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)
- Ralph J. Archuleta (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
- Rafael A. Benites (Institute for Geological and Nuclear Sciences,
New Zealand)
- P. Martin Mai (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
- David A. Okaya (University of Southern California, USA)
- Tso-Chien Pan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
- Thomas L. Pratt (US Geological Survey, Seattle, USA)
- Paul G. Somerville (URS Corporation, USA)
- Kuo-Liang Wen (National Central University, Taiwan)
- Mary Lou Zoback (US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA)
Invited Domestic Speakers
- Research program leaders of Special Project Theme I
- Kazuyoshi Kudo (Special Project Theme II, ERI, Univ. Tokyo)
- Sumio Sawada (Special Project Theme III, DPRI, Kyoto Univ.)
Please look at
http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/daidai/workshop.html for the details.