Crustal Dynamics

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
on Innovative Areas, MEXT Japan

Crustal Dynamics Unified understanding of intra-island deformation after the great Tohoku-oki earthquake.

Forthcoming Events

The Second International Symposium on Crustal Dynamics (ISCD-2): Toward integrated view of island arc seismogenesis

Date:

March 1 (Fri.) - 3 (Sun.), 2019

Venue:

Obaku Plaza Kihada Hall, Uji Campus Kyoto University

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Outline:

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International Activities

Annual Reports

FY2015 annual report

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FY2016 annual report

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International PD Fellowship

Daisuke Sato (Kyoto University)
Period, Host: Jan. 1 – Mar. 31, 2019, Hiroyuki Noda (C01)

Research subject:

Earthquake cycle simulation and a fault constitutive law
Overseas dispatch period: Jan. 13 – Mar. 28, 2019
Dispatch area, Host: Caltech, Nadia Lapusta
Thomas A. Czertowics (Hokkaido University)
Period, Host: Oct. 3, 2016 – Sept. 30, 2017, Toru Takeshita (B01)

Report FY2017 2H

Junichi Fukuda (The University of Tokyo)

Period, Host:

Apr. 1, 2014 – Mar. 31, 2018, Ichiko Shimizu (B02)

Research subject:

Effects of water on rock deformation
Overseas dispatch period: Apr. 1, 2017 – Mar. 31, 2018
Dispatch area, Host: Université d’Orléans, Holger Stünitz

Report FY2017 2H

Report FY2017 1H

Report FY2016 2H

Ayumi S. Okamoto (The University of Tokyo)
Period, Host: Oct. 1, 2016 – Mar. 31, 2019, Ichiko Shimizu (B02)
Research subject: Frictional properties of chlorite and talc at high-pressure hydrothermal conditions
Overseas dispatch period: Feb. 1, 2016 – Jul. 31, 2017
Dispatch area, Host: Utrechit University, Christopher J. Spiers

Report FY2017 1H

Overseas Dispatch

Nishimura, T. (Kyoto University)
USA and Canada Dec. 4 – Dec. 20, 2018

Collaborative study with Dr. Fred Pollitz of USGS for viscoelastic block model, Collaborative study with Dr. Kelin Wang of CGS for deformation along the Kurile Trench, and attending workshop on deformation of subduction zone at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO).

Okada, T. (Tohoku University)
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Nov. 26 – Dec. 6, 2018

To attend the 2017 Geoscience Society of New Zealand Annual Conference and meet Stephen Bannister (GNS Science) and Martha Savage (Victoria University of Wellington).

Watanabe, T. (University of Toyama)
France Nov. 11 – Nov. 18, 2018

To give a talk on electrical conductivity in fluid-bearing rocks and microstructure of pores and discuss about the future collaboration in ENS, Paris and University of Strasbourg.

Tagami, T., Shishikura, A., Kobayashi, Y. (Kyoto University)
University of Melbourne, Australia Nov. 7 – Nov. 24, 2018

Experimental collaboration for low-temperature thermochronology using fission-track and (U-Th)/He techniques.

Noda, H. (Kyoto University)
Utrecht University, Netherlands Jun. 13 – Jun. 17, 2018

To discuss collaborative research plan of Ph.D. Chen’s international invitation to Kyoto for 3 months from August with Prof. Spiers, Ph.D. Niemeijer, and Ph.D. Chen, and to give a seminar on “Numerical friction experiments on scale effects in friction: Mechanical properties of a fault element including small repeating earthquake”.

Itoh, Y. (Kyoto University)
Canada Jun. 4, 2018 – Feb. 20, 2019

To conduct collaboration research on elucidation of an earthquake cycle and crustal dynamics along the Kurile Trench, hosted by Dr. Kelin Wang, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada.

Noda, H. (Kyoto University)
Beijing and Chengdu, China May 8 – May 15, 2018

To attend a workshop on “Faulting and earthquakes” and 4th ICCE, and discussions on international collaboration with Professor Ma (China Earthquake Administration), Professor Spiers (Utrecht University), and Ph.D. Chen (Utrecht University).

