********************************************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.52

19 Mar. 2010********************************************************************************************++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Contents+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. Lecture Notes Archive is being updated
2. International Friendship Party was held
3. The 15th Global Seismological Observation Course has finished
4. China Seismic Building Course in China has started in Beijing
5. New Forum on Chile Earthquake in Alumni Website
6. "Notes on database "for "IISEE's CMTs, Aftershock Distributions, Fault
Planes, and Rupture Processes for recent large earthquakes in the world"
7. Invitation to the 2nd Arab Conference on Astronomy and Geophysics++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++============================================================================[1] Lecture Notes Archive is being updated
IISEE has steadily increased the number of the lectures posted in the IISEE-UNESCO Lecture
Notes Archive System in the IISEE website(http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/lna/).

Website of the IISEE-UNESCO Lecture Notes ArchiveWe have 37 lectures posted in this system, while 14 in last March and 26 in last May, as announced
in Newsletters. Particularly, lecture notes of Global Seismological Observation Course are newlyadded.
The following 11 lecture notes have opened since we informed in the Newsletter No.40:
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/nldb/?action=letter&id=50
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
RC Structures III: Topic of the Recent Research on RC Structure
Shaking Table Testing
Earthquake Resistant Limit State Design I, IIHydrodynamics for Tsunamis
Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Policy and Risk Management in Japan
Installation of LINUX and SAC
Instrumentation and Observation (5) -National data center (NDC)Introduction to UNIX
Data Processing
Geotool
In addition, number of registration is increasing. We have 320 registered people as of March 17. We
have received feedbacks saying lecture notes are very useful. Please introduce IISEE-UNESCO
Lecture Notes Archive to your colleagues.
Bunichiro SHIBAZAKIChief Research Scientist, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] International Friendship Party was held
The International Friendship Party was held at the exhibition hall of BRI on February 16. All 33
participants including the Regular and Global Courses, Chief Executive, Deputy Chief Executive,
some lecturers of BRI, and IISEE and JICA staff members joined this party and deepened friendship.
Each course and some volunteer groups showed their entertainments in this party. In fact, manykinds of songs and dances from many countries were performed. Some of them wore KIMONO(Japanese traditional clothes) and danced to Japanese music. Every performance was so wonderfulthat the party was warmed up very much. We really had a great time on this day.

Dance performance by participants

A scene of the party

Hajime KUROSAWA
Head of Administration Division, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[3] The 15th Global Seismological Observation Course has finishedThe 15th Training Course on Global Seismological Observation was held from January 7 to March 5,
2010. The eleven participants from eight countries studied about the CTBT regime and the role ofseismology in International Monitoring System. They also learned skills to design a seismic networkand data analysis techniques to discriminate nuclear tests from natural earthquakes. All of theparticipants successfully completed the training course. We owe this success to the guest lecturers
and those who gave us valuable advice at the sites that we visited. We are very grateful to them all.
This training course is going to be held continuously for 2009-2011 of Japanese fiscal years.

Award the certificate

Group photo

Tatsuhiko HARA
Chief Research Scientist, IISEE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[4] China Seismic Building Course in China has started in Beijing
I, Hurukawa, attended the opening ceremony of the first China Seismic Building Course in Beijing,
China on March 8 and made an address. After the first China Seismic Building Course in Tsukuba(http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/nldb/?action=letter&id=58) last autumn, the trainees in Tsukuba become
lecturers in the training courses in China. I'm sure they will disseminate their knowledge to 5,000
Chinese structural engineers. Furthermore, I visited the China Earthquake Networks Center ofChina Earthquake Administration in Beijing on March 9. Dr. Huang, an ex-participant of the Global
Seismological Observation Course in 2009 JFY, guided me through the Center. Finally, I met one of
my first students, Dr. ZHAO Zhixin (1984-85 S). He guided me to the Bird's Nest (Main Stadium of2008 Olympic Games) and others.

China Seismic Building Course

China Earthquake Networks Center

Bird's Nest

N. Hurukawa,Director of IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[5] New Forum on Chile Earthquake in Alumni Website
On behalf of the IISEE, we would like to express deep sympathy to the victims of the damaging
earthquake on 27th February in Chile. We expect all of you are actively working for earthquake
disaster mitigation in your country. We wish for the earliest possible recovery of Chile. In order toshare information on the earthquake with other (ex-) participants, we would like to ask you toprovide us information on the earthquake which you have. Since we have established a new FORUM
on the 2010 Chile Earthquake in the Alumni Website (http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/alumni/), please postyour information to it. At this moment, we have two topics. 1) special page on the Chile EQ and 2)
Relocation of aftershocks.
N. Hurukawa,Director of IISEE

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[6] "Notes on database" for "IISEE's CMTs, Aftershock Distributions, Fault Planes, and Rupture
Processes for recent large earthquakes in the world"
We have added "Notes on database" to "IISEE's CMTs, Aftershock Distributions, Fault Planes, andRupture Processes for recent large earthquakes in the world" at
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/eqcat/Top_page_en_n.htm.
As the first note, "Note on Moment tensor solutions in the database" has been uploaded. We areplanning to continuously upload notes so that this web site will be used more efficiently. Yourfeedbacks will be highly appreciated. Thank you.
Tatsuhiko HARA,
Chief Research Scientist, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[7] Invitation to the 2nd Arab Conference on Astronomy and Geophysics
Prof. Dr. Salah M. Mahmoud, President of the National Research Institute of Astronomy andGeophysics (NRIAG) in Egypt announced us the 1st circular on the 2nd Arab Conference on
Astronomy and Geophysics, which will be held in Cairo, Egypt on October 25-28, 2010.
http://www.unesco-ipred.org/English%20first%20announcement%20of%20acag2-4.pdf
http://www.acag2.net/en/content.php?id=1
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