Table of Contents (First Circular)

Invitation

Organizing Committee

ASC Bureau

International Advisory Committee

Local Organizing Committee

General Information

Asian Seismological Commission (ASC)

Meetings of ASC General Assembly

Integrated Events within the 6th ASC General Assembly (ASC 2006)

Important Dates

Symposium

Call for Papers and Abstract Submission

Pre-symposium International Training Course

Post-symposium Field Trip

Registration Fees

Grants to Assist Attendance at the 6th ASC General Assembly (ASC 2006)

Accommodations

Social Program

Call for Exhibition

Sponsorship

Information about Thailand

Pre-registration Form for Symposium

Pre-registration Form for Pre-symposium Training Course

Symposium

During the 6th ASC General Assembly (ASC 2006), the Symposium Sessions will be held for 4 days in conjunction with other events, since 7 till 10 November, 2006. The ASC 2006 Symposium is entitled “Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation” and will compose of the following scientific themes:

Session 1. (S1) Subduction Zone, Seismology and Tsunami

i)           26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

ii)         Seismotectonic of Subduction Zones and Volcanology

iii)        Simulation and Modeling

iv)       Inundation, Run Up Heights and Hazard Maps

v)         Early Warning Systems 

vi)       Education and Capacity Building 

Session 2. (S2) Strong Motion Seismology

i)            Source Physics

ii)          Strong Motion and Earthquake Hazard and Risk Assessment

iii)         Methods and Techniques in Strong Motion Hazard Analysis

iv)        Microzonation

Session 3. (S3) Earthquake Forecasts

i)            Earthquake Precursors

ii)          Triggered Earthquakes

iii)         Paleoseismology

iv)        GPS Measurements

v)          Seismotectonics

vi)        New Concepts, Fractals, Chaos, Self-organized Criticality

Session 4. (S4) Management/Reduction of Risk

i)               Seismic Risk Mitigation Measures

ii)             Education on Earthquake Hazard Assessment and Risk Mitigation

Session 5. (S5) Observational Seismology

Special Session The 8 October, 2005 Kashmir (Pakistan) Earthquake

                      : Implications for Seismotectonics and hazards assessments in the

                        Hindu-Kush-Himalayan collision zone

The symposium will contain both oral and poster sessions. Scientists as well as experts from concerned institutes, agencies, and organizations in different fields (such as seismologists, geophysicists, geologists, and earthquake engineers, etc.) are welcomed to actively participate and effectively contribute papers to the technical sessions. Interested participants are requested to send their preliminary registration, using the pre-registration form.  

There will be a number of Keynote Lecturers, whose names will be announced in the Second Circular. In addition, there will be Special Lectures, selected by the conveners, at the beginning of each oral session.

Organizer:

Co-organizers: