From People - School of Science, The University of Tokyo
田中 秀実 (たなか ひでみ)
TANAKA, Hidemi
| Title | Lecturer |
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| Affiliation | Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science |
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| Room | 745, Faculty of Science Bldg.1, 7F |
| TEL | +81-3-5841-4525 24525 (ext.) |
Research Field
Structural Geology
Research Subject
Study on Mechanism of Earthquake Generation from Aspects of Material Science
Current Research
Earthquakes are generated by repeated destruction of fault surface. What is the reason for the repeated destruction of deep underground fault surface? Faults are made from not only fault surface, but fault fracture zone of under 100 m width surrounding fault surface. Dynamic, static, and physicochemical processes of the materials in the fault fracture zone are believed to occur according to the elementary step of earthquake generation. Our group aims to understand the elementary step of earthquake generation by outdoor activities and experiments.
Keywords
Mechanism of Earthquake Generation, Material Science, Fault, Fault Fracture Zone, Dynamic Physical Process, Non-equilibrium Chemical Process