Events

Hokudan International Symposium on Active Faulting 2010 17 – 21 January 2010, Hokudan, Awaji Island, Japan.

The symposium coincides with its 15th anniversary of the 1995 Kobe earthquake and will be held where the source fault ruptured the ground and is preserved in a museum.
Following the 2000 and 2005 successful symposium, this meeting also aims at understanding active faulting and large earthquake in order to reduce hazards from earthquakes. Archeoseismology and mass movement studies are also to be introduced as well as recently advanced techniques.
The deadline of registration and housing reservation is December 17th Late registration may be accepted based on availability. Abstract submission should be done by December 27th.
For more information http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/kojiok/hokudan2010.html

2010 European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2-7 May 2010, Vienna, Austria

In the frame of the General Assembly 2010 of the European Geosciences Union, taking place in Vienna (Austria), from 2 to 7 May 2010, the session "Environmental hazards and Ancient Societies: Lessons from the past?" (NH9.14) is a joined initiative of the INQUA Focus Area Group Palaeoseismology and Active Tectonics and IGCP567 Earthquake Archaeology.
The session is convened by M. Sintubin, K.G. Hinzen, A. Michetti, M.A. Rodriguez-Pascua and I.S. Stewart. Abstracts should be submitted before 18th January 2010.
During the Conference will take place also the 4th Business Meeting of the 2007-2011 Focus Area on Paleoseismology and Active Tectonics.
A restricted number of grants partially supporting the participation of young scientists to the Conference will be offered by INQUA. In the next weeks you will be informed more in details about the procedure.