JP

Organization

Research Division

Risk Evaluation and Disaster Mitigation Research Division
Inland Earthquake and Volcano Lab
Professor
Ph.D. (Geophysics)
Graduate School of Science
Professor
Research Subject(s)
Using seismic tomography and other geophysical methods to study earthquake mechanism, structure and origin of active volcanoes, as well as Earth's deep structure and dynamics.
Key Words
Solid-Earth Geophysics / Seismology / Physical Volcanology / Earth's Interior Structure
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Research Activities

We investigated the detailed 3-D structure of the source zone of the great 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake (Mw 9.0) (Zhao et al., 2011; Liu & Zhao, 2018; Hua & Zhao et al., 2020).

We proposed the big mantle wedge (BMW) model to explain the origin of the intraplate volcanism in the East Asian region (Zhao et al., 2004, 2009).

We determined the first 3-D seismic tomography of the lunar interior (Zhao et al., 2008, 2012).

Selected Works

Zhao, D. (2015). Multiscale Seismic Tomography. Springer, 304 pp.

Zhao, D., M. Fujisawa, G. Toyokuni (2017). Tomography of the subducting Pacific slab and the 2015 Bonin deepest earthquake (Mw 7.9). Scientific Reports, 7, 44487.

Zhao, D., K. Yamashita, G. Toyokuni (2018). Tomography of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake area and the Beppu-Shimabara graben. Scientific Reports, 8, 15488.

Zhao, D., X. Liu, Y. Hua (2018). Tottori earthquakes and Daisen volcano: Effects of fluids, slab melting and hot mantle upwelling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 485, 121-129.

Hua, Y., D. Zhao, G. Toyokuni, Y. Xu (2020). Tomography of the source zone of the great 2011 Tohoku earthquake. Nature Communications, 11, 1163.
 

Selected Memberships
  • The Seismological Society of Japan
  • The Seismological Society of America
  • Japan Geoscience Union
  • American Geophysical Union
Selected Awards
  • World Earthquake Researchers Top-10 (http://archive.sciencewatch.com/ana/st/earthquakes2/authors/)
  • 2014 Island Arc Award (Geological Society of Japan)