Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
Research Letter
Over the last decade, studies of natural hazards in Sumatra have focused primarily on great earthquakes and associated tsunamis produced by rupture of the Sunda megathrust. However, the Sumatran Fault and the ...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:21
Published on: 12 September 2017
Research Letter
As an important plasma wave mode in the geospace, magnetosonic waves can interact with both radiation belt electrons and protons, thereby impacting the dynamics of magnetospheric particles. Based on the Dopple...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:20
Published on: 12 September 2017
Review
The Himalaya is one of the most seismically active regions of the world. The occurrence of several large magnitude earthquakes viz. 1905 Kangra earthquake (Mw 7.8), 1934 Bihar–Nepal earthquake (Mw 8.2), 1950 A...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:19
Published on: 8 September 2017
Research Letter
Results from 2.5D Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of symmetric reconnection with negligible guide field reveal that the accessible boundary of the electrons accelerated in the magnetic reconnection region i...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:18
Published on: 6 September 2017
Review
Eight campaigns to survey asteroid rotation periods have been carried out using the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory in the past 3 years. 2780 reliable rotation periods were obtained, from which we ident...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:17
Published on: 6 September 2017
Research Letter
The actual states of soil particle transport in and exchange between the Sakiyama and Amitori bays, Iriomote Island, Japan, were investigated using atmosphere–ocean–river observations and numerical simulations...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:16
Published on: 24 August 2017
Research Letter
The North Equatorial Current (NEC) bifurcates at the eastern coast of the Philippines and moves northward as the Kuroshio, a North Pacific western boundary current. The NEC bifurcation point and Kuroshio varia...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:15
Published on: 10 August 2017
Letter to the Editor
The complex geological structures in East Java and Bali provide important opportunities for natural resource exploitation, but also harbor perils associated with natural disasters. Such a condition makes the E...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:14
Published on: 19 June 2017
Research Letter
Three mysterious explosion sounds were heard in the coastal towns of Tamsui, west of Taipei in northern Taiwan, in the early evening of December 5, 2013. The event left clear signals that are identified in the...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:13
Published on: 23 May 2017
Research Letter
Measurement and modelling of regional or country-level carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes are becoming critical for verification of the greenhouse gases emission control. One of the commonly adopted approaches is invers...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:9
Published on: 16 May 2017
Research Letter
Recent 230Th dating of fossil corals in west Luzon has provided new insights on the emergence of late Quaternary marine terraces that fringe west Luzon Island facing the Manila Trench. Apart from regional sea lev...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:12
Published on: 10 May 2017
Research Letter
High-accuracy age estimations of tsunami deposits are very important for tsunami deposit research because the recurrence interval and frequency of tsunami deposits allow us to assess the devastating impacts of...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:11
Published on: 5 May 2017
Research Letter
Rapidly expanding human activities have profoundly affected various biophysical and biogeochemical processes of the Earth system over a broad range of scales, and freshwater systems are now amongst the most ex...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:10
Published on: 4 May 2017
Research Letter
The time scales of reconnection outflow, substorm expansion, and development of instabilities in the terrestrial magnetosphere are comparable, i.e., from several to tens of minutes, and their existence is rela...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:8
Published on: 11 April 2017
Research Letter
Austria has a moderate seismicity, and on average the population feels 40 earthquakes per year or approximately three earthquakes per month. A severe earthquake with light building damage is expected roughly e...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:7
Published on: 29 March 2017
Research Letter
The M w 6.0 Mt. Kinabalu earthquake of 2015 was a complete (and deadly) surprise, because it occurred well away from the nearest plate boundary in a region of very low historical seismicit...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:6
Published on: 9 March 2017
Original article
We test the static Coulomb stress triggering hypothesis for three recent megathrust earthquakes (the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, the 2010 Maule earthquake, and the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake) using focal ...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:5
Published on: 6 March 2017
Review
China is one of the countries with the longest cultural tradition. Meanwhile, China has been suffering very heavy earthquake disasters; so, there are abundant earthquake recordings. In this paper, we try to sk...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:4
Published on: 27 February 2017
Review
Since seismicity in Japan is fairly high, Japanese interest in historical seismicity can be traced back to the nineth century, only a few centuries after the formation of the ancient ruling state. A 1000 years...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:3
Published on: 28 January 2017
Research Letter
Correlation between the frequency of summer tropical cyclones (TCs) affecting Korea and the East Asian summer monsoon index (EASMI) was analyzed over the last 37 years. A clear positive correlation existed be...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:2
Published on: 21 January 2017
Research Letter
By performing a statistical change-point analysis of activities of the tropical cyclones (TCs) that have affected Korea (K-TCs), it was found that there was a significant change between 1983 and 1984. During t...
Geoscience Letters 2017 4:1
Published on: 19 January 2017
Review
The Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) is the dominant mode of tropical atmospheric intraseasonal variability and a primary source of predictability for global sub-seasonal prediction. Understanding the origin an...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:34
Published on: 9 December 2016
Research Letter
Low-latitude continental shelves, mixed siliciclastic–carbonate sedimentary systems, provide an understanding of sedimentary environments driven by paleoclimatological processes. The Bonaparte Gulf, northweste...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:33
Published on: 7 December 2016
Research Letter
Large-scale fields and inner-core processes relevant to the formation and intensification of Typhoon Fengshen (2008) were examined by simulations using a global nonhydrostatic model with a cloud-permitting res...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:32
Published on: 1 December 2016
Review
This paper argues that more work is needed to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaborations by scholars across the physical sciences and humanities to improve Data Rescue Activities (DARE). Debate over the scal...
Geoscience Letters 2016 3:31
Published on: 15 November 2016
