By Mr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administration Division, IISEE

On Thursday, June 6th, a closing ceremony of a group of executive officer 
in charge of construction engineering, Latin American Earthquake Engineering 
course was held in JICA TSUKUBA. 

 Please see the Newsletter attached on page 1.

By Mr. MENDEZ DUVAL Cesar David(DOMINICAN REPUBLIC) and
Mr. BENNETTS TOLEDO Felipe(Mexico)

The first impression of the trip, it was that Japan is a country of great contrasts, on the one hand, 
we can observe a modern Japan with large infrastructure works and huge modern buildings in large 
urban areas at the same time and without going so far from modernity

 Please see the Newsletter attached on page 2&3.

By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEE

As all of you, ex-participants know well, the training courses that IISEE holds today 
had been started in 1960 in University of Tokyo.

 Please see the Newsletter attached on page 4.

By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEE

We have been informed that Mr. Gonzalo Antonio Fernandez Marañon from Bolivia who is working 
with San Calixto Observatory and has attended Global Seismological Observation Course of IISEE in 
2013 has published a scientific paper entitled “Focal mechanism of the 5.1Mw 2014 Lloja earthquake, 
Bolivia: Probing the transition between extensional stresses of the central Altiplano and compressional 
stresses of the sub-Andes” in Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

 Please see the Newsletter attached on page 5.

By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEE

Dr. Mileyvi Selene Quispe Gamero from Peru who has studied in IISEE one-year course for 
Seismology (2009-2010) visited IISEE May 21, 2019.

 Please see the Newsletter attached on page 5.