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Information Technology Related to Earthquakes and Disasters

Earthquake Phenomenology Earthquake CircumstanceCharacteristics of

Earthquake DisastersStructural AnalysisStructural DynamicsSeismic DesignSeismic Evaluation and

RetrofittingTheory of TsunamiEarthquake Hazard

AssessmentEarthquake Risk Assessment Tsunami Hazard AssessmentTsunami CountermeasuresDisaster Mitigation-Recovery

PolicyDisaster Risk ManagementDisaster-Recovery

Management and Development Assistance

More than 50 years: More than 1,800 participants The International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (IISEE) at the Building Research Institute (BRI) in Tsukuba, Japan provides training program in seismology, earthquake engineering and tsunami disaster mitigation to researchers and engineers from developing countries. As of September 2018, a total of 1,864 participants from 101 countries have completed the training courses from 1960.

World

China

MongoliaTurkmenistan

Korea

Philippine

Papua New Guinea

AzerbaijanKazakhstan

KyrgyzAfganistan

NepalBhutanBangladesh

MyanmarVietnam

ThailandMalaysia

Indonesia

Sri Lanka

India

Pakistan

Uzbekistan

IranIraqSyriaArmenia

Maldives

EthiopiaKenya

DjiboutiYemen

OmanSaudi ArabiaJordan

Tanzania

Madagascar

Malawi

Uganda

ZimbabweSouth Africa

Botswana

NamibiaZambia

D.R.Congo

SudanGabonGhana

C. AfricaGuinea

SenegalNiger

Mali EgyptIsraelLebanon

TunisiaMorocco

Algeria Greece TurkeyAlbania

AustriaCzech Re.

YugoslaviaRomania

Iceland

Finland

BulgariaMacedonia

MoldovaUkraine

Georgia

Mozambique

Palestine

Cote d'Ivoire

Number and Nationalities of Ex-Participan

:Hypocenters (US Geological Survey from 2000 to 2009, M≧5.0):Number of Ex-Participants(1,864 Participants from 101 countries and region as of end of Sep 2018)

Timor-Leste

GuatemalaNicaragua

CubaDominican Re.Venezuela

ColombiaBrazilEcuador

Bolivia

Paraguay

Argentina

Chile

Peru

Mexico

El SalvadorCosta Rica

es

Solomon Islands

SamoaTonga

New Zealand

Fiji

Vanuatu

JamaicaHaiti

Honduras

nts

SeismologyCourse557

Earthquake EngineeringCourse 572

Seminar Course175

328

Global SeismologicalObservation Course242

Total1,864

Individual Course110

Tsunami DisasterMitigation Course55

Number of ex-participants by course

China SeismicBuilding Course72

Latin AmericanEarthquake EngineeringCourse81

Annual Training inSeismologyand Earthquake Engineering1,184

SeminarAfrica219

Asia727

Middle East179

Europe114

Latin America566

Oceania59

Number of ex-participants by region

IISEE Training Course

The course provides advanced knowledge andtechnology concerning earthquakes and seismichazards. The participants belong to the organizationsresponsible for seismic observation and earthquakedisaster mitigation in their countries. The lecturessuch as seismic hazard, risk evaluation andearthquake disaster mitigation policy-making aredesigned to be useful for the participants afterreturning to their countries. Practical training, studytrips, and participation in international conferencesare also included in the program.

IISEE mainly conducts one-year training courses named Seismology Course, Earthquake Engineering

Course and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course, and two–month course named Global Seismological

Observation Course and Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course . Short-term training courses

focusing on specific themes take place occasionally.

The course is designed to contribute to the re-duction of structural damages by earthquakes andhuman suffering caused by those damages indeveloping countries. The participants are mainlyresearchers, engineers from governments anduniversities. The lectures consist of basic studies(structural analysis, structural dynamics, earthquakeresistant structures for reinforced concreteconstruction, steel structures) and the latest studies(seismic isolation, response control technique,seismic limit state design). These are systematicallyprovided through lectures, practices and study trips.

