Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo (ERI; 東京大学地震研究所 ''Tokyo Daigaku Jishin Kenkyu-jo'') is an institute in affiliation with
University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...
. Many fellows research on various topics about
Seismology
Seismology (; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (''seismós'') meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (''-logía'') meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic ...
and
volcanology
Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology) is the study of volcanoes, lava, magma and related geology, geological, geophysical and geochemistry, geochemical phenomena (volcanism). The term ''volcanology'' is derived from the Latin language, Latin ...
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo was founded in 1925. Japan was struck The Great Kantō earthquake on Saturday,
September 1
Events Pre-1600
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, 1923, and after this earthquake, it was advocated the need for a research center about
Seismology
Seismology (; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (''seismós'') meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (''-logía'') meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic ...
and
volcanology
Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology) is the study of volcanoes, lava, magma and related geology, geological, geophysical and geochemistry, geochemical phenomena (volcanism). The term ''volcanology'' is derived from the Latin language, Latin ...
University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...
. The building was designed by Yoshikazu Uchida, and he designed it very strongly to withstand a big earthquake.
Organizational structure
*Research Division
**Division of Earth Mechanics
**Division of Geodynamics
**Division of Monitoring and Computational Geoscience
**Division of Disaster Mitigation Science
*Affiliated Center
**Earthquake Prediction Research Center
**Earthquake Observation Center
**Earthquake Information Center
**Volcano Research Center
**Ocean Hemisphere Research Center
*Others
**Outreach Program
**Office of International Earthquake and Volcano Research Promotion