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Professor of Kyoto University

• Asano, K., T. Iwata, and K. Irikura (2003). Source characteristics of shallow intraslab earthquakes derived from strong-motion simulations, Earth Planets Space, 55, e5-e8.

• Dalguer, L. A., K. Irikura, and J. D. Riera (2003). Simulation of tensile crack generation by three-dimensional dynamic shear rupture propagation during an earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2144, doi:10.1029/2001JB001738.

• Irikura, K., H. Miyake, T. Iwata, K. Kamae, H. Kawabe, and L. A. Dalguer (2003). Recipe for predicting strong ground motion from future large earthquake, Anuuals of Disas. Prev. Res. Inst., Kyoto University, 46 (in press) (in Japanese with English abstract).

• Matsunami, K., W. Zhang, K. Irikura, and L.-L. Xie (2003). Estimation of seismic site response in the Tangshan area, China, using deep underground records, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 93, 1065-1078.

• Miyake, H., T. Iwata, and K. Irikura (2003). Source characterization for broadband ground-motion simulation: Kinematic heterogeneous source model and strong motion generation area, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 93 (in press).

• Moya, A. and K. Irikura (2003). Estimation of site effects and Q factor using a reference event, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 93, 1730-1745.

• Petukhin, A., K. Irikura, S. Ohmi, and T. Kagawa (2003). Estimation of Q-values in the seismogenic and aseismic layers in the Kinki region, Japan, by elimination of the geometrical spreading effect using ray approximation Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 93, 1498-1515.

• Zhang, W., T. Iwata, K. Irikura, H. Sekiguchi, and M. Bouchon (2003). Heterogeneous distribution of the dynamic source parameters of the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2232, doi:10.1029/2002JB001889.

• Dalguer, L. A., K. Irikura, W. Zhang, and J. D. Riera (2002). Distribution of dynamic and static stress changes during 2000 Tottori (Japan) earthquake: Brief interpretation of the earthquake sequences; foreshocks, mainshock and aftershocks, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 10.1029/2001GL014333.

• Irikura, K. (2002). Recipe for estimating strong ground motions from active fault earthquakes, Seismotectonics in Convergent Plate Boundary, Eds. Y. Fujinawa and A. Yoshida, Terra Scientific Publishing Company (TERRAPUB), Tokyo, 45-55.

• Irikura, K., H. Miyake, T. Iwata, K. Kamae, and H. Kawabe (2002). Revised recipe for predicting strong ground motion and its validation, Proceedings of the 11th Japan Earthquake Engineering Symposium, 567-572 (In Japanese with English abstract).

• Pavlenko, O. and K. Irikura (2002). Changes in shear moduli of liquefied and nonliquefied soils during the 1995 Kobe earthquake and its aftershocks at three vertical-array sites, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 92, 1952-1969.

• Pavlenko, O. V. and K. Irikura (2002). Types of elastic nonlinearity of sedimentary soils, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 10.1029/2002GL014794.

• Sekiguchi, H., K. Irikura, and T. Iwata (2002). Source inversion for estimating the continuous slip distribution on a fault - introduction of Green's functions convolved with a correction function to give moving dislocation effects in subfaults, Geophys. J. Int., 150, 377-391.

• Dalguer, L. A., K. Irikura, J. D. Riera, and H. C. Chiu (2001). The importance of the dynamic source effects on strong ground motion during the 1999 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake: brief interpretation of the damage distribution on buildings, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 91, 1112-1127.

• Dalguer, L. A., K. Irikura, J. D. Riera, and H. C. Chiu (2001). Fault dynamic rupture simulation of the hypocenter area of the thrust fault of the 1999 Chi-Chi (Taiwan) earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1327-1330.

• Irikura, K. (2001). Achievements of strong motion seismology in 20th century and its future directions, Proceedings of Symposium in Honor of Takuji Kobori "Earthquake Engineering in the next millennium", 37-45. PDF file(4.4MB)

• Irikura, K. and H. Miyake (2001). Prediction of strong ground motions for scenario earthquakes, Journal of Geography, 110, 849-875 (In Japanese with English abstract).

• Miyake, H., T. Iwata, and K. Irikura (2001). Estimation of rupture propagation direction and strong motion generation area from azimuth and distance dependence of source amplitude spectra, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2727-2730.

• Sanchez-Sesma, F. J., R. Madariaga, and K. Irikura (2001). An approximate elastic two-dimensional Green's function for a constant-gradient medium, Geophys. J. Int., 146, 237-248.