The course began in 2006 after the gigantic tsunamigenerated by the earthquake off Sumatran in 2004.The lectures provide advanced education andtechnology for dealing with earthquakes andtsunamis. The participants will apply anddisseminate their acquired knowledge andtechniques for tsunami disaster mitigation andintroduce tsunami hazard evaluation and early-warning systems in their countries as specialists.

Seismology Course

Earthquake Engineering Course

Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course

Seismology Course

Earthquake Engineering Course

Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course

IISEE Training & History

The course is launched in 1995 at the request of theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. It is conductedas a part of the Japan’s contributions to the world’snuclear disarmament in cooperation with the JapanMetrological Agency and JICA. The participants areexpected to play an important role in the CTBT andIMS. The lectures are seismological observationtechnologies for monitoring nuclear tests andearthquakes, and data analytical techniques todiscriminate nuclear tests from natural earthquakes.

The course is not a group training but designed forparticipants with high scholastic ability andprofessional experience. The participant pursueshis/her own study individually with his/hersupervisor in IISEE.

Global SeismologicalObservation Course

Individual Course

History of IISEE

After World War II, young researchers andengineers from earthquake-prone developingcountries who came to Japan to study seismologyand earthquake engineering have been graduallyincreased. Taking the opportunity of the 2ndWorld Conference on Earthquake Engineeringheld in Tokyo in 1960, the leading figures andexperts of seismology and earthquake engineeringin and out of Japan negotiated about the feasibilityof the group training for those people. On July1960, a nine-month training course was launchedin the University of Tokyo.

The training was successful and requested to holdpermanently by the relevant countries. TheGovernment of Japan decided and established theIISEE in BRI on January 1962. BetweenSeptember 1963 and August 1972, the UnitedNation’s Special Fund and the United NationsEducational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) cooperated with the Government ofJapan in holding the training.From September 1972, the training was held solelyby the Government of Japan.

On March 1979, BRI and IISEE moved toTsukuba from Tokyo and on April 2001 BRIchanged to an independent administrative agencyby the governmental reform. With the cooperationwith the National Graduate Institute for PolicyStudies(GRIPS), the IISEE’ one-year trainingprogram was certified as a GRIPS’ master programfrom October 2005 and the participants areawarded the Master Degrees after the completionof the credits and master’s theses.

Other Training Courses

IISEE holds short-term training courses focusing onspecific themes such as China Seismic BuildingCourse (2009-2012). It was launched in 2009 afterthe 2008 Sichuan Earthquake as part ofreconstruction support by the Government of Japan.It was 2-month training course managed in Chineseand 72 participants have studied structuraltechnology in IISEE for 4 years. After they returnedto China, they gave lectures to 324 local engineers.Those engineers gave lectures to 8,833 localprofessionals. On June 2014, the Latin AmericanEarthquake Engineering Course is launched.

Global Seismological Observation Course

Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course

Ex-Participants & Master’s Degree

After training, the participants make steady effortsto mitigate earthquake disasters and are givenleading positions in their countries. Some areshown as follows: *as of Sept 2016INDONESIA121 people of the Agency for MeteorologyClimatology and Geophysics, the ResearchInstitute for Human Settlement, etc. have joinedthe training. Prof. Dr. Ir. Djoko Santoso (1978-79,Seismology Course) is Director General of HigherEducation, Ministry of National Education and theformer rector of the Bandung Institute ofTechnology.

PERU129 people, the second number next to China(130) have come to IISEE. They have Japan-PeruCenter for Earthquake Engineering Research andDisaster Mitigation in the National University ofEngineering (CISMID-UNI) which was establishedin cooperation with BRI. Dr. Julio Kuroiwa (1961-62, Earthquake Engineering Course), an emeritusof UNI , is one of the founders of earthquakeengineering in Peru.

EGYPT88 people have joined the training. Most of themhave come from the National Research Institute ofAstronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG). Dr. RashadKebeasy (1965-66, Seismology Course) and Dr.Salah Mohamed (1982-83, Seismology Course)served as NRIAG President.

