Kiyoo Wadati, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kiyoo Wadati

Japanese seismologist

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1902

Place of Birth: Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 05-Jan-1995

Profession: poet, geologist, meteorologist, tanka poet, seismologist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Kiyoo Wadati (?? ??, Wadachi Kiyoo, September 8, 1902 – January 5, 1995) was an early seismologist at the Central Meteorological Observatory of Japan (now known as the Japan Meteorological Agency), researching deep (subduction zone) earthquakes.
His name is attached to the Wadati–Benioff zone.
It was Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, comparing maximum below surface displacement against distance from the epicentre, which led Charles Richter to develop his earthquake magnitude scale in 1935.