The 3rd SCEC-ERI joint workshop

“Earthquake Hazards in Urban Areas”
and
“Toward Constructing Forecast Systems of Earthquakes”

March 16-17, 2010
Earthquake Research Institute, Conference Room 1 (Build. 2, 5th floor)
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Primary Scope

Since 2006, the bilateral international workshops between Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) and Earthquake Research Institute (ERI) have provided SCEC and ERI researchers an opportunity to discuss up-to-date results in the field of earth sciences as well as define future direction of research. Topics explored include the mechanical process of the Earth, investigation of seismic and volcanic phenomena from global and local viewpoints, monitoring and computational geoscience, disaster mitigation science, and prediction and forecast of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Host of the workshops has been alternated between SCEC and ERI.

The 3rd SCEC-ERI joint workshop this time will be hosted by ERI at Tokyo on 16-17 March 2009. The proposed scientific program focuses on twofold:

I) Earthquake Hazards in Urban Areas
II) Toward Constructing Forecast Systems of Earthquakes

Researches related to the former are domestically conducted under the special project “Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Tokyo Metropolitan Area”, led by ERI. The latter is promoted under the current Japanese “Observation and Research Program for Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions (2009-2013)” and associated with the international project “Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP)”, initiated by SCEC and cooperated by ERI and others. The topics (I and II) would be emerging global challenges so that participants are expected to be not only ERI and SCEC researchers but also researchers in the world such as Japan, California, China, and Switzerland.

The workshop will cover one and a half day of lectures and discussion. The lectures are by invitation only but all participants are encouraged to participate in the science discussions with the emphasis on future direction of research.

The workshop will be followed by the University of Tokyo International Symposium on “Long-Period Ground Motion and Urban Disaster Mitigation” starting on the afternoon of 17 March 2009, hosted mainly by ERI. Workshop participants are encouraged to consider also attending the symposium.

Invited Speakers

SCEC:

Tom Jordan (SCEC), David Okaya (SCEC), Greg Beroza (SCEC), Ralph Archuleta (SCEC), Danijel Schorlemmer (SCEC), Lisa Grant Ludwig (SCEC)

Switzerland:

Jeremy Zechar (ETH)

China:

Qinghua Huang (Peking Univ.)

Japan:

Kunihiko Shimazaki (AEDP), Yosi Ogata (ISM)

Program (Tentative)

Chairs:

Naoshi Hirata, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Thomas H. Jordan, Southern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California, Los Angels, USA

Organizing committee:

Kenji Satake, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Tsuruoka, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shigeki Nakagawa, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kazu Z. Nanjo, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Last Modified: 2010/04/06