"The 2nd Joint Seminar on the 2023 Earthquake in the Southern Turkey and Syria
- Current Status and Issues After 6 Months, strategy for recovery, reconstruction, BBB, and Resilient society", organized by IRIDeS Tohoku Univ. and IRDR UCL，METU Istanbul Tech Univ. Turkey, will be held online on August 3.

Please see below for more information.

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"The 2nd Joint Seminar on the 2023 Earthquake in the Southern Turkey and Syria
- Current Status and Issues After 6 Months, strategy for recovery, reconstruction, BBB, and Resilient society"

Organized by IRIDeS Tohoku Univ. and IRDR UCL，METU Istanbul Tech Univ. Turkey

■Date: Thursday, August 3, 2023, online, English only
■Time: 17-20 (Japan), 11-14 (Turkey), 9-12 (UK)
■Registration: Free of charge

Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Anawat Suppasri and Erick Mas, IRIDeS Tohoku U

■Program
1. Opening remarks:
Prof. Fumihiko Imamura, IRIDeS Tohoku University

2. Mechanism of the earthquakes and seismic activity over the past six months
Prof. Joanna Faure Walker, UCL IRDR; Tectonics of the region around East Anatolian Fault earthquakes
Prof. Shinji Toda, IRIDeS Tohoku University; The 2020-2023 M 6.8-7.8 East Anatolian Fault earthquakes: Nucleation and inhibition promoted by static stress changes

3. Characteristics of the earthquake ground motion and damage to buildings
Dr. Ufuk Yazgan, Istanbul Tech. U; Lessons Learnt from the Damages Observed in Residual Buildings Following the February 6th, 2023 Kahramanmaras Earthquake Sequence
Dr. Fatih Sutcu, Istanbul Tech. U; Site Observations from Hospitals and Industrial Buildings during the 2023.02.06 Maras Earthquake and Endeavor for Obtaining BCP Performance Level
Prof. Tiziana Rossetto, UCL EPICENTRE and Dr. Yasemin Didem Aktas, Faculty of Eng Science, UCL; TBD
Prof.　Kohju　Ikago,　Dr.　Hiroyuki Sasaki, and Dr. Ryuta Enokida, IRIDeS Tohoku Univ; Reconnaissance project on seismically isolated hospitals in the earthquake impacted regions in Turkey
Prof. Gretchen Kalonji and Prof. Kaoshan Dai, IDMR Sichuan University; Seismic performance comparison: a base-isolated building in 2022 Luding earthquake and a building with BRB in 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake

4. Gender and other issues related to social vulnerabilities
Dr. Miwako Kitamura, IRIDeS Tohoku University, and Dr. Estella Carpi, UCL IRDR; Social vulnerabilities after conflict and disasters: Examples from Japan and Türkiye

5. Recovery and reconstruction and future issues
Prof. Ahmet Yalciner, Dr. Gozde Guney Dogan, Dr. Meltem Senol Balaban, METU, Turkey; Experience on sustainability and recovery of the critical structures and post disaster issues
Prof. David Alexander, UCL IRDR; Looking back at the seismic risk-scape six months later

6. Q&A

7. Closing:
Prof. Joanna Faure Walker, UCL IRDR