Research Interests

Publications

This list focuses on peer-reviewed journal articles.

    2025
  1. Yoshida, K., 2025, Different Seismogenic Environments of Interplate and Intraslab Earthquakes: Re]Examination of Apparent Repeating Earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(8), e2025JB031433, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JB031433
  2. Yoshida, K., S. Ide, 2025, Highly Systematic Response of Seismic Rupture Patterns to Background Loading Rate: Insights From Repeating Earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, 52(10), e2025GL115207, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115207
  3. Yoshida, K., Y. Fukushima, Y. Kaneko, 2025, Near]Field Imaging of Near]Identical Mw5.9 Earthquakes in the Crust of Ibaraki, Japan, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(2), e2024JB029791, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB029791
  4. Orimo, M., Yoshida, K., T. Matsuzawa, T. Taira, K. Emoto, A. Hasegawa, 2025, Systematic Differences in Energy Radiation Processes Between Regular and Intraplate Low-Frequency Earthquakes Around the Focal Area of the 2008 Mw 6.9 Iwate-Miyagi, Japan, Earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(3), e2024JB030750, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB030750
  5. Ando, R., Y. Fukushima, K. Yoshida, K. Imanishi, 2025, Nonplanar 3D fault geometry controls the spatiotemporal distributions of slip and uplift: Evidence from the Mw 7.5 2024 Noto Peninsula, Japan, Earthquake, Earth, Planets and Space, 77(53), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02187-9
  6. Yamada, T., Y. Ohta, T. Nishimura, Yoshida, K., Y. Hiramatsu, Y. Kinoshita, 2025, Coseismic slip distribution of the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake deduced from dense global navigation satellite system network and interferometric synthetic aperture radar data: Effect of assumed dip angle, Earth, Planets and Space, 77(19), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02154-4
  7. Huang, Y., S. Ide, A. Kato, Yoshida, K., C. Jiang, P. Zhai, 2025, Fault material heterogeneity controls deep interplate earthquakes, Science Advances, 11(9), eadr9353, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr9353
  8. Tagami, A., T. Okada, M. K. Savage, C. Chamberlain, T. Matsuzawa, R. Fujimura, K. Tateiwa, K. Yoshida, R. Takagi, S. Kimura, S. Hirahara, T. Yamada, Y. Ohta, 2025, Evaluation of the favorability of faults to slip: the case of the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, Earth, Planets and Space, 77, 107. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02235-4
    9. 2024
  9. Matsumoto, R., Yoshida, K., 2024, Quasi-Real-Time Earthquake Relocation and Monitoring in the Northeastern Noto Peninsula, Earth, Planets and Space, 76(131), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-024-02079-4
  10. Yoshida, K., K. Emoto, S. Takemura, T. Matsuzawa, 2024, Near-Source Waveform Modeling to Estimate Shallow Crustal Attenuation and Radiated Energy of Mw 2.0?4.5 Earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(9), e2023JB028523. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB028523
  11. Yoshida, K., R. Takagi, Y. Fukushima, R. Ando, Y. Ohta, Y. Hiramatsu, 2024, Role of a Hidden Fault in the Early Process of the 2024 Mw 7.5 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 51(16), e2024GL110993. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110993
  12. Yoshida, K., 2024, Spatial variation in stress orientation in and around Turkiye: Rupture propagation across the stress regime transition in the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmara earthquake, Geophysical Journal International, 238(3), 1582?1594. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae230
  13. Yoshida, K., 2024, Direct Evidence for Diverse Source Complexity in Small Earthquakes (Mw 3.3?5.0) Obtained from Near-Source Borehole Seismic Data, Seismological Research Letters, 95(4), 2409?2421. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230431
  14. Fukushima, Y., D. Ishimura, N. Takahashi, Y. Iwasa, L. C. Malatesta, T. Takahashi, C.-H. Tang, K. Yoshida, S. Toda, 2024, Landscape changes caused by the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan, Science Advances, 10(49). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp9193
  15. Okada, T., M. K. Savage, S. Sakai, Yoshida, K., N. Uchida, R. Takagi, S. Kimura, S. Hirahara, A. Tagami, R. Fujimura, T. Matsuzawa, E. Kurashimo, Y. Hiramatsu, 2024, Shear wave splitting and seismic velocity structure in the focal area of the earthquake swarm and their relation with earthquake swarm activity in the Noto Peninsula, central Japan, Earth, Planets and Space, 76(24). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-024-01974-0
    16. 2023
  16. Yoshida, K., N. Uchida, Y. Matsumoto, M. Orimo, T. Okada, S. Hirahara, S. Kimura, R. Hino, 2023, Updip Fluid Flow in the Crust of the Northeastern Noto Peninsula, Japan, Triggered the 2023 Mw 6.2 Suzu Earthquake During Swarm Activity, Geophysical Research Letters, 50(21), e2023GL106023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106023
  17. Yoshida, K., M. Uno, T. Matsuzawa, Y. Yukutake, Y. Mukuhira, H. Sato, T. Yoshida, 2023, Upward Earthquake Swarm Migration in the Northeastern Noto Peninsula, Japan, Initiated From a Deep Ring-Shaped Cluster: Possibility of Fluid Leakage From a Hidden Magma System, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(6), e2022JB026047. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB026047
  18. Yoshida, K., H. Kanamori, 2023, Time-domain source parameter estimation of Mw 3?7 earthquakes in Japan from a large database of moment-rate functions, Geophysical Journal International, 234(1), 243?262. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad068
  19. Yoshida, K., 2023, The Mw 6.0?6.8 quasi-repeating earthquakes off Miyagi, Japan, with variable moment release patterns due to a hidden adjacent slip patch, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(2), e2022JB025654. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025654

