International Workshop on Strong Ground Motion Prediction and Earthquake Tectonics in Urban Areas

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June 21-22, 2004
5F Hall, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Hosted by ERI, Univ. Tokyo; DPRI, Kyoto Univ. and NIED
Sponsored by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

Program

Scope

Because various plate boundaries surround the Pacific Ocean to form the seismically-active `Ring of Fire', urban areas in the circum-Pacific region are threatened by future big earthquakes. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, has begun a new program named the "Special Project for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Urban Areas" which targets the reduction of seismic disasters in Japan's major metropolitan areas. As a part of this program, the five-year "Metropolitan Project" began in 2002 which focuses on characterization of the seismic environment in the Tokyo and Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe metropolitan areas to provide regional context for the prediction of strong ground motion.
In this workshop we introduce our achievements in the first two years of the Metropolitan Project and exchange results of similar research in various urban areas in the circum-Pacific region. Topics of the workshop include earthquake sources, seismic profiling of faults and tectonic setting, earthquake observation, GPS measurements, strong ground motion predictions, seismic hazard assessments, and other related issues in urban areas.
Invited Overseas Speakers (in alphabetical order)

Invited Domestic Speakers

Please look at http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/daidai/workshop.html for the details.