Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

SSEER Virtual Forum – 2023 Kahmaranmaras Earthquakes

This Virtual Forum opened with an update regarding the number of SSEER members who expressed interest in joining a social science-led or multi-disciplinary research team in response to the earthquakes. That update was followed by a 15-minute briefing from Louise Comfort (University of Pittsburgh; University of California, Berkeley), Burçak Erkan (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, […]

Map action – Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami 2018

Situation and Damage  Orientation and Reference Affected Population  Health and Hygiene Water Sanitation Logistics Environmental Aspects Who-What-Where   To visit the site: https://maps.mapaction.org/event/indonesia2018.

UNISDR PreventionWeb

https://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/tags/index.php/pw:nepalearthquake2015/Nepal%20Earthquake%202015/:nepalearthquake2015/Nepal%20Earthquake%202015/

Eye-witness Account from Boat

The most interesting piece of information I’ve gotten in the past day is an account from a family who were in a boat in Pago Pago harbor during the tsunami – courtesy of HSU alum Orion George. The most jarring part of this account to me is the failure to adequately educate people about what to […]

Photos of societal impacts

         Fig. 1. Herb seller displaced from Iron Market, Port- au-Prince.   Fig. 2. Crowd of displaced persons at Presidential Palace.   Fig. 3. Tent camp adjacent to Presidential Palace.                     Fig. 4. School papers, St. Vincent’s School for Handicapped Children. Fig. 5. […]