Short-term Interaction Between Slow-slip Events and Devastating Earthquakes in
MexicoGADRIACTIONS
Spring 2021
Volume 14— Number 1
Consecutive Ruptures on a Complex Conjugate
Fault System During the 2018 Gulf of Alaska
Earthquake

Identifying landslides from continuous seismic
surface waves: a case study of multiple smallscale landslides triggered by Typhoon Talas, 20111

The year 2020 has been one of the most challenging years in modern
history and will be remembered for the disrupt it caused to our lives throughthe Covid-19 pandemic. Did we ever imagine when the corona virus brokeout in 2019, it will bring the whole world to a standstill? The measurestaken to combat the Covid-19 situation through the year and even now,
have forced all of us to reflect on the past events, assess our day-to-day
operations and forced us to take action to recalibrate our daily lives.
Perhaps we were too complacent in our lives before Covid and need a bitof quaking to our equilibrium? Is this a wake-up call to us researchers to
say how important our work is? How important it is now more than ever toshare our data and work collegially to combat disaster risk and create aworld resilient to disasters in order to bounce back with resilience toovercome these challenges.

In addition to adjusting to the pandemic age and wondering what a
post-covid-era would be like, we are also astonished by the contrast
between the speed with which it became a global pandemic and our efforts
to combat the virus. While this pandemic, among other things, have shownus our resilience during this situation, it has also brought our attention to
the undeniable fact that we need to throw our research net wider andbroader to capture more research, realise the importance of data sharing,in particular, in health disasters, and other unknown disasters that may
emerge in the future.

This situation has also revealed to us our ability to adapt to remote work,
make use of various digital technology and other online platforms to carryout our daily tasks to circumvent the situation. Our ability to stand firm
through this pandemic and come out resiliently and steadfastly to regain
the quality of life is the challenge left to us now. We can only achieve this,
if we all work together and collate our efforts towards the same goal.

In light of this pandemic situation, we have decided to hold the 5th Global
Summit of GADRI virtually. We are sharing information on title and session
will be held during the summit. We count on your support and cooperation
to make this summit a success.

Contents• Discussions for
Sustainable Futures• The 5th International
Symposium on Naturaland TechnologicalAccident Risk Reduction
at Large Industrial Parks(5th Natech Symposium /Natech 2021)• Research Article on the
Short-term Interaction
Between Slow-slip Eventsand Devastating
Earthquakes in Mexico• Research Paper on
Identifying landslides fromcontinuous seismic
surface waves: a casestudy of multiple smallscale landslides triggered
by Typhoon Talas, 2011

• Scientific Report on
Consecutive Ruptures on
a Complex Conjugate
Fault System During the2018 Gulf of Alaska
Earthquake• 5th Global Summit of
GADRI

We wish you all the very best and good health. Take care of yourselves.
• New Members of GADRI

Hirokazu Tatano and the Secretariat of GADRI

Photos on the cover page are taken from articles provided by the respective authors.
GADRI Actions is designed, formatted and edited by Hirokazu Tatano and Wilma James.

2Discussions for Sustainable Futures
By: TZIOUTZIOS Dimitrios
Doctoral Student
Disaster Risk Management Lab, Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI)
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
13 April 2021

The main idea of this discussion series is to invite
early-career researchers, practitioners (e.g., civilsociety, NGOs, government), senior faculty andstudents from different university schools to join inan hourly, casual ‘coffee’ talk. Our purpose is toinitiate an on-going, informal dialogue on an equalbasis among people from various disciplines andperspectives to think together about theprocesses needed to move towards more just andequitable sustainable futures in different contexts,
cultures, and communities in the world. Throughour discussions over the past few months, anoverarching theme developed: emergent social
innovation and adaptive governance for copingwith the systemic risk of unsustainability.

