1. Name: Katsuhiko SHIOMI

2. Research fields: Seismology

3. List of Reviewed Papers:

• Shiomi, K. (2017): Dissimilar receiver functions observed at very close stations in the Kii Peninsula, central Japan: features and causes , Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 48, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0631-5.
  

• Shiomi, K., K. Obara, Y. Haryu, and M.Matsumura (2009): Construction of NIED high sensitivity seismograph network (Hi-net) and its contribution , Zishin2, 60 Special Issue, S1-S7 (in Japanese with English abstract).

• Shiomi, K. and J. Park (2008): Structural features of the subducting slab beneath the Kii Peninsula, central Japan: Seismic evidence of slab segmentation, dehydration, and anisotropy , J. Geophys. Res., 113, B10318, doi:10.1029/2007JB005535.
  

• Shiomi, K., M. Matsubara, Y. Ito, and K. Obara (2008): Simple relationship between seismic activity along Philippine Sea slab and geometry of oceanic Moho beneath southwest Japan , Geophys. J. Int., 173, 1018-1029, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03786.x.
  

• Shiomi, K., M. Matsubara, and K. Obara (2008): Detecting of the Moho discontinuities using seismological surveys: a case in the Kinki district , J. of Geography, 117, 45-58 (in Japanese with English abstract).
  

• Shiomi, K., K. Obara, and H. Sato (2006): Moho depth variation beneath southwestern Japan revealed from the velocity structure based on receiver function inversion , Tectonophysics, 420, 205-221, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2006.01.017.
  

• Shiomi, K. and K. Obara (2005): Characteristics of inhomogeneous structure beneath the Mid Niigata Prefecture region inferred from receiver functions , Zishin2, 58, 345-357 (in Japanese with English abstract).
  

• Shiomi, K., K. Obara, and K. Kasahara (2005): Amplitude saturation of the NIED Hi-net waveforms and simple criteria for recognition , Zishin2, 57, 451-461 (in Japanese).
  

• Shiomi, K., H. Sato, K. Obara and M. Ohtake (2004): Configuration of subducting Philippine Sea plate beneath southwest Japan revealed from receiver function analysis based on the multivariate autoregressive model , J. Geophys. Res., 109, B04308, doi:10.1029/2003JB002774.
  

• Shiomi, K., K. Obara, S. Aoi and K. Kasahara (2003): Estimation on the azimuth of the Hi-net and KiK-net borehole seismometers , Zishin2, 56, 99-110 (in Japanese).
  

• Shiomi, K., H. Sato, M. Ohtake (1997): Broad-band power-law spectra of well-log data in Japan , Geophys. J. Int., 130, 57-64, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb00987.x.
  

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• Takemura, S., T. Saito and K. Shiomi (2017): Sequence of deep-focus earthquakes beneath the Bonin Islands identified by the NIED nationwide dense seismic networks Hi-net and F-net , Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 38, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0625-3.
  

• Yano, T.E., T. Takeda, M. Matsubara, and K. Shiomi (2017): Japan unified hIgh-resolution relocated catalog for earthquakes (JUICE): Crustal seismicity beneath the Japanese Islands , Tectonophysics, 702, 19-28, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.02.017.
  

• Sawazaki, K., T. Saito, T. Ueno, and K. Shiomi (2016): Estimation of seismic velocity changes at different depths associated with the 2014 Northern Nagano Prefecture earthquake, Japan (Mw 6.2) by joint interferometric analysis of NIED Hi-net and KiK-net records , Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 3, doi:10.1186/s40645-016-0112-7.
  

• Sawazaki, K., H. Nakahara and K. Shiomi (2016): Preliminary estimation of high-frequency (4 - 20 Hz) energy released from the 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, earthquake sequence , Earth, Planets and Space, 68, 183, doi:10.1186/s40623-016-0557-3.
  

• Omi, T., Y. Ogata, K. Shiomi, B. Enescu, K. Sawazaki, and K. Aihara (2016): Automatic Aftershock Forecasting: A Test Using Real‐Time Seismicity Data in Japan , Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 106, 2450-2458, doi:10.1785/0120160100.
  

• Takemura, S., K. Shiomi, T. Kimura and T. Saito (2016): Systematic difference between first-motion and waveform-inversion solutions for shallow offshore earthquakes due to a low-angle dipping slab , Earth, Planets and Space, 68, 149, doi:10.1186/s40623-016-0527-9.
  

• Hobiger, M., U. Wegler, K. Shiomi, and H. Nakahara (2016): Coseismic and postseismic velocity changes detected by Passive Image Interferometry: comparison of one great and five strong earthquakes in Japan , Geophys. J. Int., 205, 1053-1073, doi:10.1093/gji/ggw066.
  

