The Organising Committee is planning to have an Open Symposium
related to the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean and
tsunami-related sedimentology for the general public.
The symposium will be held in the afternoon of Sunday 27th August, prior to the Congress.
Detail information
Open Symposium: | The Sumatra earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean and tsunami-related sedimentology |
Date: | August 27, 2006 |
Time: | 13:30-16:30 |
Place: | International Conference Room (Room A), Fukuoka International Congress Center |
Hosts: |
- 17th International Sedimentological Congress, Organising Committee
- The Sedimentological Society of Japan
- Kyushu University Graduate School of Science
- Kyushu University Scientific Earth Drilling Research Core
- Fukuoka University
- Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
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Sponsorship: |
Fukuoka City
Fukuoka Convention and Visitors Bureau
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Speakers: |
Kiyoshi Suyehiro (JAMSTEC): | Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami-Marine survey of
seafloor deformation and earthquake faulting
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Kenji Satake (Geological Survey of Japan, AIST): | Giant earthquakes and tsunamis in the world revealed by paleosismological surveys |
Yuichi Nishimura (Hokkaido University): | Tsunami deposits from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: Geological characteristics and significance@for studying@
paleo-tsunami episodes
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Fumihiko Imamura (Tohoku University): | Tsunami disaster in the recent events, lessons and
countermeasure for the future |
Makoto Okamura (Kochi University): | Paleoseismic events recorded in@Holocene sediments around northern Kyushu -On the extension of the@Kego Fault in Hakata Bay- |
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