Furthermore, we must foster social innovation by
supportingsocialcommunication.
New‘communicative spaces’ are thus required tofacilitate community members in meeting,discussing and collaborating together. We shouldbear in mind going forward that social changes
can start at a small, manageable scale, without
being large and disruptive projects. Ideas candevelop in size and mature gradually through thecontinuous innovation process, given ourcommunication and collaboration networks.
Another challenge ahead for innovation is bringing
equality in communities with limited resources.
There are issues related to power dynamics within
our society, and so we need to make sure that thecommunities act having all people in mind. In thisregard teaching and preparing the future
generations is key, and —perhaps more
importantly— we have to start considering themnot only as students, but as partners andeducators in the social innovation process.

In our latest discussion session, we approached
the subject of ‘emergent social innovation in theface of crises’. We began by exploring how theconcepts of ‘innovation’ and ‘crisis’ are broadly
understood nowadays, looking at their relationshipwith environmental sustainability or even the
pandemic. From the perspective of resilience,
innovation is regarded as a process of combining
available skills and resources. It is not only aninvention but also a social adaptation process in a
broader sense.

Finally, looking towards mainstreaming social
innovation, we need to research and highlight
successful examples without disregarding,however, the less successful cases that can
provide equally valuable lessons in realizing andfostering social innovation.

Our talk highlighted the need to establish
mechanisms to nurture and implement social
innovation by enabling the communities to identify
themselves the problems they face, somethingthat still remains quite challenging. In this regard,
it is important to promote critical thinking in
education through encouraging new learners to
ask questions, re-evaluate our assumptions andcontemplate on what might still be missing fromthe analysis framework.

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The 5th International Symposium on Natural and TechnologicalAccident Risk Reduction at Large Industrial Parks (5th Natech
Symposium / Natech 2021)
By: Ana Maria Cruz, Ph.D.
Professor
Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University
methods and innovative risk reduction measures on
various accident hazards triggered by large-scale
natural disasters at industrial parks. The symposium
brought together more than 100 participants fromacademia, local, national and international
government organizations, industry and local
community leaders from 26 countries from all over
the world. The two-day event was held online withplenary and research sessions, as well as panel anddiscussion sessions organized in a way that allowed
participants from different time zones to actively
engage. In total, thirty-five oral presentations
regarding current research advances, as well as
challenges regarding all aspects of Natech risk
management and risk governance were presented.
The symposium also offered a space formultistakeholder discussion and cooperation
regarding Natech risk reduction.

On March 10-11, 2021, we held the 5th International
Symposium on Natural and Technological Accident
Risk Reduction at Large Industrial Parks (5th Natech
Symposium - Natech 2021). This international event
was hosted by Prof. Shin-ichi Aoki, Osaka
University, and Prof. Ana Maria Cruz, Kyoto
University.

The 5th Natech Symposium followed a series ofinternational events. The first, second and third
Natech symposia were hosted by Osaka University
in cooperation with the Disaster Prevention
Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan, in
2015, 2016, and 2017. The 4th Natech symposium
was hosted at the Joint Research Centre, European
Commission, Italy in September 2018. The 2019
event, which was to be held in Kyoto in March 2020
(as part of the 2019 academic year in Japan) had tobe postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus
pandemic. This year’s symposium, held virtually on
10-11 March, offered new possibilities to reach out
to stakeholders who would otherwise not be able toattend due to time and resource constraints. We
hope that the symposium may contribute tocollaboration among researchers, administrative
bodies, industries and communities, which we hope
can ultimately lead to safer and more resilient
territories.

The consequences of past natural hazard triggered
technological accidents (known as Natechs) havehighlighted the vulnerability of modern societies tothese complex accident risks. Addressing the risk
posed by Natechs requires comprehensive, areawide efforts that go beyond one plant, or a single
industrial park to the wider community of
stakeholders in which industries carry out theirproduction, processing, distribution, and operations.
But this “ideal” state, requires a paradigm shift, andnot only on behalf of industrial facility managers andoperators, but all relevant stakeholders towards
comprehensive, territory-wide risk assessment andmanagement. This requires new, proactive
approaches with a broader scope. Therefore, bybringing in knowledge and methods from different
disciplines, new points of view and approaches will
support a clearer understanding of Natechcomplexities, and improved ways to manage thechallenges they entail.
Thus, the 5th Natech Symposium aimed to promotescientific exchange from interdisciplinary fields toshare experiences on risk management and risk
governance of Natech hazards, and risk assessment

