Distinguished Professor
Contact Phone:
805-893-8375
Office Location:
Webb 2112
Website:
Specialization:
Seismology, Earth Structure
Research:
I am interested in understanding Earth structure from the surface to the center.
It requires understanding of how seismic waves propagate in the interior, the higher frequency end
being heavily scattered, messy waves above 1 Hz and the lower frequency end being
the ringings of the whole Earth around 1000 seconds.
Publications:
1. Tanimoto, T., T. Yano and T. Hakamata, An approach to improve Rayleigh-wave ellipticity estimates from seismic noise: Application to the Los Angeles Basin, Geophys. J. Int., in press, 2012
2. Tanimoto, T., Chen Ji and M. Igarashi, An Approach to detect afterslips in giant earthquakes in the normal-mode frequency band, Geophys. J. Int., v. 190, 1097-1110, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05524.x, 2011
3. Celso Alvizuri and T. Tanimoto, Azimuthal anisotropy from array analysis of Rayleigh waves in Southern California, Geophys. J. Int., 186, B08307, 2011
4. Kosarian, M., P. M. Davis, T. Tanimoto, and R. W. Clayton, The relationship between upper mantle anisotropic structures beneath California, Transpression and absolute plate motions, J. Geophys. Res., v. 116, B08307, Doi:10.1029/2010JB007742, 2011
5. Tanimoto, T., Mantle Dynamics (in Japanese). Vol.10 in Earth and Planetary Sciences, published by Iwanami Publishing Co., Tokyo, 2011
6. Tanimoto, T., Theory of Elastic Vibration (in Japanese). Vol. 6 in Earth and Planetary Sciences, published by Iwanami Publishing Co., Tokyo.
7. Tanimoto, T. and Chen Ji, Afterslip of the 2010 Chilean Earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L22312, doi:10.1029/2010GL045244, 2010
8. Tanimoto, T., Equivalent forces for colliding ocean waves, Geophys. J. Int., 181, 468-478, doi:10.1011/j.1365-246X.2010.04505.x, 2010
9. Tanimoto, T. and Seiji Tsuboi, Variational Principle for Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity, Geophysical Journal International, 179, 1658-1668, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04360.x, 2009.
10. Yano, T., T. Tanimoto, and L. Rivera, The ZH ratio method for long-period seismic data: Inversion for S-wave velocity structure, Geophysical Journal International, 179, 413-424, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04293.x, 2009
11. Tanimoto, T., Normal-mode solution for the seismic noise cross-correlation method, Geophysical Journal International, 175, 1169-1175, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03959.x, 2008
12. Tanimoto, T., M. Eitzel, and T. Yano, The Noise Cross-Correlation Approach for Apollo 17 LSPE Data: Diurnal Change in Seismic parameters in Shallow Lunar Crust, J. Geophys. Res., Planets, 113, E08011, doi:10.1029/2007JE003016, 2008
13. Tanimoto, T., Humming a different tune, Nature, 452, 539-540, News and Views, 2008
14. Tanimoto, T. and L. Rivera, The ZH ratio method for long-period seismic data: sensitivity kernels and observational techniques, Geophysical Journal International, 172, 187-198, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03609.x, 2008
15. Gerstoft, P. and T. Tanimoto, A year of microseisms in southern California, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L20304, doi:10.1029/2007GL031091, 2008
Courses:
Earth 20: Geological Catastrophy
Earth 134: Introduction to Geological and Geophysical Data Analysis
Earth 135/235: Principles of Geophysics
Earth 136/236: Seismology
Earth 256: Geophysical Inverse Theory
Earth 270: Seminar