Information of Urgent Session
"The 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku earthquake"

Urgent session about the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku earthquake is to be held at JpGU Meeting 2011.
Presentations of the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku earthquake and tunami, and its disasters from analytical point of view are welcome.
They include research and observation results related to this earthquake and tsunami.
Please see below for further information.

** 04/24 Information **
Submission application for the Urgent Session on the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake has been closed.
Thank you very much for many submission applications.

Jun Matsumoto
Chair, Environmental Hazard Countermeasure Committee of Japan Geocience Union

Session Information

Title: The 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake

Conveners:
Masanao Shinohara (Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo)
Keiichi Tadokoro (Research Center for Seismology, Volcanology and Disaster Mitigation, Nagoya University)
Toshihiko Sugai (Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo)
Teruyuki Nakajima (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI))

Organized by Environment and Disaster Countermeasures Committee of Japan Geocience Union
Co-organized by Seismological Society of Japan (SSJ)

Session Category: Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Session (M) M-IS36

Date: May 26, 27

Scope:
The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake (M 9.0) occurred on March 11, 2011. Large tsunami with heights of more than 8.5 m yielded severe damages to the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan. Other disasters such as liquefaction and environmental pollution were also caused by the earthquake in East Japan. Reports on this earthquake, tsunamis, and other disasters related to this earthquake are solicited.

Only poster presentations are available.

How to make abstract submissions

Date: From April 1 to 24 at 12:00 JST.
Please send the following information to .
1) ID number, name and affiliation of the contributor (Inevitable)
2) Abstract title (Tentative title is available.)
3) Name of presenter and co-authors (They can be revised later.)
Deadline: April 24, Sun. at 12:00 JST

Payment and abstract submission

Date: April 25 to 30, Sat. at 12:00 JST
We'll tell you how to submit your abstracts through our abstract submission system later.
Please be sure to prepare the abstract both in Japanese and English.
Please note that ONLY the IDs which contact us for the first time are available.
We accept ONLY one presentation for one author and presenter.
Abstract title and abstract body are to be released on our website.

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Important Dates

-2010-
Sep 1:
Session Proposal starts
Oct 4:
Call for exhibitors starts (Closes when all booths are filled.)
Oct 26:
Deadline of Session Proposal
Dec 20:
Release of the session list
-2011-
Jan 11:
Abstract submission starts
Jan 11:
JpGU Meeting Registration starts
Jan 31 17:00 JST:
Deadline of Advance Abstract submission
Feb 4 12:00 JST:
Deadline of Abstract submission
Mar 10:
Starts recruiting Part-times
Mar 10:
Starts accepting reservation for paid conference rooms
May 9:
Pre-JpGU Meeting registration closes