Kenji Satake is a Japanese seismologist who has made significant contributions to subduction and tsunami research . Along with Brian Atwater and David Yamaguchi , Satake assembled disparate pieces of information regarding a Japanese tsunami that had no known origin . The three scientists worked together to pinpoint a date , time , and location for the 1700 Cascadia earthquake – 9 p.m on January 26 , 1700 – on the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest coast of North America
1700 Cascadia earthquake
1700 Cascadia earthquake
Kenji Satake