July 28  2016 Number 135 International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering  BRI  Japan 1 Tachihara Tsukuba Japan 305-0802    tel+81-29-879-0678 facsim+81-29-864-6777
In This Issue
• Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course - Action Plans, Friendship Party - • Response sheet for YEAR BOOK 2016 ● Dr. Nakata passed away on July 13th. IISEE Net and Training IISEENET IISEE-UNESCO Lecture Note IISEE E-learning Synopsis Database Bulletin Database Earthquakes The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake Reports of Recent Earthquakes Utsu Catalog Earthquake Catalog Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course - Action Plans and Friendship Party - By Mr. Takashi Yamashita, Head of IISEE Administration Division Thursday, July 7 th was such a day with lots of events for both of us, participants of Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course (Latin American Course) and staff of IISEE. In the morning, the colloquium started  at IISEE and all the participants of Latin American Course presented their action plan.  It continued until 15 pm. After the colloquium, we had a  Friendship Party, which was organized by IISEE, in the dining hall of BRI.  Although some of the participants were nervous about the presentation, it seemed like that the good food and friendly atmosphere helped them to refresh and relax. The next day a Closing Ceremory was held in JICA Tsukuba and the course in Japan finished. After that, they flied to El Salvador to take the course there, and they had a Closing Ceremony. From the IISEE, Mr. Kato, IISEE Research Engineer, accompanied the participants to EI Salvador and gave lectures for the first week of the course (anterior half), and Mr. Inukai, IISEE Chief Research Engineer for the second week (latter half).
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Response Sheet for YEAR BOOK 2016
Dear Ex Participants. How are you? Now Japan is in the middle of summer. Every two years we publish YEAR BOOK and this year we will publish new one. We have already sent "Response sheet for YEAR BOOK 2016" to your mail address which we have in our database. If you have any modification, for example mail address and office name, please fill out the sheet and send it to us. If you haven't got the sheet, please send email us with your name, year, course, country, and your email address to iisee@kenken.go.jp. More than 1700 people have learned IISEE training course from 100 counties last year. We will inherit our friendship successively and we would like to strengthen bonds of trust with all ex participants. We kindly ask for your cooperation. We, IISEE staff members are looking forward to your success. Now we are preparing for downloadable response sheet on our homepage.
Dr. Nakata Passed away
on July 13th.
It is with great sorrow that we have received the sad news of the sudden and untimely passing of our former director, Dr. Shinsuke Nakata on the 13th of July, 2016.  He has served IISEE director from September 1996 to March 1997. We convey our deepest sympathy to his family. Right : Dr. Nakata. In 1985 Third country training in Indonesia.