The Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction (CCEP) ( Japanese: 地震予知連絡会, ''Jishin Yochi Renraku-kai'') in Japan was founded in April 1969,About CCEP
CCEP, accessed 2011-03-19 as part of the Geodesy Council's Second Earthquake Prediction Plan, in order to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of earthquake data in Japan.Geochemical challenge to earthquake prediction
''Earthquake Prediction: The Scientific Challenge (NAS Colloquium)'', published 1996, accessed 2011-03-19 The committee consists of 30 members and meets four times each year, as well as publishing a report on its activities twice each year. The CCEP brings together representatives from 20 governmental bodies and universities engaged in

earthquake prediction Earthquake prediction is a branch of the science of seismology concerned with the specification of the time, location, and magnitude of future earthquakes within stated limits, and particularly "the determination of parameters for the ''next'' ...

and research.Organizations with ties to CCEP
CCEP, accessed 2011-03-19 It has a secretariat within the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

History

The first moves towards the Committee were taken after earthquake researchers published ''Earthquake Prediction - Current Status and Action Plan'' in 1962. This was adopted by the General Assembly of Geodesy Council with the launch of their first prediction plan in 1964. Following earthquakes in 1964, 1965, and 1968 the EEPC was founded to coordinate future prediction activities.Avances en prevención de desastres sísmicos en Japón. Outline of countermeasures for the Tokai earthquake (Section A)
N Honda, JICA / CENAPRED published March 1994, accessed 2011-03-25
N Honda, JICA / CENAPRED published March 1994, accessed 2011-03-25

Geographical Areas of Observation

In order to focus future work, based on the geological evidence, and as well as the prediction of a Tōkai earthquake in the relatively near future, in 1970, the CCEP designated certain areas of Japan as Areas of Specified Observation or Areas of Intensified Observation.Two grave issues concerning the expected Tokai Earthquake
Kiyoo Mogi, ''Earth Planets Space'', Vol. 56 (No. 8), pp. li-lxvi, published 2004, accessed 2011-03-11 The

Tōkai region The is a subregion of the Chūbu region and Kansai region in Japan that runs along the Pacific Ocean. The name comes from the Tōkaidō, one of the Edo Five Routes. Because Tōkai is a sub-region and is not officially classified, there i ...

was upgraded to an Area of Intensified Observation in 1974. By 1978, when some of the boundaries were also changed, eight Areas of Specified Observation and two Areas of Intensified Observation had been designated.

Areas of Intensified Observation

* South KantōAvances en prevención de desastres sísmicos en Japón. Outline of countermeasures for the Tokai earthquake (Section B)
N Honda, published March 1994, accessed 2011-03-25 *

Participating organisations

The following organisations are represented on the CCEP:

Universities

* Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Hokkaido University * Research Center for Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions,

Tohoku University , or is a Japanese national university located in Sendai, Miyagi in the Tōhoku Region, Japan. It is informally referred to as . Established in 1907, it was the third Imperial University in Japan and among the first three Designated Natio ...

* School of Life and Environmental Sciences,

University of Tsukuba is a public university, public research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Ibaraki, Japan. It is a top 10 Designated National University, and was ranked Type A by the Japanese government as part of the Top Global University Pro ...

* School of Science, University of Tokyo * Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo * Volcanic Fluid Research Center,

Tokyo Institute of Technology is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected as ...

Research Center for Seismology, Volcanology and Disaster Mitigation Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness ...

Nagoya University , abbreviated to or NU, is a Japanese national research university located in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya. It was the seventh Imperial University in Japan, one of the first five Designated National University and selected as a Top Type university of ...

*Department of Geophysics,

Kyoto University , mottoeng = Freedom of academic culture , established = , type = Public (National) , endowment = ¥ 316 billion (2.4 billion USD) , faculty = 3,480 (Teaching Staff) , administrative_staff = 3,978 (Total Staff) , students = ...

Disaster Prevention Research Institute A disaster is a serious problem occurring over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources ...

* Geospheric Structure and Dynamics Laboratory,

Tottori University , abbreviated to , is a national university in Japan. The main campus is located in Koyamachō-Minami, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. Another campus, the Faculty of Medicine, is located on the Yonago Campus in Yonago, Tottori. History Tott ...

* Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Kyushu University * Nansei-Toko Observatory for Earthquakes and Volcanoes, Kagoshima University *

Institute of Statistical Mathematics An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...

Governmental organisations

* National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention *

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Geological Survey of Japan The (GSJ) is a research institute and department of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), an Independent Administrative Institution under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The Survey was ...

, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology *Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department, Japan Coast Guard *

Japan Meteorological Agency The , abbreviated JMA, is an agency of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. It is charged with gathering and providing results for the public in Japan that are obtained from data based on daily scientific observation an ...

/ Meteorological Research Institute *

Geospatial Information Authority of Japan The , or GSI, is the national institution responsible for surveying and mapping the national land of Japan. The former name of the organization from 1949 until March 2010 was Geographical Survey Institute; despite the rename, it retains the same ...

Other bodies

* Tono research institute of Earthquake Science * Hot Springs Research Institute,

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanag ...

References

External links

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