Profile
Biographical Sketch for:
Kazuo Oike
BORN:
1940, in Tokyo, Japan; Male.
EDUCATION:
- B.Sc. in Geophysics, Kyoto University (1963 ).
- D.Sc. in Geophysics, Kyoto University (1972 ).
POSITIONS:
- Research Associate, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University (1963-1973 ).
- Associate Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University (1973-1988 ).
- Professor of Seismology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University (1988-2003 ).
- Dean, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University (1997-1999 ).
- Director,Former Research Center for Sports Science(2001-2003 ).
- Vice President, Kyoto University (2001-2003 ).
- President, Kyoto University(2003- )
SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS:
- Founded the observation network of microearthquakes in the Inner Zone of southwestern Japan to study the stress field.
- The study of deep earthquakes including multiple shocks.
- The study of triggering phenomena of shallow earthquakes, precursory phenomena and short-term prediction of earthquakes.
- The study of stress field in East and in Southeast Asia including the seismicly active period in the southwestern Japan from historical data of earthquakes.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Oike, K.,(1970). | The deep earthquake of June 22, 1966 in Banda Sea: A multiple shock,Bull.Disaster Prevention Res.Inst.,Kyoto Univ.,19,55-65. |
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Oike,K.,(1971). | Distribution of earthquake generating stresses obtained by smoothing the first motion patterns,Jour.Phys.Earth,19,181-198. |
Oike,K.,(1977). | Seismic activities and crustal movements at the Yamasaki fault and surrounding regions in Southwest Japan,Jour.Phys.Earth,25,S31-S41. |
Oike,K.,(1978). | Precursory phenomena and prediction of recent large earthquakes in China,Chinese Geophys.,1,179-199. |
Oike,K. and Y.Ishikawa,(1983). | Induced earthquakes associated with large reservoirs in China,Chinese Geophys.,2,383-403. |
Ogawa, T., K.Oike and T.Miura,(1985). | Electromagnetic radiations from rocks,Jour.Geophys.Res.,90,6245-6249. |
Oike,K. and T.Ogawa,(1985). | Electromagnetic radiations from shallow earthquakes observed in the LF range, Jour.Geomag.Geoelectr.,38,1031-1040. |
Ghose, R., and K.Oike,(1986). | Tectonic implications of some reservoir-induced earthquakes in the aseismic region of western Thailand,Jour.Phys.Earth,35,327-345. |
Oike,K., and K.Huzita,(1988). | Relation between characteristics of seismic activity and neotectonics in Honshu, Japan,Tectonophysics,148,115-130. |
Zhao,Z., K.Oike, K.Matsumura and Y.Ishikawa,(1990). | Stress field in the continental part of China derived from temporal variations of seismic activity, Tectonophysics,178,357-372. |
Oike, K.,(1992). | International cooperation in natural disaster science - the Role of Japan -, Technology and Development, 5,5-16. |
Yamada,T., and K. Oike,(1996). | Electromagnetic radiation phenomena before and after the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake,Jour.Phys.Earth,44,405-412. |
Hori,T., and K. Oike,(1996). | A statistical model of temporal variation of seismicity in the Inner Zone of Southwest Japan related to the great interplate earthquakes along the Nankai Trough, Jour.Phys.Earth,44,349-356. |
Hori,T. and K.Oike,(1999). | A physical mechanism for temporal variation in seismicity in Southwest Japan related to great interplate earthquakes along the Nantai Trough, Tectonophysics,Vol.308,1999,83-98. |
Leonila,M., P. Bautista and K.Oike,(2000). | Estimation of the magnitudes and epicenters of Philippine historical earthquakes, Tectonophysics, Vol.317,2000,137-169. |