International Joint Workshop on
Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes 2024

Last updated on July 17, 2024

Focus

Our understanding of earthquakes has changed significantly in recent years. We now observe various slow-deformation phenomena in addition to ordinary fast earthquakes, and this highlights the need to reconstruct earthquake science based our growing understanding of various interacting deformation processes. Deep interdisciplinary research across scientific disciplines such as geophysics, geology, and physics, as well as expanding our frontier into engineering and information science, are therefore critical to fully conceptualize these complex intricacies of earthquake science. The Science of Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes projects will hold “International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes 2024” to promote a more integrated approach in earthquake research that encompasses the slow-to-fast earthquake spectrum. We will hold three plenary sessions on selected topics including the 2024 Noto earthquake during the workshop, together with general oral and poster sessions, to share research results, deepen our understanding of slow-to-fast earthquake processes, and explore new research directions among the participants. 

• The 2024 M7.6 Noto earthquake and seismic swarm

Keynote speakers: Cristiano Collettini (Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, La Sapienza, University of Roma, Italy), Aitaro Kato (ERI, UTokyo, Japan)

• Fault rheology of plate boundary at laboratory, outcrop, and geophysical exploration scales

Keynote speakers: Ryuta Arai (JAMSTEC, Japan), Melodie French (Rice Univ. USA) 

• Induced or controlled earthquakes, –What determines the initiation of slow and fast earthquakes? –

Keynote speakers: Yves Guglielmi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA), Hanae Saishu (AIST, Japan)

Details of plenary sessions Click here

We also welcome presentations in various fields other than above three themes.

Presentation Styles

Oral (in-person)

Poster (in-person)

Time Schedule: Click here

Pre-meeting Field Trip

Date: Sep. 16, 2024 (Daytrip from/to Beppu)

Place: Yufuin

Participation fee: Between free and 4,000 JPY (lunch not included)

Details: Click here

Event for Early-Career Researchers

Time/Date: 16:00~, Sep. 16, 2024

Venue: Reception Hall, B-Con Plaza 2F

Details: To be held in Poster session style

Social Party

Time/Date: 18:00, Sep. 17, 2024 

Venue: Reception Hall, B-Con Plaza 2F

Participation fee: 3,000JPY for beverage (Food will be served)

Post-meeting Field Trip

Accretionary complex recording slow and fast earthquakes in subduction zone 

Date: Sep. 20-21, 2024 (2-day trip)

Place: Makimine melange, Kitagawa group, and Nobeoka thrust in the Shimanto accretionary complex

Participation fee: Free (accommodation will be paid by each) 

Details: Click here

Travel Support

• Due to the limited budget, selection will be applied. Partial travel expense will be supported based on the university travel expense rule.

Visa Application Documents

International attendees except for citizens of Countries and Regions Exempt for VISA need a VISA to travel to Japan.

Documents for VISA application and processing time may differ depending on the nationality of the applicant.

The individual who needs a VISA must prepare all required materials and apply for it by themselves at the nearest embassy/ consulate general in their area.

Please visit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan website for details on VISA application.

We provide supporting documents for VISA applications for those who may need them. 

For documents, please contact sfeq-post-group@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Accommodation Reservation

• All the WS participants are required to reserve accommodation in Beppu by themselves. 

• For field trip participants, please make sure to reserve additional one night prior to each FT (Sep. 15 for Pre-meeting FT, Sep. 19 for Post-meeting FT) in Beppu. 

• For Post-WS field trip, accommodation on Sep. 20 will be arranged by organizers and paid by each participant.

Childcare 

We provide information/support for the use of child minding services during the workshop. 

For details, please contact sfeq-post-group@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Network

• Free Wi-Fi is available at venue.

Important Dates (JST) *Subject to change

• May 24 (Fri.)

• Application / Registration Open   Registration Form: Click here     

• June 24 (Mon.)

• Deadline for travel grant, field trip, childcare, and student part-time job

　* Student part-time job is for those who belong to affiliations within Japan only, application form is in the registration form.

• Middle July

  1. 1. • Selection notification for the Travel Grant and Field Trip

• July 16 (Tue.)

• • • • Deadline for participation, presentation, social party

• August 8 (Thu.)

• Deadline for abstract submission 

• August 26 (Mon.)

• Program Open

*Tentative title in the registration form will be used to draw up the program.

*Presentation style (oral or poster) for each presenter will be announced around August 26.
*Contact: Click here

Organized by

• "Science of Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes" project (See contact at the bottom of the (official website))

Co-organized by 

• Joint Usage/Research Center Program of Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo
  "Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Slow-to-Fast Phenomena Across Space-Time Scales"

  • Joint Usage/Research Center Program of Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
    "Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Slow-to-Fast Phenomena Across Space-Time Scales"

Supported by

• Beppu City Government

• Oita Prefectual Government