IISEE Newsletter
June 26 2014
Number 110

In This Issue• Latin AmericanEarthquake
Engineering Course
Starts• IPRED7 Meeting andthe International
Workshop in Almaty,Kazakhstan• Visit to Peru CISMID• Visit to Nicaragua• Colloquium, General
Meeting & FriendshipParty• IISEE Curriculum
Committee

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Bienvenidos a Japón (Welcome to Japan)
Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course
StartsBy Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Mr. Mizuo Inukai & Ms. Yoriko Iiba of IISEEThe opening ceremony of the Latin
American Earthquake Engineering Course
was held at the BRI Hall from 9:30 to10:30 on Thursday, June 5. Fourteen
participants from Dominican Republic (2),El Salvador (4), Nicaragua (4) and Peru
(4) crossed the Pacific Ocean and join theIISEE training course.
The ceremony was conducted throughLatin American Participants
two Japanese-Spanish interpreters andstarted by the introduction of the BRI andJICA executives and IISEE staff members. Next, Mr. Senichi Kimura of Director
General of JICA Tsukuba and Dr. Yuzo Sakamoto, BRI Chief Executive madetheir welcome speeches.
Dr. Sakamoto introduced the history and roleof BRI and talked to the Latin American
training participants, “ Everything is readyfor you.” Lastly Mr. Oscar Armando Lopez
Trujillo from El Salvador made a speech on
behalf of all the participants.

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Latin America is a quake prone region assame as Japan. However, technology ofDr. Sakamoto, CE of BRI
earthquake-proof construction is not widely
obtained in the area, and building collapse
causes huge impacts on human suffering and property damage. This course
aims to reduce damage fromfutureearthquakes
byenhancing and disseminating
theearthquake-resistanttechnology in theparticipant countries.
Incidentally, the course iscarried out in all Spanish
through
Japanese-Spanishinterpreters, and the lecturenotes in Spanish are handed
outtothetraining

Opening Ceremony

Earthquakes
The 2011 off the Pacificcoast of Tohoku
Earthquake
Reports of Recent
Earthquakes
Utsu Catalog
Earthquake Catalog

Call for Papers
IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for the seismol og y, ea rt h qu akeengineering, andtsunami. Developing
countries are targeted,but are n ot limited.
Your original papers
will be reviewed by theeditorial members andsome experts.
NO submission fee isneed.
Try to challenge!!

participants. The participants are not requested to have a good command of
English in their application qualifications. For further information on this Latin
American training course, write to us at iisee@kenken.go.jp.
We heartily wish all good luck to their training course.
¡Buena suerte! (Good luck!)

IPRED7 Meeting and the International Workshop inAlmaty, Kazakhstan
By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi & Dr. Tatsuya Azuhata of IISEEThe 7th session of the International Platform for Reducing
Earthquake Disasters (IPRED) was
held at “Almaty-Resort” in Almaty,
Kazakhstan from 28 to 30 May.
TheIPRED
isaplatform
establishedby
UNESCOincollaboration with the IISEE,
which acts as the “Centre ofExcellence.” Current members ofthe IPRED are Chile, Egypt, El
Salvador, Indonesia, Kazakhstan,
7th IPRED Session
Mexico, Peru, Romania, Turkeyand Japan. These countries are counterparts of Technical Corporation Projects
by JICA on which the BRI has collaborated about for the past 30 years.
Also, the UNESCO-IPRED international workshop on “Actions Needed for theNext Decade to Reduce Earthquake Losses” was held on 27 May at the samevenue.
From the IISEE, Dr. Yokoi and Dr.
Azuhata attended these session andworkshop. Dr. Azuhata presented
recent research results on strong
ground motion observation forbuildings by the BRI etc. on theworkshop.
Dr. Yokoi reported the activities bythe IISEE/BRI relating to the IPRED
in FY 2013 on the IPRED session.
And he proposed a rough draft ofInternational Workshop
the next action plan of the IPRED
for a following few years and the procedure to develop it. Based on thissuggestion, it was concluded that all participants discuss on the next action
plan using an e-mail and fix it by the next IPRED session.
Finally the secretariat of UNESCO-IPRED proposed to hold the 8th session in
Japan on March, 2015, matching the schedule of the United Nations World
Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR). And this suggestion was approvedby all session members.
Besides, we could meet with the ex-participants of IISEE’s regular course: Prof.
Edgar Armando Peña Figueroa (El Salvador, 2004-2005 E course), Mr. Ridwan
Mohamad (Indonesia, 1997-1998 E course & 2008 Seminar course), Prof.
Carlos Irala Candiotti (Peru, 1984-1985 E course), Prof. Raul Alejandro Alvarez
Medel (Chile, 1994-1995 E course) and Ms. Natalya Silacheva (Kazakhstan,1999-2000 E course).

