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  1. Breaking the Cycle: Short Recurrence and Overshoot of an M9-class Kamchatka Earthquake

    Article • Seismica, November 2025, McGill University Library and Archives

    Ryo Okuwaki

  2. Fast Reports of the 2025 Mw 7.8 Mandalay, Myanmar Earthquake: unraveling the rupture characteristics

    Article • Seismica, October 2025, McGill University Library and Archives

    Ryo Okuwaki

  3. Breaking the Cycle: Short Recurrence and Overshoot of an M9-class Kamchatka Earthquake

    Article • September 2025, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  4. Intraslab stress heterogeneity and continental mantle faulting revealed by the 2006 Pingtung offshore earthquake doublet

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  5. The complex rupture evolution of the long and slow, tsunamigenic 2021 South Sandwich Islands earthquake

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  6. A multiple asymmetric bilateral rupture sequence derived from the peculiar tele-seismic P-waves of the 2025 Mandalay, Myanmar earthquake

    Article • Seismica, May 2025, McGill University Library and Archives

    Ryo Okuwaki

  7. The complex rupture evolution of the long and slow, tsunamigenic 2021 South Sandwich Islands earthquake

    Article • March 2025, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  8. A Multiplex Rupture Sequence Under Complex Fault Network Due To Preceding Earthquake Swarms During the 2024 Mw 7.5 Noto Peninsula, Japan, Earthquake

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  9. A Multiplex Rupture Sequence under Complex Fault Network due to Preceding Earthquake Swarms during the 2024 Mw 7.5 Noto Peninsula, Japan, Earthquake

    Article • March 2024, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  10. Barrier-Induced Rupture Front Disturbances during the 2023 Morocco Earthquake

    Article • Seismological Research Letters, January 2024, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  11. Complex rupture evolution of the 2007 Martinique earthquake: a non-double-couple event in the Caribbean Sea

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, January 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  12. Complex evolution of the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake revealed by teleseismic body waves

    Article • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  13. Multi‐Scale Rupture Growth With Alternating Directions in a Complex Fault Network During the 2023 South‐Eastern Türkiye and Syria Earthquake Doublet

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  14. Complex rupture evolution of the 2007 Martinique earthquake: a non-double-couple event in the Caribbean Sea

    Article • March 2023, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  15. Multi-scale rupture growth with alternating directions in a complex fault network during the 2023 south-eastern Türkiye and Syria earthquake doublet

    Article • March 2023, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  16. Irregular rupture process of the 2022 Taitung, Taiwan, earthquake sequence

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  17. Irregular Rupture Process of the 2022 Taitung, Taiwan, Earthquake Sequence 

    Article • November 2022, Research Square

    Ryo Okuwaki

  18. The launch of Seismica: a seismic shift in publishing

    Article • Seismica, November 2022, McGill University Library and Archives

    Ryo Okuwaki

  19. Earthquake Cycle Deformation Associated with the 2021 M W 7.4 Maduo (Eastern Tibet) Earthquake: An Intrablock Rupture Event on a Slow‐Slipping Fault from Sentinel‐...

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, November 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  20. Chasing supershear earthquakes

    Article • Nature Geoscience, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  21. Restricted rupture evolution of the 2022 Mw 6.7 Luding China earthquake

    Article • October 2022, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  22. Complex evolution of the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake revealed by teleseismic body waves

    Article • September 2022, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  23. Complex rupture process on the conjugate fault system of the 2014 Mw 6.2 Thailand earthquake

    Article • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  24. Potency density tensor inversion of complex body waveforms with time-adaptive smoothing constraint

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, May 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  25. Irregular rupture propagation and geometric fault complexities during the 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  26. Very Low Frequency Earthquakes in Between the Seismogenic and Tremor Zones in Cascadia?

    Article • AGU Advances, March 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  27. Fast rupture of the 2009 Mw 6.9 Canal de Ballenas earthquake in the Gulf of California dynamically triggers seismicity in California

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, February 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  28. Oblique convergence causes both thrust and strike‐slip ruptures during the 2021 M 7.2 Haiti earthquake

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  29. Illuminating a Contorted Slab with a Complex Intraslab Rupture Evolution during the 2021 Mw 7.3 East Cape, New Zealand Earthquake

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  30. Potency density tensor inversion of complex body waveforms with time-adaptive smoothing constraint

    Article • October 2021, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  31. Oblique convergence causes both thrust and strike-slip ruptures during the 2021 M 7.2 Haiti earthquake

    Article • October 2021, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  32. Back-propagating rupture evolution within a curved slab during the 2019 Mw 8.0 Peru intraslab earthquake

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, August 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  33. Complex rupture process of the 2014 Thailand Mw 6.2 earthquake on the conjugate fault system of the Phayao fault zone

    Article • July 2021, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  34. Illuminating a Contorted Slab with a Complex Intraslab Rupture Evolution during the 2021 Mw 7.3 East Cape, New Zealand Earthquake

    Article • July 2021, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  35. Long Tsunami Oscillations Following the 30 October 2020 Mw 7.0 Aegean Sea Earthquake: Observations and Modelling

    Article • Pure and Applied Geophysics, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  36. Identifying landslides from continuous seismic surface waves: a case study of multiple small-scale landslides triggered by Typhoon Talas, 2011

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, April 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  37. Consecutive ruptures on a complex conjugate fault system during the 2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  38. Characteristics of the 30 October 2020 Mw 7.0 Aegean Sea earthquake from sea level data analysis and numerical modeling

