| Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake M Cisternas, BF Atwater, F Torrejón, Y Sawai, G Machuca, M Lagos, ... Nature 437 (7057), 404-407, 2005 | 655 | 2005 |
| Medieval forewarning of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand K Jankaew, BF Atwater, Y Sawai, M Choowong, T Charoentitirat, ... Nature 455 (7217), 1228-1231, 2008 | 420 | 2008 |
| Challenges of anticipating the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami using coastal geology Y Sawai, Y Namegaya, Y Okamura, K Satake, M Shishikura Geophysical Research Letters 39 (21), 2012 | 258 | 2012 |
| Transient uplift after a 17th-century earthquake along the Kuril subduction zone Y Sawai, K Satake, T Kamataki, H Nasu, M Shishikura, BF Atwater, ... Science 306 (5703), 1918-1920, 2004 | 183 | 2004 |
| Asynchronous climate changes in the North Atlantic and Japan during the last termination T Nakagawa, H Kitagawa, Y Yasuda, PE Tarasov, K Nishida, K Gotanda, ... Science 299 (5607), 688-691, 2003 | 177 | 2003 |
| Marine incursions of the past 1500 years and evidence of tsunamis at Suijin-numa, a coastal lake facing the Japan Trench Y Sawai, Y Fujii, O Fujiwara, T Kamataki, J Komatsubara, Y Okamura, ... The Holocene 18 (4), 517-528, 2008 | 174 | 2008 |
| Diatom assemblages in tsunami deposits associated with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at Phra Thong Island, Thailand Y Sawai, K Jankaew, ME Martin, A Prendergast, M Choowong, ... Marine Micropaleontology 73 (1-2), 70-79, 2009 | 144 | 2009 |
| Aperiodic recurrence of geologically recorded tsunamis during the past 5500 years in eastern Hokkaido, Japan Y Sawai, T Kamataki, M Shishikura, H Nasu, Y Okamura, K Satake, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 114 (B1), 2009 | 140 | 2009 |
| Microfossils from coastal environments as indicators of paleo-earthquakes, tsunamis and storms JE Pilarczyk, T Dura, BP Horton, SE Engelhart, AC Kemp, Y Sawai Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 413, 144-157, 2014 | 127 | 2014 |
| Great-earthquake paleogeodesy and tsunamis of the past 2000 years at Alsea Bay, central Oregon coast, USA AR Nelson, Y Sawai, AE Jennings, LA Bradley, L Gerson, BL Sherrod, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 27 (7-8), 747-768, 2008 | 123 | 2008 |
| Yangtze River Civilization Program Members, 2003. Asynchronous climate changes in the North Atlantic and Japan during the last termination T Nakagawa, H Kitagawa, Y Yasuda, PE Tarasov, K Nishida, K Gotanda, ... Science 299 (5607), 688-691, 2003 | 108 | 2003 |
| Pollen/event stratigraphy of the varved sediment of Lake Suigetsu, central Japan from 15,701 to 10,217 SG vyr BP (Suigetsu varve years before present): description … T Nakagawa, H Kitagawa, Y Yasuda, PE Tarasov, K Gotanda, Y Sawai Quaternary Science Reviews 24 (14-15), 1691-1701, 2005 | 97 | 2005 |
| Shorter intervals between great earthquakes near Sendai: Scour ponds and a sand layer attributable to AD 1454 overwash Y Sawai, Y Namegaya, T Tamura, R Nakashima, K Tanigawa Geophysical Research Letters 42 (12), 4795-4800, 2015 | 95 | 2015 |
| Coastal subsidence in Oregon, USA, during the giant Cascadia earthquake of AD 1700 AD Hawkes, BP Horton, AR Nelson, CH Vane, Y Sawai Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (3-4), 364-376, 2011 | 92 | 2011 |
| The application of diatoms to reconstruct the history of subduction zone earthquakes and tsunamis T Dura, E Hemphill-Haley, Y Sawai, BP Horton Earth-Science Reviews 152, 181-197, 2016 | 91 | 2016 |
| The development of a diatom-based transfer function along the Pacific coast of eastern Hokkaido, northern Japan—an aid in paleoseismic studies of the Kuril subduction zone Y Sawai, BP Horton, T Nagumo Quaternary Science Reviews 23 (23-24), 2467-2483, 2004 | 90 | 2004 |
| Evidence for 17th-century tsunamis generated on the Kuril–Kamchatka subduction zone, Lake Tokotan, Hokkaido, Japan Y Sawai Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 20 (8), 903-911, 2002 | 90 | 2002 |
| Distribution of living and dead diatoms in tidal wetlands of northern Japan: relations to taphonomy Y Sawai Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 173 (3-4), 125-141, 2001 | 90 | 2001 |
| Seventeenth-century uplift in eastern Hokkaido, Japan BF Atwater, R Furukawa, E Hemphill-Haley, Y Ikeda, K Kashima, ... The Holocene 14 (4), 487-501, 2004 | 74 | 2004 |
| Historical tsunamis and storms recorded in a coastal lowland, Shizuoka Prefecture, along the Pacific Coast of Japan J Komatsubara, O Fujiwara, K Takada, Y Sawai, TT Aung, T Kamataki Sedimentology 55 (6), 1703-1716, 2008 | 72 | 2008 |
