Kenji Satake

Kenji Satake
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Hokkaido University University of Tokyo
Scientific career
Fields	Seismology
Institutions	University of Tokyo

Kenji Satake is a Japanese seismologist who has made significant contributions to subduction and tsunami research. Along with Brian Atwater and David Yamaguchi, Satake assembled disparate pieces of information regarding a Japanese tsunami that had no known origin – an orphan tsunami. The three scientists worked together to pinpoint a date, time, and location for the 1700 Cascadia earthquake – 9 p.m. on January 26, 1700 – on the Cascadia subduction zone off the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.^[1][2]

References

1. Satake, K.; Shimazaki, K.; Tsuji, Y.; Ueda, K. (18 January 1996). "Time and size of a giant earthquake in Cascadia inferred from Japanese tsunami records of January 1700". Nature. 379 (6562): 246–249. Bibcode:1996Natur.379..246S. doi:10.1038/379246a0. S2CID 8305522.
2. Thompson, J. (2012), Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America, Counterpoint, pp. 200–211, ISBN 978-1582438245

Further reading

• Atwater, B. F.; Musumi-Rokkaku, S.; Satake, K.; Yoshinobu, T.; Kazue, U.; Yamaguchi, D. K. (2005). The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 – Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1707. United States Geological Survey–University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98535-0.

External links

• Satake, Kenji – University of Tokyo
• Profile – National Museum of Natural Science