| Propagation of Slow Slip Leading Up to the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake A Kato, K Obara, T Igarashi, H Tsuruoka, S Nakagawa, N Hirata Science 335 (6069), 705-708, 2012 | 783 | 2012 |
| Connecting slow earthquakes to huge earthquakes K Obara, A Kato Science 353 (6296), 253-257, 2016 | 581 | 2016 |
| High pore fluid pressure may cause silent slip in the Nankai Trough S Kodaira, T Iidaka, A Kato, JO Park, T Iwasaki, Y Kaneda Science 304 (5675), 1295-1298, 2004 | 540 | 2004 |
| Multiple slow‐slip events during a foreshock sequence of the 2014 Iquique, Chile Mw 8.1 earthquake A Kato, S Nakagawa Geophysical Research Letters 41 (15), 5420-5427, 2014 | 188 | 2014 |
| Variations of fluid pressure within the subducting oceanic crust and slow earthquakes A Kato, T Iidaka, R Ikuta, Y Yoshida, K Katsumata, T Iwasaki, S Sakai, ... Geophysical Research Letters 37 (14), 2010 | 183 | 2010 |
| Foreshock migration preceding the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto earthquake, Japan A Kato, J Fukuda, S Nakagawa, K Obara Geophysical Research Letters 43 (17), 8945-8953, 2016 | 127 | 2016 |
| Preparatory and precursory processes leading up to the 2014 phreatic eruption of Mount Ontake, Japan A Kato, T Terakawa, Y Yamanaka, Y Maeda, S Horikawa, K Matsuhiro, ... Earth, Planets and Space 67, 1-11, 2015 | 125 | 2015 |
| A normal-faulting seismic sequence triggered by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake: Wholesale stress regime changes in the upper plate A Kato, S Sakai, K Obara Earth, planets and space 63, 745-748, 2011 | 125 | 2011 |
| The generation of large earthquakes A Kato, Y Ben-Zion Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2 (1), 26-39, 2021 | 114 | 2021 |
| Accelerated nucleation of the 2014 Iquique, Chile Mw 8.2 earthquake A Kato, J Fukuda, T Kumazawa, S Nakagawa Scientific reports 6 (1), 24792, 2016 | 101 | 2016 |
| Hypocenter migration and crustal seismic velocity distribution observed for the inland earthquake swarms induced by the 2011 Tohoku‐Oki earthquake in NE Japan: Implications for … T Okada, T Matsuzawa, N Umino, K Yoshida, A Hasegawa, H Takahashi, ... Crustal Permeability, 307-323, 2012 | 91 | 2012 |
| Imaging the source region of the 2004 mid‐Niigata prefecture earthquake and the evolution of a seismogenic thrust‐related fold A Kato, E Kurashimo, N Hirata, S Sakai, T Iwasaki, T Kanazawa Geophysical research letters 32 (7), 2005 | 90 | 2005 |
| Regional extent of the large coseismic slip zone of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku‐Oki earthquake delineated by on‐fault aftershocks A Kato, T Igarashi Geophysical research letters 39 (15), 2012 | 78 | 2012 |
| The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence A Kato, K Nakamura, Y Hiyama Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B 92 (8), 358-371, 2016 | 75 | 2016 |
| The preparatory phase of the 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake by improving the detection capability of low‐magnitude foreshocks M Sugan, A Kato, H Miyake, S Nakagawa, A Vuan Geophysical Research Letters 41 (17), 6137-6144, 2014 | 73 | 2014 |
| Imaging the seismic structure and stress field in the source region of the 2004 mid‐Niigata prefecture earthquake: Structural zones of weakness and seismogenic stress … A Kato, S Sakai, N Hirata, E Kurashimo, T Iidaka, T Iwasaki, T Kanazawa Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 111 (B8), 2006 | 71 | 2006 |
| Reactivation of ancient rift systems triggers devastating intraplate earthquakes A Kato, E Kurashimo, T Igarashi, S Sakai, T Iidaka, M Shinohara, ... Geophysical Research Letters 36 (5), 2009 | 62 | 2009 |
| Multi-fault system of the 2004 Mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake and its aftershocks S Sakai, N Hirata, A Kato, E Kurashimo, T Iwasaki, T Kanazawa Earth, planets and space 57, 417-422, 2005 | 58 | 2005 |
| Step‐like migration of early aftershocks following the 2007 Mw 6.7 Noto‐Hanto earthquake, Japan A Kato, K Obara Geophysical Research Letters 41 (11), 3864-3869, 2014 | 56 | 2014 |
| Response of seismicity to static and dynamic stress changes induced by the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku‐Oki earthquake A Kato, J Fukuda, K Obara Geophysical Research Letters 40 (14), 3572-3578, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
