Hitoshi Mikada Editor

Dr. Kasahara is a professor of emeritus of the University of Tokyo, a visiting Professor at both Shizuoka University in the department of earth sciences and at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. He is a technical advisor for Kawasaki Geological Engineering Co. Ltd., and JGI, Inc. Dr. Kasahara has written four previous books in the geosciences. His education includes Dr. Sci. (Geophysics), Nagoya University, 1970, M.S. (Geophysics), Nagoya University, 1967, B.S. (Earth Sciences), Nagoya University 1965 Michael S. Zhdanov is Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Dr. Zhdanov is also Director of the Center of Electromagnetic Research at the same university. He has more than 30 years of experience in research and instruction in geophysical electromagnetic theory and he has authored more than 100 papers on the subject. He is the founding director of the Geoelectromagnetic Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science. Hitoshi Mikada is a Professor of Geophysics at Kyoto University. He has also served as a geophysical engineer, a researcher for the University of Tokyo, and an Associate Scientist in Deep Sea Research at JAMSTEC. He received his PhD in Geophysics from the University of Tokyo. His research interests include earthquake, volcano, and engineering seismology, disaster mitigation, geophysical logging, and geophysical instrumentation. He is a senior member of IEEE and a regular member of numerous other societies including the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and Sesimological Society of Japan