IISEE NewsletterFeb 26, 2021
Number 190

In This Issue• Online IISEE
Seminar by Prof.
Yagi

International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering BRI Japan
1 Tachihara Tsukuba Japan 305-0802

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Online IISEE Seminar by Prof. Yagi

By Dr. Bunichiro Shibazaki, Chief Research Scientist, IISEE• Information
Disclosure for Off the
Coast of Fukushima
Prefecture
Earthquake

On Wednesday, February 3rd, the Distance IISEE Seminar had been
held. Dr. Yagi from the University of Tsukuba introduced his recentstudy regarding the source process derived from seismic waves and thefault geometry.

• Participant
Recruitment for2021-22 One-Year
Course is now goingon

Date & Time: Wednesday, February 3rd 15:00 – 16:00 (JST)Title: “High-Degree-of-Freedom Finite-Fault Inversion Method”
Lecturer: Professor Yuji Yagi (University of Tsukuba)• On the Requirementof English Proficiency
fot Recruitment• Conference on
Implrmrntation ofTraining Project• Ex-participant from
Napal obtained PhD.

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Following the lecture, there was a quick update on the Global
Seismological Observation Course from Dr. Shibazaki and the similar for
the Seismology Course from Dr. Hara.
Finally, Dr. Yagi and the participants discussed the topic of the lectureusing the Spatial Chat system. The number of the live participants wasaround 83, including 66 ex-trainees and 8 current trainees. The
participants from overseas were from the following countries:
Costa Rica, Turkey, Morocco, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia, Ghana,
Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, the Philippines, Egypt, Mongol, Georgia, Malaysia,Algeria, Myanmar, Azerbaijan, China, Nepal, Mexico, Iran, India, TimorLeste, Comoros, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and the Solomon Islands.
Although the local time in Central America was already midnight, an extrainee also participated in the active discussion. The seminar wasrecorded for distribution through the Video on Demand streaming sothat those who missed the event can also watch it later. The event
received applause as being very informative and beneficial. There was ahigh demand for the continuous delivery of such online events.

Information Disclosure for Off the Coast ofFukushima Prefecture EarthquakeBy Dr. Tatsuya Azuhata, Director of IISEEAn earthquake occurred off the coast of Fukushima prefecture around
23:08 on February 13, 2021. The IISEE has posted information on thisearthquake on our website.

Earthquakes
The 2011 off the Pacificcoast of Tohoku
Earthquake
Reports of Recent
Earthquakes
Utsu Catalog
Earthquake Catalog

Click here for the information on the off the coast of Fukushima
Prefecture Earthquake.
https://iisee.kenken.go.jp/quakes2/20210213off_fukushima.html

Participant Recruitment for 2021-22 One-Year
Course is now going on

By Mr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administrative Division, IISEEJICA has already sent the General Information of 2021-22 one-year
course for Seismology, Earthquake Engineering & Tsunami DisasterMitigation to the selected countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,
East Timor, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Fiji, Tonga, El Salvador, Colombia,Peru, Algeria, and Ghana. We will appreciate you if you so kindlytransfer this information to your young colleagues or subordinates who
may be ambitious to study abroad. The deadline for application is set atApril 9th, 2021, however, this is the final date for sending theapplication form, from a JICA office in your country to the Headquarter
of JICA in Tokyo. The deadline for you must be set earlier. Please ask a
JICA Office in your country for further and more detailed information.

Call for Papers

IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for the seismolog y, ea rt h qu ake
engineering, andtsunami. Developing
countries are targeted,but are n ot limit ed.
Your original papers will
be reviewed by theeditorial members andsome experts.
NO submission fee isneeded.
Try to challenge!

On the Rquirement of English Proficiency forRecruitment

By Mr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administrative Division, IISEE
2021-22 one-year course for Seismology, Earthquake Engineering &Tsunami Disaster Mitigation will be held as a Master program under thecollaboration of IISEE, BRI, GRIPS. This training course includes active
participation in discussions and development of the action plan andresearch report, thus requires high competence of English ability both inconversation and composition. Therefore, the applicants are requested
to have a competent command of spoken and written English ---with aminimum test score of TOEFL iBT 79, IELTS Academic 6.0 or itsequivalent. It is mandatory for applicants to GRIPS/BRI Master’s
Program to submit the above mentioned English certificate, an official
certificate of the university you attended on the instruction in English, oran academic degree at an accredited institution located in the USA, theUK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or Ireland.

Conference on Implementation of Training
ProjectBy Mr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administrative Division, IISEEContact Us

The International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering(IISEE) holds an advisory board consisting of external experts around
The IISEE Newsletter isFebruary every year to enhance the international training programs.
intended to act as a gobetween for IISEE and This committee was held remotely on February 1st this year. We tookdistance lectures in the corona disaster crisis as an essential agenda
ex-participants.
item. Based on the committee's opinions, IISEE will continue to provide
We encourage you totrainees with knowledge and technology related to earthquake andcontribute a report andtsunami disaster mitigation as usual years, even in the corona disasteran article to this newscrisis.
letter. Please let us
know your currentactivities in yourcountries.

We also welcome yourco-workers and friends
to register our mailinglist.

Ex-participant from Nepal obtained PhD.

By Dr. Mukunda Bhattarai, NEMRC: National Earthquake
Monitoring and Research Center, Nepal

It is my great pleasure to inform you that I have received a Ph.D.
degree from The University of Tokyo, Japan on 11th December, 2020.
Due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic it was few months delayed.
The title of my dissertation is “Study of Site Effects and its Applications
to Understanding Seismic Damage.” In my thesis, I mainly derived theshear wave velocity structures at few pilot sites in the central part of theTo change
Kathmandu valley, the capital city of Nepal using broad bandregisteredseismograph arrays of long period microtremors (ambient noise). The
e-mail address velocity structure thus derived is used for ground motion simulation andPlease contact us when the simulated ground motion is used for building damage analysis
you have adjusted your mainly caused by the most recent damaging earthquake (Gorkha, Nepal
earthquake, 2015).
e-mail address toreceive
I am an ex-participant of 2004-2005 (Seismology course), the last batchIISEEnewsletter:of the Post Graduate Diploma. I also attended the seminar course on
iiseenews@kenken.go.j microtremor in 2008 following the Asian Seismological Commission (ASCp2008) held in Tsukuba. After theapproval of the Masters course incollaboration with National Graduate
Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS),
Back Numbers I attended the regular course in
Seismology in 2013-2014 andhttp://iisee.kenken.go.jp/
received Master of Disaster
nldb/
Management jointly provided byBRI/GRIPS. I would like to express
my sincere appreciation for all theknowledge and support gained fromIISEE/BRI, GRIPS and JICA and will
always be my pleasure to have thesame in the days to come. Now I amworking at the National Earthquake
Monitoring and Research Center,
National Earthquake Monitoring
Department of Mines and Geology,
and Research Center, Nepal
Ministry of Industry Commerce andDr. Mukunda Bhattarai
Supplies, the Government of Nepal
as a Seismologist.
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