IISEE Newsletter
Mar 31 2014
Number 107

In This Issue• Nine Participants
Finished a TwoMonth Training
Course on the Global
SeismologicalObservation• InternationalSymposium onEarthquake andTsunami Disaster
Mitigation in Latin
America• IISEE Alumni
Meeting• International
Workshop in Kyoto
University• Visit to Institute ofGeophysics, UNAM,
Mexico• In Memoriam• Address on Behalf of
the Global Course
Participants

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Nine Participants Finished a Two-Month Training
Course on the Global Seismological Observation
By Ms. Yoriko Iiba & Dr. Bunichiro Shibazaki of IISEEThe Closing Ceremony of the Global Seismological Observation Training Course
which started on January 21 was held at JICA Tsukuba on Friday, March 14.
Nine participants from Bolivia, Fiji,Myanmar, Nepal (2), Pakistan (2),Papua New Guinea and Thailand
attended the ceremony and havereceived the certificates from JICA andIISEE. Mr. Gonzalo Antonio Fernandez
Maranon from Bolivia made an address
as the representative of participants.
(See page 4)
The Global Seismological Observation
Training Course was designed for theClosing Ceremony
contribution toward establishing averification regime against nuclear
tests by the Government of Japan. The participants were mainly from nonsignatories and non ratified countries of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban
Treaty (CTBT).
In the training course, participants acquired knowledge of the CTBT regime andthe role of seismology in the International Monitoring System (IMS). They alsostudied global seismological observation technologies for monitoring nuclear
tests and earthquakes, and acquired data analytical techniques to discriminate
nuclear tests from natural earthquakes.
Finally they made an Action Plan that they
will implement in their countries.
This year, a lecture regarding Japan’s
Perspective on Nuclear Disarmament by
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was newlyadded
andparticipants
exchanged
opinions earnestly when they attended
the lecture at the Ministry. One thingthat was particularly impressive was thatparticipants gave advice and help eachother in the practice of Seismic Analysis.

Action Plan Presentation

Moreover their knowledge and expertise on global seismological observationand data analysis will contribute to the reduction of earthquake disasters intheir countries. Implementing the training program, we would like to express
our sincere thanks to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

(CTBTO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA), Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and people
concerned for their support and cooperation to the course.

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Reports of RecentEarthquakes
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accepting submissionsof papers for the seismol og y, ea rt h qu ake
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International Symposium on Earthquake andTsunami Disaster Mitigation in Latin America
By Dr.Yushiro Fujii, IISEE Senior Research Seismologist

This symposium was held on March 7th,
2014 at Kokuyo Hall (Minato-ku, Tokyo,Japan) with support from JST (JapanScience and Technology Agency)-JICA(Japan International Cooperation Agency)
SATREPS(ScienceandTechnology
Research Partnership for SustainableDevelopment Program) project (The twoprojects of Peru and Chile are now beingconducted).

Symposium Presentation(reproduced from Chiba University’s website)

The eight 2013-2014 earthquake engineering course participants attended thissymposium as a part of the training. Dr. Shibazaki, Dr. Tani and I (Fujii) also
attended the symposium to know the current situation of the earthquake andtsunami disaster-prevention measures in Latin America. It was great pleasurefor us to meet many researchers including ex-participants of the IISEE’s
training courses from Peru, Chile, Colombia and El Salvador.
Approximately25
researchers
wereinvited to the symposium from seven
Latin
Americancountries(Peru,Chile,Colombia,Ecuador,Mexico,
Nicaragua and ElSalvador).
They
madepresentations
Symposium Attendance(reproduced from Chiba University’s website)of their country reports following thetwo keynote lectures entitled “Earthquake disaster mitigation research in Japanand international collaboration” and “Earthquake activity and seismic hazard inLatin America.” About 70 Japanese researchers involved in the Peru and Chile
SATREPS projects or other research projects also participated in thesymposium. In the panel discussion, the themes what is needed or what is aproblem in disaster mitigation in each country were widely discussed and aresolution for having this kind of symposium every year was adopted.

IISEE Alumni Meeting in the 10th Asian Seismological
Commission General Assembly

The 10th Asian Seismological Commission (ASC) General Assembly will beheld in Makati by The Philippines, through the Philippine Institute ofVolcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS-DOST) and the City of Makati,from 17-21 November 2014. IISEE is planning to have the Alumni
meeting there. WE ARE HAPPY TO SHARE THE TIME. Come and Join US!

International Workshop in Kyoto University
By Dr.Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEEFrom Mar.4 to 6, 2014, I have participated the international workshop entitled"New Initiative toward the Advancement of Strong Motion, Site Effect, and Risk
Evaluation Studies for Future Mega-Quakes" held in Disaster Prevention
Research Institute, Kyoto University.

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Many important research results were presented by internationally famous
researchers and also those of the young generations. For example, Prof. Hiroo
Kanamori (California Institute of Technology). Dr. Nelson Pulido Hernandez who
had atteded the IISEE training course (1991-1992 Earthquake Engineering
Course, Colombia) has presented his important research result. I would like toexpress my thanks and respect to the professors of Kyoto University whoorganized this important and meaningful workshop.

