Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

EERI Annual Meeting Special Session on the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, Earthquake Sequence

Oral Presentations A synopsis of rapid characterization of hazard and impacts from the M7.8 Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence using USGS ShakeMap and PAGER, ELER, and OpenQuake capabilities, Kishor Jaiswal, USGS and David Wald, USGSView the Presentation: https://youtu.be/YI3qvEoz8x0 Mapping the communication and coordination networks in response to the Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes, Türkiye, 6 February 2023, Louise Comfort, CITRIS, University […]

EERI-GEER Advance Team Reconnaissance Briefing Webinar Recording

A joint EERI-GEER advance reconnaissance team conducted field visits in the disaster zone in southern Turkey from February 15-20. The team traveled over 1,500 km in the regions affected, first along a north-to-south path, and then east-to-west in the southern third of the region. They collected perishable geotechnical data, made observations of structural damage, and […]

2020 NEC Presentations: Engineering Findings and Lessons

Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence: Engineering Findings and Lessons This session summarized engineering findings and lessons from the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. This session is supported by the National Science Foundation under award number CCMI-2002617 and by the USGS under cooperative agreement number G20AC00042. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this session are those […]

2020 NEC Presentations: Poster Lightning Presentation Slides

Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence: Lightning Presentations In these lightning sessions, poster presenters made back-to-back one-minute presentations. The session wass supported by the National Science Foundation under award number CCMI-2002617 and by the USGS under cooperative agreement number G20AC00042. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this session are those of the presenters and do […]

Geotechnical Engineering Reconnaissance of the M6.4 & M7.1 Ridgecrest, CA Earthquakes

Other Contributors: Ben Brooks, Ryan Gold, Dan Ponti, Katherine Scharer, Devin McPhillips, Chris DuRoss, Todd Ericksen, Janis Hernandez, Jay Patton, Brian Olson, Tim Dawson, Jerome Treiman, Kelly Blake, Jeffrey Buchhuber, Chris Madugo, Joseph Sun, Andrea Donnellan, Greg Lyzenga, Erik Conway.  Between the dates of July 4 and 5, 2019, the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association […]

Geotechnical Engineering Reconnaissance of the 30 November 2018 M7.0 Anchorage, Alaska Earthquake

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 […]