Kenji Satake
Kenji Satake | |
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Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater |
Hokkaido University University of Tokyo |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Seismology |
Institutions | University of Tokyo |
Kenji Satake is a Japanese seismologist who has made significant contributions to subduction and tsunami research. Along with Brian Atwater and David Yamaguchi, Satake assembled disparate pieces of information regarding a Japanese tsunami that had no known origin. The three scientists worked together to pinpoint a date, time, and location for the 1700 Cascadia earthquake – 9 p.m. on January 26, 1700 – on the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.