For more information, please visit the following URL:
https://www.natech.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/

4Research Article on the Short-term Interaction Between
Slow-slip Events and Devastating Earthquakes in Mexico
By: Associate Professor Yoshihiro Ito, Associate Professor Takuya
Nishimura, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
and their colleagues in National Autonomous University of Mexico,
University of Rhode Island, and University of California, Santa Cruz

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Associate Professor Yoshihiro Ito, Associate
Professor Takuya Nishimura, Disaster Prevention
Research Institute, Kyoto University and theircolleagues in National Autonomous University of
Mexico, University of Rhode Island, and Universityof California, Santa Cruz, analyzed crustal
deformation from GNSS stations in Mexico, as aninternational collaborative research project toidentify slip distribution of slow slip events andinterpolate coupling on the plate interface between
Cocos and North America plates. As a result, it wasclarified that an interaction among three large
earthquakes with magnitude larger than 7 and slow
slip events occurred in Mexico from 2017 to 2019.
Slow slip events sometimes trigger a large
earthquake, and a large earthquake conversely
triggers slow slip. These triggering of large
earthquakes by the slow slip events and those ofslow slip by large earthquakes have been
individually reported in several regions. There havebeen, however, few studies that have investigated
the interaction among some of the large
earthquakes and slow slip events in detail.

Part of this international collaborative research
between Japan and Mexico was supported by JST
and JICA with SATREP "Integrated Research for
Mitigating Mega-Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards
in Coastal Mexico" (PIs: Y. Ito, Kyoto University and
V.M. Cruz-Atienza, UNAM).

These results were published
Communications on 12 April 2021.

in

Nature6

Abstract of the Article: https://www.nature.com/
articles/s41467-021-22326-6“Either the triggering of large earthquakes on a fault
hosting aseismic slip or the triggering of slow slip
events (SSE) by passing seismic waves involve
seismological questions with important hazard
implications. Just a few observations plausibly
suggest that such interactions actually happen innature. In this study we show that three recent
devastating earthquakes in Mexico are likely related
to SSEs, describing a cascade of events interactingwith each other on a regional scale via quasi-static
and/or dynamic perturbations across the states of
Guerrero and Oaxaca. Such interaction seems to beconditioned by the transient memory of Earthmaterials subject to the “traumatic” stress produced
by seismic waves of the great 2017 (Mw8.2)
Tehuantepec earthquake, which strongly disturbed
the SSE cycles over a 650 km long segment of the
subduction plate interface. Our results imply thatseismic hazard in large populated areas is a shortterm evolving function of seismotectonic processes
that are often observable.”•

NatureCommunications
https://
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22326-6

Research Paper on Identifying landslides from continuousseismic surface waves: a case study of multiple small-scalelandslides triggered by Typhoon Talas, 2011
By Prof. Masumi Yamada et.al.

The research paper on “Identifying Landslides from Continuous Seismic Surface Waves: A Case
Study of Multiple Small-scale Landslides Triggered by Typhoon Talas, 2011” was published in the
Geophysical Journal International (Oxford Academic) on 1st April 2021.

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The summary of the paper is as follows:
https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-articleabstract/doi/10.1093/gji/ggab129/6207938?
redirectedFrom=fulltext#233608559“Landslides can cause devastating damage. In
particular, heavy rainfall-triggered landslides posea chain of natural hazards. However, such events
are often difficult to detect, leaving the physicalprocesses poorly understood. Here we apply anovel surface-wave detector to detect and locate
landslides during the transit of Typhoon Talas
2011. We identify multiple landslides triggered by
Typhoon Talas, including a landslide in the Tenryu
Ward, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, 400 km east
from the typhoon track. The Tenryu landslide
displaced a total volume of 1.2-1.5 × 10^6 m. The
landslide is much smaller than those detected byusing globally recorded surface waves, yet theevent generated coherent seismic signals
propagating up to 3000 km away. Our
observations show that attributes of small andlarge landslides may follow the same empiricalscaling relationships, indicating possible invariant
failure mechanisms. Our results also suggest analerting technology to detect and locate landslides
with a sparse seismic network.”