    20. 2022
  20. Y. Mukuhira, M. Uno, K. Yoshida, 2022, Slab-derived fluid storage in the crust elucidated by earthquake swarm, Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00610-7
  21. Yoshida, K., T. Matsuzawa, N. Uchida, 2022, The 2021 Mw7.0 and Mw6.7 Miyagi-Oki earthquakes nucleated in a deep seismic/aseismic transition zone: Possible effects of transient instability due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(8). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB024887
  22. Yukutake, Y., Yoshida, K., R. Honda, 2022, Interaction Between Aseismic Slip and Fluid Invasion in Earthquake Swarms Revealed by Dense Geodetic and Seismic Observations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jb022933
  23. Yoshida, K., N. Uchida, H. Kubo, R. Takagi, S. Xu, 2022, Prevalence of updip rupture propagation in interplate earthquakes along the Japan trench, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 578, 117306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117306
  24. Ikeda, R., Yoshida, K., T. Matsuzawa, 2022, Simultaneous estimation of stress drop and rupture directivity of small earthquakes near the Fukushima-Ibaraki border, Tohoku journal of natural disaster science, 58, 25-30 (in Japanese). http://nds-tohoku.in.arena.ne.jp/ndsjournal/volume58/58-5.pdf
  25. Kubo, H., Yoshida, K., T. Kimura, 2022, APPLICATION OF BAYESIAN OPTIMIZATION TO CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, 3 (J2) (in Japanese). https://doi.org/10.11532/jsceiii.3.J2_209

    26. 2021
  26. Kubota, T., H. Kubo, K. Yoshida, N. Y. Chikasada, W. Suzuki, T. Nakamura, H. Tsushima, 2021, Improving the Constraint on the Mw 7.1 2016 Off-Fukushima Shallow Normal-faulting Earthquake With the High Azimuthal Coverage Tsunami Data From the S-net Wide and Dense Network: Implication for the Stress Regime in the Tohoku Overriding Plate, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022223
  27. Yoshida, K., H. Noda, M. Nakatani, B. Shibazaki, 2021, Backward earthquake ruptures far ahead of fluid invasion: Insights from dynamic earthquake-sequence simulations, Tectonophysics, 816, 229038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229038
  28. Yoshida, K., 2021, Studies about the Impacts of Upward Fluid Migration on the Earthquake Occurrence: Constraints from Seismicity Triggered by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake, Zisin 2, 74, 95-116. https://doi.org/10.4294/zisin.2020-20
  29. Matsumoto, Y., Yoshida, K., T. Matsuzawa, A. Hasegawa, 2021, Fault-valve behavior estimated from intensive foreshocks and aftershocks of the 2017 M 5.3 Kagoshima Bay earthquake sequence, Kyushu, southern Japan, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 126(5), e2020JB020278. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020278
  30. Wang, Q. Y., M. Campillo, F. Brenguier, A. Lecointre, T. Takeda, Yoshida, K., 2021, Seismic evidence of fluid migration in northeastern Japan after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 563, 116894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116894
  31. Yoshida, K., 2021, Detection of temporal change in near-source attenuation during intense fluid-driven seismicity following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Geophysical Journal International, 224(1), 138?150. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa421

