Kiyoo Wadati was a Japanese seismologist, born in 1902 in Nagoya and died in 1995 in Tokyo, who worked at the Central Meteorological Observatory of Japan, now the Japan Meteorological Agency, researching deep subduction zone earthquakes. His name is attached to the Wadati-Benioff zone, the dipping planar region of earthquakes associated with a subducting tectonic plate, and his 1928 paper comparing earthquake displacement against distance from the epicenter directly led Charles Richter to develop his earthquake magnitude scale in 1935.
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Defining ContributionHis 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes led Charles Richter to develop his earthquake magnitude scale in 1935 1 Connections
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1. Kiyoo Wadati - Wikipedia
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September 8, 1902
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Kiyoo Wadati (
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Nagoya, Japan
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which led Charles Richter to develop his earthquake magnitude scale in 1935
View the Source2. Kiyoo Wadati (Wikidata)
P570 (date of death)
died 1995-01-05
P570 (date of death) [year]
died 1995
P20 (place of death)
died in Tokyo
P27 (country of citizenship)
citizen of Japan
Wikidata item aliases (en) [1]
also known as Kiyoo Wadachi
Wikidata item aliases (en) [2]
also known as Wadati, Kiyoo
P27 (country of citizenship) [2]
citizen of Empire of Japan
P19 (place of birth) [1]
born in Nagoya
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