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Morikawa Lab
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The lab aims to reduce disasters by understanding earthquakes.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding earthquakes to reduce disasters.
Morikawa Lab aims to reduce disasters by understanding earthquakes.
Its specialties are earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, and it also lists the theory of stochastic processes as a research keyword.
The lab balances analysis and observation, taking care to produce research results that fit real-world conditions.
Earthquake disaster prevention education is also an object of its research.
Key terms
- Earthquake engineering
- The field of engineering concerned with protecting structures such as buildings and bridges from earthquake shaking
- Engineering seismology
- The field that clarifies how earthquakes occur and how the ground shakes, in a form that can be used in engineering
- Theory of stochastic processes
- A mathematical theory that uses probability to handle phenomena that change over time while varying randomly
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to reduce disasters by understanding earthquakes. It balances analysis and observation, taking care to produce research results that fit real-world conditions.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring shaking with small sensors
So that earthquake and ground shaking can be measured at many locations, the lab tests how far small MEMS sensors can be used to observe microtremors, the very small vibrations of the ground, and is also building a simple compass.
*Illustrative imageEstimating subsurface structure from microtremors
How the ground shakes in an earthquake depends on the depth and shape of the firm ground below. The lab studies a method that estimates the shape of the firm ground by measuring ground microtremors at two locations simultaneously, supplementing labor-intensive boring surveys.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorHitoshi Morikawa
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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: “Đorđićeva Street damaged building in 2021” Milan Kušnjačić / CC0 (cropped)
- Measuring shaking with small sensors: “Quantitec low-cost MEMS based IMU as Inertial-Navigation-System” Haraldino80 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Estimating subsurface structure from microtremors: “Seismometer device by Guy Cobb” Elisehunter / CC0 (cropped)
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