DU earthquake workshop starts
The Department of Geology of the University of Dhaka initiated the second phase of a five-day training course on earthquake at the Seismology & Geodesy Lab of the department yesterday.
Prof Abdul Baki, the dean of the faculty, was present at the inaugural session of the workshop.
Prof Humayun Akhter, a senior faculty member of the department, and the director of Dhaka University Earth Observatory centre delivered the welcome speech.
The laboratory contains state-of-the-art geotechnical equipment such as the Fully Automated Cyclic Triaxial Testing Equipment, Universal Triaxial Testing Equipment, Direct Shear Testing Equipment, Consolidation Testing Equipment and PS Logging Equipment.
These were donated by the European Commission through United Nations Development Programme under the Earthquake and Tsunami Preparedness Component of the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme.
United States Agency for International Development, the United States National Science Foundation and Columbia University, New York, USA jointly supported the programme.
The first phase of the workshop was held in May, 2011.
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