Miaki Ishii

Marine Denolle
Email: denolle (at) fas (dot) harvard (dot) edu
Assistant Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Harvard Seismology Group
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University

Publications

Denolle, M., W. Fan, P. M. Shearer, Dynamics of the M7.8 Nepal Earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 7467–7475 doi:10.1002/2015GL065336
Lee, E-J, P. Chen, T. H. Jordan, P. B. Maechling, M. Denolle, G. C. Beroza, Full 3D Tomography (F3DT) for Crustal Structure in Southern California Based on the Scattering-Integral (SI) and the Adjoint-Wavefield (AW) Methods, 2014, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 119, No. 2, pp. 2102-2118, doi: 10.1029/2014JB011236
Denolle, M., H. Miyake, S. Nakagawa, N. Hirata, G. C. Beroza, Long-period seismic amplification in the Kanto Basin from the ambient seismic field, 2014, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2014/GL059425
Denolle, M., E. M. Dunham, G. A. Prieto, and G. C. Beroza, Strong Ground Motion Prediction using Virtual Earthquakes, 2014, Science, 343, no 6169, pp. 399-403, doi: 10.1126/science.1245678
Denolle, M., Seismic Hazard Analysis using the Ambient Seismic Field, PhD Dissertation
Denolle, M., E. M. Dunham, G. A. Prieto, and G. C. Beroza, Ground Motion Prediction of Realistic Earthquake Sources Using the Ambient Seismic Field , 2013 , J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 118, No. 5, pp. 2102-2118, doi: 10.1029/2012JB009603
Jesse F. Lawrence, M. Denolle, K. J. Seats, and G. Prieto, A numeric evaluation of attenuation from ambient noise correlation functions, 2013, Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 118, doi:10.1002/2012JB009513
Denolle, M., E. M. Dunham, and G. C. Beroza, Solving the Surface-Wave Eigenproblem with Chebyshev Spectral Collocation, 2012, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., Vol. 102, No. 3, pp. 1214-1223, doi: 10.1785/0120110183
Prieto, G. A., M. Denolle, J. F. Lawrence, and G. C. Beroza, On amplitude carried by the ambient seismic field, 2011, C. R. Geosci., Thematic Issue: Imaging and Monitoring with Seismic Noise, 343, 600-614,doi: 10.1016/j.crte.2011.03.006
Singh, S., N. Hananto, A. Chauhan, H. Permana, M. Denolle, A. Hendriyana, and D. Natawidjaja, Evidence of active backthrusting at the NE Margin of Mentawai Islands, SW, Sumatra, 2010 , Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04458.x

Research Interests

My research focuses on earthquake sources and their ground motion. The ambient seismic noise carries great information on how seismic waves propagate in the shallow crust. I extract such information to understand the shallow crustal structure and to predict shaking of future moderate and large earthquakes. Some metropolitan areas are densely populated and exposed to large earthquakes, and my research focuses on predicting shaking at frequencies that tall buildings are sensitive to. Shallow earthquakes are a direct hazard for population and my research aims to understand their source mechanisms. Why do some earthquakes rupture at the surface and some don't? What physical mechanisms explain that some earthquakes radiated more seismic energy than others? I develop tools to extract relevant information on earthquake dynamics from observed waveforms.

Curriculum vitae

Education
2014 Ph.D. (Geophysics), Stanford University: Seismic Hazard Analysis using the Ambient Seismic Field 2008 Master (Geophysics), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
2006 License (Earth-Atmosphere-Ocean), Ecole Normale Superieure-Paris, France

Professional Experience
2016- Assistant Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences and at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
2014-2015 Green Scholar (Postdoctoral Fellow), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD

Honors and Awards
2012 Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union
2012 Outstanding Student Paper Award, Seismological Society of America
2010 Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union