Visit to Peru CISMID-as a part of JST-JICA SATREP ProjectBy Dr. Masanori Tani, IISEE Research Engineer

Enjoy, Now

I visited CISMID (Japan-Peru Center forSeismic
InvestigationandDisasterMitigation) of National University ofEngineering in Peru from May 28th toJune 6th with Prof. Shunsuke Sugano(SpecialVisiting
ResearcherofIISEE/BRI).
This trip was a part of JST-JICA SATREP
Project. The main purpose of this trip was
At the Laboratory for Structural
to make instruction how to use the newExperient in CISMID
loading system supplied by this projectand give a lecture in the symposium fordisaster prevention. New loading system enables the loading test under more
complicated control. I hope the range of structural experiment in CISMID willexpand significantly.

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The symposium for disaster prevention has been held every year for education
and reflection on natural disasters since the 1970 Ancash Earthquake in Peru. Iand Prof. Sugano gave lectures about the recent research trends of R/Cstructure in Japan and the experimental database of masonry wall specimens,respectively.

Visit to Nicaragua-as a JICA Short Term Expert (Part II)-By Dr. Takumi Hayashida, IISEE Research Seismologist
I made a visit to Nicaragua from May 28
through June 9 as a JICA short-term expert,
following the Dr. Yokoi's visit (IISEE
Newsletter No.109). I instructed microtremor array measurement (SPAC method),single-point microtremor measurement (H/Vmethod) and multi-channel analysis ofsurface waves (MASW) both inside andoutside Managua city.

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In Managua, I worked with Mr. Edwin Nadir
Castrillo Osorio (2006-2007 SeismologyCourse) and his colleagues who belong to the Geotechnical Research Center(CIGEO), the Geology and Geophysics Institute (IGG), and the National
AutonomousUniversityofNicaragua(UNAM). Fortunately we were favored bygood weather condition (over 30 degreesC!!) during my stay despite rainy season inNicaragua.
Observation at INETER

We also visited the National University ofEngineering (UNI) and the Nicaraguan
Institute of Territorial Studies (INETER) toconduct the observations on the premises. I
lecturedonbasicsofmicrotremor

Animals passing by the arrayobservation to staff members of the institutes and exchanged diverse opinions
on the methods, observation systems and engineering utilizations of theresults. I hope that seismologists, geologists and research engineers inNicaragua develop a research partnership to share the basic information about
underground structure models and seismic hazard analysis. Portions of theobserved data will be used for individual study of this year’s course participant.
I could visit many interesting places in Nicaragua and enjoyed my stay.

Colloquium, General Meeting & Friendship Party
By Ms. Yoriko Iiba, Head of IISEE Administration Division

The third colloquium, which is a seminar consisting of presentations by thetraining participants, took place in IISEE for two days on Thursday, May 22 andon Friday, May 23. On the first day the participants of the Earthquake
Engineering course presented the outline of their individual study reports, andon the following day the participants of Seismology course and Tsunami
Disaster Mitigation course followed suit.
From June 2, the participants started their individual studies to write theirmaster’s theses. On Friday, May 23 after the colloquium, we had the generalmeeting.
In the general meeting, they expressed their impressions andremarks on the lectures, everyday life, etc.
Following the meeting, we held theFriendship Party. It was planned forthe participants to get over the toughindividual studies by IISEE. The party
was started by the master ofceremonies, Dr. Kashima.
Althoughmost of them study in IISEE, Faouzi
fromAlgeria,
Shamsulfrom
Bangladesh, Pamela from El Salvador,
Onur and Ergun from Turkey, andPresentation at Colloquium
Jorge from Peru should leave fromTsukuba.
They study with theirsupervisors in Tokyo, Toyohashi, Nagoya, Yokohama and Sendai. With a goodmeal and a comfortable atmosphere the party was closed.

2014 IISEE Curriculum Committee in Tokyo

By Ms. Yoriko Iiba, Head of IISEE Administration Division

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The IISEE Curriculum Committee is organized to assist IISEE staff with giving
practical advice on the training program and its activities. The committee iscomprised of 18 members who are university professors and researchers ofpublic organs. The members are 5 from seismology field, 3 from Tsunami, 7
from earthquake engineering, and 3 fromcivil engineering. Dr. Yuji Ishiyama is thechair.
He is Emeritus of Hokkaido
University and once IISEE’s Head ofEarthquake Engineering Division.

Curriculum Committee

The 2014 annual meeting was taken placeon the 18th of June in Yotsuya, Tokyo. 12
members and IISEE staff members came
together and discussed the content of
2013-2014 training curriculum and thefuture program.