IISEE Newsletter
August 28 2014
Number 112

In This Issue• Closing Ceremony of
1st Latin American
Earthquake
Engineering Course• StructuralExperiments in ElSalvador• 10th U.S. National
Conference onEarthquake
Engineering (NCEE)• 11th Meeting of Asia
Oceania Geosciences
Society (AOGS)• Letter from ExparticipantInternational Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering BRI Japan
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Closing Ceremony of 1st Latin American
Earthquake Engineering Course-San Salvador, El SalvadorBy Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEE
I have participated in the closing ceremony of the Latin America Earthquake
Engineering Course held on July 31 at the hall “Salón El Espino” of theUniversity of El Salvador that locates in the capital of Republic of El Salvador,San Salvador, where we welcomed the distinguished guests: Prof. Francisco
Alarcón, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, University of El
Salvador, Prof. Carlos Rivas, Vice-rector of University of Centro America “JoséSimeón Cañas”, Mr. Shinji Sato, Representative of JICA El Salvador. Prof. EdgarPeña, Director of Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering andArchitecture, University of El Salvador (2004-2005 Earthquake EngineeringCourse) took the responsibility of the master of ceremony.
It was a happy and heartwarming time with the fourteen participants who havefully attended from June 5, and eleven more persons who partly attended in thecity of San Salvador from July 21.

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The Closing Ceremony of the 1st Latin American
Earthquake Engineering Courseat San Salvador, El Salvador

The trip was physicallyhard for me due to thetight schedule. However, I
unforgettableobtainedmemory
bytheniceceremony and also by thevisit
to“TAISHINproject”(*1) sites and to
the world heritage “Joyade Cerén”, where we could
observeanancienttechnique of wattle anddaub walls. I would like toexpress my sincere thanks
to all who helped methere.

I hope every participantsof the course got satisfied
and will try to disseminate their learnings and experiences in their own
countries.
(*1)JICA’s technical cooperation for “Improvement of the Earthquake-ResistantHousing Construction Technology” from 2003 to 2012.

Structural Experiments in El Salvador
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By Mr. Mizuo Inukai, IISEE Chief Research Engineer

At the latter 2 weeks of the first Latin American Earthquake Engineering
Course, the oversea program in El Salvador was executed. I would like toreport it to you here. The venues of it were the University of El Salvador (UES)and "José Simeón Cañas" Central American University (UCA) located in San
Salvador, El Salvador.
It was held from 21 July to 31 July. The lectures are mainly composed of theparticipation
inthestructural
specimens
areexperiments
whose
produced by the materials used in El
Salvador. All participants were giventhese lectures by the professors in UES
and in UCA in order to learn the progressof the collapse by the assumed
earthquake loads of a part of building
structures like the confined concrete
brick masonry walls. These structuralexperiments are based on the research
results and the facilities in Projects by
Photo 1: Preparation of loading tothe Japan International Cooperation
the large scale wall specimen
Agency (JICA) for El Salvador from 2003
confined concrete brick masonry
to 2012, named as “TAISHIN Project,”(white part in right side) in theandthe large scale specimens, materialsUCA laboratory
test pieces are designated and loaded by
the high level technology of professors and facilities in UES and in UCA before
they are collapsed appropriately.
Photo 1 shows the preparation of loading to the large scale wall specimen
confined concrete brick masonry in a UCA laboratory. All participants weredealing with these experiments much carefully and the questions or discussions
were very fruitful.
Photo 2 shows the preparation ofloading to the wall specimen confinedconcrete brick masonry in a UES
laboratory. In this experiment, theparticipants helped to attach thedisplacement transducers, and dealt
with the automatic measuring or thecrack sketching actively.
After the tests, the summary of test
results was presented by professors,
and the building codes for confined
masonry structures in each country
were also presented generally byparticipants to exchange the latest
technical information.

Photo 2: Preparation of loading to
the wall specimen confined concrete
brick masonry in the UES laboratory

Moreover, the study trips were executed with the cooperation of JICA El
Salvador Office to see the 1st storey model houses constructed during“TAISHIN Project” in El Salvador.

10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake
Engineering (NCEE) in Alaska

By Dr. Toshihide Kashima, IISEE Senior Research EngineerEnjoy, Now

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I participated in the 10th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering(NCEE) in July, 2014. NCEE is a conference in the field of earthquake
engineering hosted every four years
by the U.S. Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute (EERI), and forthis year, it was held in Anchorage
on the 50th Anniversary of the Great
Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami in1964.
Nearly 800 papers were presented in
the conference and I presented twopapers in the oral sessions. As aresult, fortunately I met and talked
with seven ex-participants, Mehmet
CELEBI (1975 Individual Course,Conference HallTurkey), Jorge Fernando MENESES(1987 Individual Course, Peru), Ernesto F. CRUZ (1989 Individula Course,Chile), Juan Carlos Esquivel (1990-1991
Earthquake Engineering Course, Peru),
Yavuz KAYA (2003-2004 Earthquake
Engineering Course, Turkey), Ghazala
Naeem (2007-2008 Earthquake Engineering Course, Pakistan), and Yefei REN(2011-2012
Earthquake
EngineeringCourse, China) during the conference
and could come into touch with theiractivities.
To meet ex-participants again is one of
the things that give me the mostOpening Ceremony
enjoyment
insuchinternationalconferences. I will be in Istanbul to join the Second European Conference on
Earthquake Engineering and Seismology at the time when this newsletter isissued. If you are at the conference in Istanbul, please say hello to me. I’mlooking forward to seeing you over there!

11th Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society(AOGS) in Sapporo
By Dr. Bunichiro Shibazaki & Dr. Yushiro Fujii of IISEEDr. Shibazaki, Dr. Fujii and Mr. Mukunda (2013-2014 Seismology Course,Nepal) attended the 11th meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
which was held from July 28 to August 1 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Dr. Shibazaki gave a presentation entitled “Modeling Slow Slips and Megathrust Seismic Slips off Tohoku Considering Low to High Speed Friction
Behavior of the Shallow Plate Boundary.”Dr. Fujii gave a presentation entitled“Tsunami Source Model of the 1896
Sanriku Earthquake Inferred from Tide
Gauge Records and Coastal Tsunami
Heights.”

The venue, Royton Sapporo
Mr. Mukunda delivered his paper on
Tsunami session room before starting"Strong Ground Motion Records frompresentations
the Accelerometric Network of Nepal"
at the session of "Seismotectonics and Seismic Hazards in the HimalayanRegion."

Letter from Ex-Participants✑✉Dr. Jorge Marino Protti Quesada
Seismologist, Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica,
University of Costa Rica
(Costa Rica, Seismology course, 1983-1984)
Dr. Protti wrote to us saying that he wanted to share some developments inseismology from Latin America: The Latin America and Caribbean Seismological
Commission (LACSC) of IASPEI had its first General Assembly from 23-25 July
2014 in Colombia, as part of the III Latin America Seismological Congress,
organized by the former President Dr. Carlos Vargas from Colombia. In thisAssembly Dr. Protti was elected President of LACSC and as the new President ofLACSC he will be responsible of organizing the IV Latin America SeismologicalCongress in Costa Rica in 2016.

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