{"id":5376,"date":"2012-10-27T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2012-10-26T07:05:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T07:05:32","slug":"two-interesting-forthcoming-conferences-the-five-years-after-the-wenchuan-sichuan-earthquake-and-50-years-after-vajont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/10\/27\/two-interesting-forthcoming-conferences-the-five-years-after-the-wenchuan-sichuan-earthquake-and-50-years-after-vajont\/","title":{"rendered":"Two interesting forthcoming conferences &#8211; the five years after the Wenchuan (Sichuan) earthquake and 50 years after Vajont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. Five Years after the Wenchuan (Sichuan) earthquake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May 2012 will mark the fifth anniversary of the Wenchuan (Sichuan) Earthquake in China, in which more than 20,000 perished in landslides.\u00a0 To mark this anniversary, the Chengdu University of Technology will be holding a conference entitled: &#8220;Long Term Geo-Hazard and Risk Consequences of Areas Struck by High Magnitude Earthquakes&#8221;.\u00a0 This will be held from 12th-18th May 2012 in Chengdu.\u00a0 It will include two days of technical sessions and four days of field excursions into the earthquake affected areas.\u00a0 I will be attending &#8211; this is a great opportunity to exchange information about seismically-induced landslides.<\/p>\n<p>Further details are available by emailing: <a href=\"sklgp2010@gmail.com\">sklgp2010@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Vajont 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>October 2013 will also mark the 50th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landslideblog.org\/2008\/12\/vaiont-vajont-landslide-of-1963.html\">Vajont (Vaiont) dam disaster in Italy<\/a>, Europe&#8217;s worst landslide accident.\u00a0 To mark this event there will be a conference in Padua, at which I will be presenting a keynote lecture.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vajont2013.info\/\">Details are available here<\/a>.\u00a0 The conference will involve\u00a0 two days of technical sessions plus a one day field trip to the landslide site.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting forthcoming conferences to mark significant landslide events: 5 years after the Wenchuan earthquake and 50 years after Vajont<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[16,663,71,23,36,387],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-2","tag-china","tag-coinference","tag-dam","tag-earthquake","tag-italy","tag-vajont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}