Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

The M9.0 Japan Earthquake: Lessons for California and San Diego

  Video 1. The M9.0 Japan Earthquake: Lessons for California and San Diego from EERI on Vimeo.  The video includes the following panel of distinguished speakers who provided an overview and responded to questions at this meeting: Dr. Jorge Meneses (Kleinfelder) – provided an overview of the mega-earthquake and tsunami, and presented his findings and observations from […]

GEER Reconnaissance Reports

Read the Reports: April 5, 2011: Geotechnical Quick Report on the Kanto Plain Region during the March 11, 2011, Off Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake, Japan (6.1 MB PDF) May 2, 2011: Preliminary Observations of Levee Performance and Damage following the March 11, 2011 Tohoku Offshore Earthquake, Japan (2.6 MB PDF) May 17, 2011: Preliminary Observations of the Effects […]

GEER Reconnaissance Video

See the GEER Advance Team Reconnaissance Video: GEER Team Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance

Documentary on Building Back Safer Schools

  Since 2012, Anne Sanquini, a PhD candidate of Geological Sciences at Stanford University has led a study of seismic- resistant schools and public buildings suggested by the National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET) and engineers from the Department of Education with the help of Sundar Thapaliya, an MPH graduate from California State University. In 2014, Sanquini […]

Video of Construction of a Stone House in Nepal

Construction of a house in Khumjung. Also check out the World Housing Encyclopedia’s stone tutorial and stone model shake table test.   Curated topics from the April 25, 2015, Nepal Earthquake to help inform reconnaissance activities, identify impacted regions, and help document the timeline of earthquake response/recovery. Information on housing impacts from the April 25, 2015, Nepal Earthquake.

Video of Building Damages – With Locations

Video of Building Damages after the Earthquake – Locations Identified   Curated topics from the April 25, 2015, Nepal Earthquake to help inform reconnaissance activities, identify impacted regions, and help document the timeline of earthquake response/recovery. Information on housing impacts from the April 25, 2015, Nepal Earthquake.