On Sunday, September 18th a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurred in Sikkim, India, near the border with Nepal.  The earthquake damaged buildings as well as infrastructure, and triggered hundreds of landslides which has slowed the rescue and relief efforts in west Sikkim. The earthquake caused damage i...

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After the M5.8 earthquake of August 23rd, EERI assembled a team of east coast EERI members to document various aspects of the event.  James Beavers, a consulting structural engineer from Knoxville, Tennessee and William Anderson, a sociologist and an EERI board member from Washington DC are co-team...

At 1:51 EDT on Tuesday, August 23rd, a M5.8 earthquake with its epicenter in Northern Virginia shook most of the east coast with people reporting shaking between Georgia and Canada. There were no reported fatalities or serious injuries....

Click here to view video EERI member Shunsuke Otani facilitated EERI's acquisition of a one hour, unedited video of the tsunami warning and the tsunami itself at Kamaishi Port. Footage provided courtesy Kamaishi Port Office, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). Addition...

A 23-page report by an EERI reconnaissance team on the Societal Dimensions of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake and Tsunami is now available online at http://www.eqclearinghouse.org/2011-03-11-sendai/files/2011/03/Japan-SocSci-Rpt-hirez-rev.pdf (7MB)....

The oral history of William A. Anderson, a scholar-pioneer in the field of sociology, is now available for purchase for $15 from https://www.eeri.org/cds_publications/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=335. A printed version has been mailed to most EERI members. Anderson's oral history offers insi...

A report on the meetings and field trip that took place October 19 to 21, 2010, during the First China/USA Symposium for the Advancement of Earthquake Sciences and Hazard Mitigation Practices is available to download from the "meetings" section. For more information about the symposium, see page 5 o...

Becoming an EERI member now for 2012 will entitle you to receive free special issues of the highly regarded journal Earthquake Spectra*, covering the topics of the Haiti earthquake of 2010 and the 2008 Southern California ShakeOut Scenario and Exercise! You will also receive at no charge the rest of...

EERI and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are pleased to announce that the May 2011 issue of the EERI journal Earthquake Spectra is a special issue devoted to the USGS-led 2008 Southern California ShakeOut Scenario and Exercise, which hypothesized the occurrence and effects of an Mw7.8 earthquake o...