IISEE Newsletter
January 29 2015
Number 117

In This Issue• Greetings to All
Readers• Eleven Persons fromEight Countries Jointhe Global
SeismologicalObservation Course
for Two Months• 2014 AGU FallMeeting• IISEE Training
Schedule in 2015
• Event Information UN-WCDRR, Sendai
city in March -IISEE Net andTraining
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Greetings to All Readers

By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEE

Dear IISEE Newsletter Readers,
I wish you, your families and colleagues aHappy New Year. May it be a prosperous
year, and may we see IISEE carrying thetraining program forward in 2015, although
I am afraid that you read this letter almost
February 2015.
In 2014, a severe earthquake disaster hastaken place in China, Chile has been
affected by Tsunami due to earthquake ofmagnitude 8.1, and earthquakes ofDr. Yokoi, Director of IISEE
magnitude over 7 have occurred in theUSA, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea,Nicaragua, Mexico, Fiji and Indonesia. We would like to express our deep
sympathy with the people in the affected area. These catastrophes made us
reconfirm the necessity to keep IISEE’s high mission through our training
courses for mitigating earthquake disasters and for making people living in theearthquake-prone countries safely and peacefully.
The year 2015 holds many promises and challenges for IISEE. Our present oneyear course will be re-started in October, 2015 as the new course named“SEISMOLOGY, EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, AND TSUNAMI DISASTER
MITIGATION” after the JICA program review in 2014. The recruitment by JICA
will be conducted in April-May 2015.
We are planning our new activities of IISEE to facilitate the communication andinformation exchange with the readers of the News Letter, the ex-participants
and the people working in the field of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering.
Please pay attention to the notices provided in the News Letter.
Finally I would like to add a word of grateful acknowledgment to you all foryour kindness and attention to IISEE again.

IISEE's activities in UN-WCDRR (Mar.14-18, 2015)
United Nation's World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will be heldin Sendai on March 14-18, 2015. IISEE will send staffs to the venue forthe exhibition of the activities. Please let us know if you visit Sendai,
Japan during this conference. We'd like to have an alumni meeting
there, if possible.

Eleven Persons from Eight Countries Join theGlobal Seismological Observation Course for Two
Earthquakes
The 2011 off the Pacific Months
coast of Tohoku
Earthquake

Reports of Recent
Earthquakes
Utsu Catalog
Earthquake Catalog

Call for Papers
IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for the seismol og y, ea rt h qu ake
engineering, andtsunami. Developingcountries are targeted,but are n ot limited.
Your original papers
will be reviewed by theeditorial members andsome experts.
NO submission fee isneed.
Try to challenge!!

By Ms. Yoriko Iiba, Head of IISEE Administration Division

The Opening Ceremony of the Global
Seismological Observation Training Course
was held at the JICA Tsukuba from 11:30
to 12:00 on Tuesday, January 20 2015.
The training participants from China, Egypt(2), Iran, Nepal (2), Pakistan (2), SolomonIslands, and Thailand came to Japan andjoined the ceremony. Although a participantfrom Papua New Guinea was late to cometo Japan and could not attend theceremony, he arrived in Japan at the end ofthe week and now he joins the course actively.

Dr. Meral-Özel

In the ceremony, we had two special guests,
Dr. Nurcan Meral-Özel, Director of theInternational Monitoring System (IMS)Divisionof
theProvisional
Technical
Secretariat (PTS) of the Preparatory
Commission for the Comprehensive NuclearTest-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) fromVienna, Austria, and Mr. Hideaki Ishii,
Principal Deputy Director of Arms Control
Dr. Sakamotoand Disarmament Division, Disarmament,Non-Proliferation and Science Department,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA). Dr. Meral-Özel gave the firstlecture to the participants on the Overview on International Monitoring Systemon that day.
The Global Seismological Observation Training Course has the special aim todevelop human resources having acquired the skills necessary for detecting
nuclear tests applying seismological knowledge. We need the support andcooperation with CTBTO, MOFA, JICA, Japan Meteorological Agency and otherorganizations concerned in order to carry out this training program.
Aftertheguests’addresses,Dr.
YuzoSakamoto,
BRI
Chief
ExecutiveandMr.
Senichi, Director Generalof JICA Tsukuba madetheir welcome speeches.
Finally, as the representative of the participants,
Mr. Bharat Prasad Koirala
from Nepal gave an address in reply. Although
the course period is short,
we hope that they will be
Opening Ceremony
actively engaged in thetraining program and take good memories to their home. As usual we wish togive them the welcome words, “Where there's a will, there's a way.”2014 AGU Fall Meeting

By Dr. Takumi Hayashida, Research Scientist, IISEEDr. Hara, Dr. Shibazaki and I attended the 2014 American Geophysical Union(AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, the United States on 15th-19th December.
This annual meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysicalfield, gathering more than 24,000 attendees.
In the session of “Advances in Site
Response”, I did a poster presentation
entitled “Validation of S-wave Velocity
beneath the Ise Bay, Central Japan, Using
Continuous Short-period Ambient NoiseData".

