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WSSI has also initiated projects in the spirit of assisting individual countries. The usual role of WSSI in such projects is to provide needed data and capabilities to review the completed work. The following projects come under this category:

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Seismic hazard analysis of Indonesia: Upon the request made by the Indonesia Director, Mr. T. Boen, WSSI has provided the needed resources to develop a revised seismic hazard map of Indonesia. Such a map will be used in revising the Indonesian building code.

A joint program between IASPEI and WSSI was initiated to develop a global earthquake risk map. WSSI  provided expertise on vulnerability whereas IASPEI provided expertise on hazard. The idea of this effort was to use macro and aggregate data bases rather than detailed geological, seismological, or engineering data bases.

 Assisted Meteorological Service of Singapore in developing and installing a system of five seismographs for earthquake monitoring. Together with the down-hole arrays for strong motion recordings, the seismic network is expected to go into operation in the second half of 1996. Similar assistance was provided to Malaysia and Brunei.

WSSI helped Uganda set up a national organization called the Uganda Seismic Safety Association (USSA). This is the first such national organization in Africa. USSA will apply for membership to IAEE in 1999.

WSSI has been a strong supporter and promoter of the RADIUS project. Since the inception of the RADIUS project. Since the inception of the RADIUS project, WSSI has assisted the program through collaboration, advice and individual participation of WSSI Board Members.

These initiatives have resulted in concrete new developments.  WSSI is acting as a catalyst, intellectually and monetarily, in Pacific Island countries, Central Asian countries, and in Eastern European countries.

SAFER CITIES PROJECT

The SAFER Cities Project was initiated by WSSI in partnership with the Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation System (COSMOS). Older Strong-Motion Accelerographs For Earthquake loss Reduction (SAFER), which are still in good working order, are redistributed to qualified non-profit agencies in cities with high seismic risk that would otherwise have little or no means of recording the next damaging earthquake. The SAFER Cities Project is an initiative to create awareness, to educate, and to accelerate earthquake hazard mitigation efforts in urbanized high seismic-risk regions of the world.

MYANMAR PROJECT

The Myanmar project, initiated by WSSI and Oyo Corporation, Japan, has involved in the deployment of 10 strong-motion accelerographs. Readings have already been obtained from a number of recent earthquakes. This information will be used in the development of hazard maps. 

Location of 10 Oyo Strong Motion Accelerographs () in Myanmar on top of NEIC data.

EARTHQUAKE AND MEGACITIES INITIATIVE

WSSI was a founding organization of the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI), 1997. EMI is an international not-for-profit scientific non-governmental organization dedicated to the acceleration of earthquake preparedness, mitigation and recovery of large urban areas and serving as a catalyst for the delivery of scientific and technical knowledge to the end-users. EMI focuses its efforts on developing capacity in megacities of the developing world where the effects of earthquakes and other disasters could be devastating to the people, their economy, their culture, and their environment.

The EMI Initiative has now been adopted by various national and international organizations such as UNESCO, UNU, ICSU, ICET, IGU, ILP, etc. WSSI continues as one of the main promoters of EMI.

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