Hiroo Kanamori: Caltech

        Born -  17 October 1936
        Japan (Japanese citizen)

Address:

     Office:
        Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
        Pasadena California 91125
        Telephone: (626) 395 6914,  FAX: (626) 564-0715,
        E-mail: hiroo@gps.caltech.edu
     Home:
        375 South Bonnie, Pasadena California 91106
        Telephone: (626) 793-3120

Education:

        B. S.   (Physics), Tokyo University, 1959
        M. S.  (Geophysics), Tokyo University, 1961
        Ph.D.  (Geophysics), Tokyo University, 1964


Professional Experience:

        Research Associate, Geophysics Institute, Tokyo
                University, 1962-65
        Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1965-66
        Associate Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo
                University, 1966-69
        Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of
                Technology, 1969
        Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo University,
                1970-72
        Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1972-89
        John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professorship of Geophysics, 1989-
        Director, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of
                Technology, 1990-April, 1998

Major Research Interest

        Kanamori's research centers on the physics of earthquakes.  His work includes:
(1) quantification of great earthquakes using Mw  scale, (2) quantitative study of tsunami
earthquakes, (3) seismological study of volcanic eruptions, (4) real-time seismology for
hazard mitigation, (5) study of atmospheric waves excited by volcanic eruptions, (6) study
of interaction between solid earth and atmosphere, (7) frictional melting due to faulting, (8)
synthesis of microscopic and macroscopic physics of earthquakes.

Membership

        Seismological Society of Japan
        American Geophysical Union
        Seismological Society of America
        Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
        American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Awards

        Medal of the Seismological Society of America, 1992
        Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship, U.S. National Academy of Science, 1993
        California Scientist of the Year Award, 1993
        The Asahi Prize, 1993.
        Walter H. Bucher Medal, American Geophysical Union, 1996.

Selected Papers

Kanamori, H., and M. Kikuchi, The 1992 Nicaragua Earthquake: a slow tsunami
earthquake associated with subducted sediments, Nature, 361, 714-716, 1993.
Kikuchi, M., and H. Kanamori, The mechanism of the deep Bolivia earthquake of June 9,
1994, Geophys. Res. Lett, 21, 2341-2344, 1994.
Kanamori, H., T. H. Anderson, and T. H. Heaton, Frictional melting during the rupture of
        the 1994 Bolivian Earthquake, Science, 279, 839-842, 1998.
Kanamori, H., E. Hauksson, L. K. Hutton, and L. M. Jones, Determination of
        Earthquake Energy Release and ML Using TERRAscope, Bull. Seismol. Soc.
        Am., 83, 330-346, 1993.
Kanamori, H. and T. H. Heaton, Microscopic and macroscopic physics of earthquakes,
        accepted for publication in AGU monograph "Physics of Earthquakes", 2000.