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AT the Fourth Pan-American Consultation on Cartography held at Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October 1948 under the auspices of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History, a resolution was adopted requesting the Institute to create a committee to promote and co-ordinate seismology among American countries. This committee is to establish a central office of information, form a library, maintain a secretariat and scientific staff, and to interchange data with interested world agencies. It is expected that this will give fresh impetus to American seismological activity and international co-operation. Appropriate action has already been taken with the setting up of a sub-committee on seismology within the organisation of the Commission of Cartography of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History. Interested nations have been invited to designate committee members, and Dr. Federico Greve, director of the Seismological Institute of the University of Chile at Santiago, has been appointed president. The Seismological Institute has undertaken to provide the necessary library and office space and will assign suitable personnel to carry out the work of the sub-committee. Engineering Seismological work, with the object of improving structural design practice, will be prominent in the programme already undertaken by Dr. Greve in view of the grave importance of this matter in the seismically active Andean region. The Seismological Institute has built a number of strong-motion accelerographs for field-study of the motions characteristic of destiplitive earthquakes.
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Seismology in the Americas. Nature 164, 647–648 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164647d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164647d0