EERI is pleased to announce that the 2024 Graduate Student Paper Prize has been awarded to Jingwen He and Ellen Rathje for their paper “Seismic capacity models for earth dams and their use in developing fragility curves," published in Earthquake Spectra Vol. 40, No. 3. The award recognizes a paper...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is pleased to announce that the 2024 Outstanding Paper Award has been awarded to Eyitayo Opabola and Kenneth Elwood for their paper “Seismic design of concrete structures for damage control,” published in Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 40, No. ...

With all the significant changes underway in the U.S. federal government, EERI is feeling some initial impacts. Under the U.S. National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), EERI has a FEMA grant that supports our work to: Disseminate critical knowledge through our webinars, Oral History ...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are pleased to announce the publication of a special collection of articles in Earthquake Spectra, EERI’s peer-reviewed journal, detailing the 2023 update of the United States National Seismic Hazard Model (...

View a pdf of the letter sent to President Trump on March 13, 2025 here. Recent Presidential Executive Orders and actions related to federal funding for science and engineering have cast doubt upon the ability of the federal government to fulfill its necessary and essential role in protecting the c...

Are you interested in attending the 2025 Seismic Design Competition Shaking Day? EERI and the SLC have just released a Shaking Day Observer Pass! For $75, you can attend Shaking day on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at the University of California, Berkeley, and cheer on the participating teams. Shaking ...

EERI is proud to congratulate three longtime members on their election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as part of the class of 2025. NAE membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, signif...

The EERI Board of Directors is pleased to welcome Stacy Bartoletti (M.EERI 1994) to the Board as an Appointed Director. Bartoletti is CEO and Chair of the Board at Degenkolb Engineers where he has spent his entire career and seen the company grow from a single office with 50 people to 10 offices wi...

EERI’s Oral History Program is proud to launch a new publication series, Interviews by Stanley Scott, with the release today of the first volume, focusing on Frank E. McClure (1924-2004). Interviews by Stanley Scott: An EERI Oral History Collection preserves and shares the valuable unfinished wor...

EERI is pleased to announce that the recipients of the 2025 Younger Member Award are Cristina Cordova-Arias (M.EERI 2018) and Kaleigh Yost (M.EERI 2012). The EERI Younger Member Award is awarded to recognize early-career members of the Institute who have made outstanding contributions to the Earthqu...

Contributed by Laurie A. Johnson (M.EERI 1990) It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of David Johnston (M. EERI, 2013); he died on January 19, 2025. David was the Distinguished Professor of Disaster Management and Director of the Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR), in the Sch...

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the devastating Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence. At 4:17 AM on February 6, 2023, a M7.8 earthquake struck near the border of Kahramanmaraş and Gaziantep provinces, followed by a M7.7 earthquake nine hours later and 95 kilometers to the northeast. The seque...