geophysical Journal International (Kubo et al., GJI)

2015

2015.12.25 A Japanese paper on the microtremor measurement in the Kaga and Ochigata plains is published on Journal of JAEE (Asano et al., JJAEE)
2015-10-14 Seminar by Dr. Luis A. Dalguer (swissnuclear)
2015-07-28 Seminar by Prof. Huey-Chu Huang (Taiwan)
2015-02-20/21 International Workshop on establishment of prediction of strong ground motions and earthquake disaster of large earthquakes (KIHADA Hall)
2015-01-20 Defense of Dissertaion by Hisahiko Kubo

2014

2014-09-29/30 Special lecture by Prof. Hisahi Nakahara (Tohoku Univ.)
2014-05-16 Seminar by Dr. Adrien Oth (ECGS, Luxembourg & ERI, Univ. Tokyo)
2014-04-28/05-02 Japan Geoscience Union 2014 Meeting in Yokohama

2013

2013-10-7/9 DPRI Series Vol.1 Studies on the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake is published from Springer Japan
2013-10-7/9 SSJ 2013 Fall Meeting in Yokohama
2013-05-21 Prof. Asano is honored with the Young Reseracher Award by the Seismological Society of Japan
2013-05-19/24 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2013 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba
2013-03-22 Seminar by Prof. Koji Matsunami
2013-03-19 Special Lecture by Prof. Takashi Kumamoto (Okayama University)
2013-02-19/20 DPRI Annual Meeting 2013
2013-03-19 Special Lecture by Prof. Takashi Kumamoto (Okayama University)

2012

2012-10-16/19 SSJ Fall Meeting 2012 in Hakodate
2012-09-24/28 The 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Lisbon
2012-06-12 Ms. Kayoko Sato received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award for the 2012 JpGU Meeting
2012-05-20/25 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2012 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba

2011

2011-12-05/09 AGU 2011 Fall Meeting in San Francisco
2011-10-12/15 SSJ Fall Meeting 2011 in Shizuoka
2011-09-14 Special Lecture by Prof. Takashi Kumamoto (Okayama University)
2011-05-22/27 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2011 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba
2011-04-21 Dr. Asako Iwaki received the Outstanding Student Paper Award for the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting
2011-04-13 Prof. Emeritus Kojiro Irikura is honored with the Bruce A. Bolt Medal from COSMOS, EERI, and SSA (Press Release )
2011-03-11 The 2011 Tohoku earthquake
2011-02-10 Mr. Masaharu Takiguchi honored with Best Master Thesis Award in Geophysics, Kyoto University
2011-02-07/08 Defense of Master Thesis (Masaharu TAKIGUCHI)
2011-01-24 Defense of Dissertation for Ph. D (Asako IWAKI)
2011-01-12 Mr. Masaharu Takiguchi honored with Outstanding Student Presentation Award at SSJ Fall Meeting 2010

2010

2010-12-13/17 AGU 2010 Fall Meeting at San Francisco
2010-10-27/29 SSJ Fall Meeting 2010 at Hiroshima
2010-07-05 Seminar by Prof. Michel Campillo (University of Joseph Fourier, France)
2010-06-22/25 Western Pacific Geophyics Meeting 2010 at Taipei, Republic of China
2010-05-23/28 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2010 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba
2010-02-08/09 Defense of Master Thesis (Miho KIMURA and Kazuhiro SOMEI)

2009

2009-12-14/18 AGU 2009 Fall Meeting at San Francisco
2009-10-26 Seminar by Prof. John Anderson (University of Nevada, Reno)
2009-10-21/23 SSJ Fall Meeting 2009 at Kyoto
2009-05-16/21 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2009 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba

2008

2008-12-15/19 AGU 2008 Fall Meeting at San Francisco
2008-11-24/27 The 7th General Assembly of Asia Seismological Commission
2008-10-13/17 The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering at Beijing, People's Republic of China
2008-05-25/30 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2008 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba
2008-02-13 Defense of Master Thesis (Asako IWAKI)
2008-01-23 Defense of Dissertation for Ph. D (Wataru SUZUKI)

2007

2007-12-10/14 American Geophysical Union 2007 Fall Meeting (San Francisco)
2007-10-24/26 Seimological Society of Japan 2007 Fall Meeting at Sendai
2007-07-16 Information on the 2007 Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki earthquake (MJ6.8)
2007-07-01/13 IUGG2007 at Perugia, Italy
2007-05-19/24 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2007
2007-03-25 Information on the 2007 Noto Hanto earthquake (MJ6.9)
2007-02-13/14 Defense of Master Thesis (Chikako SHIRAKAWA)
2007-01-25 Defense of Dissertation for Ph. D (Kimiyuki ASANO)

