IISEE NewsletterAug 31, 2022
Number 208

In This Issue• The 2022 Latin
American Course Enhancement andDissemination ofEarthquake-resistantTechnology forBuildings in Latin
American CountriesClosed• Final Presentation
held on August 4thand 5th• Holding of Chibikko
Hakase• Visit to Jakarta,
Indonesia

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The 2022 Latin American Course -Enhancementand Dissemination of Earthquake-resistantTechnology for Buildings in Latin AmericanCountries- Closed
By Mr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administration Division, IISEEThe 2022 Latin American course which started on May 12th, 2022
was closed on Friday, July 29th, 2022. At the online graduation
ceremony, all the 10 participants from Colombia(2), Mexico(1),Nicaragua(5), Peru(2) received the certificates from Ms.
Mutsuyoshi, Director general of Japan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA) Tsukuba and Dr.Sawachi, the president of Building
Research Institute (BRI). Ms. PARI RENDON Kelly Amanda fromPeru representing the participants expressed gratitude to themwith his speech.
Although the training period was about two and a half months, theparticipants were able to acquire the latest technology andknowledge in the field of earthquake-resistant technology and todevelop human resources who can take an immediate and leadingrole in promoting earthquake-resistant construction in Latin
American countries.
The experience gained from this training program will be useful indeepening mutual understanding and networking between
engineers and researchers and government officials in charge ofbuilding administration.
We hope that the participants share with many people in theirhome countries, what they’ve learned through this course. We
wish them the best of success in the future.

Earthquakes
The 2011 off the Pacificcoast of Tohoku
Earthquake

Closing Ceremony

Reports of Recent
Earthquakes
Utsu Catalog
Earthquake Catalog

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.

Final Presentation held on August 4th and 5thBy Dr. Bunichiro Shibazaki, Director of IISEEThe final presentations for individual study for the 2021-2022
Regular Course were held on August 4 and 5. The final
presentations were held jointly by the three courses: Seismology,
Earthquake Engineering, and Tsunami Disaster Prevention.
Eighteen participants from 11 countries participated in the 20212022 course. This course was started remotely due to the global
outbreak of the new coronavirus, and 16 participants had come toJapan by last November. Two participants from Tonga wereunable to come to Japan until the end and remained in their homecountries to work on their master's thesis.
The final presentation was a hybrid of face-to-face and online
sessions, with the participants who could not come to Japan giving
their presentations from their home countries. All 18 participants
could join the final presentation and present the results of theirmaster's thesis research. We are very pleased that all participants
were able to complete their master's theses despite the difficulties
they faced. We would also like to thank supervisors for their online
participation in the final presentations. We would like to express oursincere gratitude to all.

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Ms. RATRI Aldilla Damayanti
Purnama from Indonesia, S-course

Mr. CUEVA RIVERA Jean Jairo
from Peru, E-course

Mr. WIDIARSO Aziz
from Indonesia, T-couese

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Holding of Chibikko Hakase
By Dr. Yuri Otsuka, IISEE Research Engineer
On Wednesday,
August 2, IISEE heldan open campus
event, the Tsukuba
Chibikko Hakase 2022
event in Tsukuba City.
Dr. Otsuka (ResearchDr. Otsuka
Engineer) and Dr. Kita
Dr. Kita(Senior ResearchScientist) explained tochildren how buildings
shake during
earthquakes and conducted experiments. The children (About 20people) made models of buildings using straws and styrene boards
and experimented with shaking the models of Japanese
earthquake motions. The children learned how the building shockchanged when the shape of the model and the type of earthquake
motion changed.

Visit to Jakarta, Indonesia
By Dr. Toshihide Kashima, IISEE Research Engineer
Currently, JICA is implementing a technical cooperation project inIndonesia called “Capacity Development on Operation ofEarthquake and Tsunami Analysis and Warning Dissemination.” I
visited Jakarta from 24th to 30th July 2022 as a short-term expertfor this project. I stayed at the Indonesia Meteorological, Climaticand Geophysical Agency (BMKG), which is the counterpart
organization of the project, and mainly engaged in technicalcooperation related to strong motion observation. Many IISEEgraduates are working at BMKG and I was able to meet some ofthem. I was happy to see their activities.

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https://iisee.kenken.go.jp/en/newsletter//(from left to right) Rosid-san(2021-22S),
Dr.Kashima, Kian-san(2020-21T), Dr.Hurukawa