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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
Xochilt Esther Zambrana Areas > Degrees
Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
2014
Xochilt Esther Zambrana Areas > Degrees
Astronomy, Space and Earth Sciences
2009
Xochilt Esther Zambrana Areas > Degrees
Astronomy, Space and 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