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Kiyoo Wadati

Kiyoo Wadati
Kiyoo Wadachi 01.jpg
Born September 8, 1902
Nagoya, Japan
Died January 5, 1995 (1995-01-06) (aged 92)
Tokyo, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Fields seismology
Institutions Central Meteorological Observatory
Alma mater Imperial University of Tokyo
Known for Wadati–Benioff zone
Influences Charles Richter

Professor Kiyoo Wadati (和達 清夫 Wadachi Kiyoo?, September 8, 1902 – January 5, 1995) was an early seismologist at the Central Meteorological Observatory of Japan (now known as the Japan Meteorological Agency), researching deep (subduction zone) earthquakes. His name is attached to the Wadati–Benioff zone. It was Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, comparing maximum below surface displacement against distance from the epicentre, which led Charles Richter to develop his earthquake magnitude scale in 1935.



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