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Geophysical Journal International, (Oxford
Academic) - https://academic.oup.com/gji/
advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gji/
ggab129/6207938?
redirectedFrom=fulltext#233608559•

https://academic.oup.com/gji/advancearticle/doi/10.1093/gji/ggab129/6207938?
login=true#233608559

Scientific Report on Consecutive Ruptures on a Complex
Conjugate Fault System During the 2018 Gulf of Alaska
Earthquake
By: Prof. Yukitoshi Fukahata et.al.

Paper on the “Consecutive ruptures on a complex conjugate fault system during the2018 Gulf of Alaska Earthquake” was published in the Scientific Reports volume 11 on
16 March 2021.

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Abstract

We developed a flexible finite-fault inversion
method for teleseismic P waveforms to obtain adetailed rupture process of a complex multiplefault earthquake. We estimate the distributionof potency-rate density tensors on an assumed
model plane to clarify rupture evolution
processes, including variations of fault
geometry. We applied our method to the 23
January 2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake byrepresenting slip on a projected horizontal
model plane at a depth of 33.6 km to fit the
distribution of aftershocks occurring within one
week of the mainshock.

The obtained source model, which successfully
explained
thecomplexteleseismicP
waveforms, shows that the 2018 earthquake
ruptured a conjugate system of N-S and E-W
faults. The spatiotemporal rupture evolution
indicates irregular rupture behavior involving a
multiple-shock sequence, which is likely
associated with discontinuities in the fault
geometry that originated from E-W sea-floor
fracture zones and N-S plate-bending faults.

Link to the abstract:•10

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598021-85522-w

5th Global Summit of GADRI :Engaging Sciences with Action
31st August to 2nd September 2021
Intercontinental Virtual Conference
http://gadri.net/summit/
With the unprecedented Covid-19 circumstances and Such situations prompt scientists’ interventions,an unforeseen future, the 5th Global Summit of GADRI expertise, experience and the opportunity to sharewill be organised virtually during the summer of 2021, them with emergency managers in crisis situations.
from 31st August to 1st September 2021, with a hybridThis year’s Global Summit is attentive to themini-session proposed to be held in conjunction withnecessary influence of the Global Alliance and its
the 70th Anniversary of the Disaster Prevention
supporting regional Alliances on bringing the
Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University indisasters research to bare on the outcomes of theNovember 2021.
UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties
The GADRI 2021 summit aims at stock taking of (COP26) COP26 taking place in Glasgow, November
progress and achievements in DRR research from its 2021.
Members towards the targets of the Science and
The 5th Global Summit of GADRI recommendations,Technology Roadmap to implement the goals andfacilitated through the UK Alliance of Disasterpriorities of the Sendai Framework. The programme
Research, will be presented at the COP26 to be held
will communicate academic science across scientific
in Glasgow, UK from 1-12 November 2021, as welldisciplines to policy makers and practitioners. It is an
as the UNDRR Global Platform for DRR: From Risk
important aspect for academics to be aware how
to Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development forscience can directly contribute to national and local
All in a Covid-19 Transformed World to be held in
disasters, for example, the current global pandemic
Bali, Indonesia from 23 to 28 May 2022.
COVID-19, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.
Background:The biennial Global Summit Series was initiated by
the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI),
Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Kyoto Japan with thefirst Global Summit of Research Institutes for
Disaster Risk Reduction session held in November
2011 during the same year a triple disaster – Great
East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami devastatedJapan in March 2011. The First Global Summit
which brought together 52 research institutes
involved in disaster risk reduction and managementfrom around the world, proposed the establishmentof an international network of disaster researchfostered by DPRI, Kyoto University. This proposal
was further endorsed by the Second Global Summitthat took place at DPRI, Kyoto University soon after
the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction, participated by 83 institutes, andestablished the Global Alliance of Disaster ResearchInstitutes (GADRI) to support the Sendai Frameworkfor Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 agenda.

