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Since the last centuries, many giant earthquakes exceeding magnitude 9 associated with giant tsunami took place in the circum-Pacific coastal areas in the world. These natural disasters brought huge amounts of damages in our human communities. Most of the scientists deeply felt a necessity of fundamental understanding of global and regional mechanical behavior of earth process.

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Toriumi, M. (2021). Introduction. In: Global Seismicity Dynamics and Data-Driven Science. Advances in Geological Science. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5109-3_1

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