    32. 2020
  32. Uchida, N., J. Nakajima, K. Wang, R. Takagi, Yoshida, K., T. Nakayama, R. Hino, T. Okada, Y. Asano, 2020, Stagnant forearc mantle wedge inferred from mapping of shear-wave anisotropy using S-net seafloor seismometers, Nature Communications, 11, 5676. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19541-y
  33. Yoshida, K., T. Matsuzawa, 2020, Heterogeneity in stress field in NE Japan and its implication for the fault strength and the earthquake occurrence mechanism, Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 129(4), 451-471. https://doi.org/10.5026/jgeography.129.451
  34. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, S. Noguchi, K. Kasahara, 2020, Low-frequency earthquakes observed in close vicinity of repeating earthquakes in the brittle upper crust of Hakodate, Hokkaido, northern Japan, Geophysical Journal International, 220(1), 793?802. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa418
  35. Yoshida, K., N. Uchida, S. Hiarahara, T. Nakayama, T. Matsuzawa, T. Okada, Y. Matsumoto, A. Hasegawa, 2020, 2019 M6.7 Yamagata-Oki earthquake in the stress shadow of 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: Was it caused by the reduction in fault strength?, Tectonophysics, 793, 228609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228609
  36. Yoshida, K., T. Taira, Y. Matsumoto, T. Saito, K. Emoto, T. Matsuzawa, 2020, Stress Release Process Along an Intraplate Fault Analogous to the Plate Boundary: A Case Study of the 2017 M 5.2 Akita-Daisen Earthquake, NE Japan, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 125(5), e2020JB019527. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019527
  37. Yoshida, T., R. Takashima, T. Kudo, O. D. A. Prima, S. Maeda, K. Yoshida, T. Okada, S. Miura, T. Takahashi, Y. Nagahashi, K. Kataoka, 2020, Late Cenozoic Igneous Activity and Crustal Structure in the NE Japan Arc: Background of Inland Earthquake Activity, Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 129(4), 529-563. https://doi.org/10.5026/jgeography.129.529

    38. 2019
  38. Yoshida, K., 2019, Prevalence of asymmetrical rupture in small earthquakes and its effect on the estimation of stress drop: a systematic investigation in inland Japan, Geoscience Letters, 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40562-019-0145-z
  39. Yoshida, K., T. Saito, K. Emoto, Y. Urata, D. Sato, 2019, Rupture directivity, stress drop, and hypocenter migration of small- and moderate-sized earthquakes in the Yamagata-Fukushima border swarm triggered by upward pore-pressure migration after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Tectonophysics, 769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228184
  40. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, T. Yoshida, T. Matsuzawa, 2019, Heterogeneities in stress and strength in Tohoku and its relationship with earthquake sequences triggered by the 2011 M9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 176(3), 1335-1355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-018-2073-9
  41. Iwata, T., K. Yoshida, Y. Fukahata, 2019, Stress Tensor Inversion Using Seismological Data, Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 128(5), 797-811. https://doi.org/10.5026/jgeography.128.797
  42. Wang, K., L. Brown, Y. Hu, K. Yoshida, J. He, T. Sun, 2019, Stable forearc stressed by a weak megathrust: Mechanical and geodynamic implications of stress changes caused by the M9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 124(3), 6179-6194. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017043
  43. Maeda, S., T. Matsuzawa, K. Yoshida, T. Okada, T. Yoshida, 2019, Causes of the N-S compressional aftershocks of the E-W compressional 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake (M7.2) in the northeastern Japan arc, Earth, Planets and Space, 71, 94. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-019-1073-z

    44. 2018
  44. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, 2018, Hypocenter Migration and Seismicity Pattern Change in the Yamagata-Fukushima Border, NE Japan, Caused by Fluid Movement and Pore Pressure Variation, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 123(6), 5000-5017. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015468
  45. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, 2018, Sendai-Okura earthquake swarm induced by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake in the stress shadow of NE Japan: Detailed fault structure and hypocenter migration, Tectonophysics, 733, 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.12.031
  46. Saito, T., A. Noda, K. Yoshida, S. Tanaka, 2018, Shear Strain Energy Change Caused by the Interplate Coupling Along the Nankai Trough: An Integration Analysis Using Stress Tensor Inversion and Slip-Deficit Inversion, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(7), 5975-5986. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015839
  47. Maeda, S., T. Matsuzawa, T. Shinji, K. Yoshida, H. Katao, 2018, Complex microseismic activity and depth-dependent stress field changes in Wakayama, southwestern Japan, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-018-0788-6

    48. 2017
  48. Yoshida, K., T. Saito, Y. Urata, Y. Asano, A. Hasegawa, 2017, Temporal changes in stress drop, frictional strength, and earthquake size distribution in the 2011 Yamagata-Fukushima, NE Japan, earthquake swarm, caused by fluid migration, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122(12), 10,379-10,397. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014334
  49. Urata, Y., K. Yoshida, E. Fukuyama, H. Kubo, 2017, 3-D Dynamic Rupture Simulations of the 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, Earthquake, Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 150. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-017-0733-0
  50. Chamberlain, C. J., C. M. Boese, J. D. Eccles, M. K. Savage, L. M. Baratin, J. Townend, A. K. Gulley, K. M. Jacobs, A. Benson, S. Taylor-Offord, C. Thurber, B. Guo, T. Okada, R. Takagi, K. Yoshida, R. Sutherland, V. G. Toy, 2017, Real-Time Earthquake Monitoring during the Second Phase of the Deep Fault Drilling Project, Alpine Fault, New Zealand, Seismological Research Letters, 88(5), 1449?1464. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220170095

