IISEE NewsletterAug 30 2018
Number 160

In This Issue Final Presentation
 Overseas
supplementarytraining program forLatin American
Earthquake
Engineering coursein 2018
 Closing Ceremony ofthe 5th Latin
American Earthquake
Engineering Course San Salvador, ElSalvador Visit to Indonesia forpromotion of IISEE
training courses

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Final Presentation
By Mr. Yoshihiro Iitake, Head of Administration Division, IISEEParticipants in the Regular course had been carried out individual
studies with their professors in various places in Japan to write themaster thesis from May 21st.
On Aug 16th all of them had backed to IISEE to have Final Presentationof their thesis for two days.
They only have 2weeks in Japan.

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Overseas supplementary training program forLatin American Earthquake Engineering course in2018
By Dr. Haruhiko Suwada, Senior Research Engineer of IISEEOverseas supplementary training program for Latin American
Earthquake Engineering course in 2018 was held in El Salvador between
7/16 and 7/27.
The overseas supplementary training program is conducted based on
the cooperation of the JICA El Salvador office, the University of El
Salvador (UES) and the Jose Simeon Canas Central American University(UCA), The main objective is to understand the structural performanceand failure mechanism of the masonry structures against earthquake byconducting structural tests.
Specific experimental contents are tilting table test of an adobe wall,
horizontal loading test of a confined masonry wall with opening andconcrete block wall, it is a very precious and informative training
program that can experience these multiple structural tests in a shortterm.

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I also participated in the experiment with the trainees and provided
some advice on prediction and observation in experiments.

Closing Ceremony of the 5th Latin American
Earthquake Engineering Course -San Salvador, El
SalvadorBy Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEEOn July 27 in the morning I attended the closing ceremony of “Latin
American Earthquake Engineering” Course held in the hall “SalónMesoamerica” of Hotel Crown Plaza located in San Salvador, Republic of El
Salvador, where we welcomed the distinguished guests:
Arq. Eliud Ayala, Minister of Public Works, Transport, Housing and UrbanDevelopment,
Dr. Edgar Peña, Acting Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture,
University of El Salvador (UES)

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Professors of UES who led the prism test, the wall test and tilting table
tests, and those of UCA who led the real size structural experiments. Manyamong them are ex-participants of IISEE’s international training on
Earthquake Engineering. We welcomed also 10 course participants from 7
countries who have fully attended since May 15th, 9 students of UES andUCA who partly attended the structural experiments and related lectures in
San Salvador since July 16th.
It was a happy and heartwarming time. I would like to express my sincere
thanks to all who helped the realization of the course there, especially theprofessors of UES and UCA.
This course consists of two periods: one for about 2 months in Tsukuba,
Japan and another an oversea program for 2 weeks in San Salvador. The
latter is aimed to give an opportunity of structural tests with local materialsof Latin America. The course participants are grouped in two: administrative
officers of governments who do not attend the oversea program, andengineers of full attendance. Spanish is selected as the teaching language
to facilitate the participation.

Please feel free to contact to IISEE and ask about the course entitled “Mejoramiento yDifusión de la Tecnología para la Construcción Sismo-resistente en Latinoamérica”, if you areinterested and/or need more information.

Visit to Indonesia for promotion of IISEE training courses
By Dr. Bunichiro Shibazaki, Chief Research Scientist of IISEE
Shibazaki and Fujii visited Japan Embassy, the JICA Office, Indonesian Agency forMeteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG), and School of Meteorology, Climatology
and Geophysics of Indonesia (STMKG) in Jakarta (Indonesia), from July 1 (Sun) to July 5(Thu). The purpose of the visit was to conduct survey activities to enhance and disseminate
our International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Training Course. AtBMKG, we met with 20 former participants, held discussions and presented seminars about
the recent status of IISEE and the results of the reanalysis of the 2004 Sumatra earthquake.
Also, we conducted a seminar for students in STMKG. We appreciate to the former
participants for all the supports during our stay.
(1) Recent activities of the former participants in BKMG, seminars and facility visits (July 3rd)-Among the former participants of IISEE, being Rahmat, Director of Earthquake Tsunami
Center, at the head of the list, many of the former participants play an important role in
BKMG such as the leader of Division Director or the leader of Sub Division.
-After the meeting at BMKG, we conducted a seminar. Shibazaki introduced the IISEE training,Fujii made a presentation on tsunami researches in Indonesia up until now. There were somequestions from the participants about the time delay of the tsunami arrival, the seismic gap of
the subduction zone in Indonesia, the tsunami earthquake and more.
-The former participants guided us the facilities inside the BMKG. We visited the strong
earthquake observation system, the earthquake information / tsunami warning system(InaTEWS), the shaking table (vibration experience for general) and the exhibition room ofsuccessive seismographs. The assumed scenario of the tsunami database is about 17,000
cases. Tsunami after the earthquake can be calculated by EasyWave or TsunAWI. We had alook of the monitor screen of hypocenter determination by SeisComp 3, DSS, TOAST etc.
-We met with Rahmat (a former trainee), the Director of the Earthquake Tsunami Center, andasked for the cooperation to invite the participants to the IISEE training courses from BMKG.
(2) Visit to School of Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics of Indonesia (STMKG)(afternoon of July 4)-STMKG is an academy of BMKG, and its
relationship is similar to the relationshipbetween Meteorological Agency andMeteorological College in Japan. We metwith Slamet (former trainee, theprincipal), deputy principal, and formertrainee instructors (S. Iman, Hendri,etc.).We held a seminar for students(about 40 people) and instructors (8people, including the principal).
Shibazaki explained mainly about theoverview of IISEE training and Fujii
presented about the tsunami studies inIndonesia.
123At the meeting room in the Japanese Embassy.
Third from the right is Secretary, Mr.Tanaka

Group photo (In front of BKMG mainbuilding)

BMKG main building appearanceGroup photo at BMKG
(After the meeting)Visit to the Department of Earth Physics
Department headquarters. The center isDeputy Director, Dr. SadlyGroup Photo at STMKG (After the seminar)