IISEE NewsletterOct 31, 2023
Number 218

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

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In This IssueIISEE Annual Training Course 2023-24 started• IISEE Annual
Training Course
2023-24 started

By Mr. Yasuhiko Akiba, Head of Administration Division, IISEE• New Participants of2023-24• The Activities of ExParticipants

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On October 2nd, the opening
ceremony of IISEE annual training
course 2023-24 was held at JICA
Tsukuba, and the 1 year course hasstarted. This year, 13 participantsfrom 8 countries were divided into
Seismology, Earthquake
Engineering, Tsunami Disaster
Mitigation. They are going to havespecialized lectures on the study.
We will strive to make this training
fruitful for each participant. Also, we
hope that all the participants spend
time in Japan with many funs andthat this training course will be an
opportunity for them to develop
friendships with each other. We also
hope that this will help them to form
a human network that will be usefulfor disaster mitigation in the future.
We highly appreciate the support ofall the concerned people for thistraining course.

Ms. Emiko MUTSUYOSHI,Deputy Director General,
Tsukuba Center, JICA

Dr. Takao SAWACHI,President of BRIIISEENETIISEE-UNESCO Lecture
Note

Mr.HAOUAS(from Algeria, E-Course)

Mr. Koji KATAYAMA,
Director of Disaster
Management Policy
Program of GRIPS

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Earthquakes
Utsu Catalog

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Earthquake Catalog

New Participants of 2023-24

The Activities of Ex-Participants
By Mr. Marino Protti, Seismology Course 1983-84

Enjoy, Now

On August 1983, exactly 40 years
ago, when I was only 22 years old,I started my training in seismology
at the IISEE in Tsukuba, without
knowing that such opportunity wasgoing to shape my professional andacademic life forever. I must admitthat at that time I did not likeseismology, and I was onlyinterested in pursuing a career inpetroleum geology. The quality ofthe training I received during thatyear at IISEE and the personal
interaction with some of my fellow
classmates, paved the pathway forthe rest of my life.
When I came back to Costa Rica,
after my studies at IISEE, I was
hired at the Costa Rica Volcanologicaland Seismological Observatory(OVSICORI-UNA) and was given theopportunity to contribute to building
what is today the densest seismographic
network in Latin America. A few years
later I went to California to get a MSc. inEarth Sciences and a PhD. in Geophysics
at the University of California at Santa
Cruz. I have been working in seismology
at OVSICORI-UNA for 39 years and allbecause of a single year I spent at IISEE. This career inseismology has taken me to all continents of this planet, including
Antarctica.
Currently I am working on subduction processes and taking
advantage that in Costa Rica two peninsulas sit over theseismogenic zone of large subduction earthquake, allowing
recording changes in the near field. It was this way that we wereable to anticipate the rupture area and magnitude of the Nicoya,
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2012, Mw=7.6 earthquake. We are now recording data inThe IISEE Newsletter is southern Costa Rica to try to repeat the successful experience inintended to act as a go- Nicoya peninsula, to anticipate the next earthquake under Osa
between for IISEE and peninsula. I am also promoting the development of anex-participants.
international subduction zone observatory in Osa peninsula, whereWe encourage you tothe seismogenic zone is accessible by drilling onshore.
contribute a report andan article to this newsletter. Please let us
know your current
activities in yourcountries.
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By Mr. Indrajit Kumar Paul, Earthquake Engineering Course 202122
After returning from Japan, I concentrated on my thesis work. The
topic was “Penetration Test Parameters and Their Correlations forSoils from Selected Locations of Bangladesh.” Finally, I Obtained
another Master’s Degree in Geotechnical Engineering from the“Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)” inBangladesh. Here I have shown some evidence during close door
examination.

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After Satisfactory Presentation

During Presentation with mysupervisor and the external &internal members

After Satisfactory Presentation

Besides this, I attended the “Second International Conference onAdvances in Civil Infrastructure and Construction Materials (CICM2023)”. I submitted two papers, one as an author and the otheras a co-author. Both papers were presented to me. One paper waspart of my master’s degree individual study at IISEE. The title was“Seismic Site Classification Based on Average N30 Values in Four
Seismic Zones in Bangladesh”. The other title was “Discrepancies
Between Automatic Trip Hammer and Donut Hammer in Standard
Penetration Test on Bangladesh Perspective.” Here I have shown
some evidence during presentation mode in international
conference.

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