• Satoh, T., H. Kawase, T. Iwata, S. Higashi, T. Sato, K. Irikura, and H.-C. Huang (2001). S-wave velocity structure of the Taichung basin, Taiwan, estimated from array and single-station records of microtremors, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 91, 1267-1282.

• Bouin, M.-P., M. Cocco, G. Cultrera, H. Sekiguchi, and K. Irikura, (2000). The rupture process of the MJ=7.2 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu (Kobe) earthquake deduced from S-wave polarization analysis, Geophys. J. Int., 143, 521-544.

• Fukushima, Y., K. Irikura, T. Uetake, and H. Matsumoto (2000). Characteristics of observed peak amplitude for strong ground motion from the 1995 Hyogoken Nanbu (Kobe) earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 90, 545-566.

• Irikura, K. (2000). Prediction of strong motions from future earthquakes caused by active faults -case of the Osaka basin-, Proc. 12th World Conference Earthquake Engineering, (CD-ROM).

• Moya, A., J. Aguirre, and K. Irikura (2000). Inversion of source parameters and site effects from strong ground motion records using genetic algorithms, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 90, 977-993.

• Petukhin, A. and K. Irikura (2000). A method for separation of source and site effects and the apparent Q structure from strong motion data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 3429-3432.

• Pitarka, A., P. Somerville, Y. Fukushima, T. Uetake, and K. Irikura (2000). Simulation of near-fault strong ground motion using hybrid GreenŐs functions, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 90, 566-587.

• Pulido, N. and K. Irikura (2000). Estimation of dynamic rupture parameters from the radiated seismic energy and apparent stress, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 3429-3432.

• Sekiguchi, H., K. Irikura, and T. Iwata (2000). Fault geometry at the rupture termination of the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 90, 117-133.

• Somerville, P. G., K. Irikura, R. Graves, S. Sawada, D. Wald, N. Abrahamson, Y. Iwasaki, T. Kagawa, N. Smith, A. Kowada (1999). Characterizing crustal earthquake slip models for the prediction of strong ground motion, Seism. Res. Lett., 70, 59-80.

• Veronika, P., K. Maeda, K. Matsumura, and K. Irikura (1999). Foreshock activity and its probabilistic relation to earthquake occurrence in Albania and the surrounding area, Annali di Geofisica, 42, 809-819.

• Bouchon, M., H. Sekiguchi, K. Irikura, and T. Iwata (1998). Some characteristics of the stress field of the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu (Kobe) earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 24271-24282.

• Irikura, K. (1998). Prediction of strong motions from future earthquake in the Osaka basin, The Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion, Eds. K. Irikura, K. Kudo, H. Okada, and S. Sasatani, Belkema, Rotterdam, 1, 171-188.

• Kamae, K. and K. Irikura (1998). Rupture process of the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake and simulation of near-source ground motion, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 88, 400-412.

• Kamae, K., K. Irikura, and A. Pitarka (1998). A technique for simulating strong ground motion using hybrid Green's function, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 88, 357-367.

• Pitarka, A., K. Irikura, T. Iwata, and H. Sekiguchi (1998). Three-dimensional simulation of the near-fault ground motion for the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu (Kobe), Japan, earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 88, 428-440.

• Aguirre, J. and K. Irikura (1997). Nonlinearity, liquefaction, and velocity of soft soil layers in Port Island, Kobe, during the Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 87, 1244-1258.

• Aoi, S., T. Iwata, H. Fujiwara, and K. Irikura (1997). Boundary shape waveform inversion for two-dimensional basin structure using three-component array data with obliquely azimuthal plane incident wave, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 87, 222-233.

• Fukushima, Y. and K. Irikura (1997). Attenuation characteristics of peak ground motions in the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake, J. Phys. Earth, 45, 135-146.

• Kakehi, Y. and K. Irikura (1997). High-frequency radiation process during earthquake faulting - Envelope inversion of acceleration seismograms from the 1993 Hokkaido-Nansei-Oki, Japan, earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 87, 904-917.

• Pitarka, A., K. Irikura, and T. Iwata (1997). Modeling of ground motion in Higashinada (Kobe) area for an aftershock of the January 17, 1995, Hyoto-ken Nanbu, Japan, earthquake, Geophys. J. Int., 131, 231-239.

• Irikura, K. and K. Kamae (1996). Physically based source models and strong-ground-motion prediction, Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Acapulco, June.

• Irikura, K., T. Iwata, H. Sekiguchi, A. Pitarka, and K. Kamae (1996). Lesson from the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake: Why were such destructive motions generated to buildings?, J. Natural Disas. Sci., 18, 2, 99-127.