2006

2006-12-11/15 American Geophysical Union 2006 Fall Meeting (San Francisco)
2006-11-27 Seminar by Dr. Luis A. Dalguer (SDSU) and Dr. Rafael Benites (GNS, NZ)
2006-10-31/11-02 Seismological Society of Japan 2006 Fall Meeting at Nagoya Congress Center
2006-08-29/09-01 3rd International Symposium on "THE EFFECTS OF SURFACE GEOLOGY ON SEISMIC MOTION" (EUROPOLE, Grenoble)
2006-08-02/03 Lecture by Dr. Eiichi Fukuyama (NIED)
2006-05-14/18 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2006 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba
2006-02-21/22 DPRI Annual Meeting
2005-12-26 Prof. Wenbo ZHANG stays here until January 20, 2006

2005

2005-12-05/09 American Geophysical Union 2005 Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California)
2005-10-19/21 Second International Workshop on Strong Ground Motion Prediction and Earthquake Tectonics in Urban Areas (ERI, University of Tokyo)
2005-10-19/21 Seismological Society of Japan 2005 Fall Meeting (Hokkaido University, Sapporo)
2005-08-31/09-01 APRU / AEARU Research Symposium 2005 at Kyoto University "Earthquake Hazards arround the Pacific Rim"
2005-05-22/26 Japan Earth and Planetary Sciences Joint Meeting 2005 at Chiba
2005-05-12 Seminar by Prof. Gusev (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia)
2005-04-28 Seminar on Applied Seismology Open
2005-04-13 Lecture on Applied Seismology A by Prof. Iwata Open
2005-03-20 The 2005 West Off Fukuoka Prefecture Earthquake
2005-03-10 Lecture by Prof. Hiroshi Takenaka (Kyushu University)
2005-02-21/22 DPRI Annual Meeting 2005
2005-02-01/02 Defense of Master Thesis (Wataru SUZUKI)
2005-01-13/16 International Symposium on Earthquake Engineering Commemorating Tenth Aniversary of the 1995 Kobe Earthquake at Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center

2004

2004-12-13/17 American Geophysical Union 2004 Fall Meeting at San Francisco, Calfornia
2004-11-01 Dr. Tomotaka Iwata became the professor at the section of strong motion seismology, DPRI, Kyoto Univ.
2004-10-23 The Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake in 2004 (Mj6.8) occurred
2004-10-09/11 Seismological Society of Japan 2004 Fall Meeting at Kyushu University, Fukuoka
2004-09-05 Two large (Mj6.9 & 7.4) earthquakes occurred along the Nankai trough
2004-08-01/06 The 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (Vancouver, Canada)
2004-07-09/14 The 4th APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation (ACES) Workshop (Beijing, China)
2004-06-21/22 International Workshop on Strong Ground Motion Prediction and Earthquake Tectonics in Urban Areas (ERI, Univ. Tokyo)
2004-05-09/13 The 2004 Japan Earth and Planetary Science Joint Meeting
2004-04-24 Symposium in honor of Kojiro Irikura "Strong ground motion prediction: present status and future perspectives"
2004-04-22 Zassikai 2004 (Seminar on Applied Seismology) starts
2004-04-01 This web site has been updated as the version 2004
2004-03-31 Prof. Irikura retired from the Professor at DPRI, Kyoto University
2004-03-22 Lecture by Prof. Hiroshi Takenaka (Kyushu University)
2004-03-04 Seminar by Prof. Peter Moczo (Slocak Academy of Sciences) and Dr. Rengin Gok (LLNL)
2004-03-01 Prof. Peter Moczo (Slovak Academy of Sciences) stays until March 4, 2004.
2004-02-25 Defense of Dissertation for Ph. D (Yoshiaki SHIBA)
2004-02-19/20 DPRI Annual Meeting 2004
2004-02-18 Seminar by Dr. Ali Oncel (visiting researcher of GSJ-AIST)
2004-02-10 Mr. Haiyun Wang (China Seismological Bureau) stays until February 25, 2004.
2004-02-06 Dr. Ali Oncel (Active Fault Research Center, AIST) stays until February 20, 2004.
2004-02-04 Defense of Master Thesis (Kimiyuki ASANO)
2004-01-30 Defense of Dissertation for Ph. D (Cesar Aaron MOYA, Gülüm Birgören, and Takao KAGAWA)
2004-01-08 Dr. Jorge Aguirre Gonzalez (UNAM, Mexico) stays until March 30, 2004.
2004-01-08 Mr. Moises Contreras (UNAM, Mexico) stays until February 8, 2004.
2004-01-05 Ms. Banu Sanli (Boğaziçi University, Turkey) stays until February 13, 2004.

