TANIOKA Yuuichiro
Specially Appointed Professor
Research on great earthquake and generation of tsunami
Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Ocean Bottom Seismology and Tsunami

Representative Achievements
Tanioka, Y., and A.R. Gusman, 2018, Near-field Tsunami Inundation Forecast Method Assimilating Ocean Bottom Pressure Data: A Synthetic Test for the 2011 Tohoku-oki Tsunami, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 2018, 283, 82-91.
Tanioka, Y., A.G.C. Ramirez, and Y. Yamanaka, 2018, Simulation of a Dispersive Tsunami due to the 2016 El Salvador-Nicaragua Outer-Rise Earthquake (Mw 6.9), Pure and Applied Geophysics.
Tanioka, Y., M. Shibata, Y. Yamanaka, A.R. Gusman, and K. Ioki, 2019, Generation mechanism of large later phases of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami causing damages in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, Prog. Earth Planet. Sci., 6:30
Yamanaka, Y., Tanioka, Y., and Shina T., 2017, A long source area of the 1906 Colombia-Ecuador earthquake estimated from observed tsunami waveforms, Earth Planets and Space, 69:163, doi: 10.1186/s40623-017-0750-z Outer-Rise Earthquake (Mw 6.9), Pure and Applied Geophysics.
Tanioka, Y., 2017, Tsunami simulation method assimilating ocean bottom pressure data near a tsunami source region, Pure Appl. Geophys.
Academic background | 1996 Univerisity of Michigan PhD 1996-2003 JMA Meteorological Resrach Institute, researcher, senior reseracher 2003‐2009 Hokkaido Univeristy, Associate Professor 2009‐present Professor |
Affiliated academic society | Seismological Society in Japan |
Room address | Science Building 2-214 |