A Master’s DegreeIn 2005, IISEE formed partnership with the NationalGraduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) whichis a stand-alone national graduate university focusedon policy studies in Japan. Owing to the partnershipwith GRIPS, one-year training course participants inseismology, earthquake engineering, and tsunamidisaster mitigation who have successfully;

(1) completed one-year training courses,(2) obtained the required credits, and(3) submitted the theses,

are conferred the degrees of “Master of Disaster Management” certified by GRIPS and BRI/IISEE.

Receiving a master’s degree after the one-year training in IISEE is a long-standing request and dream of the participants. With the master’s degree, they will devote their career to earthquake disaster mitigation in their respective countries.

As of September 2018, 281 graduates are conferred the degrees from 2005.

IISEE Ex-Participants

Conferment of a Master’s Degree in GRIPS

Turkmenistan Ex-Participants

IPRED & Course ClassificationHistory of IISEEIPRED Activities

Training Course Field Estimate Period Commencement Ex-participants

Regular

Seismology Seismology 5 1 year(Oct.-Sept.)

Lectures in Class(8 months)

Individual Study(3 months)

1960557

1,184

Earthquake Engineering

Earthquake Engineering 10 572

Tsunami Disaster

MitigationTsunami 5 2006 55

Short Term

China Seismic Building

Earthquake Engineering 20 2 months 2009

(2009-2012) 72

328

Latin American

Earthquake Engineering

Earthquake Engineering 14

2 months(2 weeks in Latin

America)2014 81

Seminar Course

Seismology/Earthquake Engineering

10 to 20 1 to 2 months 1980(1980-2000) 175

Global Seismological Observation Seismology 20 2 months

(Jan.-Mar.) 1995 242

Individual

Seismology/Earthquake Engineering

/Tsunami

several Upon request 1968 110

Total: 1,864 as of the end of Sep. 2018IISEE Course Classification

International Platform for Reducing EarthquakeDisasters (IPRED) was established by UnitedNations Educational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization (UNESCO) in 2007. It aims topromote collaboration in research, training andeducation in the fields of seismology andearthquake engineering. IISEE plays as theCentre of Excellence supported by UNESCO andJapanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,Transport and Tourism. The main goals are;

-to exchange information and propose plansregarding seismology and earthquakeengineering for reducing earthquake disasters,especially on buildings and housing.

-to address policy-relevant issues related to thereduction of earthquake disaster risks andimplementation of the Hyogo Framework forAction, including the formulation of recom-

mendations on priorities of the InternationalStrategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).

-to establish a system to dispatch experts toearthquake stricken countries in order to carry outpost-earthquake field investigations and drawlessons for future risk reduction, by utilizing theworldwide connection of the IISEE graduates.

The 7th UNESCO-IPRED Session in Kazakhstan

IISEE Connection Through the World

Safe and Peace : to reach Earthquake Disaster Mitigation

In order to reduce earthquake damage in developingcountries, it is indispensable for them to fullyunderstand their own characteristics of the seismicsource, ground condition, building structures, etc,and to deal with research and development ofearthquake disaster mitigation technology. However,their seismological observation system and researchsystem are not always sufficient. Most have not yetobtained the necessary information on earthquakemitigation study. To assist them, IISEE releasesdatabases of earthquake and training informationthrough the website.

http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/

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IISEE NetThe information Network of Earthquake DisasterPrevention Technologies (IISEE Net) releases theinformation of earthquake disaster mitigation ofbuildings. It mainly accumulates technicalinformation (seismic design code, seismic network& activities, seismic damage, and micro-zonation)from developing countries.BRI Strong Motion ObservationWe provide the recent strong motion observationdata from more than 70 strong motion stationsthroughout Japan. BRI has been conducting thestrong motion observation for building structuressince 1957.NewsletterIISEE issues a monthly newsletter. It is a usefulchannel of communication and gives an update onIISEE current activities. The newsletter can be alsoaccessed from the IISEE website.

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