Nepal Earthquake Reconnaissance Team Report is now available A new special report, EERI Earthquake Reconnaissance Team Report: M7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake on April 25, 2015 and its Aftershocks, is...
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Taiwan Earthquake Reconnaissance Briefing Webinar Now Available
On April 19, 2016, EERI hosted a special webinar reconnaissance briefing on the Meinong, Taiwan earthquake of February 6, 2016. Researchers from multiple teams who traveled to the impacted region...
EERI Response to M7.8 Earthquake in Ecuador on April 16, 2016
On Saturday, April 16, a M7.8 earthquake struck offshore of the west coast of northern Ecuador (11:58pm local time on Saturday, April 16). The EERI community extends its sympathy to the victims as...
EERI Response to M7.0 Earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan on April 15, 2016
On Friday, April 15, a M7.0 earthquake struck north of Kumamoto, on the island of Kyushu in southwest Japan (1:25am local time on Saturday, April 16). The EERI community extends its sympathy to the...
Taiwan Earthquake Virtual Clearinghouse Launched
In response to the M6.4 earthquake in Southern Taiwan on Saturday, February 6, 2016 (local time), EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program has launched a virtual clearinghouse site for the...
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Learning from Earthquakes Program: 2015 in Review
EERI’s Learning from Earthquakes program had a year of significant activity, innovation, and planning. Investigating the April 25 Gorkha Earthquake In early June 2015, EERI sent a 13-member...
EERI Reconnaissance Team Wraps Up Mission in Nepal
The EERI Reconnaissance Team concluded their nine-day mission in Nepal on June 8. After visiting outlying regions, the team finished its reconnaissance with meetings and detailed observations in...
EERI Reconnaissance Team Begins Work in Nepal
EERI’s initial reconnaissance mission to study the effects of the April 25, 2015 Gorkha earthquake is underway. The team’s first day was spent in coordination and strategy sessions with various...
M8.2 Iquique, Chile Earthquake and Tsunami: Preliminary Reconnaissance Observations
The EERI Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) Committee, led by chair Ken Elwood (M. EERI, 1994), reached out to colleagues in Chile to compile this article for the EERI membership that summarizes their...
A Reconnaissance Report on two Iran, Makran Earthquakes
Iran, Makran Earthquakes ; 16 April 2013, Mw7.8, Gosht (Saravan) and 11 May 2013 Irar (Goharan), Bashagard, SE of Iran Introduction Iran has experienced two strong earthquakes, in April and May 2013,...
The November 7, 2012 M7.4 Guatemala earthquake and its implications for disaster reduction and mitigation
[Extract] Executive Summary During the first week of April 2013 a group of engineers from EERI and AGIES, along with consultants from the World Bank, visited some of the areas affected by the...
Bridge Performance in the Mw 9.0 Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake of March 11, 2011
Introduction About 200 highway bridges and numerous rail bridges were damaged during the March 11th earthquake by effects ranging from span unseating, ruptured bearings, and column shear failures, to...
The Tohoku, Japan, Tsunami of March 11, 2011: Effects on Structures
Introduction Japan has a long history of great earthquakes and the highest frequency of tsunamis in the world. On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m., the Mw 9.0 subduction earthquake generated a tsunami of...
The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake and Tsunami: Societal Dimensions
Social Science report on Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami now available A 23-page report by an EERI reconnaissance team on the Societal Dimensions of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan...
EERIs Learning from Earthquakes Program to Send Team to New Zealand: Scientists and Engineers to Bring Back Lessons
Press Release – 3/10/11 A multi?disciplinary research team organized and led by the U.S.?based Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) will be traveling to New Zealand on March 9th to...
The Mw 7.0 Haiti Earthquake of January 12, 2010: USGS/EERI Advance Reconnaissance Team - Team Report V 1.0
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A field reconnaissance in Haiti by a five-member team with expertise in seismology and earthquake engineering has revealed a number of factors that led to catastrophic losses of...
Observations on Ongoing Efforts to Address the Haitian Housing Crisis
By Craig Cole,S.E. Introduction: This paper presents my observations, a structural engineer who arrived in Haiti the evening of February 11th, 2010 to assist where my expertise could best be put to...
World Bank / GFDRR / ImageCat / RIT Remote Sensing & Damage Assessment Mission, Haiti, January 2010
Summary World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) are working with ImageCat and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to produce high precision aerial...
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EERI field investigation teams to Samoa and Indonesia
With funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) EERI member and structural engineer Steven Baldridge, President of Baldridge and Associates in Honolulu, Hawaii, is in Pago Pago, American...
Earthquake Risk Reduction: Addressing the Unmet Challenges
Much of the discussion on the following pages echoes the findings of several National Academy of Science reports, particularly a report on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research published in 2005...