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Bogdan Dumitru ENESCU

After one and a half years doing research at GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany, I returned to Japan, at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED), in Tsukuba.


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NEW! The March 11, 2011 Tohoku Off-shore megathrust earthquake (Mw9.0) - Stress changes and related seismicity patterns


Main Research Interests:

Triggering of earthquakes & non-volcanic tremor

Seismicity patterns & earthquake hazard

Tomography & earthquake relocations

Temporal variations of seismic properties

Co-seismic & Post-seismic Deformation


Recent papers (for a complete list, see please Publications & Meeting Prezentations link)(h-index = 10, ISI Web of Knowledge, calculated on October 28, 2011).

Peng, Z., C. Aiken, D. Kilb, D. Shelly and B. Enescu, Listening to the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake, Seismol. Res. Lett., 83, 2, 287-293, doi:10.1785/gssrl.83.2.287, 2012.

Woessner, J., Hainzl, S., Marzocchi, W., Werner, M.J., Lombardi, A.M., Catalli, F., Enescu, B., Cocco, M., Gerstenberger, M.C., and S. Wiemer, A Retrospective Comparative Forecast Test on the 1992 Landers Sequence, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B05305, doi:10.1029/2010JB007846, 2011.

Enescu, B., Enescu, D., and K. Ito, Values of b and p: their variations and relation to physical processes for earthquakes in Japan and Romania, Rom. Journ. Phys., 56, 3-4, 590-608, 2011.

Toda, S., and B. Enescu, Rate/state Coulomb stress transfer model for the CSEP Japan seismicity forecast, Earth Planets Space, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.01.004, 63, 171-185, 2011.
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Aoi, S., Enescu, B., Suzuki, W., Asano, Y., Obara, K., Kunugi, T. and  K. Shiomi, Stress transfer in the Tokai subduction zone from the 2009 Suruga Bay earthquake in Japan, Nature Geoscience, 3, 7, 496-500, doi:10.1038/ngeo885, 2010. Supplementary information ; Press release (in Japanese).

Cocco, M., Hainzl, S., Catalli, F., Enescu, B., Lombardi, A.M., and J. Woessner, Sensitivity study of forecasted aftershock seismicity based on Coulomb stress calculation and rate- and state-dependent frictional response, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B05307, doi:10.1029/2009JB006838, 2010.
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Koulakov, I., Zaharia, B., Enescu, B., Radulian, M., Popa, M., Parolai, S., and J. Zschau, Delamination or slab detachment beneath Vrancea? New arguments from local earthquake tomography, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. (G3), 11, 3, Q03002, doi:10.1029/2009GC002811, 2010. [pdf]

Enescu, B., Hainzl, S. and Y. Ben-Zion, Correlations of seismicity patterns in Southern California with surface heat flow data, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 99, 6, 3114-3123, doi:10.1785/0120080038, 2009. [pdf]

Wang, L.F., Wang, R., Roth, F., Enescu, B., Hainzl, S., and S. Ergintav, Afterslip and viscoelastic relaxation following the 1999 M7.4 İzmit earthquake, from GPS measurements, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04228.x, 178, 1220-1237, 2009. [pdf]

Hainzl, S., Enescu, B., Cocco, M., Woessner, J., Catalli, F., Wang, R. and F. Roth, Aftershock modeling based on uncertain stress calculations, J. Geophys. Res., 114,  B05309, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006011, 2009.
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Enescu, B.
, Mori, J., Miyazawa, M., and Y. Kano, Omori-Utsu law c-values associated with recent moderate earthquakes in Japan, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 99, 2A, 884-891, doi: 10.1785/0120080211, 2009.
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Iio, Y., Shibutani, T., Matsumoto, S., Katao, H., Matsushima, T., Ohmi, S., Takeuchi, F., Uehira, K., Nishigami, K., Miyazawa, M., Enescu, B., Hirose, I., Kano, Y., Kohno, Y., Tatsumi, K., Ueno, T., Wada, H., and Y. Yukutake, Precise aftershock distribution of the 2004 Mid-Niigata prefecture earthquake—Implication for a very weak region in the lower crust, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., Elsevier Science, 172, 345-352, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2008.10.014, 2009.


Enescu, B., Struzik, Z.R., and K. Kiyono, On the recurrence time of earthquakes: insight from Vrancea (Romania) intermediate-depth events, Geophys. J. Int., 172, 395-404, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03664.x, 2008. [pdf]

Hainzl, S., Christophersen, A., and B. Enescu, Impact of earthquake rupture extensions on parameter estimations of point-process modeling, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 98(4), 2066-2072, doi: 10.1785/0120070256, 2008. [pdf]

Mori, J., Kano, Y., and B. Enescu, Comparison of early aftershock sequences for the 2004 Mid-Niigata and 2007 Noto Hanto Earthquakes in Central Japan, Earth Planets Space, Terra Scientific Publishing Comp., Tokyo, 60, 151-154, 2008.
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Enescu, B., Mori, J. and M. Miyazawa, Quantifying early aftershock activity of the 2004 mid-Niigata Prefecture earthquake (Mw 6.6), J. Geophys. Res., 112, B04310, doi:10.1029/2006JB004629, 2007. [pdf]

Nanjo, K.Z., Enescu, B., Shcherbakov, R., Turcotte, D.L., Iwata, T., and Y. Ogata, The decay of aftershock activity for Japanese earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B08309, doi:10.1029/2006JB004754, 2007. [pdf]

Enescu, B., Ito, K., and Z.R. Struzik, Wavelet-based multiscale resolution analysis of real and simulated time series of earthquakes, Geophys. J. Int., 164(1), 63-74, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02810.x, 2006.
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Earthquake Hazard Division (EQH)*;   Research Center for Earthquake Prediction (RCEP)*;

Disaster Prevention Research Institute;

Kyoto University 


*While presently I am not affiliated with Kyoto University, I maintain for convenience these web pages as an alumni of RCEP and EQH. I thank the two insitutions for hosting these web pages.


Please contact me for any comments, suggestions.
Bogdan Enescu,
Earthquake Research Department,
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention,
3-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki,
305-0006, Japan


E-mail address: bogdan3j@gmail.com