• Snieder, R., C. Sens-Schonfelder, E. Ruigrok and K. Shiomi (2016): Seismic shear waves as Foucault pendulum , Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 2576-2581, doi:10.1002/2015GL067598.
  

• Ueno, T., T. Saito, K. Shiomi and Y. Haryu (2015): Monitoring the instrument response of the high-sensitivity seismograph network in Japan (Hi-net): effects of response changes on seismic interferometry analysis , Earth, Planets and Space, 67, 135, doi:10.1186/s40623-015-0305-0.
  

• Bianchi, I., G. Bokelmann and K. Shiomi (2015): Crustal anisotropy across northern Japan from receiver functions , J. Geophys. Res., 120, 4998-5012, doi:10.1002/2014JB011681.
  

• Takagi, R., K. Nishida, Y. Aoki, T. Maeda, K. Masuda, M. Takeo, K. Obara, K. Shiomi, M. Sato, and K. Saito (2015): A single bit matters: Coherent noise of seismic data loggers , Seism. Res. Lett., 86, 901-907, doi:10.1785/0220150030.
  

• Sawazaki, K., H. Kimura, K. Shiomi, N. Uchida, R. Takagi, and R. Snieder (2015): Depth-dependence of seismic velocity change associated with the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Japan, revealed from repeating earthquake analysis and finite-difference wave propagation simulation , Geophys. J. Int., 201, 741-763, doi:10.1093/gji/ggv014.
  

• Hobiger, M., U. Wegler, K. Shiomi, and H. Nakahara (2014): Single-station cross-correlation analysis of ambient seismic noise: Application to stations in the surroundings of the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake , Geophys. J. Int., 198, 90-109, doi:10.1093/gji/ggu115.
  

• Ueno, T., T. Saito, K. Shiomi, E. Bogdan, H. Hirose, and K. Obara (2012): Fractional seismic velocity change related to magma intrusions during earthquake swarms in the eastern Izu peninsula, central Japan , J. Geophys. Res., 117, B12305, doi:10.1029/2012JB009580.
  

• Nanjo, K. Z., H. Tsuruoka, S. Yokoi, Y. Ogata, G. Falcone, N. Hirata, Y. Ishigaki, T. H. Jordan, K. Kasahara, K. Obara, D. Schorlemmer, K. Shiomi, and J. Zhuang (2012): Predictability study on the aftershock sequence following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki, Japan, earthquake: first results , Geophys. J. Int., 191, 635-658, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05626.x.
  

• Nishida, K. and K. Shiomi (2012): Enigmatic very low frequency tremors beneath the Shonai Plain in northeastern Japan , J. Geophys. Res., 117, B11302, doi:10.1029/2012JB009258.
  

• Ito, Y. and K. Shiomi (2012): Seismic scatterers within subducting slab revealed from ambient noise autocorrelation , Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L19303, doi:10.1029/2012GL053321 .
  

• Ito, Y., K. Shiomi, J. Nakajima, and R. Hino (2012): Autocorrelation analysis of ambient noise in northeastern Japan subduction zone , Tectonophysics, 572-573, 38-46, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.09.019.
  

• Lengliné, O., B. Enescu and Z. Peng, K. Shiomi (2012): Decay and expansion of the early aftershock activity following the 2011, Mw9.0 Tohoku earthquake , Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L18309, doi:10.1029/2012GL052797.
  

• Hobiger, M., U. Wegler, K. Shiomi, and H. Nakahara (2012): Coseismic and postseismic elastic wave velocity variations caused by the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake, Japan , J. Geophys. Res., 117, B09313, doi:10.1029/2012JB009402.
  

• Enescu, B., S. Aoi, S. Toda, W. Suzuki, K. Obara, K. Shiomi, and T. Takeda (2012): Stress perturbations and seismic response associated with the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake in and around the Tokai seismic gap, central Japan , Geophys. Res. Lett. 39, L00G28, doi:10.1029/2012GL051839.
  

• Miyoshi, T., T. Saito and K. Shiomi (2012): Waveguide effects within the Philippine Sea slab beneath southwest Japan inferred from guided SP converted waves , Geophys. J. Int., 189, 1075-1084, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05409.x.
  

• Asano, Y., T. Saito, Y. Ito, K. Shiomi, H. Hirose, T. Matsumoto, S. Aoi, S. Hori, and S. Sekiguchi (2011): Spatial distribution and focal mechanisms of aftershocks of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake , Earth, Planets and Space, 63, 669-673.
  