Okada, T. (Tohoku University)
University of Auckland, New Zealand Nov. 27 – Dec. 2, 2017

To attend the 2017 Geoscience Society of New Zealand Annual Conference.

Iwamori, H., Nakamura, H. (JAMSTEC)
Russian Academy of Science, Russia Jul. 23 – Jul. 29, 2017

Hydrological and geochemical studies on deep seated crustal fluids within and beyond the subduction zone of the eastern margin of Eurasia.

Okada, T. (Tohoku University)
New Zealand Dec. 5 – Dec. 16, 2016

Maintenance of the seismic station in the focal area of the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake.

Iio, Y., Tsuda, H. (Kyoto University)
Matsumoto, S., Nakamoto, M. (Kyushu University)
Okada T. (Tohoku University)
New Zealand Mar. 16 – Mar. 26, 2016

        To install seismic stations in the northern part of South Island of New Zealand and attend the research meeting with researchers of related organizations to discuss the stress field in the earth crust, together with Prof. Sibson, a professor emeritus at University of Otago, and others, etc.

Ogawa, Y. (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

The east coast of North Island of New Zealand near Gisborne

Feb. 16 – Mar. 1, 2016

        To conduct electromagnetic observations for clarifying the relation between distributions of electroresistivity and inter-plate friction in a subduction zone.

International Invitation

Jianye Chen (Utrecht University)
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Host Researcher : Hiroyuki Noda (Kyoto University) Aug. 1 – Oct. 29, 2018

To implement a fault constitutive law developed by Ph.D. Chen (CNS model) to a simulation code for earthquake cycles, and to give a seminar at DPRI, Kyoto University.

Ruey-Juin Rau (National Cheng Kung University)
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Host Researcher : Takeshi Sagiya (Nagoya University) Mar. 25 – Mar. 28, 2018

To attend Japan-Taiwan international workshop on crustal deformation and to discuss collaborative research plan.

Kuo-Fong Ma (National Central University, Taiwan)
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Host Researcher : Takeshi Sagiya (Nagoya University) Jul. 30 – Aug. 5, 2017

To serve as a chair of a special session J05
“Crustal Dynamics: multidisciplinary approach to seismogenesis” as a
session convener.

James D. P. Moore (Earth Observatory Singapore, Nanyang Technological University)
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Host Researcher : Jun Muto (Tohoku University) May 26 – Jul. 2, 2017

Having a seminar at Tohoku University and a research meeting held at Tohoku university.

Tim J. Wright (University of Leeds)
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Host Researcher : Yukitoshi Fukahata (Kyoto University) May 20 – May 30, 2017

Discussion on crustal dynamics from the view
point of observed geodetic (particularly, coseismic and interseismic
deformation) data.

Jeanne Hardebeck (USGS)
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Host Researcher : Toru Matsuzawa (Tohoku University) May 19 – Jun. 3, 2017

To attend the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017, to
give a seminar at Tohoku University, and to discuss the direction of
future cooperative researches with members of the Crustal Dynamics
project.

Bruce Hobbs (CSIRO, The University of Western Australia)
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Host Researcher : Yoshihisa Iio (Kyoto University) May 19 – May 27, 2017

to present the invited paper entitled
‘Episodic tectonic behaviour from crystal-plasticity to seismicity’ at
the JpGU meeting and also do seminars at DPRI and Faculty of Science,
Kyoto University.

Guillaume Richard (Institut des Sciences de la Terre d’Orléans)
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Host Researcher : Hikaru Iwamori (JAMSTEC) May 16 – May 26, 2017

Studies on coupled effect of grain-size
evolution and phase mixing: A two phase model for the ductile
deformation of rocks.

Ahmed E. Elbanna  (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Host Researcher : Hiroyuki Noda (Kyoto University) Mar. 2 – Mar. 4, 2017

           Visiting DPRI, Kyoto University for a discussion on dynamic rupture propagation and a frictional constitutive law of a fault, and to give a special seminar, “Towards Earthquake Rupture Simulations with High Resolution Fault Zone Models”.

