Keiiti Aki

Keiiti Aki (Japanese安 芸 敬 一, Aki Keiichi, born March 3, 1930 in Yokohama, Japan, † 17 May 2005 Réunion, France) was a Japanese geophysicist and seismologist.

Aki grew up in Japan and studied at the University of Tokyo, where he received his Bachelor and later his doctorate degree. As a postdoc, he moved to the United States, where he studied at the California Institute of Technology. Later, Aki professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. He became known in professional circles as a book author, in particular by the book " Quantitative Seismology: theory and methods", which he co-authored with Paul G. Richards. It is considered one of the standard works in seismology.

In this Subject Aki was very active and participated in the course of his career, a number of official positions. Among other things, he was president of the Seismology Division of the American Geophysical Union ( AGU), president of the Seismological Society of America, as well as Chairman of the Seismological Committee of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS). He was also instrumental in establishing the Southern California Earthquake Center ( SCEC ) involved 1991.

Awards

Keiiti Aki was honored for his involvement with numerous prizes and awards, such as:

Swell

• Keiiti Aki, 75, Is Dead; Developed a Way to Measure the Strength of an Earthquake in the New York Times of 27 May 2005