Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Geo-Congress 2023 Panel Discussion: Turkey-Syria Earthquakes: A Disaster through Interdisciplinary Lenses

March 31, 2023

This panel was presented live at Geo-Congress 2023 in Los Angeles. Panelists – some of whom were directly affected the tragedy – joined structural and social science experts, to discuss the earthquake impacts. Panelists included Tugce Baser, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Ozgun Numanoglu, Schnabel Engineering; Ece Eseller-Bayat, Istanbul Technical University; Pelin Özener, Yildiz Technical University; J. David Frost, Georgia Institute of Technology; Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association; N. Emel Ganapati, Florida International University; and Ayşe Hortacsu, Applied Technology Council; Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.