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Ryo Okuwaki

  39. Back-propagating rupture evolution within a curved slab during the 2019 Peru intraslab earthquake

    Article • January 2021, California Digital Library (EZID)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  40. Consecutive Ruptures on a Complex Conjugate Fault System During the 2018 Gulf of Alaska Earthquake

    Article • January 2021, Wiley

    Ryo Okuwaki

  41. Consecutive Ruptures on a Complex Conjugate Fault System During the 2018 Gulf of Alaska Earthquake

    Article • January 2021, Wiley

    Ryo Okuwaki

  42. Rupture Process of the 2020 Caribbean Earthquake Along the Oriente Transform Fault, Involving Supershear Rupture and Geometric Complexity of Fault

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  43. Rupture Process of the 2020 Caribbean Earthquake along the Oriente Transform Fault, Involving Supershear Rupture and Geometric Complexity of Fault

    Article • November 2020, Wiley

    Ryo Okuwaki

  44. Construction of fault geometry by finite-fault inversion of teleseismic data

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, October 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  45. Inchworm-like source evolution through a geometrically complex fault fueled persistent supershear rupture during the 2018 Palu Indonesia earthquake

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2020, Elsevier

    Ryo Okuwaki

  46. Rupture Process of the 2020 Caribbean Earthquake along the Oriente Transform Fault, Involving Supershear Rupture and Geometric Complexity of Fault

    Article • September 2020, Wiley

    Ryo Okuwaki

  47. Multiple Small Scale Landslides Triggered by Typhoon Talas 2011

    Article • August 2020, Center for Open Science

    Ryo Okuwaki

  48. Back-propagating supershear rupture in the 2016 Mw 7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake

    Article • Nature Geoscience, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  49. The 2018 Sulawesi tsunami in Palu city as a result of several landslides and coseismic tsunamis

    Article • Coastal Engineering Journal, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Ryo Okuwaki

  50. Centroid moment tensor inversions of offshore earthquakes using a three-dimensional velocity structure model: slip distributions on the plate boundary along the Nankai Trough

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, May 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  51. Construction of fault geometry by finite-fault inversion of teleseismic data

    Article • May 2020, Center for Open Science

    Ryo Okuwaki

  52. Inchworm-like source evolution through a geometrically complex fault fueled persistent supershear rupture during the 2018 Palu Indonesia earthquake

    Article • February 2020, Center for Open Science

    Ryo Okuwaki

  53. Back-propagating super-shear rupture in the 2016 M7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake

    Article • December 2019, Center for Open Science

    Ryo Okuwaki

  54. Centroid moment tensor inversions of offshore earthquakes using a three-dimensional velocity structure model: Slip distributions on the plate boundary along the Nankai Trough

    Article • November 2019, Center for Open Science

    Ryo Okuwaki

  55. Development of an inversion method to extract information on fault geometry from teleseismic data

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, November 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  56. Development of an inversion method to extract information on fault geometry from teleseismic data

    Article • January 2019, Center for Open Science

    Ryo Okuwaki

  57. Backprojection to image slip

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  58. Development and application of a tsunami fragility curve of the 2015 tsunami in Coquimbo, Chile

    Article • Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, August 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Ryo Okuwaki

  59. Backprojection to image slip

    Article • August 2018, Center for Open Science

    Ryo Okuwaki

  60. Rupture Process During the M w 8.1 2017 Chiapas Mexico Earthquake: Shallow Intraplate Normal Faulting by Slab Bending

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor Yuji Yagi, Ryo Okuwaki

  61. Rupture Process during the Mw 8.1 2017 Chiapas Mexico Earthquake: Shallow Intraplate Normal Faulting by Slab Bending

    Article • November 2017, Center for Open Science

    Ryo Okuwaki

  62. Role of geometric barriers in irregular-rupture evolution during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, November 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  63. Tsunami fragility curve using field data and numerical simulation of the 2015 tsunami in Coquimbo, Chile

    Article • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions, November 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Ryo Okuwaki

  64. The 16 September 2015 Chile Tsunami from the Post-Tsunami Survey and Numerical Modeling Perspectives

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  65. Volcanic magma reservoir imaged as a low-density body beneath Aso volcano that terminated the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake rupture

    Article • Earth Planets and Space, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  66. Rupture process of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in relation to the thermal structure around Aso volcano

    Article • Earth Planets and Space, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  67. The Earthquake‐Source Inversion Validation (SIV) Project

    Article • Seismological Research Letters, April 2016, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Ryo Okuwaki

  68. Rupture Process During the 2015 Illapel, Chile Earthquake: Zigzag-Along-Dip Rupture Episodes

    Article • Pure and Applied Geophysics, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  69. The 16 September 2015 Chile Tsunami from the Post-Tsunami Survey and Numerical Modeling Perspectives

    Article • Pure and Applied Geophysics, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  70. Integrated seismic source model of the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Yuji Yagi, Ryo Okuwaki

  71. Unusual low-angle normal fault earthquakes after the 2011 Tohoku-oki megathrust earthquake

    Article • Earth Planets and Space, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ryo Okuwaki

  72. Relationship between High-frequency Radiation and Asperity Ruptures, Revealed by Hybrid Back-projection with a Non-planar Fault Model

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2014, Nature

    Ryo Okuwaki

  73. Rupture process of the 2014 Iquique Chile Earthquake in relation with the foreshock activity

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Yuji Yagi, Ryo Okuwaki