IISEE Newsletter
Febrary 27 2017
Number 142

In This Issue• 16th World
Conference onEarthquakeEngineering• Study Trip toHiroshima, Kobe andKyoto (Feb 1-4,2017) GlobalSeismologicalObservation Training
Course• 7 Journalists fromLatin Americancountries havevisited IISEE• IISEE International
Friendship Party• PhD completion of Ex
JICA Participant

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16th World Conference on Earthquake
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By Dr. Takumi Hayashida, Senior Research Scientist of IISEEThe 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE) was held inSantiago, the capital city of Chile from January 9 to 13. WCEE is the world’s
largest international conference in the field of earthquake engineering and isheld once every four years. From Building Research Institute, director Yokoi,Dr. Kashima, Dr. Azuhata and I from IISEE, Dr. Tsuchimoto from Department
of Building Materials and Components, and Dr. Mukai and Dr. Nakaumra fromDepartment of StructuralEngineering participated in theconference.
IISEE opened an exhibition boothto introduce the contents of ourtraining courses and to provide
information for participation. A lotof visitors including more than 20
ex-participants, researchers from
related institutes and IISEE
lecturers came to our booth andIISEE alumni
the exhibition ended in success. On
the night of January 11, we had alumni of IISEE at a local restaurant in thecity. Although some ex-participants could not join the alumni due to otherappointments or health reasons, 11 ex-participants and many persons related
to our training courses joined it and we renewed an old friendship.
During the conference, Sendai city, Japan was chosen as the host city of the17th WCEE. The next conference will be held in the middle of September 2020,
after the summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. We are looking forward tobeing able to meet many of you in Sendai!!
Presentation titles of IISEE staffs (only as first author):
Director Yokoi: Capacity Building of International Institute of Seismology andEarthquake Engineering, Building Research Institute, Japan, inthe Field of Earthquake Engineering
Dr. Kashima: Effect of Soil-structure Interaction of Middle-rise Buildings during
the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake based on Strong Motion Data
Dr. Azuhata: Noise Analysis of Strong Motion and Microtremor Observation
Records for Soil-Building Structure Dynamic Interaction
Dr. Hayashida: Verification of Subsurface S-wave Velocity Structure Model inIwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, using a Dense Seismic ArrayStudy Trip to Hiroshima, Kobe and Kyoto (Feb 14,2017) Global Seismology Observation Course(1)Ms. Deslone Yaninen LANBONG (Papua New Guinea)

Earthquakes
The 2011 off the Pacificcoast of Tohoku
Earthquake
Reports of Recent
EarthquakesUtsu Catalog
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Call for Papers
IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for the seismol og y, ea rt h qu ake
engineering, 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.

In Hiroshima we visited the site of the Atomic Bomb Dome and Peace Memorial
Museum in the Peace Memorial Park. We were also
given a talk by the daughter of an A-Bomb survivor,Morikawa-san. I found the visit to the Peace Museumas well as the talk by Morikawa-san to be very
educational. Before this experience, I never reallyrealized the gruesome reality of the A-Bombing. To
me the A-Bombing in Hiroshima was just an event inhistory books. This experience made me see andexperience the emotions behind the event, and how
important it is to pursue complete nuclear arms
disarmament and world peace, and hence theimportance and role of CTBTO as well as Japan’sstand.
Our trip then continued onto
theGreat
Hanshin-Awaji
Earthquake Memorial (NojimaFaultMuseum)
andtheDisaster Reduction and HumanRenovation Institution, where I
saw and experienced firsthand, the devastating impactsof earthquakes and tsunamis,
and the need for building
earthquake resilient structures
as well as setting up andimplementing earthquake andtsunami
early
warningsystems, in order to save lives
and property.

In front of Atomic bomb dome in Hiroshima

Try to challenge!!

(2)Mr. Innocent Gibbon Masukwedza (Zimbabwe)
We visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial commonly called the Atomic Bomb Domeor Genbaku Dōmu, in Hiroshima; which is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Park and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The ruinserves as a memorial to the people who were killedin the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on the fateful
day of August 6, 1945.
History has it that over 70,000 people were killed
instantly as a result of the bombing, and another
70,000 are said to have suffered fatal injuries fromthe radiation. The building itself does not truly
convey the horrors of the whole event itself as wasdone by the lecturer at the Peace Memorial Museum(whose mother is a survivor of this atomic bombing).
Through narration of her mother’s real life encounter with the event, she
contributed significantly to instilling the idea of why nuclear weapons should beabolished; better if they were not had been created and should not be tested
again!
Amongst other places visited were the Nijoma fault Preservation Museum andthe Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution where we witnessed
the destructive impacts caused by past earthquakes as well as how
communities have been affected to date by such past events. The visit toMiyajima Island, Nijo-jo Castle, Kinkakuji Temple and Kyoto Imperial Palacewere eye openers to all of us regarding the cultural heritage of Japan.

Nojima Fault Preservation Museum

Lecture by Atomic Bomb Survivor

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7 Journalists from Latin American countries havevisited IISEEBy Mr. Yoshihiro Iitake, Head ofAdministration Division, IISEE
A group of influential media journalists
from 7 countries of Latin America (7people from Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, ElSalvador, Paraguay, Peru, andVenezuela) who came to Japan with theinvitation project of the Ministry ofForeign Affairs have visited IISEE onFeb 1st.

(from left) the Journalist fromPeru, Dr.Yokoi, Director of IISEEand Nablit From Peru of T course.

In the tour, they have looked on the lecture scene of Earthquake Observation,
Foundation Engineering and had some interview with IISEE participants fromLatin American countries.

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The articles of the journalists who have visited IISEE and the future success ofthe participants would improve understanding of the training of IISEE, and theimprovement of earthquake disaster mitigation in each country is anticipated.

(from left)Amilcar from Nicaragua,
Leonardo, Edwin from Ecuador andDomingo from Nicaragua wereinterviewed.

Jonatan (right) and Galaviz (left)from Mexico were interviewed.

La Prensa Grafica, a newspaper published in El SalvadorIISEE International Friendship Party

By Mr. Yoshihiro Iitake, Head of Administration Division,IISEE

We had an international friendship party with the participants of the Global
seismological observation course, the Seismology course, The Earthquake
engineering course, the Tsunami disaster mitigation course and IISEE staff
members at cafeteria on Feb 7th. Dr. Sakamoto, the president of BRI alsojoined us. Although it was a short and small lunch party, we were able todeepen our friendship in a relaxed environment.

PhD completion of Ex-JICA Participant
Dr. Riaz Ahmed Soomro
Manager Software development division
Micro seismic studies programme, Nilore, Islamabad
I am pleased to inform you that I have successfully completed my PhD inseismology from Institute of Geosciences, Christian - Albrechts University, Kiel,
Germany in October 2015. The title of my PhD dissertation is “Automatedsurface wave dispersion measurements and surface wave tomography ofcentral and northern Europe”. In my PhD I mainly worked on surface waves,seismic wave propagation, inversion of surface waves. I obtained a high quality
phase velocity catalog for Rayleigh and Love waves, and obtained highresolution phase velocity maps of central and northern Europe.
It is worth mentioning I was a JICA participant in the 2008-2009 course (Scourse).
I have joined back my institute in Pakistan.