# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sirouta-kusukabe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:37:32.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sirouta-kusukabe"
name: "Sirouta Kusukabe"
slug: "sirouta-kusukabe"
description: "Shirōta Kusakabe was a Japanese geophysicist, doctor of Science. He was a professor at Tohoku Imperial University. He won the Imperial Academy Prize for his work on rock elasticity. He has published numerous treatises, and a magazine published after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 contains a treatise on earthquake prediction by Shirota Kusakabe."
tagline: "Japanese geophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shir%C5%8Dta_Kusakabe.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1875-05-05"
deathDate: "1924-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.670734666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8Dta_Kusakabe"
    title: "Shirōta Kusakabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87"
    title: "শিরোতা কুসাকাবে"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusakabe_Shir%C5%8Dta"
    title: "Kusakabe Shirōta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E4%B8%8B%E9%83%A8%E5%9B%9B%E9%83%8E%E5%A4%AA"
    title: "日下部四郎太"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E4%B8%8B%E9%83%A8%E5%9B%9B%E9%83%8E%E5%A4%AA"
    title: "日下部四郎太"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%AC%EC%82%AC%EC%B9%B4%EB%B2%A0_%EC%8B%9C%EB%A1%9C%ED%83%80"
    title: "구사카베 시로타"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105451500"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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