Related Projects
- Earthquake and Tsunami Observation/Monitoring Project
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A system to observe seafloor earthquakes and tsunamis from right above the area of ocean-trench earthquakes
It provides valuable data of the sea area that could not be obtained by the existing system.
- Research of the Earthquake Occurrence Zone along the Nankai Trough
- Clarifying the earthquake generation mechanism by digging the seafloor down to the source region and collecting and analyzing the substances taken from the fault zone
- HPCI Strategy Program
- Predicting earthquake and tsunami phenomena with a high accuracy by the large-scale calculation using a super computer (high-speed computer Kei)
Participating Organizations
- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
- Tohoku University
- The University of Tokyo
- National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
- Nagoya University
- Kochi University
- Kyoto University