Research Webpage for Yoshihiro Kaneko

Ph.D. student in geophysics, California Institute of Technology

Email
 ykaneko@gps.caltech.edu
Mailing Address
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 252-21
Pasadena, CA 91125
Office Location South Mudd, Room 262
(Map of Caltech)
Phone (office)
 626.395.3825
  

Research

    1.  Developing a spectral-element method for long-term simulations of fault slip punctuated by dynamic shear failures
    2.  Modeling earthquake nucleation and aftershock occurrence
    3.  Interpreting seismic and geodetic observations of fault slip

Publications (Articles)

    Kaneko, Y., N. Lapusta, and J.-P. Ampuero (2008), Spectral-element modeling of spontaneous earthquake rupture
    on rate and state faults: Effect of velocity-strengthening friction at shallow depths, in press,
    Journal of Geophysical Research.

    Kaneko, Y., and N. Lapusta (2008), Variability of earthquake nucleation in continuum models of rate-and-state faults
    and implications for aftershock rates, in press, Journal of Geophysical Research.

    Harris, R. A., M. Barall, R. Archuleta, E. Dunham, B. Aagaard, J.-P. Ampuero, D. J. Andrews, H. Bhat, V. Cruz-Atienza,
    L. Dalguer, S. Day, B. Duan, G. Ely, Y. Kaneko, Y. Kase, N. Lapusta, Y. Liu, S. Ma, D. Oglesby, K. Olsen, A. Pitarka,
    S. Song, E. Templeton, The SCEC/USGS dynamic earthquake rupture code validation exercise,
    submitted to Seismol. Res. Lett., 2008.  
   

Conference Abstract

    Kaneko, Y. and N. Lapusta, Simulations of earthquake nucleation, its static perturbation,
    and aftershock rates on faults with rate and state friction, Eos Trans. AGU , 85(47), S11A-0992, 2004.
   
    Kaneko, Y. and N. Lapusta, Simulations of earthquake nucleation, its static perturbation, and
    aftershock rates on faults with rate and state friction, SCEC Annual Meeting, 2005.   

    Kaneko, Y. and N. Lapusta, Modeling aftershock rates using simulations of spontaneous earthquake
    nucleation on rate and state faults, Eos Trans. AGU , 86(52), S11C-02, 2005.
     
    Kaneko Y., N. Lapusta, and J.-P. Ampuero, Spectral element modeling of earthquake nucleation and
    spontaneous rupture on rate and state faults, World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los
    Angeles, 2006.
 
    Kaneko, Y., N. Lapusta, and J. P. Ampuero, Spectral element modeling of earthquake nucleation and
    spontaneous rupture on rate and state faults, SCEC Annual Meeting, 2006.

    Kaneko, Y., N. Lapusta, and J. P. Ampuero, Spectral element modeling of earthquake nucleation
    and spontaneous rupture on rate and state faults, Eos Trans. AGU , 87(52), S52B-06, 2006.

    Kaneko, Y., N. Lapusta, and J. P. Ampuero, Spectral element modeling of dynamic rupture and
    long-term slip on rate and state faults, SCEC Annual Meeting, 2007.

    Kaneko, Y., N. Lapusta, and J. P. Ampuero, Spectral element modeling of dynamic rupture and
    long-term slip on rate and state faults, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), S21B-0562, 2007.

Personal
   
    I was born and raised in Saitama, Japan (Japanese citizen), and went to Foothill College and UCLA before coming to Caltech.

Education

    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2003 - present
          Ph.D. student in geophysics
    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 2005
          Master of Science, Geophysics
    University of California -- Los Angeles, California, 2001 - 2003
          Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, Applied geophysics
    Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, 1999 - 2001
          Associate in Science, physics and geology
    Saitama (Urawa) Ichiritsu High School, Saitama, Japan, 1995 - 1998

Internship, Research Experience, Award etc

    Outstanding Student Paper Award, Abstract S11C-02, AGU Fall 2005 meeting
    John Handin Scholarship, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, 2003
          Awarded to outstanding undergraduate in geology and geophysics
    Research Assistant, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, 2002-2003
          Relocation of the 2003 Simi Valley clusters using waveform cross-correlation
          Inversion of VLF (very low frequency) signals above a magma filled dike on Mt. Etna
    Summer Internship at University of Minnesota, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 2002
          MNN (mutual nearest neighbor) clustering analysis and visualization of numerically simulated earthquakes

Teaching experience (California Institute of Technology)
   
    Teaching assistant, Introduction to geophysics, winter 2006.
    Teaching assistant, Continuum mechanics of fluids and solids, fall 2006 and winter 2007.
    Teaching assistant, Dynamic fracture and frictional faulting, winter 2008 and spring 2008.