The Fall 2011 National Lecture Tour featured Dr. loan Nistor, Associate Professor of Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering at the University of Ottawa, presenting "Engineering Significance and Lessons of the March 11, 2011 Tsunami in Japan: Tsunami Impacts on Infrastructure." The lecture highlighted the performance and damage of infrastructure caused by the massive tsunami waves that resulted from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that occurred along Japan's Sanriku Coast the afternoon of March 11,2011. Dr. Nistor was part of a team that conducted reconnaissance investigations of the affected areas four weeks after the event on behalf of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
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