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International Instituteof Seismology andEarthquake Engineering
IISEE

Seismic Design
Seismic Evaluation andRetrofitting
Theory of Tsunami
Earthquake Hazard
Assessment
Earthquake Risk Assessment
Tsunami Hazard Assessment
Tsunami Countermeasures
Disaster Mitigation-Recovery
PolicyDisaster Risk Management
Disaster-Recovery
Management andDevelopment AssistanceMore than 50 years: More than 1,800 participants

IISEEThe International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (IISEE) at theBuilding Research Institute (BRI) in Tsukuba, Japan provides training program inseismology, earthquake engineering and tsunami disaster mitigation to researchersand engineers from developing countries. As of September 2019, a total of 1,898
participants from 102 countries have completed the training courses from 1960.

Please click the IISEE Website : https//iisee@kenken.go.jp/

Number and Nationalities of Ex-Participants

Finland
IcelandRomania Macedonia
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Azerbaijan
Czech Re.
Moldova
Kazakhstan
Mongolia
Austria
UkraineTurkmenistan
Georgia
Uzbekistan Kyrgyz
Albania
Armenia
AlgeriaKorea
Greece Turkey
Afganistan
China
Syria
Nepal
Iraq Iran
MoroccoTunisia
Bhutan Myanmar
Pakistan
LebanonJordanEgypt Palestine
Bangladesh
IsraelSenegal Mali
Saudi Arabia
Niger
Vietnam
Oman India
Philippines
Yemen
C. Africa
GuineaThailandDjibouti
Sudan
Malaysia
Ethiopia
Gabon Uganda
Papua New Guin
Sri
Lanka
Kenya
Ghana
Maldives
Tanzania
D.R.Congo
Indonesia
Cote d'Ivoire
Timor-Lest
Malawi
ZambiaNamibia

Madagascar
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
BotswanaSouth Africa:Hypocenters (US Geological Survey from 2000 to 2009, M≧5.0):Number of Ex-Participants(1,898 Participants from 102 countries and region as of end of Sep 2019)

neateEurope
114

Individual Course
112

Oceania
62

Annual Training inSeismology
and Earthquake Engineering
1,193

Global SeismologicalObservation Course
254

Middle East
181
Asia
739

Africa220

Latin American
Earthquake Engineering
Course92
Seminar
339

China Seismic
Building Course
72

Latin America
582

Seismology
Course
559

Total
1,898

Seminar Course
175
Tsunami Disaster
Mitigation Course
58

Earthquake Engineering
Course576

Number of ex-participantsby course

Number of ex-participants
by region

GuatemalaNicaraguaCubaMexico

Jamaica
Haiti
Dominican Re.

TuvaluSolomon Islands
VanuatuSamoaFijiHonduras
El Salvador
Costa Rica
EcuadorPeru

Tonga

New Zealand

Chile

Venezuela
Colombia

BrazilBoliviaParaguay

Argentina

IISEE Training Course
IISEE mainly conducts one-year training courses named Seismology Course, Earthquake
Engineering Course and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course, and two–month course named
Global Seismological Observation Course and Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course.
Short-term training courses focusing on specific themes take place occasionally.

Seismology Course

Seismology Course
The course provides advanced knowledge andtechnology concerning earthquakes and seismichazards. Participants belong to the organizations
responsible for seismic observation andearthquake disaster mitigation in their countries.
The lectures such as seismic hazard, risk
evaluation and earthquake disaster mitigation
policy-making are designed to be useful for theparticipants after returning to their countries.
Practical training, study trips, and participation ininternational conferences are also included in theprogram.
Earthquake Engineering Course

Earthquake Engineering Course

The course is designed to contribute to the reduction of structural damages by earthquakes andhuman suffering caused by those damages indeveloping countries. The participants are mainly
researchers, engineers from governments anduniversities. The lectures consist of basic studies(structural analysis, structural dynamics, earthquake
resistant structures for reinforced concrete
construction, steel structures) and the latest studies(seismic isolation, response control technique,seismic limit state design). These are systematicallyprovided through lectures, practices and study trips.
Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course
The course began in 2006 after the gigantic
tsunami generated by the earthquake off Sumatranin 2004. Lectures provide advanced education andtechnology for dealing with earthquakes andtsunamis.
The participants will apply anddisseminate their acquired knowledge andtechniques for tsunami disaster mitigation andintroduce tsunami hazard evaluation and earlywarning systems in their countries as specialists.

Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course

IISEE Training & History
History of IISEEGlobal SeismologicalObservation Course

After World War II, young researchers andengineers from earthquake-prone developing
countries who came to Japan to study seismology
and earthquake engineering have been graduallyincreased. Taking the opportunity of the 2ndWorld Conference on Earthquake Engineering
held in Tokyo in 1960, the leading figures andexperts of seismology and earthquake
engineering in and out of Japan negotiated about
the feasibility of the group training for thosepeople. On July 1960, a nine-month training
course was launched in the University of Tokyo.

The course is launched in 1995 at the request of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. It isconducted as a part of the Japan’s contributions
to the world’s nuclear disarmament incooperation with the Japan Meteorological
Agency and JICA. The participants are expected
to play an important role in the CTBT and IMS.
The lectures are seismological observation
technologies for monitoring nuclear tests andearthquakes, and data analytical techniques todiscriminate nuclear tests from natural
earthquakes.

The training was successful and requested tohold permanently by the relevant countries. The
Government of Japan decided and established theIISEE in BRI on January 1962.
Between September 1963 and August 1972, theUnited Nation’s Special Fund and the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization (UNESCO) cooperated with theGovernment of Japan in holding the training.
From September 1972, the training was held
solely by the Government of Japan.

Global Seismological Observation Course

Individual Course
The course is not a group training but designed
for participants with high scholastic ability andprofessional experience. The participant pursues
his/her own study individually with his/hersupervisor in IISEE.
Other Training Courses
IISEE holds short-term training courses focusing
on specific themes such as China SeismicBuilding Course (2009-2012). It was launched in2009 after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake as part ofreconstruction support by the Government ofJapan. It was 2-month training course managed
in Chinese and 72 participants have studied
structural technology in IISEE for 4 years. Afterthey returned to China, they gave lectures to 324
local engineers. Those engineers gave lectures to8,833 local professionals. On June 2014, the Latin
American Earthquake Engineering Course islaunched.

On March 1979, BRI and IISEE moved toTsukuba from Tokyo and on April 2001 BRIchanged to an independent administrative agency
by the governmental reform. With thecooperation with the National Graduate Institutefor Policy Studies(GRIPS), the IISEE’ one-yeartraining program was certified as a GRIPS’
master program from October 2005 and theparticipants are awarded the Master Degrees after
the completion of the credits and master’s theses.

Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course

Ex-Participants & Master’s Degree
A Master’s Degree

Turkmenistan Ex-Participants

IISEE Ex-Participants
After training, the participants make steadyefforts to mitigate earthquake disasters and are
given leading positions in their countries. Someare shown as follows:*as of Sept 2016
INDONESIA
121 people of the Agency for Meteorology
Climatology and Geophysics, the ResearchInstitute for Human Settlement, etc. have joined
the training. Prof. Dr. Ir. Djoko Santoso (1978-79,Seismology Course) is Director General ofHigher Education, Ministry of National
Education and the former rector of the Bandung
Institute of Technology.

In 2005, IISEE formed partnership with theNational Graduate Institute for Policy Studies(GRIPS) which is a stand-alone national graduate
university focused on policy studies in Japan.
Owing to the partnership with GRIPS, one-yeartraining course participants in seismology,
earthquake engineering, and tsunami disastermitigation who have successfully;(1) completed one-year training courses,(2) obtained the required credits, and(3) submitted the theses,
are conferred the degrees of “Master of Disaster
Management” certified by GRIPS and BRI/IISEE.
Receiving a master’s degree after the one-yeartraining in IISEE is a long-standing request anddream of the participants. With the master’s degree,
they will devote their career to earthquake disastermitigation in their respective countries.
As of September 2019, 289 graduates are conferredthe degrees from 2005.

