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Two-Day International Seminar
Earthquake Hazards Pakistan:
Post-October 08, 2005 Muzafarabad Earthquake Scenario

University of Peshawar Summer Campus, Baragali
August 22-23, 2008

Background | Submission Format | Conference Subjects | Program Details

Day One (August 22, 2008)

08:30 - 09:55 Registration

INAUGURATION: 9.55 – 11.35

09:55 Arrival of Chief Guest
10:00 Recitation from the Holy Quran
10:05

-Closing ceremony of "Regional Workshop on Disasters Management"
-Comment by Mark Vana Mejida (ITC, Netherland)
-Comment by M. Asif Khan (Director NCE Geology)
-Certificate Distribution

10:35

Inaugural Ceremony of the "Int. Seminar on Post-October 08, 2005, Muzaffarabad Earthquake Scenario"
Address of M. Qasim Jan (VC QAU)

10:45

An overview of post-October 08, 2005, Muzaffarabad earthquake.    
MonaLisa and M. Qasim Jan

11:15 Remarks by the Chief Guest (General Farooq Ahmad, Director NDMA)
11:25 Vote of thanks by Azmat Hayat Khan (VC Univ. Peshawar)
11:35 REFRESHMENTS

SESSION 1: 12:00 - 1:40
Chairman: R. A. K. Tahirkheli

Co- Chairs: S. Mahmood Raza and Hasan Gauhar

12:00 Living with earthquakes in north Pakistan.
Ishtiaq A. K. Jadoon,   M. S. Baig, Wolfgang Frisch and MonaLisa
12:25 Geological and tectonic setting of the October 08, 2005 Kashmir earthquake.
Ahmad Hussain
, R. S. Yeats and MonaLisa
12:50 Active deformation, fault segmentation, scarp morphology, seismic hazard assessment and geohazards along Muzaffarabad Fault, Hazara-Kashmir Syntaxis, Northwest Himalayas, Pakistan.
M. S. Baig
, R. S. Yeats, MonaLisa, Shahab Pervez, Basit Mahmood, M. Amer Sohail, I. A. K. Jadoon and A. B. Kausar.
01:15 Implication for seismic hazards in Pakistan based on preliminary geodetic measurements.
M. Asif Khan
, S. Faisal Khan, R. Billham and R. Bendick
01:40 LUNCH

SESSION 2: 3:00-5:05
Chairman: A. H. Kazmi

Co- Chairs: Imran Ahmad Khan and Akhtar M. Kassi

03:00 Geo-hazards and remote sensing; the latest developments. Mark van der Meijde and Harald van der Werff
03:25

Significant seismic activity in Hazara Kashmir Syntaxis prior to the Muzaffarabad Earthquake of October 08, 2005.
M. Qaisar
and M. Daud Shah

03:50

Seismic Hazard Assessment of Muzaffarabad.
MonaLisa
, A. A. Khwaja, M. Q. Jan and I. A. K Jadoon

04:15 Ensuring seismic safety in Pakistan-Post Earthquake Experiences
Tahir Shamshad
and Shaukat Qadeer
04:40 Paleoseismic evidence of surface rupture of 2005 Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistani Himalaya and coseismic generated slope conditions.
A. B. Kausar, S. S. Akhtar, Heitaro Kaneda, Hisao Kondo, M. Latif , Simon Sadiq and Hamid Hussain.
05:05

A study of earthquake triggered landslides, including the Hattian Bala landslide dam.
Tahir M. Hayat and M. Ilyas

05:30 TEA
08:30 - 09:00

Launching Ceremony of Book (Stratigraphy and Geological History of Pakistan by Ali Hamza Kazmi and Iftikhar A. Abbasi)
Comments by R. A. Khan Tahirkheli, M. Qasim Jan

09:00 DINNER
Day Two (August 23, 2008)

SESSION 3: 9:00-11:30
Chairperson: Parveen Usmani

Co- Chairs: M. Qaisar and Mirza Shahid Baig
09:00 Post-October 08, 2005 developments: earthquake hazard studies, seismic monitoring networks, installation of strong motion recorders and geomagnetic observation stations. Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry
09:25 Cost effective earthquake resisting housing.
Qaisar Ali
09:50 Case study and lessons learnt from the October 08, 2005, Pakistan Earthquake.
M. N. Chaudhry, S. S. Hussain, I. H. Baloch, Hamid Dawood and N. Ahsan
10:15 October 2005 Earthquake and safe geotechnical design of structures in Pakistan.
Sohail Kibria
, Junaid Ahmad and Sadaf Saeed
10:40 Seismic network in Pakistan.
M. Daud Shah
, M. Qaisar and Suhail Ahmad
11:05

Seismic risk parameters for Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project in AJK in the light of post October 08, 2005, Muzaffarabad earthquake scenario.
Iftikhar Ahmad
and Zulfiqar Ahmad

11:30 TEA

SESSION 4: 11:45-02:15
Chairman: Hilal A. Raza

Co- Chairs: Mirza Talib Hasan and Zulfiqar Ahmad
11:45

Evaluation of seismic and typical associated hazards in earthquake affected areas of Azad Kashmir.
Javed
and Basit Masud

12:10 Post-Earthquake scenario of Muzaffarabad environment, Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Abdur Rauf Nizami and Zia-ud-Din
12:35 Effect of earthquakes liquefaction on the ground water hydraulic heads and changes in hydrogeological features in Potwar and alluvial deposits.
Zulfiqar Ahmad
and Iftikhar Ahmad
01:00 Establishment of Pakistan Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (PkSMIP) and first shake table test on RC bridge column.
S. M. Ali, Anthony Shakal and Shehzad Rahman
01:25 October 08, 2005 rupture along Jhelum Thrust and post earthquake scenario along Jhelum Fault.
S. Kazim Mehdi
01:50

Predicting topographic aggravation of seismic ground shaking at regional scale.
M. Shafique
, Mark van der Meijde, Norman Kerle, Freek van der Meer and M. Asif Khan

02:15 LUNCH

SESSION 5: 3:15-5:45
Chairman: M. N. Chaudhry

Co- Chairs: M. Arif and M.Tahir Shah
03:15 Post earthquake scenario in Pakistan: Environmental issues and need of sustainable development.
Sheikh Saeed Ahmad and Shaheen Begum
03:40 Use of gravity and geoid data in the study of tectonic structures: a case study in Pakistan with reference to October 08, 2005 earthquake.
Zulfiqar Ahmad and M. Sadiq
04:05 Recent efforts in the Post-October 08, 2005 Muzaffarabad Earthquake.
Amjad Naseer,
Akhtar Naeem Khan, Zakir Hussain, Muhammad Ashraf and Khan Shahzada
04:30 Analyzing the effectiveness of community training in the earthquake resisting reconstruction of houses–A case study from district Battagram, Pakistan.
Attaullah Shah,
Rab Nawaz and Abdul Shakoor
04:55

Analysis of prefabricated houses as a shelter solution in areas of northern Pakistan affected by October 08, 2005 earthquake.
Munir Ahmad and Himmayatullah Khan

05:20 Open Discussion
06:20 Vote of Thanks (M. Asif Khan)


 
     
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