IUGG Meeting Boulder Colorado USA July 1995

IASPEI Resolutions Adopted

1. Publication transfer
Recognizing the serious lack of scientific literature at many educational and research institutions in developing countries, IASPEI appreciates the establishment of a scheme for transfer of publications, whereby individuals and institutions with surplus copies of scientific journals, books and other publications make these available for transfer to suitable institutions in developing countries, and
urges all individual scientists and institutions with such surplus publications to make their availability known to the Secretary-General.
2. Regional Cooperation
Recognizing the good seismology-related work being done in Central American countries through support provided by the universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Bergen (Norway),
IASPEI urges extension of such cooperation for assessment of seismic risk for this and other developing regions.
3. Committee on Education
Conscious of the impact of recent damaging earthquakes, such as those at Latur (India), Northridge (USA), Kobe (Japan), and Sakhalin (Russia), and of recent technological advances in hazard assessment and mitigation techniques,
by establishing a Committee on Education to promote the transfer of technology to developing countries, and to ensure the continuation and coordination of training courses,
IASPEI urges all appropriate national and international agencies to support this activity to the fullest extent.
4. Cataloging of Artificial Events
Recognizing that catalogs of earthquakes prepared by local, regional and international organizations are being contaminated by artificial events,
IASPEI urges that these organizations make all efforts to distinguish natural events from artificial ones so that seismicity is more clearly represented by these catalogues.
5. Seismological Data Exchange
Recognizing the desirability for free and open exchange of seismological data between major international, national, and regional data centers,
IASPEI urges that the United Nations Conference on Disarmament and ad hoc Group of Scientific Experts (GSE) makes the data supplied to the EIDC as readily available as possible to the world seismological community.
6. Strong Motion Data
Recognizing the importance of earthquake strong motion data in the evaluation of earthquake hazard and mitigation of earthquake risk, and
recognizing significant new developments in strong motion instrumentation in many places, IASPEI encourages all governmental agencies and other organizations operating strong motion instrumentation networks to make data available on request to researchers throughout the world as rapidly as possible.
7. Appreciation
Appreciating and utilizing the very good arrangements made for the XXI IUGG General Assembly,
IASPEI thanks and congratulates all the members of the Local Organizing Committee for a most memorable assembly.

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