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Learning From Earthquakes

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 […]

Presentations from the 2020 National Earthquake Conference

The session was moderated by Michael Blanpied, USGS, and included the following presentations: The 2020 SW Puerto Rico Earthquake and Aftershocks by Nicholas van der Elst, USGS Initial Observations of Ground Failure during the 2020 Puerto Rico Earthquake Sequence by Eric Thompson, USGS FEMA Pre-MAT Field Deployment: Puerto Rico Earthquake Sequence by Andrew Herseth, FEMA Structural Impacts by Eduardo Miranda, […]

Learning from Earthquakes – The Mw 5.8 Virginia Earthquake of August 23, 2011 EERI, GEER, and DRCD

Members of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association team: Russell Green, James Martin, Sissy Nikolaou, and Sam Lasley. Other contributors: Jeff Munsey. Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware team: Yvonne Rademacher, Alex Greer, Laura Keeley, James Kendra, Benigno Aguirre, and Lucia Velotti. December, 2011. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI),  Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance […]