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Miyake Lab (Earthquake Research Institute, Division of Earthquake and Volcano Disaster Research)
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The lab analyzes the ground shaking of damaging earthquakes in order to improve the prediction of that shaking.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding and predicting strong earthquake ground motion.
The Miyake Lab studies strong ground motion, the intense shaking from earthquakes that causes damage, and the disasters earthquakes bring about.
The lab analyzes earthquake shaking with the aim of understanding earthquakes themselves.
It investigates the rupture process of the earthquake source on faults, and develops methods for building source models used to predict ground shaking.
The lab is extending its predictions of shaking from earthquakes expected to occur in the future to regions outside Japan, and also works on seismic hazard assessment and hazard map production.
Key terms
- Strong ground motion
- Strong ground motion: intense shaking from an earthquake, strong enough to damage buildings and the ground
- Source rupture process
- Source rupture process: the course of an earthquake, showing where slip on the fault began and how it spread
- Seismic hazard assessment
- Seismic hazard assessment: an evaluation that estimates, using probabilities and similar measures, how strongly a given location is likely to be shaken in the future
ResearchResearch themes
The lab focuses mainly on damaging earthquakes, analyzing strong ground motion with the aim of understanding earthquakes. It develops methods for modeling earthquake sources, and works on strong ground motion prediction, seismic hazard assessment, and hazard map production.
*Illustrative imageStrong Motion Seismology
This research analyzes the strong shaking that causes earthquake disasters, with the aim of understanding earthquakes themselves. Its main subjects are damaging earthquakes.
*Illustrative imageGround Motion Prediction and Hazard Assessment
This research predicts how strongly the ground will shake in earthquakes expected to occur in the future. It includes extending these predictions internationally, as well as research on seismic hazard assessment and hazard map production.
*Illustrative imageAnalysis and Modeling of the Earthquake Source Process
This research explores the rupture process on faults and represents the earthquake source as a model. It feeds into methods for building the source models used to predict earthquake ground motion.
*Illustrative imageMethod Development
To produce strong ground motion predictions useful for hazard maps and similar purposes, the lab develops methods for modeling earthquake sources. Methods for simulating ground motion over a broad frequency band are also among its research themes.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Miyake Lab consist of faculty members, international research fellows, and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorHiroe MiyakePublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Aso house damaged by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake 2” hanonimas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Strong Motion Seismology: “CUSP unit located in a basement” EERC / Public domain (cropped)
- Ground Motion Prediction and Hazard Assessment: “Hazardmap” T. Hengl / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Analysis and Modeling of the Earthquake Source Process: “Futagawa Fault Zone Dozono 2020 01” ja:User:Sanjo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Method Development: “Seismogram at Weston Observatory” Z22 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Kano Lab): “Kawaraban-of-1855-Ansei-Edo-earthquake” A news broadsheet “Kawaraban”, 1855 / Public domain (cropped)
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