For the seventh time since 1964, a seminar on earthquake
prediction has been convened under the U.S.-Japan Cooperation in
Science Program. The purpose of the seminar was to provide an
opportunity for researchers from the two countries to share
recent progress and future plans in the continuing effort to
develop the scientific basis for predicting earthquakes and practical
means for implementing prediction technology as it emerges.
Thirty-six contributors, 15 from Japan and 21 from the U.S., met
in Morro Bay, California, September 12-14. The following day they
traveled to nearby sections of the San Andreas fault, including
the site of the Parkfield prediction experiment. The conveners of
the seminar were Hiroo Kanamori, Seismological Laboratory, Caltech,
for the U.S., and Takeshi Mikumo, Disaster Prevention
Research Institute, Kyoto University, for Japan. Funding for the
participants came from the U.S. National Science Foundation and
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, supplemented by
other agencies in both countries