World Bank/GFDRR/ImageCat/RIT Remote Sensing and Damage Assessment Mission Haiti, January 2010
The Mw 7.0 Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010: USGS/EERI Advance Reconnaissance Team Report
The 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Emerging Research Needs and Opportunities
The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) organized, at the direction of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Haiti RAPIDs and Research Needs Workshop. The workshop was held September 30 and October 1, 2010 at the NSF headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. The workshop included oral and poster presentations from all RAPID award recipients, followed by breakout discussions […]
Observations from the EERI Steel and Industrial Buildings Team
We left Santiago at 9:30 AM towards Curicó, which is a small town about 200 Km south of Santiago. One of the major industries in the region is the wine industry from vineyard caring to wine production and bottling. In the aftermath of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake and aftershocks the wine industry has sustained a substantial […]
EERI Steel and Industrial Buildings Team Presentation
Read the Report: February 27, 2010 Chile Earthquake Reconnaissance Team Investigation Steel and Industrial Buildings Team (2.7 MB PDF)
Observations from the EERI Bridge Team
The Bridge Team’s goal for today was to determine the geographical extent of bridge damage from the Chilean earthquakes. We did this by driving nearly 450 miles south along Route 5 (the Pan American Highway) from Santiago to Temuco, keeping along the outer edge of the zone of strong shaking (about 50 miles or so […]
Observations from the EERI Steel and Industrial Buildings Team
The team left Concepcion at 8:30 AM and drove towards Santiago northbound on Ruta 5. Road was in good condition although the traffic was directed to the southbound roadway due to loss of roadway in the northbound direction e.g., in Miraflores (Figure 4). North of Rancagua we observed several damaged bridges e.g. at Graneros, Libertador […]
Observations from the EERI Bridge Team
The Bridge Team has spent the last two days in the epicentral region. What a contrast to skirting around the edge of strong shaking on Monday! We spent most of Tuesday traveling to the now remote town of Tubul. Remote “now” because a landslide and bridge collapse has cut off the town except for a […]
Observations from the EERI Social Science & Policy Team
View the observationst: EERI Social Science & Policy Team Observations (2.92 MB PDF)
Observations from the EERI Bridge Team
The Bridge Team made it back to Santiago today after covering over 1200 miles in the last 4 days. We realized that of all of the teams, we have the most ground to cover. Partly because bridges are dispersed around the entire region, and partly because many of our sites to investigate are dead end […]