Sylvain Barbot (Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University)
James D P Moore (Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University)
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Host Researcher : Bunichiro Shibazaki (Building Research Institute) Dec. 18, 2016 – Jan. 18, 2017

          Discussion on estimation of inelastic deformation and modeling of earthquake generation using integral equation method considering inelasticity.

Nicolas Brantut (University College London)
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Host Researcher : Hiroyuki Noda (Kyoto University) Nov. 6 – Nov. 19, 2016

           Visiting DPRI, Kyoto University for a collaboration on dynamic rupture propagation and to give a special seminar, “Recovery of seismic wave speeds after deformation: A rock physics approach”, and visiting ERI, the University of Tokyo for discussion with researchers.

Cristopher J. Spiers (Utrecht University, Netherland)
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Host Researcher :Ichiko Shimizu (The University of Tokyo) July 17-27, 2016

         To attend the “International Symposium on Crustal Dynamics”, to discuss current and future joint researches in the University of Tokyo and in AIST, and to give a seminar in AIST.

André Niemeijer (Utrecht University, Netherland)
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Host Researcher :Ichiko Shimizu (The University of Tokyo) July 15-27, 2016

         To attend the “International Symposium on Crustal Dynamics”, to discuss current and future joint researches in the University of Tokyo and in AIST, and to give a seminar in AIST.

B. A. Verberne (Utrecht University, Netherland)
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Host Researcher :Ichiko Shimizu (The University of Tokyo)

July 15-27, 2016

         To attend the “International Symposium on Crustal Dynamics”, to discuss current and future joint researches in the University of Tokyo and in AIST, and to give a seminar in AIST.

 

Yves Guéguen (Ecole Normale Superiour, Paris)
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Host Researcher : Tohru Watanabe (University of Toyama) July 16 – Aug. 9, 2016

           To attend the “International Symposium on Crustal Dynamics” and research meetings at Tohoku University, University of Toyama, Hiroshima University, and The University of Tokyo.

Richard Hugh Sibson (Otago University)
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Host Researcher : Yoshihisa Iio (Kyoto University) July 15- July 29, 2016

              To attend the ”International Symposium on Crustal Dynamics” and a research meeting held at Tohoku university.

Nadia Lapusta (California Institute of Technology)
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Host Researcher : Hiroyuki Noda (Kyoto University) July 19 – July 27, 2016

           To attend the “International Symposium on Crustal Dynamics”, to give a seminar at DPRI, Kyoto University , and to discuss the current and future joint researches there.

Roland Bürgmann (UC Berkeley)
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Host Researcher : Toru Matsuzawa (Tohoku University) July 14 – July 23, 2016

           To give a seminar at Tohoku University, to discuss the current and future joint researches, and to attend the ”International Symposium on Crustal Dynamics”.

Guillaume Richard (University of Orleans)
Benoit Bevillard (University of Orleans)
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Host Researcher : Hikaru Iwamori (JAMSTEC) June 24 – July 23, 2016

            To construct the basis for cooperative research by (1) field work in the metamorphic-deformation zone of the Hidaka Belt, Hokkaido, (2) discussion on the theoretical and numerical modelling schemes, and (3) acquisition of recent knowledge in the related field in international conferences.

 

Previous Events

Seminars

Date:

June 1 (Thurs.) , 2017

Time:

14:00-15:30, 15:30-17:00
Venue:

Lecture Room #2, Bld. A 3F, Research Center for Prediction of  Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions, Tohoku University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker 1] Dr. Jeanne Hardebeck (USGS) 
[Title] Stress orientation and fault strength

[Guest Speaker 2] Dr. Stephen Kirby (USGS) 
[Title] What do we really know about the deep hydrology of subduction zones?: Water sources and sinks, and the enigma of mixed lithologies in inversions

Date:

May 31 (Wed.) , 2017

Time:

15:00-16:00
Venue:

COE seminar room 506, 5F, Earth Sci. Building,

Tohoku University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] Dr. James D. P. Moore (Earth Observatory Singapore, Nanyang Technological
University)
[Title] From Crustal to Lithosphere Dynamics: a new approach to geodetic data interpretation and modelling

[Abstract] click here

Date:

May 29 (Mon.) , 2017

Time:

10:30-12:00
Venue:

Seminar Room C-200, Research Center for Earthquake Prediction, Uji Campus, Kyoto University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] Tim Wright (University of Leeds, GB)
[Title] Some surprising new results from tectonic geodesy in the continents

[Abstract] click here

Date:

May 26 (Mon.) , 2017

Time:

1) 10:30-12:00 (Uji Campus)  2) 15:00- (Yoshida Campus)
Venue:

1) Seminar Room C-200, Research Center for Earthquake Prediction, Uji Campus, Kyoto University

2) Graduate School of Science, Bld. No.1, 5F, Room 563, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] Prof. Tim Wright(University of Leeds, GB)
[Title]Episodic tectonic behaviour from crystal-plasticity to seismicity

[Abstract] Click Here

Date:

May 18 (Thr.) , 2017

Time:

16:30-17:30
Venue:

Seminar Room E232D, Main Building, Uji Campus Kyoto University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] Dr. Fred Pollitz (USGS)
[Title] Connecting crustal seismicity and earthquake-driven stress evolution in Southern California

 

Date:

Mar. 2(Thr.) , 2017

Time:

13:30-15:00
Venue:

Seminar Room E232D, Main Building, Uji Campus Kyoto University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] Ahmed E. Elbanna (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
[Title] Towards Earthquake Rupture Simulations with High Resolution Fault Zone Models
[Abstract] Click Here

 

Date:

Jan. 17 (Tue.) , 2017

Time:

11:00-12:15
Venue:

Room C200, Research Center for Earthquake Prediction,

Uji Campus Kyoto University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] James D P Moore (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
[Title] Lithospheric flexure, cycles of deposition in a sedimentary basin, the Earth’s gravity field and mantle dynamics
[Abstract] Click Here

 

Date:

Jan. 12 (Thu.) , 2017

Time:

15:00-17:00
Venue:

Room 513, Build. Department of Earth Science, Tohoku University.

Outline:

[Guest speakers] 15:00-16:00 Sylvain Barbot, 16:00-17:00 James D. P. Moore
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
[Title & Abstract] Click Here

 

Workshop on Estimation of inelastic deformation and earthquake generation model

Date:

Dec. 27 (Thu.) – 28 (Fri.), 2016

Venue:

Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo

Outline:

To find the schedule and the abstracts, Click Here

 

Seminars

 

Date:

Dec. 22 (Thu.) , 2016

Time:

16:00-17:00
Venue:

Seminar Room E-232D, Main Building, Uji Campus Kyoto University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] Sylvain Barbot (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
[Title] Partial Rupture of Locked Segments: The Role of Fault Morphology
[Abstract] Click Here

 

Date:

Dec. 19 (Mon.) , 2016

Time:

13:30-14:30
Venue:

Seminar Room C-200, Research Center for Earthquake Prediction, Uji Campus Kyoto University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] Sylvain Barbot (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
[Title] A unified representation of quasi-dynamic deformation processes
[Abstract] Click Here

 

Date:

Nov. 10 (Thu.) , 2016

Venue:

Seminar Room E-232D, Main Building, Uji Campus Kyoto University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] Nicolas Brantut (University College London)
[Title] Recovery of seismic wave speeds after deformation: A rock physics approach
[Abstract] Click Here

 

Date:

July 28 (Thu.) , July 29 (Fri.) and August 1 (Mon.), 2016

Venue:

Room C205, Faculty of Science, University of Toyama

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] Yves Guéguen (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
To view the schedule, Click Here

 

Date:

July 27 (Wed.) , 2016

Venue:

Kokusai Seminar Room 7-8-326, Tsukuba Central 7,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Outline:

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Date:

July 26 (Tue.) , 2016

Time:

13:00-14:30

Venue:

Seminar Room E-232D, Main Building, Uji Campus Kyoto University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker]Nadia Lapusta (Department of Mechanical & Civil Engineering and Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
[Title]Response of rate-and-state faults to quasi-static stress perturbations
[Abstract] Click Here

