IISEE Newsletter
July 26 2013 Number 99

International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering BRI Japan
1 Tachihara Tsukuba Japan 305-0802

In This Issue• The 10th Meeting ofAsia OceaniaGeosciences Society

The 10th Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences
Society (AOGS)
By Dr. Bunichiro Shibazaki, IISEE Chief Research Scientist• Visit to Kathmandu,
Nepal• Papers by Exparticipants• IISEE Alumni Website
has been closed.
• Individual Studies• Q & A on IISEEBrisbane, Australia

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I attended the 10th meeting of Asia
Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
which was held from June 24 to 28 ingaveaBrisbane,Australia.
I
presentation entitled “3D Quasidynamic Modeling of the Cycle ofMegathrust Earthquakes along theSouthern Kuril Trench Subduction
Zone,
Considering
High
SpeedFriction” in the session “Modeling
Fast and Slow Earthquakes in
Subduction Zones.”

IISEENET

There are many presentations by seismologists from Asia and Oceania. The
annual meeting of 2014 will be held in Sapporo from July 28 to August 1,
2014. We hope that you will come to Japan to attend the meeting.
Furthermore, if you have a chance, please call on IISEE. We all welcome you.

IISEE-UNESCO Lecture
Note

Visit to Kathmandu, Nepal -Enjoyed the Reunion-

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By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEE

I have been to Kathmandu, Nepal from July 7th to 11th for business meetings
with various institutions, such as the Department of Urban Development andBuilding Construction, Ministry of Urban Development (DUDBC) and theNational Seismological Center, Department of Mines and Geology, Ministry ofIndustry (NSC-DMG).
At the NSC-DMG, I met Mr. Mukunda Bhattarai (2004-2005 SeismologyCourse), Mr. Lok Bijaya Adhikari (2002-2003 Seismology Course), Mr.
Shrestha Prithvi Lal(2009-2010 Seismology Course) and Mr. Umesh Prasad
Gautam (2010 Global Course).
The DUDBC Director General is Dr. Mahendra Subba.
He was also exparticipant of the 1990-1991 Earthquake Engineering Course. What a happy
coincidence! Mr. Binary Charan Shrestha (1995-1996 Earthquake EngineeringCourse) was there, too.
I am so glad to learn the amazing activities of ex-participants of IISEE training
courses in their respective fields. I sincere hope to keep contact with them.
They are assets to IISEE.

Call for Papers
IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for theseismology, earthquake
engineering, andtsunami. Developing
countries are targeted,but are not limited.
Your original papers
will be reviewed by theeditorial members andsome experts. NO
submission fee is need.
Try to challenge!!

NSC-DMG

Ex-participants: Dr. Mahendra
Subba(left)

Papers by Ex-participants-China, India and NepalBy Yoriko Iiba, Head of Administration Division, IISEEIISEE welcomes the news by ex-participants on their deliveringpapers. Up to now, we have received three letters as follows:(1)Mr. Yefei REN (2011-2012 E-Course) from China,(2)Mr. Himangshu Sekhar MANDAL (2005-2006 S-Course) from India(3)Mr. Mukunda BHATTARAI (2004-2005 S-Course, 2008 Seminar Course)from Nepal
Thank you very much for your contribution, Mr. REN, Mr. MANDAL and Mr.
BHATTARAI.

It is our great pleasure to learn that your papers appear on the academic
journals. When you let us know the news, please tell us your name, country,
the course and its year, the name of the journal, the number of issue, thepublishing date, and the title of the papers. Looking forward to your letters.
NameMr.
Ye fe i REN
Mr.
H imangshu
Se khar
MANDALCo untry Year and Course Name o f Jo urnal
Earthquake
Engine e ring and2011-2012
China
Engine e ring Vibratio n
E-Co urse（ 2013, Vo l.12, 165184）
India

2005-2006
S-Co urseMr.
Ne palMukunda
BH ATTARAI

2004-2005
S-Co urse ,2008
Se minarCo urseTitle“Site e ffe cts by ge ne ralize d inve rsio nte chnique using stro ng mo tio n re co rdingso f the 2008 We nchuan e arthquake "by Re n Ye fe i, We n Ruizhi, H iro aki
Yamanaka and To shihide Kashima

Jo urnal o f Asian Earth “She ar wave atte nuatio n characte ristics
Scie nce so ve r the Ce ntral India Te cto nic Zo ne and（ 2013, Vo l.73, 440its surro undings" by H .S. Mandal, P.K.
451）
Khan, and A.K. Shukla
Jo urnal o f Ne pal
Ge o lo gical So cie ty（ 2011, Vo l. 43, 137144）"Capturing first re co rds at the Ne pal NSC
acce le ro me tric ne two rk"
by M. Bhattarai, U. Gautam, R. Pande y,
L. Bo llinge r, B. H e rnande z and V. Bo utin.

＊IISEE Alumni Website has been closed.
IISEE Alumni Website was closed at the end of June. It was worked as a gobetween for participants and the people concerned.
This website was launched in 2009 and many ex-participants and staff
members, etc. registered. However number of users decreased in recent years
because other communication tools have become widely used. IISEE confirms
the link with the people concerned by various ways. We sincerely thank theusers for registration, access and any other support to the website.

Individual Studies -How are you coming with yourgraduation theses in the Middle?-

Enjoy, Now

The Participants of 2012-2013 started their individual studies on the first ofJune. Almost 2 months have passed. They are writing the master’s theses for
3 months from June to August. Accumulating data, going to the field trips anddiscussing with their supervisors, they are tackling the challenges by their own
ways. Although some of them are studying in Toyohashi-city and Yamaguchicity far from here, most of them are staying in IISEE. The place to study is notdesignated, participants have their favorite places. The wonder is the sight ofseismology course classroom. They are using the personal computers insilence and without lights in darkness. Power saving? NO. We don’t know thereason. The comfortable feeling depends on the person.
The Interim meeting was held on the 18th and the 19th of July.

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The earthquake engineering course participants from Armenia, the Republic ofDominica, Myanmar, Nepal and Papua New Guinea visited to Nagoya on the10th of July.
Thanks to Chubu Regional Bureau, the Ministry of Land,Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the participants were guided the baseisolation system installed in the first basement of the Second Building ofNagoya Complex. Their study tour was reported by some local newspapers.

★IISEE answer your Questions
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the training course and the procedure to apply?
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2. you should be nominated by your government.
For further particulars apply to the JICA office or Japanese Embassy in your country.
http://www.jica.go.jp/english/contact/overseas/
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Q. Could you please inform me requirements and criteria that potential participant of thetraining course should satisfy?
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The requirements that the applicants should satisfy are as follows.
Applicants should:(1) be nominated by their government(2) be university graduates in seismology, earthquake engineering, earthquake disaster mitigation
or tsunami disaster mitigation, or be university graduates in science and technology other than
the above mentioned subjects with professional experience of three or more years in the field ofseismology, earthquake engineering, earthquake disaster mitigation or tsunami disastermitigation(3) be well versed in advanced mathematics such as differentiation and integration, partial
derivatives, differential equations, matrix, vector algebra, Fourier analysis, etc.
(4) be able to write research reports on the individual study in English(5) have a good command of English --- minimum TOEFL score; 79 (Internet Based Test), 213(Computer Based Test) or 550 (Paper Based Test), or equivalent(6) be over 22 and under 40 years of age(7) be in good health to undergo the course of training (Please be fully understand that thetraining over a long period like this course may pose risks to pregnancy)(8) not be military personnel
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