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The Third Global Summit in March 2017 was
successfully organized by GADRI with 102
institutes and 251 participants from around theworld.
A few outcomes of the 3rd Global Summit
included the launch of the Disaster Risk andResearch: GADRI Book Series, proposal for
publication of GADRI Prospectus, and GADRI’s
active participation and contributions to the
UNISDR and other major conferences.
The 4th Global Summit of GADRI under the themeof Increasing the Effectiveness and Relevance of
our Institutes was organised in March 2019 at
DPRI, Kyoto University, Japan. It was attended
by 107 institutes and 246 participants. The
conference particularly contributed to thecontextualization of the Science and Technology
Roadmap for the implementation of the Sendai
Framework
Agenda.
The
conference
recommendations were submitted to the UNDRR
Global Platform 2019.

E-Poster Session:

Networking with Institutions Session:

All members of GADRI are requested to actively
take part in the e-poster session especially young
scientists are encouraged to submit an outline/
abstract of the posters along the lines of the on the
proposed conference themes/group discussion
sessions.

Currently, GADRI is able to boast of a membershipof 207 member institutes in 53 economies. During
the 5th Global Summit of GADRI, an opportunity isgiven to all of member institutes to interact closelywith each other through the Networking with
Institutes Session.

•

This session
opportunities:

Followingarethedetails:
1. GADRI Secretariat is calling abstracts for Eposter session of the 5th Global Summit of
GADRI - http://gadri.net/summit/ - along thelines of the summit sub-theme and thediscussion topics - http://gadri.net/summit/
preparatory-process/group-discussionsessions/. Papers are called from GADRI
memberinstitutions,especiallyyoung
scientists, researchers, policy-makers, etc.

•

GADRI members can utilize the e-poster
session to present disaster reports, research
results and their research achievements during
the past two years, ongoing research projects
and activities, and other related topics.

•

Authors should submit the paper title with an
abstract by the final deadline, 30th June 2021
which will be reviewed by the session
conveners/GADRISecretariat.
Selectedauthors will be contacted by e-mail to prepare
the poster for the e-poster session.
Submission instructions:

•

Link
to
submitabstracts:
www.dropbox.com/request/
Y4MWQKSBUjLf7aSIKWdA•

After the abstract is submitted, please doinformGADRISecretariat
abstract5thgs@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
When submitting abstract/s, please use yourfull name as the file name.

•Once the 5th Global Summit registration is
opened, you will be required to register with thesame name.

•Members are encouraged to make optimum
use of this occasion to showcase each
institute’s research work, achievements, andplanned activities.

•GADRI Secretariat request dissemination of
this
information
amongcolleagues,
researchers, students and project members.

provideinstitutes

with

•

to network and connect with other institutes,
and showcase each institute’s resources; t•o find potential
members•

to collaborate, and to engage and enhanceongoing or new research project activities.

partners

among

GADRI

For instance, some institutes may have their own
methodologies, datasets, experimental equipment,
computer resources, but lack users, application
fields, in-situ data for validation, and otherdifficulties. Other institutes may have enoughhuman resources (researchers) but many unsolved
issues and in need of scientific knowledge,
experience,experimental
andobservationequipment, and technological supports and viceversa.
This session will, in particularly, explore researchseeds and needs and assist to realize the effective/
active collaboration among GADRI members.

https://•

will

In order to prepare for the session, those who areinterested in this session are requested to submit a
PPT slide to explain“Seeds & Needs” forcollaboration; andexpectation from a future
partner within 300 words.
The deadline for submission of documents for the
Networking with Institutes Session is 23rd July
2021.

