YANFANG QIN

Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics Research Center for Marine Geodynamics Observations Marine Seismology Research Group-

  • Resercher(II)

Research Interests

  • Marine seismology, subduction zone, ocean spreading center, interactive-plate deformation, seismic exploration

Research Areas

  • Natural sciences, Solid earth science, Marine seismology

Education

  • Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Research activity information

Papers

Misc.

  • 白石和也; 新井隆太; 中村恭之; 野徹雄; 三浦亮; 海宝由佳; Qin Yanfang; 三浦誠一; 藤江剛; 高橋努; 仲西理子; 小平秀一
    稠密地震探査による南海トラフの地殻構造研究               
    海と地球のシンポジウム2025, Mar. 2026
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  • 白石和也; 新井隆太; QIN Yanfang; 海宝由佳; 三浦亮; MEHMET Ali Uge; 三浦誠一; 中村恭之; 野徹雄; 山本富士夫; 藤江剛; 小平秀一; 藤中達也; PAUL Flores; 石橋環
    熊野灘沖から遠州灘沖における地殻構造調査
    海と地球のシンポジウム発表課題一覧・要旨集(CD-ROM), 2024
    2023

Presentations

  • Andrzej Górszczyk; Ryuta Arai; Gou Fujie; Kazuya Shiraishi; Yanfang Qin; Yasuyuki Nakamura; Ayako Nakanishi
    Reconstructing the Seismic Structure of Subducting Ridges in the Eastern Nankai Trough Using Dense OBS Surveys and Full-Waveform Inversion               
    AGU Annual Meeting 2025, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Kazuya Shiraishi; Tetsuo No; Yanfang Qin; Tsutomu Takahashi; Yasuyuki Nakamura; Gou Fujie
    Reflection imaging from dense ocean-bottom wide-angle seismic data               
    The 153rd SEGJ Conference, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Testuo No; Gou Fujie; Yasuyuki Nakamura; Tsutomu Takahashi; Koichiro Obana; Kazuya Shiraishi; Yanfang Qin; Tatsuya Ishiyama; Masaru Ichikawa; Kenichi Akama; Tetsuro Tsuru
    Strong reflectors in the crust and upper mantle directly beneath the eastern part of the aftershock area of the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake obtained from a seismic survey               
    The 153rd SEGJ Conference, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Yanfang Qin; Tetsuo No; Gou Fujie; Tsutomu Takahashi; Kazuya Shiraishi
    Seismic Imaging of Subsurface Structure in the Eastern Part of the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake Rupture Zone               
    International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes 2025, Sep. 2025
  • Jian Chen; Yanfang Qin; Daisuke Nishiura; Mikito Furuichi
    Subduction Deformation Under Frictional and Structural Controls: A DEM-Based Analysis of Subducting Graben Structures               
    International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes 2025, Sep. 2025
  • Jian Chen; Yanfang Qin; Daisuke Nishiura; Mikito Furuichi
    Numerical Sandbox Experiments with DEM: Frictional and Structural Controls on Prism Deformation               
    16th International Conference on Computational Methods, Sep. 2025
  • 仲西理子; Yanfang Qin; Xin Liu; 縣亮一郎; 富士原敏也; Dan Basse; 藤江剛; 汐見勝彦; 小平秀一; 高橋成実; 中村武志
    Merging multi-scale structure models around the Nankai Trough subduction seismogenic zonetowards completing a future 3D community model               
    JPGU 2025, 29 May 2025
  • Jian Chen; Yanfang Qin; Yohei Hamada; Daisuke Nishiura; Mikito Furuichi
    A DEM-Based Analysis on Subduction Deformation Under Frictional and Structural Controls               
    JpGU 2025, May 2025
  • Jian Chen; Yanfang Qin; Daisuke Nishiura; Mikito Furuichi
    Subduction Deformation Under Frictional and Structural Controls: A DEM-Based Analysis               
    EGU General Assembly 2025, May 2025
  • Andrzej Górszczyk; Ryuta Arai; Gou Fujie; Kazuya Shiraishi; Yasuyuki Nakamura; Ayako Nakanishi; Yanfang Qin
    Structural Characteristics of Subducting Oceanic Ridges in the Eastern Nankai Trough Region Derived from FWI of OBS Data               
    EGU General Assembly 2025, 01 May 2025
  • Yanfang Qin
    Evolution of subduction deformation fronts and implications for megathrust friction properties: insights from discrete element modeling               
    AGU 2024 fall meeting, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Yanfang Qin
    Graph-Space Optimal Transport-Based FWI for High-Resolution Imaging of Deep Marine Wide-Angle Seismic Refraction Data Down to the Upper Mantle: A Case Study of the Nankai Trough Plate Boundary               
    AGU 2024 fall meeting, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Yanfang Qin
    High-resolution imaging of plate boundary structures in the slow earthquake gap zone in the central Nankai Trough by optimal transportbased full waveform inversion               
    International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes 2024, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Yanfang Qin
    High-Resolution Imaging of Central Nankai Trough Plate Boundaries via Graph-Space Optimal Transport FWI of Dense Wide-Angle Seismic Refraction Data               
    SEISMIX 2024, 24 Jun. 2024
  • Yanfang Qin
    Optimal transport-based full waveform inversion for high resolution imaging of plate boundary structures in the slow earthquake gap off Western Kii Peninsula, Nankai Trough               
    Japan geoscience union meeting 2024, 28 May 2024
  • High resolution seismic velocity mapping of the plate boundary structures in the slow earthquake gap zone off western Kii Peninsula, Nankai Trough               
    AGU Fall Meeting, 2019
  • Seismic evidence of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundary in the young Juan de Fuca plate               
    AGU Fall Meeting, 2018
  • The frontal seismogenic nature of the Mentawai locked zone from full waveform inversion of long offset seismic streamer data               
    Subduction Interface Processes (ZIP) conference, Barcelona, 2017
  • Strategy for full waveform inversion of ultra-long offset streamer data from deep water at Sumatra subduction front               
    77th Conference & Exhibition, EAGE, 2015
  • Seismic imaging of two-layer deformation lithosphere in the Indian Ocean               
    77th Conference & Exhibition, EAGE, 2015
  • Nature and role of subducting sediments on the megathrust and forearc evolution in the 2004 great Sumatra earthquake rupture zone: results from full waveform inversion of long offset seismic data               
    AGU Fall Meeting, 2015
  • Seismic reflection images of lithospheric deformation in the Wharton Basin               
    EGU, 2014
  • The Nature of Intra-plate Deformation in the Wharton Basin and Its Consequence on the Subduction Processes               
    AGU Fall Meeting, 2014

Professional Memberships

  • Japan Geoscience Union (JPGU)               
  • The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)               
  • The American Geophysical Union (AGU)               
  • European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)