**********************************************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.56

June 21, 2010**********************************************************************************************++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Contents+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. The 2nd China Seismic Building Course has started
2. AGU Chapman Conference in Chile++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==============================================================================[1] The 2nd China Seismic Building Course has started
The Second China Seismic Building Course has started on June 8, 2010. This course is carried out as apart of "Human Resource Development Project on Earthquake-Resistant Structure" conducted by JICA
as a supportive reconstruction measure in response to the Sichuan earthquake disaster in China on
May 12, 2008 (http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/special/20080512sichuan.htm).
This is a two-month training course, and this time we invite 20 participants from all around China.
They will study "Seismic Resistant Design" and "Seismic Evaluation and Seismic Retrofit" in theIISEE for two months. They are expected to disseminate the antiseismic technologies into all overChina, which they will acquire in this course.

Group photo at the opening ceremony
Hajime KUROSAWA
Head of Administration Division, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] AGU Chapman Conference in Chile
The AGU Chapman Conference on Giant Earthquakes and Their Tsunamis was held from May 16 to24, 2010 in Vina del Mar, Valparaiso, and Valdivia, Chile. This conference commemorates the 50thanniversary of the giant 1960 Chilean earthquake and tsunami.
I (Y. Fujii) joined this conference and gave the poster presentation entitled "Tsunami Source of the1960 Chilean Earthquake inferred from Tide Gauge Data". It was great pleasure to meet three
ex-participants (Prof. Segio Barrientos and Dr. Jorge Quezada from Chile, Dr. Marino Protti fromCosta Rica) of the IISEE's training courses. After the conference, I participated in a field trip inChuyaquen, Maullin, Ancud (Chiloe Is.) to observe tsunami deposits corresponding to the historicalevents.

Poster room

Panel discussion after the poster session

Tsunami deposits in Chuyaquen (left) and Maullin (right)

Yushiro FUJII
Research Seismologist, IISEE

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Hydrangea

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