Jan 31 2020 Number 177
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 • Dear all IISEE readers ● The 25th Global Seismological Observation Course has started • American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2019 in San Francisco ● American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2019 in San Francisco • International Insutitute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering R&D Subject List ●  Mt. Tsukuba Area Geopark
Dear all IISEE readers
By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEE I hope that you, your family, and your colleagues have a happy and prosperous new year. We can also see IISEE enforcing the training program in 2020 more than as usual. 60 years ago, the training program had been commenced in University of Tokyo, and IISEE has been the executing organization since 1962. Namely, this year is the 60 years Director Yokoi (right) anniversary of the training and Global Seismological Observation program. Course participants At the beginning of the new year, 1,898 former participants from 102 countries were counted. In the on-going Global Seismological Observation Course that began on January 14, 2020, there are 17 more participants, including those from newly participating four countries: Comoro, Mauritius, Somalia, and São Tomé e Príncipe. We felt very glad and proud of their attendance and welcome them warmly. As already announced, today IISEE conducts three courses: One-year course composed of three sub-courses, namely, Seismology Course (S), Earthquake Engineering Course (E) and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course (T), Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course (LA) with the teaching language Spanich and Global Seismological Observation Course (G). For S, E, and T courses, the process for recruiting participants for 2020-2021 has started in the already selected Candidate Countries. For LA course, candidate countries have been fixed already and the recruitment for 2020 will be conducted soon. Please ask us about the candidate countries if you wish to know whether your own country is included or not. In East Asia, the number 60 means to achieve a great cycle of 60 years and begin another cycle in life, following the traditional cycle of 60 years in the lunar calendar. It's time for the old tree to sprout newly. IISEE will keep on improving its training curricula and the efficiency by incorporating the latest knowledge and technology in response to social and IISEE Net and Training IISEENET IISEE-UNESCO Lecture Note IISEE E-learning Synopsis Database Bulletin Database international needs. The future direction of IISEE is to become a hub institution that can effectively provide the information collected from the global network of professional human resources of IISEE cultivated through research conducted in projects with developing countries, to stakeholders not only in Japan but also in international societies of architecture, construction engineering, and other related fields. At the same time, IISEE will carry out the necessary activities for earthquake and tsunami disaster mitigation by enriching the hub functionality, with that IISEE can obtain the support of national and international societies, researchers and engineers. We would like to ask you for the same support as until the last year. Any inquiry or request to iisee@kenken.go.jp
The 25th Global Seismological Observation Course
has started
By Mr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administration Division, IISEE Global Seismological Observation Course has started from January 14. This year, 17 participants from 14 countries (Algeria、Bhutan、Comoros、 Cuba、Egypt、India、Iran、Mauritius、Nepal、Pakistan、Sao Tome and Principe、Somalia、Sri Lanka、Zimbabwe) join this course. In the Opening ceremony held in BRI, after the welcome speech, Raul PALAU CLARES  from Cuba gave an address on behalf of the participants. The Training Course has the special aim to develop human resources having acquired the skills necessary for detecting nuclear tests applying seismological knowledge. This training program is carried out by the support and cooperation of CTBTO, MOFA, JICA, Japan Meteorological Agency, and other organizations. From 1995 until now, 254 participants from 75 countries have completed. The training participants are working actively to learn the knowledge about the international seismic observation and acquire advanced earthquake analysis technique. This short course will finish on March 6.  I hope all of the participants enjoy training and staying in Japan. Please bring back a lot of great memories of Japan.
Earthquakes
The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake Reports of Recent Earthquakes Utsu Catalog Earthquake Catalog Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan President, Building Research Institute Director of Training Program Division, JICA Tsukuba
Call for Papers
IISEE Bulletin is now accepting submissions of papers for the seis- mology, earthquake engineering, and tsunami. Developing countries are targeted, but are not limited. Your original papers will be reviewed by the editorial members and some experts. NO submission fee is needed. Try to challenge!!
Contact Us
The IISEE Newsletter is intended to act as a go- between for IISEE and ex-participants. We encourage you to contribute a report and an article to this news- letter.  Please let us know your current activities in your countries. We also welcome your co-workers and friends to register our mailing list. iiseenews@kenken.go.j American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2019 in San Francisco By Dr. Yushiro Fujii, Senior Research Scientist, IISEE Dr. Fujii, Dr. Kita and Dr. Hayashirda (now on temporary assignment in USA) attended the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2019 which was held from December 9 to 13 in San Francisco, USA. Dr. Fujii mainly joined the tsunami session "Interdisciplinary Tsunami Science" and gave a poster presentation entitled "Slip Distributions of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman and 2005 Nias Earthquakes from Tsunami Data Inversions using Phase-corrected Green's Functions." International Insutitute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering R&D Subject List Research and development subject related IISEE so far are published following URL. If you are interested in them, please contact us. E-mail：iisee@kenken.go.jp List of IISEE Research and development subject https://www.kenken.go.jp/english/research/iisee/list/index.html
Mt. Tsukuba Area Geopark.
The goal of Geoparks is to contribute to the sustainable development of local areas, promoting education and tourism while conserving “geoheritage” landforms and geological features that are scientifically precious or aesthetically appealing. A Geopark is also described as an earth-park. As of Apr 2019, 44 areas are certified as Geopark in Japan, and nine regions of them are accredited as World Geopark.