 

International Symposium “Crustal Dynamics 2016: Unified Understanding of Geodynamic Processes at Different Time and Length Scales”

Date:

July 19 (Tue.) - 22 (Fri.), 2016

Venue:

Takayama City Cultural Hall “Takayama Shimin-bunka Kaikan”

Outline:

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International Symposium Crustal Dynamics 2016

International Symposium Crustal Dynamics 2016

  We held an international symposium “Crustal Dynamics 2016” from July 19th to 22nd, 2016 in Takayama, Gifu, Japan. The venue, Takayama City Cultural Hall, was an ideal site for an international symposium, being located within a walking distance from the old town in Takayama where a taste of Edo period is nicely preserved. We had 143 participants (42 students), and 31 of them were from abroad. The symposium was a great success, having 46 oral and 82 poster presentations. A preceding workshop on the Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP) − Alpine Fault had been organized, and many overseas researchers including 8 New Zealand researchers working on this project attended it as well.
  95 of the participants, including overseas researchers, attended a field trip around the Atotsugawa Fault on the first day. We observed fault structures in various scales: mylonites of the Funatsu Granite, which is a basement of the Hida region, a famous outcrop of the Atotsugawa Fault in Makawa, and offsets of river terraces due to lateral fault movements.
  On the 20th, an overview of the whole project “Crustal Dynamics” by Yoshihisa Iio, the PI of the project, was followed by a session for A01 (stress group), in which recent studies on estimation of crustal stresses by precise determination of focal mechanisms of earthquakes were presented. In a subsequent session for A02 (deformation group), attempts to separate elastic and inelastic strains, and geological structures associated with inelastic strain were presented. In the evening, we held a grand reception in the Takayama Green Hotel. On the 21st in the morning session for B01 (structure group), studies using dense network of seismic stations and those on rock deformation mechanisms were presented. In the afternoon session for B02 (deformation experiments group), many papers on experimental achievements on rock deformation and rock-water interactions were presented. On the final day in the morning session for B03 (geofluids group), numerical, experimental, and field observational studies on distribution of fluid in rocks were presented. In the afternoon session by C01 (modeling group), numerical models which explains crustal deformation after the Tohoku Oki Earthquake and those on frictional sliding of faults were presented. The 4-days-long symposium was a great opportunity for us to exchange thoughts and ideas with first-class researchers in the world.

 

Seminars

Date:

July 15 (Fri.) , 2016

Venue:

Recture room #2, Bil. A 3F, Research Center for Prediction of

Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions, Tohoku University

Outline:

[Guest Speaker] Prof. Roland Bürgmann (UC Berkeley)

[Title] Transient deformation and stress from postseismic deformation of great megathrust earthquakes

 
Date:

July 13 (Wed.) , 2016

Venue:

Seminar Room 1-03, No.6 Building, Graduate School of Science,
Hokkaido University

Outline:

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Session S-CG63 “Dynamics in mobile belts” in JpGU meeting 2016

Date:

May 23 (Mon.) - 24 (Tue.), 2016

Venue:

International Exhibition Hall, Makuhari Messe

 

JpGU 2016 懇親会

JpGU 2016 Reception

  A 1.5-days-long session “Dynamics in mobile belts” was held in JpGU meeting 2016 from May 23rd to 24th, being proposed mainly by members of “Crustal Dynamics”. The topics were more focused than last year and a session on crustal structures was held separately, but we have a larger number of presentations (75, 36 talks and 39 posters). It was one of the two longest sessions, comparable to “Paleoclimatology and paleoceanography” obtaining 6 timeslots. Although it was held in the farthest conference room from the entrance in Apa Hotel, active discussions took place there with people standing in the aisles.
  A reception after the meeting on 23rd in “le jeu du ciel Makuhari” in TOKYO BAY MAKUHARI promoted discussion among 62 participants (22 students) having a spectacular night view from the 49th floor. On May 24th we organized an evening meeting, and discussed research progresses, reactions to Kumamoto Earthquake, and preparation for the midterm evaluation.

Fukahata, Y. (The principal convener of “Dynamics in mobile belts”)