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News on 6: Earthquake Causes Major Damage In Downtown Cushing The Oklahoman (NewsOK): 5.0 magnitude quake hits Cushing, rumbles central Oklahoma NBC News: State of Emergency Declared in Oklahoma After Magnitude 5.6 Earthquake NBC News: Strong Oklahoma Earthquake Felt From Nebraska to Texas ABC News: Record-Tying Oklahoma Earthquake Felt as Far Away as Arizona 60 […]

Preliminary Report on Damage Caused in Mexico City by the September 19, Puebla-Morelos, Mw 7.1 Earthquake, Documented from October 14 to 17, 2017

The report is hosted in PDF form on Zenodo at the following link: https://zenodo.org/record/1039321 (the corresponding photograph set is hosted on Zenodo at the following link: https://zenodo.org/record/1036840). This report documents reconnaissance activities in Mexico City from the afternoon of October 14 through the evening of October 17, documenting observations about (1) structural performance and (2) issues pertaining to […]

Resilience Reconnaissance Paper

16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering Paper 2230: DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR RESILIENCE RECONNAISSANCE (1MB pdf), by H. Tremayne, M. Mieler, D. Martinelli, R. Olshansky, J. Berger Framework for Resilience Reconnaissance (Beta Version 1.0, long) (4MB pdf) Framework for Resilience Reconnaissance (Beta Version 1.0, short) (1MB pdf) Draft of Resilience Reconnaissance Interview Protocol (0.05MB pdf)

LFE Archive

Chiapas, Mexico Earthquake September 8, 2017, M8.1 Earthquake Guerrero-Michoacan (Mexico City), September 19, 1985, M8.0 Earthquake Other Earthquakes that have happened in Mexico