26-27.3.1998 The Sixth SECED Conference Seismic Design Practice into the Next Century, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Contact: Ms.Rachel Coninx, Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA, UK, Fax:(44) 171 233 1743, e-mail: coninx_r@ice.org.uk, http://www.t-telford.co.uk/conf40.html

6-8.4.1998 2nd Japan-UK Workshop on Implications of Recent Earthquakes on Seismic Risk Tokyo, Japan. Contact: Prof.K.Kawashima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Fax:+81-3-3729-0728, e-mail: kawasima@cv.titech.ac.jp

23-28.8.1998 XXVI General Assembly of European Seismological Commission, Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel, Contact: Ortra Ltd., Nirim 1 St., P.O.B.9352,Tel-Aviv,61092, Fax:+972-3-638 4455, e-mail: esc@ortra.co.il

6-11.9.1998 Eleventh European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paris, France, Contact: AFPS Secretariat 4, Avenue du Recteur Poicaré, 75782 Paris Cedex 16, France, Tel:+33-1-405028 34, Fax:+33-1-45256151 http://dfc2.enpc.fr/ecee11

21-25.6.1999 Second International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Lisboa, Portugal, Contact: Pedro S.Sêco e Pinto, Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Av. Do Brasil, 101, 1799 Lisboa Codex, Portugal, Fax: +351-1 847 8187, e-mail: SICEGE@lnec.pt

8-15.3.1998 4th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, St.Louis, Missouri,USA, Contact: Prof.Shamsher Prakash, Conference Chairman, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, MO 65409-0300, Fax: (1) 573 341 4729, e-mail: prakash@novell.civil.umr.edu

20-24.4.1998 23^rd General Assembly of European Geophysical Society, Acropolis, Nice, France, Contact: EGS Office, Max-Planck Str. 1, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, Fax:+49-5556 4709, e-mail: egs@linaxl.mpae.gwdg.de

27-28.4.1998 Modern Prediction and Response Systems for Earthquake, Tsunami and Volcanic Hazards, Santiago, Chile, Contact: Bruce A.Bolt, Dep. Of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley, Fax:+1-510 845 4816, e-mail: boltus@socrates.berkeley.edu. or J.Gutierrez, Instituto Geografica Militar, Santiago, Chile, Fax: +56-2 698 8278, e-mail: igm@reuna.cl

17-22.5.1998 7th International Conference on Natural and Man-made Hazards, Chania, Crete, Greece, Contact: Dr.G.A.Papadopoulos, Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens, Greece, Tel: +30-1 346 2664, Fax: +30-1 342 6005, e-mail: m.sachp@egelados.gein.noa.gr

25-29.5.1998 XI Danube-European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Porec, Croatia, Contact: Mrs.Božica Marič, Trešnjevac 19, 10000 Zagrep, Croatia, Fax: +385-1 338 563, e-mail: porec98@master.grad.hr

31.5-4.6.1998 Sixth National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Seismic Design and Mitigation for the Third Millennium, Seattle, Washington, USA, Contact: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), 499 14th Street, Suite 320, Oakland, California 94612-1934 USA, Fax. (1) 510 451 5411, e-mail: eeri@eeri.org

28.6-1.7.1998 Second World Conference on Structural Control, Kyoto, Japan. Contact: 2WCSC Steering Committee, c/o Prof.Akira Nishitani, Department of Architectura, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169 Japan, Phone/Fax. +81 3 5286 3286, e-mail: 2wcsc@nsts. arch.waseda.ac.jp

3-6.8.1998 ASCE, Geo-Institute Speciality Conf. on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, Seattle, Washington, USA, Contact: University of Washington Engineering Professional Programs, e-mail: uw-epp@u.washington.edu, http://www.engr.washington.edu/epp/Quake

21-25.9.1998 Seismic Safety of Big Cities, Istanbul, Turkey, Contact: Prof.H.Boduroğlu, Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, 80626 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey, Fax: +90-212-285 6656, e-mail: bodurogl@sariyer.cc.itu.edu.tr, http://www.ins.itu.edu.tr/eaee/bigcities98.html

7-10.6.1999 EURODYN'99, Prague, Czech Republic, Contact: Prof.L.Fryba, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Prosecka 76, CZ-190 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic, Fax: +420 2 88 46 34, e-mail:eurodyn@itamcas.cz, http://www.itam.cas.cz/eurodyn