World Conference on Earthquake Engineering

…The term “earthquake engineering” was originally used as a translation of the English term “engineering seismology,” but is now used to include seismic engineering. The World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, which has been held every four years since 1956 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake (1906), and related international conferences, present research results related to seismology and seismic engineering, and this conference is translated as the World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. In the field of seismology, issues related to earthquake disasters, such as the nature of earthquake motion, the propagation of earthquake waves, the mechanism of earthquake occurrence, and the frequency and geographical distribution of earthquakes, are investigated. …

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…〈地震工学〉の語はもともと英語engineering seismologyの訳語として使われたが，現在では，耐震工学をも包含した意味で使われる。サンフランシスコ地震(1906)発生の50周年を記念して1956年以後原則として4年ごとに開催されている国際会議World Conference on Earthquake Engineeringおよび関連国際学会では地震学と耐震工学に属する研究成果が発表されるが，この会議を世界地震工学会議と訳すことによる。地震学の分野では，地震動の性質や地震波動の伝搬，地震の発生メカニズム，発生頻度と地理的分布など，地震災害に関係する諸問題を調べる。…

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