Last week, almost nine hundred participants gathered in Seattle, Washington for EERI’s 2024 Annual Meeting and the 2024 Seismic Design Competition (SDC), which brought together more than 400 students in 40 university teams from 10 countries. EERI thanks the 2024AM Organizing Committee, especially ...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program is currently monitoring the impacts of the destructive M7.4 earthquake that struck near Hualien City, Taiwan at 7:58 AM local time on April 3, 2024 (11:58 PM on April 2, 2024 UTC). A M6.4 aftershock occurred 13 minutes later. According to media report...

As we prepare to gather in Seattle for the 2024 Annual Meeting (2024AM), we want to share some important news about future EERI meetings. In recent years, EERI has responded to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and escalating meeting costs by experimenting with different formats for the annual...

Five EERI members, Catherine E. French, Ashraf Habibullah, Bret Lizundia, Juan Carlos De La Llera, and Jonathan P. Stewart, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as part of the class of 2024, and will be formally inducted into the academy this coming October. ...

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the devastating Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence in Turkey. At 4:17 AM on February 6, 2023, a M7.8 earthquake struck near the border of Kahramanmaraş and Gaziantep provinces, followed by a M7.5 earthquake nine hours later and 95 kilometers to the northeast....

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program is currently monitoring the impacts of the M7.0 earthquake that struck the Xinjiang province of China near the Kyrgyzstan border at 2:09 AM local time on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 (12:09 AM in Kyrgyzstan; 18:09 PM on January 22 UTC). According to medi...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program continues to monitor the impacts of the M7.5 earthquake that struck just offshore of the Noto Peninsula in Japan at 4:10 PM local time on January 1, 2024. The LFE Executive Committee held a coordination call in early January and is consulting with Jap...

EERI is pleased to announce that the 2023 Graduate Student Paper Prize has been awarded to Gerald Palomino Romani, Kristen Blowes, and Carlos Molina Hutt for their paper “Evaluating post-earthquake functionality and surge capacity of hospital emergency departments using discrete event simulation,"...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is pleased to announce that the 2023 Outstanding Paper Award has been awarded to Brett Maurer and Morgan Sanger for their paper “Why AI models for predicting soil liquefaction have been ignored, plus some that shouldn’t be,” published in Ear...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program is currently monitoring the impacts of the destructive M7.5 earthquake that struck just offshore of the Noto Peninsula in Japan at 4:10 PM local time on January 1, 2024. The earthquake damaged buildings and disrupted lifelines, particularly electricit...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program is currently monitoring the impacts of the destructive M5.9 earthquake that struck 37 kilometers northwest of Linxia Chengguanzhen in northwestern China at 11:59 PM local time on December 18, 2023. According to media reports, the earthquake resulted i...

As we approach the end of this year, I’m delighted to celebrate EERI’s achievements in 2023—read more about those in the recent communique from Executive Director Heidi Tremayne—and anticipate the great things we have planned for the year to come. EERI’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Seattle next...