This is also the start of our EPICentre seminar series for the 2008-09 academic year. Our first speaker will be Professor John Adams (UCL, Geography) on 1st October 2008, 5.30pm, Chadwick Lecture Theatre.
Six papers stemming from the work of researchers at EPICENTRE have been accepted at the 14th World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, to be held in Beijing, China, in October 2008.
Dr Rossetto recently returned from the 33rd International Geological Congress in Oslo, Norway, where she presented a Keynote Lecture on “Earthquake Vulnerability: An Engineer’s Perspective with a Difference”.
On the 20th August 2008, Mayumi Sakamoto from University of Kyoto, Japan, and Berat Yoldas from Middle East technical University, travelled to London to join the EPICENTRE Human Loss Project Team.
Tsunami waves travel across oceans with quite small vertical displacements, but shoal up dramatically in coastal and nearshore depths, and can cause extensive loss of life and infrastructure.