Announcement
Trainees from overseas visit NIED as part of the IISEE earthquake engineering training program
On January 29, 12 trainees from overseas visited NIED as part of the earthquake engineering training program run by the International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (IISEE) of the Building Research Institute in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to learn about NIED’s research initiatives on DRR.
The trainees from Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua received a lecture on probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment from Dr. DOHI Yuji of Research Division for Earthquake, Tsunami and Multi-disasters and were also given access to Japan Tsunami Hazard Information Station (J-THIS) to become familiar with its operation. They also attentively listened to the lecture given by Dr. ASANO Youichi of Center for Earthquake, Tsunami and Volcano Observation Research on the NIED’s integrated land and seafloor observation network for earthquakes and tsunamis, Monitoring of Waves on Land and Seafloor (MOWLAS).
As the last part of the training program at NIED, the trainees visited the Giant Rock Friction Apparatus, which simulates fault slip and studies the frictional properties of fault. One of the trainees said that although he had experimented with rocks a few centimeters in size, this was the first time he had seen such a large-scale testing apparatus.
Participants in the international earthquake engineering program organized by IISEE in collaboration with JICA visit NIED every year.