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Important Dates:••••

Registration for the 5th Global Summit of GADRI: 31 July 2021
Submission for the Networking with Institutions: 23July 2021
Response to Questionnaire Survey: 23rd July 2021
Abstracts for E-posters: 30 June 2021

Structure and the Themes of the 5th Global
Summit
The virtual conference will start from 22:00 hours,
JST 31st August 2021 and end at 01:00 hours
JST of 2nd September 2021.

•

Common Opening Session•

Americas covering North and South America –Prof. Paul Kovacs supported by Prof. Lori
Peek and Prof. John van de Lindt•

Common Plenary Session•

Asia and Oceania – hosted by the GADRISecretariat and supported by Prof. Mahua
Mukherjee•

Europe covering Africa and the Middle-East –Prof. Jorgen Sparf supported by Prof. Andrew
Collins, and Dr. Tom De Groeve•

Common E-poster
Institutes Session•

Common Closing Plenary and Wrap-up of the
5th Global Summit of GADRI

andNetworking

withEvery session will be audio and video recorded
and uploaded immediately to the registeredparticipants only summit web site.

Americas Covering North and South America
Host: Prof. John van de Lindt, Prof. Paul Kovacs and Prof. Lori Peek

Current Situation of Science Collaborations in Hazards DRR
III. Innovative Approaches in Disaster Resilience• Keynote Speech

Co-Chaired by Grace Yan, Brian Phillips Forrest
and Xinyue Ye (8 PPT @ 15 min followed by 30
min Panel Discussion)• Parallel Panel Sessions:
I. Enabling Resilience : Preventing Disasters in
Hazard-Prone Areas

IV. Equitable Resilience: Addressing Social Justicein Disasters

Co-Chair: Jamie Kraus, Liesel Ritchie (4 PPT@15min + 5 min Q&A)

Co-Chaired by Michelle Meyer, Dillard Maria K.,
Kim Klockow McClain, Sara Hamideh, Christine
Gibb (8 PPT @ 15 min followed by 30 min Panel
Discussion)

II. Reducing Barriers for Scientists and Engineers
to Enhance Resilience
Co-chaired by Robert Weiss, Virginia Tech &Rachel Davidson, University of Delaware (4PPT @15min + 5 min Q&A)

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Asia and Oceania
Host: GADRI Secretariat supported by SAADRI, Prof. Mahua Mukherjee

Engaging Sciences with Action: Voices from Asia and Oceania•

Keynote Speeches (5 @ 20min)•

Parallel Panel Sessions:(4-6 speakers)
3 Contributions to Climate Change Adaptation
Focal Points:Tetsuya Takemi, Kenji Tanaka,
Mahua Mukherjee; and Andrew Collins as
Adviser (4-6 speakers)

1 Regional Alliances : Improving collaboration to
support global stakeholders on DRR and DRM
Focal Points: Hirokazu Tatano, Norio Maki, Kenji
Kawaike, Wei-Sen Li, Gretchen Kalonji (4-6
speakers)

4 Implementation of Sciences in Action
Focal Points: Subhajyoti Samaddar, Masamitsu
Onishi, Yuki Matsushi, Gary Wilson, GNS, NZ,
Yuichi Ono (4-6 speakers)

2 Target E - Disaster Risk Governance andContribution for Policy Making
Focal Points: Toshio Fujimi, Genta Nakano,
Ritsuko Yamazaki-Honda, Dilanthi AmaratungaEurope covering Africa, and the Middle-East
Hosts: Dr. Jörgen Sparf, Prof. Andrew Collins, and Dr. Tom de Groeve

Exploring solutions to bridge the gaps for implementation of science in action•

Welcome Address•

Keynote Speeches (2 speakers)•

Panel Sessions:

3. Bridging the Science-Policy Gaps:
Contextualising Governance to Explore
Opportunities for Action (3 speakers)
4. Bridging the Generational Gap: Catalysing
Science in Action by Youth Engagement (4speakrs)

