Additional IISEE applicants from October 2011 for one year are now under process of announcement in Indonesia, Peru, Myanmar and El Salvador. Detailed information will be delivered at each JICA country office soon. Application from other countries has been closed on 10th June 2011. 13 trainees of seismology and earthquake engineering (except the additional application) as well as 7 trainees of tsunami disaster course will be selected during July 2011.

Hajime KUROSAWA

Head of Administration Division, IISEE

UNESCO manages with IISEE the “International Platform for Reducing Earthquake Disasters (IPRED) and will hold its 4th meeting during 26 to 28 July 2011 in Chile for three days. Dr. Hurukawa who joined from its first meeting will participate in it from BRI. The participants will exchange the lessons from recent big disasters in Chile in 2010, East Japan in 2011, Indonesia and Peru and will discuss on the measures against earthquake disasters etc. during this meeting.

Shoichi ANDO

Director, IISEE

BRI holds a training course for Chinese building engineer for four years since 2009, inviting around 20 engineers / building officials every year for two months to introduce most recent Japanese seismic building technology. This is the third training course from 7 June till 2 August 2011. The participants have lectures from Japanese highest-level lecturers and will visit the affected area of the Great East Japan Earthquake, recovery area of Kobe Earthquake, and modern technology construction sites etc.

Hajime KUROSAWA

Head of Administration Division, IISEE

Please visit the site of IISEE as the contents are recently updated.

---- IISEE-UNESCO Lecture Notes (semi-open)

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

---- Synopsis Database (For master papers 2005-2010)　

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

---- UNESCO IPRED project page (BRI as its COE)

http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/?p=ipred

---- Earthquake Information (Special page for recent large earthquakes)

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

---- Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World (Utsu Catalogue in English)

http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/utsu/index_eng.html

---- IISEE’s CMTs, Aftershock Distributions, Fault planes, Rupture processes in the world

http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/eqcat/Top_page_en.htm

---- Strong Motion Observation Data (11 March 2011)

http://smo.kenken.go.jp/smreport/201103111446 (English)

http://smo.kenken.go.jp/ja/smreport/201103111446 (Japanese)

---- Quick Report on the Great East Japan Earthquake by BRI

http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/special2/20110311tohoku_ja.htm (Japanese only)

Shoichi ANDO

Director, IISEE