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5th International Conference on Earthquake
Geotechnical Engineering
This conference took place from January 10th to 13th in Santiago, Chile with remarkable efforts by the organizing chairman, Prof. Ramon Verdugo, and his colleagues. It is the fifth occasion of the series of the conference, and the previous ones took place in Tokyo (1995), Lisbon (1999), Berkeley (2003), and Thessaloniki (2007). As implied by its title, this conference has been intended to exchange and disseminate the up-to-date knowledge and experience both internationally and domestically. This aim was well achieved after recent earthquakes in Chile and New Zealand. Some information is available for these earthquakes in recent issues of ISSMGE Bulletin (September and December Issues, 2010).
Group photo during the conference
Despite geographical difficulties, 378 participants were attracted from 35 countries to this conference, among which 138 were non-ISSMGE members and 76 were young students. Among 213 presentations, Prof. R. Dobry delivered the Ishihara Lecture on recent assessment of liquefaction potential. Moreover, three workshops on Tailings Dams, Liquefaction, and Performance Design were timely and valuable.
After the conference, 2-night 3-day post-conference tour was organized to visits damage sites of the 2010 Maule earthquake in Concepcion Area of Chile. Pictures taken by Dr. T. Kiyota, University of Tokyo, during this tour are presented below.
The next host of this series of conference in 2015 will be Dr. Misko Cubrinovski, University of Canterbury in Christchurch of New Zealand.
Download ISSMGE Bulletin – Volume 5 Issue 1 (pp. 26-30)
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