1. Bridging the Collaboration Gaps : Integrating
DRR and CCA for a Science in Action Agenda(4 speakers)
2. Bridging the knowledge Gaps: Exploring
solutions for Transforming Data into Action (3speakers)

Parallel Sessions:•

Networking with Institutes;•

E-Poster Session

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Final Plenary—Achievements andRecommendations by Chairs form EachRegional Sessions•

Closing CeremonyNew Members of GADRI
University of Management and Technology (UMT), Center for Disaster Management
Lahore, Pakistan

The University of Management and Technology (UMT) was established in 1990 and has
evolved into a premier institution of higher education in the country. Recognized by theHigher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan as a "W4" category (highest rank) university, UMT
distinguishes itself with 400+ full-time faculty members including more than 200+ PhDs, 26,000+ alumni
and 25,000+ students from Pakistan and various countries around the globe. The Center for Disaster
Management established under the ambit of University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
has been mandated to lead research and education in the field of Disaster Management in Pakistan.
For further details, visit the website: http://cdm.umt.edu.pk/

University of Glasgow, National Centre for ResilienceDumfries, United Kingdom
The University of Glasgow, National Centre for Resilience (NCR) is an academic
research hub, using evidence to inform policy and practice. It bridges the gap
between academia, policy and practice by promoting cross sector partnerships,
encouraging each to learn from the other to improve resilience when planning for,responding to and recovering from natural hazard events in Scotland.
The NCR utilises existing knowledge, commissions demand led research projects and funds practicalprojects to address real life issues faced by resilience practitioners and communities. Using its networks, itcreates links for researchers to help them adapt their project outputs into tailored briefings and tools forend users and then maximises the potential use and impacts of this work by disseminating research
outputs.
For further details, visit the website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/ncr/

The University of Alabama, Center for Sustainable Infrastructure
Alabama, USA
The mission of the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure (CSI) is toconduct research associated with constructing, expanding, maintaining, and rehabilitating all aspects ofphysical infrastructure. The Center facilitates and leads multi-disciplinary, collaborative programs andexplores linkages between different infrastructure systems that are traditionally studied in separate
specialty areas. The Center is particularly focused on the safe and efficient creation of resilient
infrastructure, including assessment of infrastructure condition, vulnerability, and recovery from disaster.
Four key research themes of the CSI are 1) multi-hazards community-based resilience, 2) energy
simulation and retrofitting of buildings, 3) accelerated and automated construction, and 4) advanced
materials for civil infrastructure. Its Large Scale Structures Laboratory (LSSL) contains a 75-foot by 40-foottest floor with a 3-foot thick strong floor, two 15-ton capacity overhead cranes, and 2-foot thickreconfigurable reinforced-concrete blocks that can be stacked and post-tensioned to the strong floor toprovide reaction walls on the testing floor. The sponsors of research projects include National Science
Foundation, Federal Highway Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Departmentof Defense, Department of Energy, State DOTs, and the industry.
For further details, visit the website: https://csi.eng.ua.edu/

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GADRI Members
Established in March 2015, the Global Alliance ofDisaster
Research
Institutes
supporttheimplementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (SFDRR) and the work of
the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of theUnited Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction(UNDRR).
In line with its vision, GADRI strives to deepen theunderstanding of disasters and find implementable
solutions to achieve disaster resilience; i.e. human,
technical system and infrastructure resilience,survivability and well-being, by integrating knowledge
and technologies from around the world. Over 200
institutions have joined GADRI.GADRI membershipis free; and completely voluntary and non-binding.
GADRI Secretariat is currently headquartered andhosted by the Disaster Prevention Research Institute(DPRI), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
To join GADRI, please contact the GADRISecretariat: secretariat-gadri@dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Geographical Distribution of GADRI as of 30 April 2021
Area

Members

Economies

Africa12

7

Americas

36

8

Asia
(Excluding Japan)

81

23Europe

36

12

Japan

33

1

Oceania102

Total Institutes

208

53

53 economies

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