Hiroe Miyake, an assistant professor at the Division of Disaster Mitigation Science, received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 14th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering (WCEE), which was held in Beijing, China, from October 12 to 17.

This award is given to younger first authors from the Huixian Earthquake Engineering Foundation (China) and the US-China Earthquake Engineering Foundation (USA). Only eight won the award among some 1,000 applicants.

The awarded paper was written about source modeling of subduction-zone earthquakes, and long-period ground motion validation in the Tokyo metropolitan area. It was co-authored by Professor Kazuki Koketsu and Professor Takashi Furumura. Hiroe Miyake was also attending the WCEE as a dispatched researcher by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology, a Japanese agency.