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.
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Yoshinori TokuraAlso won Imperial Prize of Japan Academy
Yoshito KishiAlso won Imperial Prize of Japan Academy
Akira TonomuraAlso won Imperial Prize of Japan Academy
Sōichi KakeyaAlso won Imperial Prize of Japan Academy
Sasaki NobutsunaAlso won Imperial Prize of Japan Academy
Kimishige IshizakaAlso won Imperial Prize of Japan AcademyAbout this person
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.
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Lived 1902 to 1995 · aged 92
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