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EPS Excellent Paper Award

The EPS Excellent Paper Award, in general, shall be awarded to one nominated paper annually. The editor-in-chief and the presidents of the following five supporting societies shall award the winning paper:

  • 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
  • The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences

The paper must have been published in EPS over the previous five calendar years. The award will be granted to a nominated paper selected by the EPS Excellent Paper Award Committee, which is composed of the members of the EPS editorial board.

2016

The 2016 EPS Excellent Paper Award is granted to the paper by Yushiro Fujii, Kenji Satake, Shin'ichi Sakai, Masanao Shinohara, and Toshihiko Kanazawa (2011).

Tsunami source of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake
Yushiro Fujii, Kenji Satake, Shin’ichi Sakai, Masanao Shinohara, and Toshihiko Kanazawa

This paper compiled the Tsunami waveform data from tide gauges, GPS wave gauges, and ocean bottom pressure gauges associated with the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. From the waveform inversion, the authors successfully explained the two-step waveforms, which were the most outstanding characters of the data. First, to explain the initial rise in water level, the slip on the plate interface was estimated at the southern Sanriku and Miyagi-oki, around the epicenter. Second, to explain the later impulsive waveform, a large slip of around 40 m was modeled along the trench axis. This timely publication, as a contribution to the special issue of “First Results of the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake”, provided a standard model for the study of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. As such, this paper has received a large number of citations and is therefore well-deserved of the EPS Excellent Paper Award 2016.

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