Visit to Institute of Geophysics, UNAM, Mexico
By Dr.Bunichiro Shibazaki, IISEE Chief Research Scientist

I visited Institute of Geophysics, National University of Mexico (UNAM), fromMarch 17 to 21. Recent high-resolution geodetic observations have revealed theoccurrence of slow slip events (SSEs) along the Mexican subduction zone. InGuerrero, large SSEs of around Mw 7.5 repeat every 3–4 years. Also there is aseismic gap in Guerrero where a large earthquake may occur in the near future.
I joined a discussion on a future research
project regarding investigation of stressaccumulation in the Guerrero seismic gap
andtsunami
hazardassessment.
I
introduced my numerical model of slow slip
events and their interaction with large
earthquakes
along
thesubduction
interfaces beneath Guerrero. During myvisit, jacaranda trees were in full bloom.
Jacaranda Trees in Mexico

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In Memoriam: Dr. Sheldon Cherry (Canada)
It was with profound sorrow that we received the sad news of the passing awayof Dr. Sheldon Cherry, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the Universityof British Columbia, Canada on March 23 of 2014.
Dr. Cherry was the former UNESCO Expert of IISEE from 1966 to 1967. He
was one of the founders of IISEE training program. We greatly appreciate his
support he has givin to IISEE. We would like to extend the sincerest sympathy
from all of us at IISEE to his family.

Address on Behalf of the Global Course Participants
By Mr. Gonzalo Antonio Fernandez Maranon from BoliviaDistinguished Ministers, Directors, Supervisors, Researches, Chiefs and Heads of section, Coordinators, SupportStaff, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentleman. Good morning.
It is my great pleasure to address this closing speech to you at the end of the Global Seismological Observation
Training Course hosted at IISEE-BRI and JICA Tsukuba.
On behalf of my colleagues I would also wish to extend ourspecial thanks to Mr. KIMURA Senichi, Director General, JICA
Tsukuba, Dr. YOKOI Toshiaki Director-International Institute ofSeismology and Earthquake Engineering-Building ResearchInstitute, Mr. ONO Ken, Principal Deputy Director, Arms Control
and Disarmament Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japanand all of you who have already done this training program
possible.
Let me introduce this question to distinguished audience; “Whatare the main aims of Global Seismological Observation course?,”scientifically and technically speaking, Global SeismologicalObservation is about to determinate, to quantify and todiscriminate tele-seismic events in order to know whether thoseMr. Gonzalo Fernandez
events are or not explosion which may be a nuclear test, withyour kind respect this answer would be incomplete if we do not add the social contribution.
I would like to explain you why, once we have started the lectures with the best Senseis at IISEE-BRI, we started
to feel like home. Because we found each Sensei’s ready to help us, to solve our doubts even in lunch time, we
never heard the word NO, we always heard a kind HAI and a kind explanation.
Fortunately we traveled around Japan, we were on Tokyo taking lectures at JMA (Japan Meteorological Association)
where we learned about the wonderful early earthquake warning system is ready to serve each other, at JWA(Japan Weather Association) we learned how Japanese NDCs use the CTBTO’s tool in order to fulfill the treaty. AtMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Japan we could get better understanding about Japanese position against the nuclear
weapons and their proliferations. Let me greatly congratulate to Mr. ONO Ken and his Ministry Office for thevaluable efforts puts in this task. At Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum we were deeply shocked due to Atomic
bomb, unfortunately Japan is the only country all over the world who suffered the effects of a nuclear attack, noone else over the whole world should think about to use such a kind of weapons; in Kobe we were at Disaster
Reduction and Human Renovation Institution where we were surprised about the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake’s
damage.
With your kind excuses in both cases Japanese people always
raised from dark to light helping each other and learning fromthe past developing their selves in order to reach a common
objective, keep going ahead and never give up. In Nagano atMatsushiro Seismological Observatory we had the honor to bein the Emperor’s room, and the pleasure to know one of themost important seismic arrays all over the world which gives alot of information to international seismic observation.
I cannot forget to mention to our JICA’s Coordinator and IISEEBRI support staff who helped us a lot giving us their kind help
and valuables advices, preparing our lectures notes, guiding us
on all Study trips even if someone like me got lost in Tokyo, letme thanks to the JICA and IISEE-BRI support staff, with yourkind permission let me call them our guardian angels.

At Ministry Foreign Affairs of Japan

Now with your permission I would like to say the real aims of our training course, each of us have already gotten
deeper knowledge about the seismic event discrimination from the best Senseis, all this knowledge must be spreadin our institution and countries in order to fulfill the CTB Treaty and support the Japanese position against thenuclear weapons to have a better world without any nuclear bomb threat.
Let me finish this speech with this phrase from St. Ignacio de Loyola “develop yourself to help others” as JapanesePeople always develop their selves to help others, now we are ready to help others. It is not a Sayonora it is aDewamata, with your kind permission Domo Arigato Gozaimasu, God and Mary Virgin Bless you all.
Thank you very much!!