EERI's Public Policy and Advocacy Committee (PPA) is currently advocating for the reauthorization of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), and EERI has taken a position in support of Senate Bill 320.  H.R.3168, the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reautho...

Marshall Lew (M.EERI 1978), a leading geotechnical and earthquake engineer and devoted member of EERI, passed away in April 2025. In nearly five decades of membership, Marshall made many contributions to the Institute. He served on the Board of Directors as Secretary-Treasurer from 2006-2011, and wa...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is excited to release the thirty-third volume of Connections: The EERI Oral History Series, featuring Haresh C. Shah (M.EERI 1972), a pioneer in the early development of seismic hazard and catastrophe risk models. During his career as an educator,...

On May 1, 2025, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee unanimously advanced S.320, the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2025, a bill co-sponsored by Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that would reauthorize funding for the National Earthq...

EERI's 2025 sponsorship prospectus has been released! Learn more about EERI’s sponsorship opportunities, which include early access to the 13th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13NCEE) in 2026. Download the 2025 Sponsorship Prospectus here today. EERI is looking for partners wh...

EERI's peer-reviewed journal Earthquake Spectra has launched a new special collection featuring 18 articles on advancements in physics-based simulations, selected by guest editors David McCallen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Roberto Paolucci (Politecnico di Milano), Ertugru...

EERI is excited to announce the participants of the 2025 LFE Travel Study Program to Mexico. The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) has teamed up with the Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Sísmica (SMIS) to host the program. Over the course of the weeklong program, participants will...

As part of EERI’s ongoing efforts to advocate for continued federal funding for earthquake research and resilience, Executive Director Heidi Tremayne drafted this op-ed and submitted it to a major U.S. newspaper within 24 hours of the earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand in March 2025. The ...

The 22nd Annual Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition took place in Berkeley, CA, from March 31 - April 3! Organized by the EERI Student Leadership Council (SLC), the competition brought together more than 430 students from 48 teams representing 10 countries across 5 continents and 14 U.S. s...

EERI is now inviting Special Session Proposals for the 13th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13NCEE) in Portland in July 2026! Learn more about the conference at the 13NCEE website here. The conference will include a small number of special sessions. Attractive special session ...

EERI and the Public Policy and Advocacy Committee are continuing to reach out to elected officials to emphasize the importance of sustaining federal funding for earthquake hazards reduction. View a PDF here of the below letter sent to congressional representatives. March 28, 2025 Subject: Expressi...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program is currently monitoring the impacts of the destructive M7.7 earthquake that struck near Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) at 12:50 PM local time (06:20 UTC) on March 28, 2025. A M6.4 aftershock occurred about 12 minutes later. According to initial media cover...