International Workshop on Earthquake Risk Reduction in the Northeast Asian Region

Beijing, China, 30 November to 3 December 2009

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• China Earthquake Networks Center, Beijing, China

Initiating cooperation on earthquake data analysis in the Northeast Asia Region.

UNESCO is exploring the timeliness, possibility and opportunity of pursuing a cooperative activity on earthquake data analysis which will be jointly promoted by UNESCO and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the sub-region of North East Asia comprising the Republic of Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation.

UNESCO, the USGS and earthquake science organizations in the South Asia Region have been jointly carrying out since 2001 an activity for Reducing Earthquake Losses in South Asia Region (RELSAR). This activity involves seismologists and earthquake engineers. Participants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, France, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States have attended workshops in the framework of this activity over the past years, workshops jointly organized by UNESCO and the USGS.

Related links:
::  Logistics information [.pdf]
::  UNESCO-CEA Working Documents [.pdf]

• Source:UNESCO SC
• 25-11-2009