• Iwata, T., K. Hatayama, H. Kawase, and K. Irikura (1996). Site amplification of ground motions during aftershocks of the 1995 Hyogoken-nambu earthquake in severely damaged zone - Array observation of ground motions at Higashinada Ward, Kobe city, Japan -, J. Phys. Earth, 44, 553-561.

• Kagawa, T. K. Irikura, and I. Yokoi (1996). Restoring clipped records of near-field strong ground motion during the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu(Kobe), Japan, earthquake, J. Natural Disas. Sci., 18, 1, 43-57.

• Kakehi, K. and K. Irikura (1996). Estimation of high-frequency wave radiation areas on the fault plane by the envelope inversion of acceleration seismograms, Geophys. J. Int., 125, 892-900.

• Kakehi, Y., K. Irikura, and M. Hoshiba (1996). Estimation of high-frequency wave radiation areas on the fault plane of the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake by the envelope inversion of acceleration seismograms, J. Phys. Earth, 44, 505-517.

• Pitarka, A. and K. Irikura (1996). Basin structure effects on long-period strong motions in the San Fernando Valley and the Los Angeles Basin from the 1994 Northridge earthquake and an aftershock, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 86, S126-S137

• Pitarka, A. and K. Irikura (1996). Modeling 3D surface topography by finite-difference method: Kobe-JMA station site, Japan, case study, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 2729-2732.

• Pitarka, A., K. Irikura, T. Iwata, and T. Kagawa (1996). Basin structure effects in the Kobe area inferred from the modeling of ground motions from two aftershocks of the January 17, 1995, Hyogoken-nanbu earthquake, J. Phys. Earth, 44, 563-576.

• Sekiguchi, H., K. Irikura, T. Iwata, Y. Kakehi, and M. Hoshiba (1996). Determination of the location of faulting beneath Kobe during the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu, Japan, earthquake from near-source particle motion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 387-390.

• Sekiguchi, H., K. Irikura, T. Iwata, Y. Kakehi, and M. Hoshiba (1996). Minute locating of faulting beneath Kobe and the waveform inversion of the source process during the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu, Japan, earthquake using strong ground motion records, J. Phys. Earth, 44, 473-487.

• Shiono, K. K. Nakagawa M. Mitamura, S. Masumoto, and K. Irikura (1996). Focusing of seismic waves along the Uemachi Fault: Damage in the Osaka area caused by the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake and a subsurface geologic structure, J. Phys. Earth, 44, 591-599.

• Aguirre, J. and K. Irikura (1995). Preliminary analysis of non-linear site effects at Port Island vertical array station during the 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake, J. Natural Disas. Sci., 16, 2, 49-58.

• Aoi, S., T. Iwata, K. Irikura, and F. J. Sanchez-Sesma (1995). Waveform inversion for determining the boundary shape of the basin structure, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 85, 1445-1455.

• Hatayama, K., K. Matsunami, T. Iwata, and K. Irikura (1995). Basin-induced Love waves in the eastern part of the Osaka basin, J. Phys. Earth, 43, 131-155.

• Irikura, K. and Y. Fukushima (1995). Attenuation characteristics of peak amplitude in the Hyogoken-nambu earthquake, J. Natural Disas. Sci., 16, 2, 39-46.

• Iwata, T., K. Hatayama, H. Kawase, K. Irikura, and K. Matsunami (1995). Array observation of aftershocks of the 1995 Hyogoken-nambu earthquake at Higashinada ward, Kobe city, J. Natural Disas. Sci., 16, 2, 41-48.

• Pitarka, A., K. Irikura, and T. Kagawa (1995). Source complexity of the January 17, 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu earthquake determined by near-field strong motion modeling : preliminary results, J. Natural Disas. Sci., 16, 3, 31-37.

• Toki, K., K. Irikura, and T. Kagawa (1995). Strong motion records in the source area of the Hyogoken-Nambu earthquake, January 17, 1995, Japan, J. Natural Disas. Sci., 16, 2, 23-30.

• Irikura, K. and K. Kamae (1994). Estimation of strong ground motion in broad-frequency band based on a seismic source scaling model and an empirical Green's function technique, Annali di Geofisica, 37, 1721-1743.

• Irikura, K. and K. Kamae (1994). Simulation of strong gruond motion based on fractal composite faulting model and empicial Green's function, Proceedings of the 9th Japan Earthquake Engineering Symposium, 3, E019-024.