2003

2003-12-16 Prof. Irikura was inducted as Vice-President at Kyoto University
2003-12-15 Dr. Olga Pavlenko (Russian Academy of Science) stays until Dec. 29, 2003.
2003-12-08/12 American Geophysical Union 2003 Fall Meeting (San Francisco)
2003-11-25 Dr. Tran Thi My Thanh (Vietnam) stays until March 30, 2004.
2003-11-11/13 Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering / Meeting 2003 (Yokohama)
2003-10-14 Dr. Arben Pitarka (URS Co., USA) stays until October 22, 2003.
2003-10-06/08 Seismological Society of Japan 2003 Fall Meeting (Kyoto) [>> Presentation List]
2003-09-26 The Tokachi-oki earthquake in 2003
2003-09-01/03 Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Earthquake Source Dynamics (Slovakia Republic)
2003-07-11 Workshop on Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion at Sapporo
2003-06-30/07-11 XXIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 2003 (Sapporo, Japan)
2003-06-25 Dr. Ivo Oprsal (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) stays until Nov. 26th, 2003.
2003-06-14 Introduction to master course at department of geophysics
2003-06-04,11 Lecture by Dr. Haruko Sekiguchi (AIST) on source inversion
2003-05-26/29 The 2003 Japan Earth and Planetary Science Joint Meeting
2003-04-30 Prof. Irikura's term of director at DPRI expired
2003-04-24 Zassikai 2003 (Seminar on Applied Seismology) starts
2003-04-23 Lecture of applied seismology starts
2003-04-02 Mr. Jan Burjanek and Mr. Frantisek Gallovic (Charles Univ., Czech) stay until Jul. 31st, 2003
2003-04-02 Ms. Banu Sanli (Bogazigi Univ., Turkey) stays until Jul. 8th, 2003
2003-03-13 Seminar by Dr. Martin Mai and Dr. Wojciech Debski
2003-03-01 21ct. COE Researcher Dr. Nobuyuki YAMADA joined our laboratory
2003-02-20/21 DPRI Annual Meeting
2003-02-03/04 Defense of Master Thesis (Yasuhisa NAGAWA)
2003-01-29 Defense of Dissertation for Ph. D (Wenbo ZHANG and Hiroe MIYAKE)
2003-01-28 Dr. Jorge Agguirre (UNAM, Mexico) stays until Apr. 29th, 2003

2002

2002-12-26/27 Lecture on Propagator Matrix Methods by Prof. Hiroshi Takenaka (Kyushu University)
2002-12-06/10 American Geophysical Union 2002 Fall Meeting [>> Presentation List]
2002-11-27 Dr. Tran Thi My Thanh (from Institute of Geophysics, Vietnam) stays until March 31, 2003
2002-11-11/13 Seismological Society of Japan 2002 Fall Meeting [>> Presentation List]
2002-10-21/22 US-Japan Cooperative Research for Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation -Kyoto Grantees Meeting-
2002-09-18,25 Seminar on source inversion by Dr. Haruko Sekiguchi (AIST)
2002-07-01 Dr. ZHOU Shiyong (Peking University, China) stays until Dec. 31st
2002-05-27/31 The 2002 Japan Earth and Planetary Science Joint Meeting [>> Presentation List]
2002-05-10 The Information on US-Japan Cooperative Research was updated
2002-05-08 Publication lists during 2001-2002 were updated
2002-04-25 Zassikai seminar 2002 started
2002-04-01 New member entered our laboratory
2002-03-11 Seminar by Dr. Mariagiovanna Guatteri (Stanford University) and Dr. Satoshi Ide (ERI)
2002-02-25 Seminar by Prof. Xiaofei Chen (Peking University)
2002-02-21/22 DPRI Annual Meeting 2001
2002-01-14 The design of this homepage was renewed

2001

2001-12-18/19 Prof. Miyatake's lecture & seminar
2002-12-10/14 American Geophysical Union 2001 Fall Meeting [>> Presentation List]
2001-10-24/26 Seismological Society of Japan 2001 Fall Meeting [>> Presentation List]
2001-06-04/08 The 2001 Japan Earth and Planetary Science Joint Meeting [>> Presentation List]
2001-05-01 Prof. Irikura was inducted as the director at DPRI