IISEE Newsletter
Apr 1, 2022
Number 203

In This Issue• The 2021 Global
SeismologicalObservation Training
Course Closed• Brief Impression of aStory by A-bomb
Servivor: Hoping forWorld Peace• Site visit to the
Geospatial
Information
Authority of Japan(March 11th, 2022)• Notice of Homepage
RenewalIISEE Net andTraining
IISEENETIISEE-UNESCO Lecture
Note
IISEE E-learning
Synopsis Database
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The 2021 Global Seismological Observation
Training Course Closed
By Mr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administration Division, IISEEThe 2021 Global Seismology Observation course which started onJanuary 14th, 2022 was closed on Friday, March 6th, 2022. At theonline graduation ceremony held by JICA Tsukuba, all the 10participants from Bhutan, Egypt, India, Iran, Kenya, Nepal,Philippines, Uganda received the certificates from Mr. Watanabe,
Director general of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Tsukuba and Dr. Midorikawa, the president of Building ResearchInstitute (BRI). Mr. Mulwa from Kenya representing theparticipants expressed gratitude to them with his speech.
Although the training period was about two months, theparticipants were able to acquire the knowledge of the role ofseismology in the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Organization (CTBTO) regime and the International Monitoring
System (IMS). They also studied global seismological observation
technologies for monitoring nuclear tests and earthquakes, andacquired data analytical techniques to differentiate nuclear tests
from natural earthquakes, which we believe are useful inanalyzing natural earthquakes in their own countries.
We hope that the participants will share with many people in theirhome countries, what they’ve learned in Japan. We wish them thebest of success in the future.

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

Mr. Takeshi WATANABE,
Deputy Director General,
Tsukuba Center, JICA

Dr. Mitsumasa MIDORIKAWA,
President of BRI

Earthquake Catalog

Mr. Yushi KUBO,
Secretary of MOFA

Mr. MULWA Josphat Kyalo,
from Kenya

Certificate

Call for Papers
IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for the seismolog y , ea rth qu ake
engineering, andtsunami. Developing
countries are targeted,but are n ot li mited.
Your original papers will
be reviewed by theeditorial members andsome experts.
NO submission fee isneeded.

Closing Ceremony

Try to challenge!!

Brief Impression of a Story by A-bomb Servivor:
Hoping for World Peace
Global Course. Ms. Hend Lofty Ali from Egypt
With a broken heart, I
listened to the eventsof the Hiroshimacatastrophe. I can’t
imagine how muchpain these people
suffered during facing
this atomic bomb. It is
an incident, which is
described as brutal andinhuman. I can't
imagine the state ofLecture by A-Bomb Survivor
those contemporaries
who experienced the pain of these events and tasted bitterness
for their loved ones and lived in fear of the dark future that awaits
them, which they didn’t know anything about it. They became
homelessness, lost families, and a peaceful life. I am trying toimagine how long it took Japan to recover from that crisis andbecome one of the best countries economically and morally. We
hope in the future that such catastrophic events will not happen to
any country in the world. We hope that peace will prevail
throughout the world. In the end, I would like to thank Miss
Ogura-san who managed to make us live all her pain as if we were
contemporary to that tragedy with her wonderful narration of thestory. I am very happy to see her and I wish her and all theJapanese people well. Finally, Nuclear weapons must be controlled
and their use in wars prohibited.

Site visit to the Geospatial Information Authorityof JapanContact Us

By Dr. Yuri Otsuka, Research Engineer, IISEEThe IISEE Newsletter isintended to act as a gobetween for IISEE andex-participants.

16 of IISEE course
participants visited theGeospatial Information
Authority of Japan (GSI)
on the morning ofMarch 11th, while therest of the three took an
online tour remotelyfrom their homecountries. First, they
took a lecture on observation and surveying technology, such as
Interferometric SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar). Then, GSI gavethem a tour to the main building with a seismic-isolation systeminstalled in 2010, explained about the outline of the main building
and showed them the seismic isolated layer as well. Lastly, theparticipants visited the Science Museum of Map and Survey tolearn about the history, principles and new technologies of map
and surveying technologies, where they showed great interest andasked questions enthusiastically.

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