    51. 2016
  51. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, T. Saito, Y. Asano, S. Tanaka, K. Sawazaki, Y. Urata, E. Fukuyama, 2016, Stress rotations due to the M6.5 foreshock and M7.3 mainshock in the 2016 Kumamoto, SW Japan, earthquake sequence, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 10,097?10,104. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL0705812
  52. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, T. Yoshida, 2016, Temporal variation of frictional strength in an earthquake swarm in NE Japan caused by fluid migration, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, 4047?4063. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013022
  53. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, T. Okada, 2016, Heterogeneous stress field in the source area of the 2003 M6.4 Northern Miyagi Prefecture, NE Japan, earthquake, Geophys. J. Int., 206(1), 408?419. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw160
  54. Shibazaki, B., T. Okada, J. Muto, T. Matsumoto, T. Yoshida, K. Yoshida, 2016, Heterogeneous stress state of island arc crust in northeastern Japan affected by hot mantle fingers, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121(4), 3019?3036. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012664
  55. Yoshida, K., N. Pulido, E. Fukuyama, 2016, Unusual stress rotations within the Philippines possibly caused by slip heterogeneity along the Philippine fault, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121(3), 1826?1840. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012275

    56. 2015
  56. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, T. Okada, 2015, Spatial variation of stress orientations in NE Japan revealed by dense seismic observations, Tectonophysics, 647?648, 63?72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.02.013
  57. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, T. Okada, 2015, Spatially heterogeneous stress field in the source area of the 2011 Mw 6.6 Fukushima-Hamadori earthquake, NE Japan, probably caused by static stress change, Geophys. J. Int., 201(2), 1060?1069. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv068
  58. Okada, T., T. Matsuzawa, N. Umino, K. Yoshida, A. Hasegawa, H. Takahashi, T. Yamada, M. Kosuga, T. Takeda, A. Kato, T. Igarashi, K. Obara, S. Sakai, A. Saiga, T. Iidaka, T. Iwasaki, N. Hirata, N. Tsumura, Y. Yamanaka, T. Terakawa, H. Nakamichi, T. Okuda, S. Horikawa, H. Katao, T. Miura, A. Kubo, T. Matsushima, K. Goto, H. Miyamachi, 2015, Hypocenter migration and crustal seismic velocity distribution observed for the inland earthquake swarms induced by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake in NE Japan: Implications for crustal fluid distribution and crustal permeability, Geofluids, 15, 293?309. https://doi.org/10.1111/gfl.12112
  59. Hasegawa, A., K. Yoshida, 2015, Preceding seismic activity and slow slip events in the source area of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: A review, Geoscience Letters, 2, 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40562-015-0025-0

    60. 2014
  60. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, T. Okada, T. Iinuma, 2014, Changes in the stress field after the 2008 M7.2 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake in northeastern Japan, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119(12), 9016?9030. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JB011291
  61. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, T. Okada, H. Takahashi, M. Kosuga, T. Iwasaki, Y. Yamanaka, H. Katao, Y. Iio, A. Kubo, T. Matsushima, H. Miyamachi, Y. Asano, 2014, Pore pressure distribution in the focal region of the 2008 M7.2 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake, Earth, Planets and Space, 66, 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/1880-5981-66-59

    62. 2013
  62. Nakajima, J., K. Yoshida, A. Hasegawa, 2013, An intraslab seismic sequence activated by the Tohoku-oki earthquake: Evidence for fluid-related embrittlement, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 118, 3492?3505. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrb.50246

    63. 2012
  63. Hasegawa, A., K. Yoshida, Y. Asano, T. Okada, T. Iinuma, Y. Ito, 2012, Change in stress field after the 2011 great Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 355?356, 231?243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.042
  64. Yoshida, K., A. Hasegawa, T. Okada, T. Iinuma, Y. Ito, Y. Asano, 2012, Stress before and after the 2011 great Tohoku-Oki earthquake and induced earthquakes in inland areas of eastern Japan, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39(3), L03302. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL049729

    65. 2011
  65. Okada, T., K. Yoshida, S. Ueki, J. Nakajima, N. Uchida, T. Matsuzawa, N. Umino, A. Hasegawa, Group for the aftershock observations of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, 2011, Shallow inland earthquakes in NE Japan possibly triggered by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, Earth, Planets and Space, 63, 749?754. https://doi.org/10.5047/eps.2011.06.027
  66. Hasegawa, A., K. Yoshida, T. Okada, 2011, Nearly complete stress drop in the 2011 Mw 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, Earth, Planets and Space, 63, 703?707. https://doi.org/10.5047/eps.2011.06.007

Updated on June 9, 2024