Enjoy, NowContact Us

Poster sessions
at the Moscone CenterDr. Hara gave a poster presentation on"HFERDurationandDisplacement
Amplitudes from Regional P waves as aPossible Tsunami Earthquake Discriminant"at the session of "Decade of Megatsunamis:
Science and Tsunami Warning Systems
after the 2004 Sumatra Event".

The IISEE Newsletter isintended to act as ago-between for IISEE
and ex-participants.

Dr. Shibazaki gave a poster presentation on "Modeling Deformation Processesof Northeastern Japan Island Arc Considering Rheological Structure Affected by
Hot Mantle Fingers" at the session of "Behavior of the Lower Crust and theBrittle-Ductile Transition in Continental Deformation".

We encourage you tocontribute a report andan article to this newsletter. Please let us
know your current
activities in yourcountries.

During the meeting, we met some IISEE ex-participants and enjoyed renewing
old friendships.

IISEE Training Schedule in 2015
☆Seismology, Earthquake Engineering andTsunami Disaster Mitigation Courses

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

January 5 (Mon)January 26 (Mon) - February 6 (Fri)February 17(Tue)iiseenews@kenken.go.jp
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp*March 14(Sat)-18(Wed)

September 16(Thu)
September 17(Fri)Resumption of the Lectures
GRIPS’s Intensive Lectures
International Friendship Party andGeneral Meeting
UN World Conference on Disaster RiskReduction
Study Tour to Kansai Area
General Meeting
Individual Study
Interim Presentation
Final Presentation and General
Meeting
Courtesy Call to the MLIT Minister(one-day)IISEE Closing Ceremony
GRIPS Graduation Ceremony

January 20(Tue)February 4(Wed)-7(Sat)
February 17(Tue)March 13(Fri)Opening Ceremony
Study Tour to Kansai Area
International Friendship Party
Closing Ceremony*April 15(Tue)-18(Fri)May 29(Fri)
June 1 (Mon) - September 2 (Wed)July 16(Thu)-17(Fri)
August 20(Thu)-21(Fri)*August - September

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http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/nldb/☆Global Seismological Observation Course*Tentative scheduleEvent Information - UN-WCDRR, Sendai city in March i)
IISEE-BRI in UNWCDRR
A big event of the world-wide interest will be held in Sendai, Japan.
Namely, United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, MAr. 14-18, 2015.
IISEE is preparing for exhibition in the following venue located close to JR Sendai station.
http://www.siip.city.sendai.jp/netu/english.htmlii)
Coming Meetings in March, 2015
We have caught the information of the following events in the coming March that may be
convenient for you if you are planning to visit Japan during UN-WCDRR by chance.
UNESCO-IPRED Open Workshop:"Earthquake Disaster Management in theWorld – IPRED countries"
Organizer: UNESCO, GRIPS, IISEE-BRI
Venue: http://www.grips.ac.jp/en/about/access/Schedule: 10:00-17:00 Mar.13, 2015.

The followings are planned during UN-WCDRR in Sendai, Japan. The newest information canbe found at the following.
http://www.wcdrr.org/conference/programme"Global Program for Safer Schools" organized by World Bank-GFDRR.
Venue: Tohoku University Kawauchi-kita Campus B201, Sendai
Schedule: Mar.14, 2015.

"Disaster Management Policies in Japan and the World against Earthquakeand Tsunami" organized by GRIPS.
Venue: AER TKP Garden City Sendai Hall D, Sendai
Schedule: 13:00-20:00 Mar.14, 2015.

"Designing for a safe and secure home and community” organized byArchitectural Institute of Japan.
Venue: Sendai Civic Auditorium Small Hall
Schedule: Mar.14, 2015.

"International symposium on disaster" organized by JICA.
Venue: Tokyo Electron Hall Miyagi 601 Large Meeting Room
Schedule: Mar.14, 2015.

"Setting Standards on Infrastructure" organized by World Bank/GFDRR,UNESCO, UN Habitat.
Venue: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY KAWAUCHI KITA CAMPUS A202, Sendai
Schedule: Mar.15, 2015.

"Fostering DRR through Education for Sustainable Development: Towards a
Better Future for Children" organized by Miyagi University of Education, MextJapan and Japanese National Commission for UNESCO.
Venue: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY CENTENNIAL HALL KAWAUCHI HAGI HALL, Sendai
Schedule: 15:00-18:00 Mar. 16, 2015.
URL: http://fukkou.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/wcdrr2015/index.html"Standards for Disaster Risk Reduction Including Building Codes" organized
by UNESCO, Japanese Government, World Bank.
Venue: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY CENTENNIAL HALL KAWAUCHI HAGI HALL, Sendai
Schedule: 14:00-15:30 Mar. 17, 2015.