• Ide, S., K. Shiomi, K. Mochizuki, T. Tonegawa, and G. Kimura (2010): Split Philippine Sea Plate beneath Japan , Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L21304, doi:10.1029/2010GL044585.
  

• Aoi, S., B. Enescu, W. Suzuki, Y. Asano, K. Obara, T. Kunugi and K. Shiomi (2010): Stress transfer in the Tokai subduction zone from the 2009 Suruga Bay earthquake in Japan , Nature Geoscience, 3 (7), doi:10.1038/NGEO885.
  

• Takeo, A., K. Idehara, R. Iritani, T. Tonegawa, Y. Nagaoka, K. Nishida, H. Kawakatsu, S. Tanaka, K. Miyakawa, T. Iidaka, M. Obayashi, H. Tsuruoka, K. Shiomi, and K. Obara (2010): Very broadband analysis of a swarm of very low frequency earthquakes and tremors beneath Kii Peninsula, SW Japan , Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L06311, doi:10.1029/2010GL042586.
  

• Tonegawa, T., K. Nishida, T. Watanabe, and K. Shiomi (2009): Seismic interferometry of teleseismic S-wave coda for retrieval of body waves: an application to the Philippine Sea slab underneath the Japanese Islands , Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04249.x.
  

• Wegler, U., H. Nakahara, C. Sens-Schonfelder, M. Korn, and K. Shiomi (2009): Sudden drop of seismic velocity after the 2004 Mw 6.6 mid-Niigata earthquake, Japan, observed with Passive Image Interferometry , J. Geophys. Res., 114, B06305, doi:10.1029/2008JB005869.
  

• Obara, K. and K. Shiomi (2009): Underground structural anomalies and slow earthquake activities around seismogenic megathrust earthquake zone as revealed by inland seismic observations , J. Disaster Res., 4, 83-93.
  

• Tonegawa, T., K. Hirahara, T. Shibutani, H. Iwamori, H. Kanamori and K. Shiomi (2008): Water flow to the mantle transition zone inferred from a receiver function image of the Pacific slab , Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 274, 346-354, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.046.
  

• Ito, Y., K. Obara, K. Shiomi, S. Sekine, and H. Hirose (2006): Slow earthquakes coincident with episodic tremors and slow slip events , Science, 315, 503-506, published online 29 November 2006, doi:10.1126/science.1134454.
  

• Tonegawa, T., K. Hirahara, T. Shibutani and K. Shiomi (2006): Upper mantle imaging beneath the Japan Islands by Hi-net tiltmeter recordings , Earth, Planets and Space, 58, 1007-1012.
  

• Ito, Y., K. Obara, T. Takeda, K. Shiomi, T. Matsumoto, S. Sekiguchi, and S. Hori (2006): Initial-rupture fault, main-shock fault, and aftershock faults: Fault geometry and bends inferred from centroid moment tensor inversion of the 2005 west off Fukuoka prefecture earthquake , Earth, Planets and Space, 58, 69-74.
  

• Yoshimoto, K., H. Fujisawa, T. Okada, N. Umino, A. Hasegawa, K. Obara, K. Shiomi, H. Tsukahara, S. Okamoto, T. Kawanaka, H. Sato, T. Nishimura, H. Sato and M. Ohtake (2004): Moho and Philippine Sea plate structure beneath central Honshu Island, Japan, from teleseismic receiver functions , Earth, Planets and Space, 56, 1271-1277.
  

• Obara, K., Y. Haryu, Y. Ito and K. Shiomi (2004): Low frequency events occurred during the sequence of aftershock activity of the 2003 Tokachi-Oki earthquake; a dynamic process of the tectonic erosion by subducted seamount , Earth, Planets and Space, 56, 347-351.
  

4. Prizes:

• 2006: Young Scientist Award (Seismological Society of Japan)
• 2008: SSJ Paper Award (Tonegawa et al., 2006; EPS)

5. Affiliated Societies:

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Seismological Society of Japan (SSJ)
• Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science

6. Research Interests:

• Seismotectonics in the southwest Japan:
  • Why do the megathrust earthquakes along the Nankai trough occur closely in time?
  • What geometry does the subducting Philippine Sea slab show?
  • Are there any relationships among slab geometry, slab-related seismicity and non-volcanic tremor activity?
  • What is the cause of structural heterogeneity (or anomaly) within the crust and the uppermost mantle?

• Improvement of receiver function analysis method:
  • How to detect velocity interface(s) beneath thick sediments?
  • How to evaluate anisotropic feature around velocity interface(s)?
  And other seismological features observed by NIED Hi-net / F-net.

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