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Volcanic activity on Io and its influence on the dynamics of the Jovian magnetosphere observed by EXCEED/Hisaki in 2015

Jupiter’s moon Io, which orbits deep inside the magnetosphere, is the most geologically active object in the solar system. Kurdalagon Patera, a volcano on Io, erupted in 2015 and became a substantial source of Jovian magnetospheric plasma. Based on Earth-orbiting spacecraft observations, Io plasma torus (IPT) exhibited the peak intensity (nearly double) of ionic sulfur emissions roughly 2 month later, followed by a decay phase. This environmental change provides a unique opportunity to determine how the more heavily loaded magnetosphere behaves.

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2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence and its impact on earthquake science and hazard assessment

The 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake and Himalayan Studies: First Results

Science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions (II)

The Next Marmara Earthquake: Disaster Mitigation, Recovery and Early Warning

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Earth, Planets and Space is supported by the Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, the Seismological Society of Japan, the Volcanological Society of Japan, the Geodetic Society of Japan, and the Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences.

From 2016, if the author is a society member, the article-processing charge will be €540 for a Full paper/Technical report or €360 for a Letter article with the remaining charge covered by the societies. If the corresponding author is not a society member, the article-processing charge will be €900 for a Full paper/Technical report or €540 for a Letter article (using the code TC01377566) with the remaining charge covered by the societies.

The journal is partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results (251001) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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Aims and scope

Earth, Planets and Space (EPS) covers scientific articles in Earth and Planetary Sciences, particularly geomagnetism, aeronomy, space science, seismology, volcanology, geodesy, and planetary science. EPS also welcomes articles in new and interdisciplinary subjects, including instrumentations. Only new and original contents will be accepted for publication. No review papers will be accepted.

EPS Young Researcher Award 2016

Michiyo Sawai wins the award as the first author of the following paper.

Frictional properties of incoming pelagic sediments at the Japan Trench: implications for large slip at a shallow plate boundary during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake
Michiyo Sawai, Takehiro Hirose, Jun Kameda

EPS Excellent Paper Award 2016

The following paper wins the award.

Tsunami source of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

Yushiro Fujii, Kenji Satake, Shin’ichi Sakai, Masanao Shinohara, and Toshihiko Kanazawa

Special Issues accepting submissions

The 13th International Conference on Substorms
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2018

Recent Advances in MST and EISCAT/Ionospheric Studies – Special Issue of the Joint MST15 and EISCAT18 Meetings, May 2017
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2017

Recent Advances in Geo-, Paleo- and Rock-Magnetism
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2017

Advancement of our knowledge on Aso volcano: Current activity and background
Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2018

Towards Forecasting Phreatic Eruptions: Examples from Hakone Volcano and some Global Equivalents
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2017

GNSS and SAR Technologies for Atmospheric Sensing
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2017

Geospace Exploration by the ERG mission
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2017

Design and operation of a 1500-m laser strainmeter installed at an underground site in Kamioka, Japan

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A laser strainmeter with a 1500 m baseline was constructed at an underground site in Kamioka, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The interferometer using a high frequency-stabilized laser measures the change in distance between two retroreflectors in the tunnel of the KAGRA gravitational-wave telescope. Since operations began in August 2016, ground motions with various timescales have been detected. The tidal waveform agrees with the theoretical waveform after topographic corrections. The strain spectrum indicates the lowest background noise of less than 10⁻¹² in the mHz band. The strainmeter provides a new method for observing low frequency ground motion on seismic, geodetic, and intermediate timescales.

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