Ryo Okuwaki

1.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ryo Okuwaki is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryo Okuwaki has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Geophysics, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Ryo Okuwaki's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (43 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (30 papers) and Earthquake Detection and Analysis (21 papers). Ryo Okuwaki is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (43 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (30 papers) and Earthquake Detection and Analysis (21 papers). Ryo Okuwaki collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and United States. Ryo Okuwaki's co-authors include Yuji Yagi, Bogdan Enescu, Yukitoshi Fukahata, Rafael Aránguiz, Stephen Hicks, Wenyuan Fan, Tuncay Taymaz, Makoto Otsubo, Ayumu Miyakawa and Juan González and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ryo Okuwaki

43 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Multi‐Scale Rupture Growth With Alternating Directions in... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 2025 25 50 75
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Multi‐Scale Rupture Growth With Alternating Directions in a Complex Fault Network During the 2023 South‐Eastern Türkiye and Syria Earthquake Doublet
    2023 76 citations Ryo Okuwaki, Yuji Yagi et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
  2. A multiple asymmetric bilateral rupture sequence derived from the peculiar tele-seismic P-waves of the 2025 Mandalay, Myanmar earthquake
    2025 15 citations Ryo Okuwaki, Bogdan Enescu et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ryo Okuwaki Japan 21 987 141 124 67 51 44 1.1k
I. Kassaras Greece 18 1.0k 1.0× 135 1.0× 118 1.0× 68 1.0× 40 0.8× 40 1.1k
Vasilis Kapetanidis Greece 19 786 0.8× 140 1.0× 86 0.7× 34 0.5× 51 1.0× 50 886
Abdelkrim Aoudia Italy 20 1.1k 1.2× 154 1.1× 130 1.0× 71 1.1× 53 1.0× 53 1.2k
R. B. S. Yadav India 21 947 1.0× 139 1.0× 239 1.9× 78 1.2× 41 0.8× 55 1.1k
Luciano Scarfì Italy 24 1.0k 1.0× 119 0.8× 84 0.7× 94 1.4× 61 1.2× 69 1.1k
Xyoli Pérez‐Campos Mexico 21 1.4k 1.5× 249 1.8× 206 1.7× 48 0.7× 41 0.8× 90 1.6k
Ayumu Miyakawa Japan 12 517 0.5× 89 0.6× 52 0.4× 85 1.3× 45 0.9× 52 624
Gregory M. Smoczyk United States 8 1.3k 1.3× 199 1.4× 189 1.5× 94 1.4× 92 1.8× 18 1.4k
Salvatore D’Amico Italy 15 769 0.8× 119 0.8× 242 2.0× 89 1.3× 106 2.1× 40 920
V. Karakostas Greece 18 1.2k 1.2× 215 1.5× 103 0.8× 63 0.9× 28 0.5× 65 1.3k

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All Works

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Yagi, Yuji, Yukitoshi Fukahata, Ryo Okuwaki, Tomohiro Takagawa, & Shinji Toda. (2025). Breaking the Cycle: Short Recurrence and Overshoot of an M9-class Kamchatka Earthquake. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2).
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Yagi, Yuji, et al.. (2024). Complex rupture evolution of the 2007 Martinique earthquake: a non-double-couple event in the Caribbean Sea. Geophysical Journal International. 236(3). 1743–1752. 1 indexed citations
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Yagi, Yuji, et al.. (2023). Irregular rupture process of the 2022 Taitung, Taiwan, earthquake sequence. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 1107–1107. 17 indexed citations
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Wright, Tim, Ryo Okuwaki, T. J. Craig, et al.. (2022). Earthquake Cycle Deformation Associated With the 2021 MW 7.4 Maduo (Eastern Tibet) Earthquake: An Intrablock Rupture Event on a Slow‐Slipping Fault From Sentinel‐1 InSAR and Teleseismic Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 127(11). 25 indexed citations
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Fan, Wenyuan, Ryo Okuwaki, Andrew J. Barbour, et al.. (2022). Fast rupture of the 2009Mw 6.9 Canal de Ballenas earthquake in the Gulf of California dynamically triggers seismicity in California. Geophysical Journal International. 230(1). 528–541. 4 indexed citations
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Yagi, Yuji, et al.. (2022). Irregular rupture propagation and geometric fault complexities during the 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 4575–4575. 8 indexed citations
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Fan, Wenyuan, Andrew J. Barbour, J. J. McGuire, et al.. (2022). Very Low Frequency Earthquakes in Between the Seismogenic and Tremor Zones in Cascadia?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 8 indexed citations
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Yagi, Yuji, et al.. (2022). Potency density tensor inversion of complex body waveforms with time-adaptive smoothing constraint. Geophysical Journal International. 231(1). 91–107. 9 indexed citations
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Yagi, Yuji, et al.. (2021). Back-propagating rupture evolution within a curved slab during the 2019Mw 8.0 Peru intraslab earthquake. Geophysical Journal International. 227(3). 1602–1611. 13 indexed citations
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Okuwaki, Ryo, et al.. (2021). Identifying landslides from continuous seismic surface waves: a case study of multiple small-scale landslides triggered by Typhoon Talas, 2011. Geophysical Journal International. 226(2). 729–741. 11 indexed citations
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Aránguiz, Rafael, Miguel Esteban, Hiroshi Takagi, et al.. (2020). The 2018 Sulawesi tsunami in Palu city as a result of several landslides and coseismic tsunamis. Coastal Engineering Journal. 62(4). 445–459. 35 indexed citations
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Hicks, Stephen, Ryo Okuwaki, Andreas Steinberg, et al.. (2020). Back-propagating supershear rupture in the 2016 Mw 7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake. Nature Geoscience. 13(9). 647–653. 58 indexed citations
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Takemura, Shunsuke, Ryo Okuwaki, Tatsuya Kubota, et al.. (2020). Centroid moment tensor inversions of offshore earthquakes using a three-dimensional velocity structure model: slip distributions on the plate boundary along the Nankai Trough. Geophysical Journal International. 222(2). 1109–1125. 26 indexed citations
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Yagi, Yuji, et al.. (2019). Development of an inversion method to extract information on fault geometry from teleseismic data. Geophysical Journal International. 220(2). 1055–1065. 35 indexed citations
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Aránguiz, Rafael, et al.. (2018). Development and application of a tsunami fragility curve of the 2015 tsunami in Coquimbo, Chile. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 18(8). 2143–2160. 29 indexed citations
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Okuwaki, Ryo, Yuji Yagi, Rafael Aránguiz, Juan González, & Gabriel González. (2016). Rupture Process During the 2015 Illapel, Chile Earthquake: Zigzag-Along-Dip Rupture Episodes. Pure and Applied Geophysics. 173(4). 1011–1020. 41 indexed citations
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Okuwaki, Ryo, et al.. (2014). Relationship between High-frequency Radiation and Asperity Ruptures, Revealed by Hybrid Back-projection with a Non-planar Fault Model. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 7120–7120. 37 indexed citations

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