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OWSD Programmes

January 2020 PhD Fellow
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Awards

November 2005 BEST STUDENT ENGINEERING CAREER IN GEOLOGY.

November 2006 BEST STUDENT ENGINEERING CAREER IN GEOLOGY.

September 2013 Scholarships: Disaster Management Policy Program by GRIPS and BRI in Cooperation with Japan International Cooperation Agency - JICA, Japan

August 2010 Scholarships: Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries (SAREC)- PMIA Program-UNAN-Managua

August 2012 Scholarships: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias y Tecnología (CONOCYT-México) (2012).

Degrees:

2012
Master     Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
2014
Master     Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
SEISMOLOGY FIELD.
2009
Undergraduate     Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
EARTH SCIENCES

Publications resulting from Research
1) Zambrana, X. (2019). Peligro Sísmico de la falla geológica Aeropuerto, Margen este de la ciudad de Managua, Nicaragua- Seismic hazard on the Airport geological fault, East part of Managua city, Nicaragua. Revista Compromiso Social, 1(2), 61-68. Recuperado a partir de https://revistacompromisosocial.unan.edu.ni/index.php/CompromisoSocial/article/view/47.

2) Zambrana Areas, X. (2020). Peligro Sísmico por Efecto de Sitio en el Recinto Universitario Rubén Darío de la UNAN-Managua. Nicaragua. Seismic Hazard by Site Effect in the Rubén Darío University Campus of UNAN-Managua. Nicaragua. Revista Científica De FAREM-Estelí, (32), 84-93. https://doi.org/10.5377/farem.v0i32.9233.
Zambrana, X., Ramón, V., Keppie, D., Campos, J., Leytón, B. y Rodríguez,D. 2012. GGA-4: Fallamiento normal de bloques en el Graben Aeropuerto, rift de tipo pull-apart Managua, Nicaragua: restricciones de la gravimetría y magnetometría. Unión Geofísica Mexicana (UGM). Geos, Vol. 32. No 1, 65-65, Octubre 2012. Link: http://www.ugm.org.mx/bak/raugm/2012/docs/GEOS32-1_PRELIMINAR.pdf

3) Campos-Enriquez J.O, Zambrana Areas, X, Keppie, D; Ramón Márquez, V. Normal block faulting in the Airport Graben, Managua pull-apart rift, Nicaragua: Gravity and Magnetic Constraints. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2012, abstract #T51B-2563.Link: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012AGUFM.T51B2563C

4) Zambrana, X., Yokoi, T. and Takumi, H., 2014. Estimation of Shear Wave Velocity Structure using Surface Waves on the Airport Fault, Managua, Nicaragua. Bulletin of IISEE, IISEE.kenken.go.jp © 2008, all rights reserved.
Link: http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/syndb/?action=abstr&id=MEE13606&est=S&year=2014.

5) Bernardo Ignacio Garcia-Amador1, Luis Manuel Alva-Valdivia2, Norma Betania Palacios-Garcia3 and Xochilt Esther Zambrana Areas 4. Paleomagnetism and ams Studies of the Late Cretaceous Dipilto Batholith in Nicaragua: Tectonic Evolution of Chortis Block (Central America). Machtle, B., Holzhauer, I., Ifrim, C., Stinnesbeck, W., Glasmacher, U.A. (Eds) 2017: 24 th International Colloquium on Latin American Earth Sciences. Abstracts and Programme. GAEA heidlbergensis 20. Pag. 29. 1:Posgrado de Ciencias de la Tierra, Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuidad Universitaria (UNAM-México). 2: Laboratorio de Paleomagnetismo, Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuidad Universitaria (UNAM-México). 3: Applied Research in Earth Sciences, Frontera 151, Col. Roma 06700, Ciudad de México. 4: Instituto de Geología y Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua).

National Council of Universities, IX Scientific Conference: Engineering and Technology.
2025
icon-pin-location Managua, Nicaragua

Colloquium.
2025
icon-pin-location International Institute of Seismology (IISEE) and Earthquake Engineering and BRI Building Research Institute (BRI), Tsukuba, Japan
Second International Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering
2025
icon-pin-location Tokyo, Japan.
Congress of Seismic Engineering of Nicaragua
2025
icon-pin-location Institute of Geology and Geophysics IGG-CIGEO / UNAN-Managua, NICARAGUA