IISEE Newsletter
January 29 2016
Number 129

In This Issue
 Greetings to AllReaders Eleven Persons fromEight Countries Jointhe Global
SeismologicalObservation Training
Course for TwoMonths
 Support to JICA
training program inChile IISEE Training
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Greetings to All Readers
By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEEDear IISEE Newsletter
Readers,
I wish you, your families
and colleagues a Happy
New Year. May it be aprosperous year, and may
we see IISEE enforcing
the training program
forward in 2016, although
I am afraid that you readthis letter almost February
2016.
In 2015, a severe
Dr. Yokoi, Director of IISEE
earthquake disaster has
with S and T course participants
taken place in Nepal due
to an earthquake of magnitude 7.8. Afghanistan and Malaysia have suffered bytheir own ones. North coast of Chile has been affected by Tsunami due to anearthquake of magnitude 8.3. Earthquakes of magnitude over 7 have occurredin Papua New Guinea, Tajikistan, Vanuatu, Solomon Island, and Indonesia. Wewould like to express our deep sympathy with the people in the affected area.
These catastrophes made us reconfirm the necessity to keep IISEE’s highmission through our training courses for mitigating earthquake disasters and formaking people living in the earthquake-prone countries more safely andpeacefully.
Special things for IISEE in 2015 are the followings. The twentieth round of theGlobal Seismological Observation course was held from January to March. Allstaffs of IISEE together with all of one-year course participants attended thethird United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction that was heldin Sendai, Japan. A participant from the hundredth country for IISEE came tojoin the Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course held from May to July.
As of the beginning of 2016, we have 1,703 colleagues in 100 countries.
We keep on our activities to facilitate the communication and informationexchange with the readers of the News Letter, the ex-participants and thepeople working in the field of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering. Please
pay attention to the notices provided in the News Letter.
Finally, I would like to add a word of grateful acknowledgment to you all foryour kindness and attention to IISEE again.

Eleven Persons from Eight Countries Join theGlobal Seismological Observation Training Coursefor Two Months
By Mr. Takashi Yamashita, Head of IISEE Administration Division
The Opening Ceremony of the Global Seismological Observation Training Course
was held at the JICA Tsukuba from 11:30 to 12:00 on Tuesday, January 19
2016. The training participants from China, Egypt (2), Iran (2), Nepal, Pakistan(2), Solomon Islands, and Sri Lanka came to Japan and joined the ceremony.

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In the ceremony, we had a special guest, Mr.
Kenju Murakami, Director of Arms Controland Disarmament Division, Disarmament,
Non-Proliferation and Science Department,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA).
The
GlobalSeismologicalObservation
Training Course has the special aim todevelop human resources having acquired
the skills necessary for detecting nuclear
tests applying seismological knowledge. This
training program is carried out by the support
Dr. Sakamoto, President of BRI
and cooperation ofCTBTO, MOFA, JICA,
Japan Meteorological Agency and other organizations.
After the guests’ addresses, Dr. Yuzo Sakamoto, President of BRI and Mr. Haga,
Director General of JICA Tsukuba made their welcome speeches.

Call for Papers
IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for the seismology, earthqu ake
engineering, andtsunami. Developing
countries are targeted,but are not limited.

Finally, as the representative of the participants, Mr. Muhammad Tahir Iqbal
from Pakistan gave an address. Although the course period is short, we hopethat they will be actively engaged in the training program and take goodmemories to their home. It is in the middle of the cold winter in Japan now but
we give them a hearty welcome.

Your original papers
will be reviewed by theeditorial members andsome experts.
NO submission fee isneed.
Try to challenge!!

Opening Ceremony

Support to JICA training program in Chile
By Dr. Tatsuya Azuhata, Chief Research Engineer of IISEE

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The technical cooperation project
concerning the Disaster Risk
Reduction Training Program forLatin America and the Caribbean
has been started based on anagreement between the Japan
International Cooperation Agency(JICA) and the Chilean
International Cooperation Agency(AGSI) since April 2015. The BRI
collaborates on two training
programs in this project with theNational Institute for Land andLecture at training facility of MOPInfrastructure Management(NILIM). One of those programs ison “rapid evaluation safety assessment” and the other is on “seismicengineering of building structure”.
The training program on “rapid evaluation safety assessment” was carried out
for about three weeks from Oct. 19 in last year by the Ministry of Public Worksof Chile on Santiago. 20 trainees participated from 11 countries. Dr. Azuhata
and Dr. Fukuyama, who is the director of Housing Department of NILIM weredispatched from BRI and NILIM, respectively. Each of them lectured on eachsubject for three days in this training program. Also during a stay in Chile, they
discussed on lecture contents of another training program that will be held fromnext year with staffs of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile who aretraining course organizers and determined the lecture items.
This training project will be carried out until 2019, and the BRI is going todispatch lecturers to Chile every year till then.

IISEE Training Schedule in 2016
☆Seismology, Earthquake Engineering andTsunami Disaster Mitigation Courses

January 4 (Mon)
February 16(Tue)

September 13(Tue)
September 14(Wed)Resumption of the Lectures
International Friendship Party andGeneral Meeting
Study Tour to Kansai Area
General Meeting
Individual Study
Interim Presentation
Final Presentation and General
Meeting
Courtesy Call to the MLIT Minister(one-day)IISEE Closing Ceremony
GRIPS Graduation Ceremony

January 19(Tue)February 3(Wed)-6(Sat)
February 16(Tue)March 11(Fri)Opening Ceremony
Study Tour to Kansai Area
International Friendship Party
Closing Ceremony*April 18(Mon)-22(Fri)May 31(Tue)June 1 (Wed) - September 2 (Fri)July 15(Fri), 19(Tue)August 22(Mon)-23(Tue)*August - September☆Global Seismological Observation Training Course*Tentative schedule