By Christine Z. Beyzaei, Ashly Cabas, Kevin W. Franke, Rich D. Koehler, Ian Pierce, Armin Stuedlein, and Zhaohui (Joey) Yang. Other Contributors: Stephanie Dow, Michael Freeman, Kannon Lee, and Gabriel Pierce.
January 2019, Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association (GEER)
Between the dates of December 8 through 15, 2018, the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association (GEER) deployed a multi-disciplinary Phase I team comprised of seven investigators to observe and document the significant geotechnical engineering impacts and lessons learned from this event. The GEER team collaborated closely with other engineering reconnaissance efforts including those led by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association (StEER), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical surveys (DGGS). The GEER team also benefited greatly from coordination and partnerships with the local geotechnical engineering community and the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA) Geotechnical Advisory Commission (GAC), state department of transportation engineers, Anchorage building officials and engineering service managers, municipal public works officials, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials, and various municipal emergency response coordinators. Currently, GEER plans to deploy a Phase II team focused on remote sensing and geophysical data collection in spring 2019 – after the snowmelt.
Click here to go to the GEER 2018 Anchorage earthquake website
Read the Report: Geotechnical Engineering Reconnaissance of the 30 November 2018 M7.0 Anchorage, Alaska Earthquake (44.2 MB PDF)
