Press Releases

Press Releases

2017

2017/12/20

Shallow Very Low Frequency Earthquake Zones in Nankai Trough Corresponds to Low Velocity Zones in Toe of Accretionary Prism
- A step to identify structural factors for occurrence of such earthquakes -

2017/11/24

International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 372 to Start
- Hikurangi subduction margin and slow slip events -

2017/09/25

International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 369 to Start
- Australia Cretaceous Climate and Tectonics -

2017/09/14

Subducted Seamounts Could Trigger Volcanic Activities

2017/09/14

Impacts of Global Warming on Tropical Cyclone
- Radius of gale force wind likely to expand-

2017/08/24

Deepest Fish Ever Recorded —
Documented at Depths of 8,178 m in Mariana Trench

2017/07/25

International Ocean Discovery Program Expeditions 371 to Start:
“Tasman Frontier Subduction Initiation and Paleogene Climate”

2017/07/21

Unusual Microbial Community Found in Extreme Environments in the Deep Subsurface
- Serpentinization-fed spring may be a clue to unlock mystery of early life on Earth -

2017/07/21

Sparse Modeling Captures Abrupt Changes in Slip Distribution beneath the Bungo Channel
- Improvement in spatial resolution for geodetic data inversion around the seismogenic zone expected -

2017/07/06

Water Vapor Content Increases Markedly with Increase in Air Temperature
- Indication of the possibility of more intense precipitation -

2017/07/05

Wildfire Likely to Have Larger Impacts on Climate Change
- Underestimated burned areas in boreal Eurasia revealed by satellite image validation -

2017/05/30

Impact of Climate Variability on Malaria Incidence in South Africa
- Link of El Niño/La Niña and Indian Ocean Subtropical Dipole with Malaria Incidence -

2017/05/16

China's Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions Have Been Overestimated
- Advancement in verification of fossil fuel CO2 and CH4 sources from China -

2017/05/16

Quartz Melting Point Depresses on Fault Plane
- A big step in understanding large earthquake mechanism -

2017/04/28

Deep-sea Hydrothermal Systems are “Natural Power Plants”
- New clues to the discovery of electric ecosystems and elucidation of the origin of life -

2017/03/31

Opposite Climate Trends in East Asia and Europe during the Younger Dryas Stadial
- Evidence from Lake Suigetsu -

2017/03/31

High Resolution Global Simulation Improves Typhoon Prediction
- Earth Simulator statistically quantifies advantage of high resolution simulation-

2017/02/07

International Ocean Discovery Program Expeditions 367 and 368 to Start
- Testing hypotheses for lithosphere thinning during continental breakup: drilling at the South China Sea rifted margin -

2017/02/02

Carbon Dioxide Induces Partial Melting in the Asthenosphere
- A big step to settle arguments on plate tectonics -

2017/01/27

Foraminifera Pumps Proton for Shell Formation
- To buffer seawater against pH changes due to ocean acidification -

2017/01/27

World's First Estimation of Long-term Variations in Global Atmospheric Pollutant Emissions based on Data Assimilation
- Rapid increases over India and large variations over China -

2017/01/21

Kuroshio Enhances Bomb Cyclones
- A mechanism to induce explosive cyclones and jet stream -

2017/01/11

Shallow Fault Slip during 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake Quantified
- Clue to understand characteristic of shallow slip near trench axis -