| Thermal–petrological controls on the location of earthquakes within subducting plates GA Abers, J Nakajima, PE van Keken, S Kita, BR Hacker Earth and Planetary Science Letters 369, 178-187, 2013 | 175 | 2013 |
| Anomalous deepening of a seismic belt in the upper-plane of the double seismic zone in the Pacific slab beneath the Hokkaido corner: Possible evidence for thermal shielding … S Kita, T Okada, A Hasegawa, J Nakajima, T Matsuzawa Earth and Planetary Science Letters 290 (3-4), 415-426, 2010 | 163 | 2010 |
| Existence of a seismic belt in the upper plane of the double seismic zone extending in the along‐arc direction at depths of 70–100 km beneath NE Japan S Kita, T Okada, J Nakajima, T Matsuzawa, A Hasegawa Geophysical Research Letters 33 (24), 2006 | 138 | 2006 |
| Existence of interplane earthquakes and neutral stress boundary between the upper and lower planes of the double seismic zone beneath Tohoku and Hokkaido, northeastern Japan S Kita, T Okada, A Hasegawa, J Nakajima, T Matsuzawa Tectonophysics 496 (1-4), 68-82, 2010 | 83 | 2010 |
| Tomographic imaging of hydrated crust and mantle in the subducting Pacific slab beneath Hokkaido, Japan: Evidence for dehydration embrittlement as a cause of intraslab earthquakes J Nakajima, Y Tsuji, A Hasegawa, S Kita, T Okada, T Matsuzawa Gondwana Research 16 (3-4), 470-481, 2009 | 83 | 2009 |
| The 2005 M7. 2 MIYAGI‐OKI earthquake, NE Japan: Possible rerupturing of one of asperities that caused the previous M7. 4 earthquake T Okada, T Yaginuma, N Umino, T Kono, T Matsuzawa, S Kita, ... Geophysical research letters 32 (24), 2005 | 67 | 2005 |
| Pressure–temperature conditions of ongoing regional metamorphism beneath the Japanese Islands S Omori, S Kita, S Maruyama, M Santosh Gondwana Research 16 (3-4), 458-469, 2009 | 64 | 2009 |
| Aftershock distribution and 3D seismic velocity structure in and around the focal area of the 2004 mid Niigata prefecture earthquake obtained by applying double-difference … T Okada, N Umino, T Matsuzawa, J Nakajima, N Uchida, T Nakayama, ... Earth, planets and space 57 (5), 435-440, 2005 | 60 | 2005 |
| Seismic evidence for reactivation of a buried hydrated fault in the Pacific slab by the 2011 M9. 0 Tohoku earthquake J Nakajima, A Hasegawa, S Kita Geophysical Research Letters 38 (7), 2011 | 57 | 2011 |
| High‐resolution seismic velocity structure beneath the Hokkaido corner, northern Japan: Arc‐arc collision and origins of the 1970 M 6.7 Hidaka and 1982 M 7.1 Urakawa‐oki … S Kita, A Hasegawa, J Nakajima, T Okada, T Matsuzawa, K Katsumata Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 117 (B12), 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
| Detailed seismic attenuation structure beneath Hokkaido, northeastern Japan: Arc‐arc collision process, arc magmatism, and seismotectonics S Kita, J Nakajima, A Hasegawa, T Okada, K Katsumata, Y Asano, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 119 (8), 6486-6511, 2014 | 52 | 2014 |
| Anomalous deepening of a belt of intraslab earthquakes in the Pacific slab crust under Kanto, central Japan: Possible anomalous thermal shielding, dehydration reactions, and … A Hasegawa, J Nakajima, S Kita, T Okada, T Matsuzawa, SH Kirby Geophysical Research Letters 34 (9), 2007 | 46 | 2007 |
| Physical mechanisms of oceanic mantle earthquakes: Comparison of natural and experimental events S Kita, TP Ferrand Scientific reports 8 (1), 17049, 2018 | 43 | 2018 |
| Thermal structure and intermediate-depth seismicity in the Tohoku-Hokkaido subduction zones PE Van Keken, S Kita, J Nakajima Solid Earth 3 (2), 355-364, 2012 | 43 | 2012 |
| Large intraslab earthquake (2011 April 7, M 7.1) after the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake (M 9.0): Coseismic fault model based on the dense GPS … Y Ohta, S Miura, M Ohzono, S Kita, T Iinuma, T Demachi, K Tachibana, ... Earth, planets and space 63, 1207-1211, 2011 | 33 | 2011 |
| Stress drops for intermediate‐depth intraslab earthquakes beneath H okkaido, northern J apan: Differences between the subducting oceanic crust and mantle events S Kita, K Katsumata Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 16 (2), 552-562, 2015 | 27 | 2015 |
| Depth variations in seismic velocity in the subducting crust: Evidence for fluid‐related embrittlement for intermediate‐depth earthquakes T Shiina, J Nakajima, T Matsuzawa, G Toyokuni, S Kita Geophysical research letters 44 (2), 810-817, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Seismic attenuation structure associated with episodic tremor and slip zone beneath Shikoku and the Kii peninsula, southwestern Japan, in the Nankai subduction zone S Kita, M Matsubara Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121 (3), 1962-1982, 2016 | 25 | 2016 |
| Dynamic rupture simulation of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake: Multi-event generation within dozens of seconds H Goto, Y Yamamoto, S Kita Earth, planets and space 64, 1167-1175, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Temporal variation of intermediate‐depth earthquakes around the time of the M9.0 Tohoku‐oki earthquake BG Delbridge, S Kita, N Uchida, CW Johnson, T Matsuzawa, R Bürgmann Geophysical Research Letters 44 (8), 3580-3590, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