PERU
129 people, the second number next to China(130) have come to IISEE. They have Japan-Peru
Center for Earthquake Engineering Research andDisaster Mitigation in the National University ofEngineering(CISMID-UNI)
which
wasestablished in cooperation with BRI. Dr. Julio
Kuroiwa (1961-62, Earthquake EngineeringCourse), an emeritus of UNI , is one of thefounders of earthquake engineering in Peru.
EGYPT
88 people have joined the training. Most of them
have come from the National Research Instituteof Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG). Dr.
Rashad Kebeasy (1965-66, Seismology Course)
and Dr. Salah Mohamed (1982-83, SeismologyCourse) served as NRIAG President.
Conferment of a Master’s Degree in GRIPS

IPRED & Course Classification
HistoryIISEEIPRED ofActivities
International Platform for Reducing Earthquake
Disasters (IPRED) was established by United
Nations Educational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization (UNESCO) in 2007. It aims topromote collaboration in research, training andeducation in the fields of seismology andearthquake engineering. IISEE plays as theCentre of Excellence supported by UNESCOand Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism. The main goals are;-mendations on priorities of the International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).
-to establish a system to dispatch experts toearthquake stricken countries in order to carry out
post-earthquake field investigations and draw
lessons for future risk reduction, by utilizing theworldwide connection of the IISEE graduates.

-to exchange information and propose plansregardingseismologyand
earthquake
engineering for reducing earthquake disasters,
especially on buildings and housing.
-to address policy-relevant issues related to thereduction of earthquake disaster risks andimplementation of the Hyogo Framework forAction, including the formulation of recomThe 7th UNESCO-IPRED Session in Kazakhstan

IISEE Course Classification
Training Course
Seismology
Earthquake
Engineering
RegularTsunamiDisaster
Mitigation
China
Seismic
Building
Latin
AmericanShort Term
Earthquake
Engineering

Total: 1,898 as of the end of Sept. 2019

Field
Estimate
PeriodCommencement
Seismology
5
1 year
1960
Earthquake(Oct.-Sept.)
10Engineering
Lectures in Class(8 months)
Individual Study
Tsunami52006(3 months)
Earthquake
Engineering

20

2 months

Earthquake
Engineering

14

2 months(2 weeks in LatinAmerica)

Ex-participants
559
576
1,19358

2009(2009-2012)

722014(2014-2016)

92

175

339

Seismology/
Earthquake 10 to 20
Engineering

1 to 2 months

1980(1980-2000)

Global SeismologicalObservation

Seismology

202 months(Jan.-Mar.)

1995

254

IndividualSeismology/
Earthquake
Engineering/Tsunami

severalUpon request

1968

112

SeminarCourseIISEE Connection Through the World
Safe and Peace : to reach Earthquake Disaster Mitigation
In order to reduce earthquake damage indeveloping countries, it is indispensable forthem to fully understand their own
characteristics of the seismic source, groundcondition, building structures, etc., and to deal
with research and development of earthquake
disaster mitigation technology. However, theirseismological observation system and researchsystem are not always sufficient. Most have
not yet obtained the necessary information onearthquake mitigation study. To assist them,
IISEE releases databases of earthquake andtraining information through the website.

http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/.

IISEE NetThe information Network of Earthquake
Disaster Prevention Technologies (IISEE Net)
releases the information of earthquake disastermitigation of buildings.
It accumulates
technical information (seismic design code,
seismic network & activities, seismic damage,and micro-zonation) from mainly developing
countries.
BRI Strong Motion Observation
It provides the recent strong motion
observation data from more than 70 strong
motion stations throughout Japan. BRI has
been conducting the strong motion observation
for building structures since 1957.
Newsletter
IISEE issues a monthly newsletter. It is a
useful channel of communication and gives an
update on IISEE current activities. The
newsletter can be also accessed from the IISEE
website.

International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering
Building Research Institute1 Tachihara Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0802 Japan
Tel:+81-29-879-0680 Fax:+81-29-864-6777
URL:http//iisee.kenken.go.jp/
e-mail:iisee@kenken.go.jp