# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kiyoo-wadati
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:05:26.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kiyoo-wadati"
name: "Kiyoo Wadati"
slug: "kiyoo-wadati"
description: "Kiyoo Wadati  was an early seismologist at the Central Meteorological Observatory of Japan, researching deep 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."
tagline: "Japanese seismologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kiyoo_Wadachi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1902-09-08"
deathDate: "1995-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.69705066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%92%8C%E9%81%94%E6%B8%85%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "和達清夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A"
    title: "كيو واداتي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijoo_Wada%C4%8Di"
    title: "Kijoo Wadači"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadachi_Kiyoo"
    title: "Wadachi Kiyoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoo_Wadati"
    title: "Kiyoo Wadati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoo_Wadachi"
    title: "Kiyoo Wadachi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%95%D7%90%D7%95_%D7%95%D7%93%D7%90%D7%A6'%D7%99"
    title: "קיואו ודאצ'י"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoo_Wadati"
    title: "Kiyoo Wadati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%92%8C%E9%81%94%E6%B8%85%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "和達清夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%99%80%EB%8B%A4%EC%B9%98_%EA%B8%B0%EC%9A%94%EC%98%A4"
    title: "와다치 기요오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijoo_Wada%C4%8Di"
    title: "Kijoo Wadači"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadati_Kiyoo"
    title: "Wadati Kiyoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q963849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump