UNESCO-IPRED

The International Platform for Reducing Earthquake Diasters
La Plateforme internationale pour la prévention des catastrophes sismiques

• The Center for Better Living (CBL)


• The Building Center of Japan (BCJ)


• The Japan Building Disaster Prevention Association (JBDPA)

• The IISEE has uploaded a special page on the Southern Qinghai, China Earthquake of 14 April 2010. (15 April 2010)
  
• The ISDR Global Task Force on Building Codes (GTFBC) has started uploading information on "Chinese seismic codes". (14 April 2010)


• The IISEE has uploaded a special page on the Sumatra Earthquake of 6 April 2010. (8 April 2010)
  
• The IPRED's plan of establishing a system for post-earthquake field investigations was introduced by a Japanese newspaper (website). (31 March 2010)


• The 19th Caribbean Geological Conferece will be held on 21-24 March 2011 in Guadeloupe, France. (31 March 2010)
  
• The GTFBC website is now linked with the Shelter Cluster Haiti 2010 Technical Working Groups (TWIGs). (30 March 2010)


• The Lecture Notes Archive is being updated. (IISEE Newsletter, 19 March 2010)


• The ISDR Global Task Force on Building Codes (GTFBC) has started uploading information on "Chilean seismic codes". (1 March 2010)


• The IISEE has uploaded a special page on the Chile Earthquake of 27 February 2010. (1 March 2010)
• The 2nd Arab Conference on Astronomy and Geophysics (ACAG-2) will be held on 25-28 October 2010 in Cairo, Egypt. This conference is organized by the IPRED member, the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG). Please also check NRIAG website. (1 March 2010)
• The International Symposium on "More resilient non-engineered houses for earthquake disaster reduction" was held at GRIPS, Tokyo. Some of the IPRED colleagues participated in this Symposium. (26 February 2010)
• The 7th Kazakhstan-Chinese International Symposium on "Earthquake Prediction, Seismic Hazard and Seismic Risk Assessment in Central Asia" will be held on 2-4 June 2010 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This conference is co-organized by the IPRED member, the Institute of Seismology. (26 February 2010)
• The IPRED Portal site were enhanced. (IISEE Newsletter, 10 February 2010)


• The Third Session of the IPRED will be held in Indonesia during the week of 5 July 2010. Please keep the dates! (19 February 2010)


• The IPRED members are actively participating in the "ISDR Global Task Force on Building Codes (GTFBC)" for the reconstruction of safer Haiti. (18 February 2010)


• The IISEE has renewed the "IISEE-IPRED website" to promote IPRED activities. (3 February 2010)


• The UNESCO-IPRED will co-sponsor the ICTP Conference (ICTP website) to be held on 10-14 May 2010 in Trieste, Italy. (25 January 2010)
• The IISEE has uploaded a special page on the Haiti Earthquake of 12 February 2010. (14 January 2010)
• The IPRED activities were introduced during the Third Civil Protection Forum "European civil protection ・Towards a more resilient society" (video) at the European Commission in Brussel, Belgium. (25 November 2009)
• UNESCO participated in the First SEISMCARE (SEISmic Mitigation in the CAribbean REgion) Assembly held in Martinique, French as a part of IPRED activities. (22-24 June 2009)


• The IISEE-UNESCO Lecture Notes Archive is being expanded. (IISEE Newsletter, 20 May 2009)


• The IISEE-UNESCO Lecture Notes are now open to the public on the IISEE website. (19 March 2009)


• Announcement of the IISEE-UNESCO Lecture Notes on the UNESCO official website. (20 March 2009)