********************************************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.61

October 20, 2010********************************************************************************************++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contents+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. The 51th Annual Training Course started
2. IISEE Alumni Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam
3. Dr. T. Yokoi has visited Nicaragua
4. "Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World" has been updated
5. Test page of “IISEE’s CMTs, Aftershock Distributions, Fault planes, and Rupture processes forrecent large earthquakes in the world”++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++============================================================================[1] The 51th Annual Training Course started
The 51th Annual Training on Seismology, Earthquake Engineering and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation
courses started on October 5th 2010. In this year, we invite 21 participants from 10 countries. On along history of our training courses for 50 years, 1,481 participants from 96 countries and region
have completed the training so far. It is particularly worth noting that Pacific and Southern America
have been included in the target regions of the Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course from last year,
which was inaugurated as a training course limited to coastal countries facing with Indian Ocean in
2006. These training courses will be carried out until September next year in cooperation withGRIPS and JICA. After getting through the courses with credits required, the master's degree will beawarded to the participants. So, we hope all 2010-11 participants will take the master's degree one
year later.

2010-11 Participants

Hajime KUROSAWA
Head of Administration Division, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] Dr. T. Yokoi has visited Nicaragua
Chief Research Scientist of IISEE Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi has visited Nicaragua from Sep. 18 to Oct. 2,
2010 by "Dispatch of Science & Technology Researchers" that is a collaborative scheme of Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS). During
his visit, he has worked with the researchers of Centro de Investigaciones Geocientificas,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua: Dr. Dionicio Rodriguez, Prof. Claudio Romero, Prof.
Lener Sequeira, Prof. Blenda Leyton and Prof. Marvin Corriols on the array measurement ofmicrotremor and its analysis for exploring underground velocity structure of shear wave: the firsttrial in Nicaragua. The objective of his visit was almost fulfilled by their collaboration. This
collaborative research will continue to Mar. 2012, but the relation between IISEE andCIGEO-UNAN will continue further more.
Toshiaki YOKOIChief Research Scientist, IISEE

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[3] "Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World" has been updated
The earthquake catalog, "Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World"(available at http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/utsu/index_eng.html), has been updated to include damaging
earthquakes through June, 2009. The current latest event in the database is the earthquake thatoccurred on June 25 in 2009 in the western part of Oita prefecture, Japan.
Tatsuhiko HARA,Chief Research Scientist, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[4] Test page of “IISEE’s CMTs, Aftershock Distributions, Fault planes, and Rupture processes forrecent large earthquakes in the world”
We have put a test page for a new search page of “IISEE’s CMTs, Aftershock Distributions, Fault
planes, and Rupture processes for recent large earthquakes in the world” at
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/cgi-bin/eqcatalog.newv4/eqcatalog2_eng.cgi
The major new functions implemented on this page are as follows:- The earthquakes registered in the database are shown on Google Map.
- The earthquake source parameters can be transferred to calculations using a set of attenuation
equations.
-The link button to “Tsunami Simulation” is created in the column “Other information” in case thecorresponding tsunami simulation results are available on the IISEE web site.
Please visit the above page. Your feedbacks will be highly appreciated.
Thank you very much in advance.
Tatsuhiko HARA,
Chief Research Scientist, IISEE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[5] IISEE Alumni Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam
We, I and Vietnamese alumni, are planning to hold the IISEE Alumni Meeting in the evening of theNovember 9th during the 8th General Assembly of Asian Seismological Commission (ASC), which isheld from the November 8th to the 10th in Hanoi, Vietnam. We plan to hold the alumni meeting
after the poster session at a restaurant or cafe near the conference place. We would like to learn thenumber of participants to this alumni meeting. If you join this alumni meeting, please fill thefollowing and send it back to me (hurukawa@kenken.go.jp).
Name:
Country:Year(s) of IISEE training participation:
I attend the IISEE Alumni Meeting on the November 9th
during the coming ASC in Hanoi.
Please understand that the IISEE does not support any fees for your participations in the ASC andalumni meetings.
Thank you very much in advance for your cooperation.
Further information will be given at the conference venue.
Nobuo HURUKAWA
Former Director, IISEE
Research Coordinator, BRI=========================================================================********************************************************************************************We send this IISEE Newsletter to ex-participants whose e-mail addresses are known, lecturers andother stakeholders. The IISEE send new data and information actively and accept your contribution
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