Dr. Kit Miyamoto, CEO of Miyamoto International, was in Tokyo, Japan during the March 11, 2011 M9 Tohoku Taihei Yo Oki Earthquake. A few days earlier he had been attending the CUEE earthquake engineering conference hosted at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Following the earthquake, his firm dispatched a team to the affected area to survey the damage and collect data for Japanese and international organizations.
At 5:00 pm on Wednesday March 23 in Room 502, Davis Hall, UC Berkeley, he gave a presentation of his impressions and assessment of the damaged caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
Download the slides (PDF file, 13 MB)