A wide variety of slow fault-slip phenomena, called slow earthquakes, occur in subduction zones worldwide. These slow earthquakes sometimes trigger great earthquakes and earthquake swarms. I am working to improve probabilistic forecasts of seismicity by considering the effect of slow earthquakes on triggering seismicity. In addition, I am interested in the diversity of fast and slow seismicity in subduction zones worldwide and their origins. I am also interested in a wide range of research, not limited to slow earthquakes, as long as it contributes to improving seismicity forecasts.
Research Interests
統計地震学
Subduction zone
スロー地震
地震活動の物理
Research Areas
Natural sciences, Solid earth science, 地震学
Papers
Ongoing crustal deformation and earthquake swarm in the Noto Peninsula, central Japan
Author Correction: High probability of successive occurrence of Nankai megathrust earthquakes (Scientific Reports, (2023), 13, 1, (63), 10.1038/s41598-022-26455-w)
Yo Fukushima; Tomoaki Nishikawa; Yasuyuki Kano
Scientific Reports, Dec. 2023
Development of an Epidemic‐type Aftershock‐sequence Model Explicitly Incorporating the Seismicity‐triggering Effects of Slow Slip Events
Tomoaki Nishikawa; Takuya Nishimura
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 15 May 2023, Peer-reviewed
Relationship of preseismic, coseismic, and postseismic fault ruptures of two large interplate aftershocks of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake with slow-earthquake activity
Hisahiko Kubo; Tomoaki Nishikawa
Scientific Reports, Dec. 2020, Peer-reviewed
The slow earthquake spectrum in the Japan Trench illuminated by the S-net seafloor observatories
T. Nishikawa; T. Matsuzawa; K. Ohta; N. Uchida; T. Nishimura; S. Ide
Science, 23 Aug. 2019, Peer-reviewed
Recurring Slow Slip Events and Earthquake Nucleation in the Source Region of the M 7 Ibaraki-Oki Earthquakes Revealed by Earthquake Swarm and Foreshock Activity
Tomoaki Nishikawa; Satoshi Ide
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Sep. 2018, Peer-reviewed
Detection of earthquake swarms at subduction zones globally: Insights into tectonic controls on swarm activity
T. Nishikawa; S. Ide
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Jul. 2017, Peer-reviewed
Background seismicity rate at subduction zones linked to slab‐bending‐related hydration
Tomoaki Nishikawa; Satoshi Ide
Geophysical Research Letters, 16 Sep. 2015, Peer-reviewed
Earthquake size distribution in subduction zones linked to slab buoyancy
Tomoaki Nishikawa; Satoshi Ide
Nature Geoscience, Dec. 2014, Peer-reviewed
Misc.
スロー地震ってなんだ?
西川 友章
Japanese Scientists in Science 2019, Mar. 2020, Invited